Category Archives: Web/Internet

Sites I Read

Here’s a rundown of sites I read. News: http://slashdot.org/ http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.maximumpc.com/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://www.detroitnews.com/section/auto01 Comic Relief: http://www.nataliedee.com/ http://xkcd.com/ http://blog.awkwardengineer.com/

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Firewood cord calculator

The State of Maine website has a great little calculator for figuring out how much wood is in your woodpile.  Now, it’s not like the math is hard, but this is real handy.  It’s especially handy if you are trying … Continue reading

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Making things more secure

I’ve been making changes to secure my network at work recently.  The most recent change is that users logging into our ftp server now have a safe drop box to use that only we have read access to.  Once they … Continue reading

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Shift Point v1.0 released

There are days when you just want to go home.  There are also days when time seems to go by very quickly and it’s hard to tell if you have enough time to do whatever task(s) you have left.  Enter, … Continue reading

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Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org installation

Just in case anyone is interested in moving their blog from WordPress.com to your own WordPress.org installation, this might help. Use the “Export” tool in your WordPress.com account and let WordPress export all your data.  Save that XML file.  If … Continue reading

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