For my Sarah’s birthday I built her a hanging jewelry case. This was my first fine-woodworking project built out of solid wood and it was quite a learning experience. The case is made of Red Birch with dots of Wenge (black), Satinwood (yellow), Chakte Coc (red), Sucaperē (brown), and Purple…
With the latest OS X Leopard update (10.5.2) Apple finally added an option to turn off menu bar translucency. I much prefer an opaque menu bar as I find it much more legible. There is only one problem with this fix: Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hide this…
A new version (1.2.2) is available that fixes issues with image URLs This version is a re-release of version 1.2 which had a corrupted archive missing some necessary files. The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right…
Update: A new version is available that fixes a corrupted archive in version 1.2. The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right from your Dashboard. The RiverLevels widget is of particular interest to whitewater kayakers and canoeists….
After upgrading my laptop to Apple’s latest operating system, OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’, I ran into a few issues here and there but for the most part I thought everything worked. After about a month using Leopard though, I noticed that my meetings were not syncing properly to my in-phone…
Just over the hill from me are two new development projects in Middlebury, the “Lodge at Otter Creek” retirement community and the other is an upscale residential neighborhood. For those who are interested in the extent of the development, I’ve biked the new roads and recorded their positions via GPS:…
I’ve recently developed a small PHP script, the WPEnclosureAdder (source | try) that goes through each item in an RSS feed, looks for links to YouTube videos or GoogleVideo videos, and then adds an enclosure tags for the videos. If multiple videos are found embedded in a post, then that…
View Larger Map Sarah, my dad, and I took a canoe and kayak trip down the Big Spring Creek in Newville, Pennsylvania. The creek is beautiful, with clear water, many aquatic plants, and much waterfowl. Since the creek has a tiny drainage and is primarily spring fed, it does not…
As of a few days ago, I am now able to generate KML versions of Flickr photosets for viewing in Google Earth/Maps. With that taken care of, I also want to easily combine these KML documents of images together with other KML files that show additional information, such as paths…
Sarah and I took a 6-mile canoe trip down the Conodoguinet Creek near my parents’ house on a beautiful August afternoon. View Larger Map The map above was generated with a GPS track of our path (the blue line) and the photo output from my new photosetToKML.php script
