1944: When Girls Were Really Limber!

The Tiny House Concept

New Computer Is Now Up To Speed!

I finally spent some time and worked the kinks out of the new bad boy! Deb feels that the 3 monitors are excessive... I agree!

Molly Needs Some Meds!

Why We're Returning The Cats!

Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions

HONG KONG -- This city's three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer for the rising waters threatening the global economy: the world's first life-size replica of Noah's ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center.

The message in its 450-foot-long hull, its rooftop luxury hotel and 67 pairs of fiberglass animals: "The financial tsunami will be over," says Spencer Lu, the Kwoks' project director at Noah's Ark, which is opening soon.

The land-bound ark wasn't built in response to the current global turmoil; it has been in the planning for 17 years. But the financial storm provides a nice marketing hook for the Kwoks' ambitious project, which will probably need to lure visitors from beyond Hong Kong's city limits to be an economic success.

Radio? Sure!

The “RadioSure” gives you the smoothest radio listening experience. The main rule is - it should be simple, reliable and should just work.

Main features are:

• More than 12000 of stations in the package
  
• Supports most of the internet radio formats - mp3, wma, ogg vorbis, aac+ and so on
  
• Quick and reliable search for your favorite radio stations
  
• Smooth switching between stations including crossfade effect
  
• Recording what you are listening to and packaging it into separate song files
  
• Simultanious recording of multiple stations
  
• Automatic checking for software and radio stations updates
  
• Command line parametes for automatization
  
• Runs on Windows XP and Vista 32 and 64 bit
  
• UNICODE support - all domestic stations are perfectly visible and searchable
  
• and much much more…

NileGuide

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Wind & Snow Tonight!

A Wind Advisory remains in effect from 3 am MDT /2 am PDT/ to 9 PM MDT /8 PM PDT/ Wednesday.

Northwest winds will increase to 30 to 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph tonight and Wednesday across the advisory area as a surface low pressure system moves from Nevada to northern Utah. The passing low pressure system will produce a strong pressure differential between itself and much higher pressure off the Oregon coast... in turn producing the gusty winds.

These winds will continue for at least 18 hours.

Surprise!

Mishra Would Be The Cat On The Left

When I first played this, both kittens jumped up onto the computer desk and went crazy! Both circled the computer repeatedly attempting to find the source of the sound. I finally had to pause it as they were both very upset! My guess is that if you all spoke "cat" I'd have to warn you about the very strong language in this video!

New Dell XPS 630 Arrives Wednesday

For the last 10+ years I have built every computer as needed from scratch. That means: no pre-made, take it out of the box, plug it in, surf the web 5 minutes later, type computers.

Rather, these were: buy every little component (even the screws), hand picked after researching them on the web for hours, from little hole-in-the-wall shops manned by never-to-be-married super nerds, bringing the parts home to assemble over many days a "box" that NEVER worked the first time you tried to power it up, requiring days of testing and tweaking to create a system you could call "stable."

It was fun, you could build your own for half the price, and if someone made a faster part out there in the world (this happened exactly 4 minutes after you called your system "stable.") you could open your bad boy up and replace the part. That Again, required days of testing and tweaking to call your system "stable."

So last week I had to make a decision: build or buy pre-made. Pride vs. time.

Dude, I'm get'n a Dell!




- Intel Core2 processor Q9650 (3.0GHz,1333FSB) w/Quad Core Technology and 12MB cache
- 8GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4X2GB
- NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT, SLI
- SATA 2 RAID 0 With Dual 500GB Hard Drives
- Dell 19 in 1 Media Reader withBluetooth 2.0
- Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition English
- 6X Blu-Ray, DVD+R/RW, CD-RW Drive
- Network Card PC Interface Killer, K1
- 23 inch Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX Widescreen Digital TFT-LCD Monitor

Spring Day!

Deb and I spent the day working on Spring projects. The big one was getting the water feature back in shape. Full of leaves, tumble weeds and water with a lovely shade of green. Deb worked the hose and I ran the pump while filtering out the junk. It took almost 2 hours to bring it back. We added copper, chlorine, and clarifier so the water is now crystal clear.

Replaced some outside house lights, picked up junk in the yard and worked in the garage.

Hard to believe it could snow on Wednesday!

The Great Feast

15 Steps to a More Productive Workday

Freelance designers, as well as those who work for small design studios, often face the challenge of getting the most productivity out of their time and achieving maximum efficiency. While this can be a struggle for anyone in a more “typical” job, freelancers have added distractions, unique challenges, and no one to hold them accountable. To be a successful freelancer you’ll have to place a priority on productivity and find ways that work for you.