Week 16
ByDerek
Definitely showing!
Definitely showing!
I managed to do something with the beautiful weather we had this extended weekend that I hadn’t had a chance to do all year – wash and wax BOTH cars. Those tasks always seem to get pushed to the back burner during the summer when the home improvement projects are in full swing. With the…
Someday we might remodel our bathroom. If you’ve never seen our bathroom, it was an experiment in painting technique for Amanda, as was much of the house right after we bought it. The bathroom was small, and we thought we’d do something a bit… lively with it. I know it’s a bit wacky, but we…
I’ll be honest. I really don’t care about the sicko Congressman NAMBLA wannabe story that’s been getting all the attention the past few days. The Congress issue that really pissed me off this weekend was the passage of the Safe Port Act. Not that I have anything against our ports being safe, but because they…
I have a coworker who is selling his house (57 Conway, Depew, NY 14043, MLS: B369543). I wanted to try my hand at real estate photography, so I offered to come over and take some photos for him (the real reason I borrowed the 10-22mm lens from another coworker). The sun was strong, the light…
As a web applications developer, I often read Jakob Nielsen’s articles on usability. His most recent article deals with something of interest to the blogging world – participation inequality, or as we might say, lurkers vs. commentors. In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little,…
I’ve been having a hard time keeping up with all the blogs lately, so I completely missed this piece from BuffaloBlogger, whose in-laws were in town from England and ranked the Central Terminal at the top of their vacation memories list. This ladies and gentlemen was their highlight. This grand old building that so many…