Today I bring to an end a three year springtime tradition of shoveling half my driveway from the ditch across the street [where it gets plowed to] back to where it’s supposed to be. Yes, today we finally had a blacktop driveway put in. Here are the before and after shots:
Even conservatives like myself can find some solace in the Democrat’s recent rise to power. An article on TheStreet.com discusses the likelihood that the tipping of the political scales will likely mean that net neutrality will be preserved. The House of Representatives passed a version of the bill that was stripped of net neutrality language…
A week ago I decided it would be a good idea to get my septic tank pumped. We’ve been in the house a year, and it had been about two years before that since the previous owner had it pumped. With winter and the baby on the way, it seemed like it might be a…
Found this thing hanging around our deck over the weekend. I assumed it was a butterfly, but Amanda insists it’s a moth. I love the antennae!
I’ve begun exploring upgrading Punaro.com to work in conjunction with a blogging software. This site works off of a series of server side includes and a home grown content management system that I created for a project while I was still in college. While it was pretty neat-o in it’s day, that was almost 7…
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,…
Wow! What a difference – I bet Ariella will love it:)
Wow, it’s like picking the whole house up and moving from the sticks into the suburbs. Nice!