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30Aug/100

Patio Project Stage 1 Complete

Completed:
  • -Cleaned off area
  • -Scalped grass
  • -Turned over earth
  • -Raked it relatively smooth and flat
  • -Applied weed about 350 sq ft of weed barrier
  • -Staked it down with 150 stakes
  • -Sunburned the christ out of my neck
Next up:
  • -Call for crushed stone quotes
  • -Get some PT 4x4's for edging
  • -Done?

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24Aug/10Off

Painting the shutters

Here's my latest DIY project, painting our brown shutters white.  2 coats of oil finished with 1 coat of acrylic.

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9Aug/10Off

I really need to build a patio already.

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5Jun/10Off

Last Weekend’s Project

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Now that the tree has been cut down we can actually plant nice shrubs in front of our house.  Now they just have grow a bit taller.

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24Apr/10Off

Setup Easy Shortcuts for Internet Radio Streams on Android

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A simple how-to on listening to Internet Radio on Android and how to make a shortcut on your home screen that links to a specific channel.
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24Apr/10Off

Took a Screenshot on Android

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I guess freedom really isn't always free...
No rooting necessary.
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22Feb/10Off

How I deal with the Google Apps vs “Vanilla Gmail” dichotomy

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I was reading Gina Trapani's site, Smarterware.org and was pleased to learn that many other people have the same problem I do.
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A few years back I signed up for gmail.  I always liked the idea of a permanent, free email address that wasn't tied to an ISP.  Everything was hunky dory for a while.  About a year ago, I decided to start my hugely popular blog on my own domain.  I wanted to score my last-name.com so I could offer my family email addresses that I though were cool.  Well, my last name was taken so I did what  all the cool web 2.0 kids were doing and dropped the vowels.  Mrchnd.com was born.

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Anyways, I moved all my email, contacts and calendar to my new domain powered by Google apps.  Again, everything was fine for a while.  My contacts and calendar could still sync to my iPhone and I was happy.  One thing that bugged me though was Google reader.  I couldn't log into reader with my mrchnd.com address.  Then Google voice came out, I got an invite....and couldn't log in with my mrchnd.com address.  Then Google buzz came out......guess what?  I couldn't log in with my mrchnd.com address either.  To quote G.W. Bush; "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
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I've had enough of google's split personality.  I migrated everything back to my "vanilla gmail" login.  Absolutely everything.  I setup my "vanilla gmail" to pop my mrchnd.com mail and send using that address.  Now I have everything under one account and my vanity email address.  This should also set me up nicely for when I get an Android phone.  Only 11 months left on my iPhone plan....not that I'm counting the days or anything.
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The drawback?  Now I have a lag when receiving messages because "vanilla gmail" needs to pop my domain gmail.  Would I be better off just forwarding from my domain to vanilla gmail?  I'm not sure.
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Props to anonymonk for the picture!

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