Solar Christmas!
I found a few places that sell solar powered Christmas lights, wreaths and garland. How cool is that?! A green christmas 
Gaiam Solar powered LED Christmas lights
Also many places are selling LED lights now, 80% less energy than incandescent!
Also on eBay, a lot cheaper (I bought some already!):
Redesign puhlease!
This site is in need of a major redesign.. and I’m feeling extra creative… I’m working on mockups. I’m pretty sure I want to move this site over to WordPress. I’m using WordPress on one of my other sites.. but I need to find a nice easy way to move Nucleus to Wordpress.
I found this method that talks about exporting the RSS feed from nucleus into wordpress. Buuuut, you lose comments and photos. Not acceptable! Isn’t there a better way? Has anyone else done something like this??
Also saw this on sourceforge. Looks promising but I can’t find any comments on it or anyone that’s used it.
We’re using Drupal at work as our CMS and it looks really great and very expandable. Sites like MTV, The New York Observer and other high profile sites are now using Drupal. I’m considering using this as an alternative to WordPress but I think Drupal may have a lot more features that I may or may not need or ever want.. we’ll see.
now playing: Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown
Fantastic time waster
This thing is a great time waster… I remember I played with it a bit in June and now I got hooked on adding photos. Totally eating up all my free time that I should be doing other more productive things…
Here are my photos
now playing: Shout Out Louds - 100 Degrees
What a long time…
I was unarchiving a zip and got this great dialog box:
new mac book pro!
i got my new macBook pro yesterday!
unfortunately it was shipped by DHL. ugh. worst carrier ever. i haven’t had a good experience with them in the past (delivered to wrong location and i had to go find it) and i don’t know anyone that has. so of course, i had trouble with this delivery. the message from the tracking on their website said ‘Premises closed. Undeliverable. Will try again tomorrow’. i guess it’s because we live in a gated neighborhood… so i didn’t get any notice on my door to bring with me and i called to tell them i’ll just go pick it up bout 30 mins away. but i had to wait for calls all day for the delivery guy to confirm with me that i could pick it up that day. they were supposed to call my cell, so of course they called my home.. that sounds about right. so i went down to DHL facility and of course they can’t look it up by my name and license (like fedex.. ahh fedex). i had to call LB (she’s my inet go to girl - saved my butt when we were in vegas too 
). she looked up my shipment and voila! tracking number and finally i could get out of that place. everyone in there was annoyed. big line… tiny little place no room for more than 20 ppl max shoulder to shoulder.
NEway.. i got my macbook pro and it was worth it i love it. i love the new power cord, the larger trackpad, built in camera and it’s thinner
now playing: Muse - Starlight
voip saved me 74% off my phone bill!
We just switched to voip versus our regular at&t land line at the house. If we had good cell phone signal, I think we’d just cancel the land line all together, but unfortunately that’s not the case.
So our phone bill usually floats around $68/mo with long distance calls and everything else - privacy manager, call waiting, etc. We ordered voip for $16.95/mo (paid in full for first year) from voip.com and it includes call waiting, nationwide calls, 3 way calling, call return, voice mail, etc. It also has a web interface where you can view all the call history and manager all the features. It’s way cool. Just plug the phone router (from voip.com) into our standard linksys router and into any phone jack and voila!
We can use this and save all this money because we have cable internet, those that have DSL wouldn’t be able to use it because it requires a phone land line. So I guess the question would be is DSL + phone line cheaper or more than Cable + voip…
It also saved us big bucks because we have a business line at the house (w/AT&T we paid $12 flat and pay per call) and to have a second phone line with voip.com which has all the bells and whistles (our AT&T didn’t) we pay an extra $10/month so our total voip bill is $26/mo vs. $80/mo. Easy decision for us!
Car remote + your head = extended range!
I’ve never heard of this until Josh told me (he used to install car alarms). I’m kind enough to share this helplful information. When you’ve forgotten and you’re not quite close enough to lock your car via remote.. try holding it directly under your chin, chances are it will work. I do this all the time now (though Josh thinks it might cause brain cancer like cell phones). The idea is that your head acts as an antenna to extend the signal. A lot of places I see online say it’s a myth.. but it works for me. Perhaps mythbusters can explain it.
It also works to open the gate in my neighborhood from the street rather than waiting until I get up to it. Bonus!
Position remote like so…
The Jealous Toaster Moved to new software
There’s no way to really move all of my old posts over to this system.. because the old system was so old (greymatter), but I do have them all saved in a very very long msword file. This is now a nice pretty database (nucleus CMS) that will hopefully be supported for a long time.
