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I’m sure you guys know about that “middle button” that is hiding underneath your scroll wheel on your mouse, right? Usually it is set to some useless feature like “auto scroll”… I mean, come on… who uses auto scroll anyway? Well, the very first time I discovered that button (and how useless it truly was) Read More …
Many of you know that I became the owner of www.backyardchickens.com about a year and a half ago. Since that time the new BYC Chicken Forum has grown like crazy. It has been a lot of fun taking what I learned from my very first forum (the one tied to this domain, the Nifty-Stuff Printer Read More …
You may have read my post a few years back regarding my Homemade Compost Sifter Screen Sieve. I’ve received some great feedback and comments on this fun little project. One of them really caught my attention and with the permission of the inventor I’m going to post his amazing improvements here!
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There is a 1.5 acre empty lot behind our house and every year theyd “disc” it to remove weeds for fire suppression. I’ve heard about people renting goats and sheep for mowing down weeds and thought it would be fun to try, but I never got past the thought.
Rest In Peace Grey Chicken I’ve been wanting to design an automatic chicken coop door closer for years. There are plenty of other systems out there that automatically open and close the coop door, but they are expensive and, well, not designed by me! 😉 Basically my idea is to create a simple system that is Read More …
I host and manage about 50 different websites. The vast majority are static sites for friends and family that don’t require any backup processes above the daily backup provided by my webhost. In the 8 years that I’ve been running websites I’ve been with about 12 hosting companies and even though my current server has had Read More …
As you may know, for the past few years I’ve been in process of waterproofing my basement. Some of the things I’ve done include: Adding gutters to the house Plugging holes in the wall with hydraulic cement Using 4″ irrigation draining pipes to pull the water as far from the house as possible
I’ve mentioned that I’m pretty anal about computer backups. I recently purchased a new computer from the Dell Outlet, a Dimension E521 with Windows Vista. I’ve heard nothing but bad reviews for Vista and am quite happy with my XP setup so my plan was as follows:
I’ve been struggling with this question for about… let’s see… 4 years! Do I convert my hobby site www.nifty-stuff.com over to a CMS platform? Here’s how it plays out about every 6 months: