This week I finished sewing two reusable shopping bags.
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Here is the majority of the garden loot for 2011.
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After visiting half a dozen different sites trying to figure out how to install Node.js, NPM and CoffeeScript on Ubuntu, I gathered up everything here so next time I have to do an install it will all be in one spot. This is current for Ubuntu 11.10.
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Here’s a quick tip I learned this weekend on how to get all your RubyGems installed without documentation by default.
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One of my projects this week was fixing my pagoda that broke (again). I’m not sure how it broke, I just found it felled one day. This pagoda is sentimental to me as it was originally my grandparents, so I wanted to do a nice job.
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Last week I got a great deal on a pair of grass shears, $.50 at an estate sale. They look old and neglected, but they’re very well constructed and work great, they have a very fluid motion and are still quite sharp. But the handles on them were a bit small and uncomfortable, being constructed of just steal. So, I attempted to make my own more ergonomic handles.
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If you’re like me and running Xubuntu with dual monitors. And like to have dual taskbars (panels) on each monitor. Here’s how to display only the open applications in each taskbar for each monitor.
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