A door alarm for my house and garage.

If you’ve looked about my sites you’ll know I make things. Lots of things. This means spending lots of time in the garage. Often I am dashing about between house and garage as I am busy making stuff. My house actually has two garages, an old on on one side of the house and my [...] [...]

55-gallon drum smoker

This past fall I took an evening welding class at a local technical school and got very excited about making things out of metal. I already had an old stick welder that I didn’t really know how to use, and I ended up buying a MIG welder–the Hobart Handler 140 from Northern. After making lots [...] [...]

Finishing Sophie’s rocking horse (before christmas – just)

Part one of the horse making is here: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/2009/10/18/a-rocking-horse-for-sophie With time moving on I had to really move to get the rocking horse done. After protecting the foam with the tin foil I applied layers of fibreglass and polyester resin. I built up a nice, thick skin of glass all over the horse. Layers of [...] [...]

Lone Coder: The Business Shell in an Age of Hype

There’s been any number of so-called “magic bullets”. So where does that leave my claims about my Business Shell (Bush, Bush Home Page)) as a better way to develop software? Is it hype like extreme programming? [...]

The Linux Chronicles – WD MyBook NAS Storage

With just a little over a TB of storage on-hand, things were getting kinda tight (who’da thunk that 5 years ago?) so I decided to buy some storage. To reduce the number of connections to my computer, this time I wanted Network Atached Storage. NA… [...]