A Small Drip

I did an install of Drupal7 on my web server last night. It is a CMS (Content Management System) software system for building and publishing a great many different kinds of websites. I have been wanting to take a look at Drupal for some time and a possible use for it at my work made me load up the latest version for a look-see. I works quite a bit differently than the Joomla CMS which...

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Shop Project

The project is a low, slide out work bench. I just finished the build and install stages of creating this new work bench for my shop. Actually it is a work bench attachment that added a low level work area to my old large workbench. I posted the video above to You Tube to show how it works. Here is the link to the actual article I wrote for The Hobbyist’s Workshop as I was...

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Just Fix IT!

I just spent 15 working days in solving a problem at work that had to do with email routing. That’s about 24 calendar days. Something that had been working perfectly for years suddenly stopped delivering email. It was all caused by human intervention into a system that has become highly fragmented when we became a part of a global business giant and having to work with their old but dominate email systems. These email systems...

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Under the Big Top

The circus came to town again. Funny thing about a circus, they seldom change their acts. The players change but the acts remain the same. I am writing about the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Baily HVAC company. Read about the first show a few years ago posted HERE. This time it all started in January with a scheduled normal service contract check up call on my two electric heat pumps. You know, air conditioning cooling that...

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