Graham’s Ramblings

Ramblings of a hacker/photographer/woodworker

Apr 20, 2008 10:55pm

Puccini: 1988–2008

Puccini and window

Some time yesterday, our cat Puccini suffered a major stroke which appears to have disabled her ability to use her rear legs effectively. This follows prolonged kidney…
Apr 14, 2008 2:56am

1½ vises later…

Rather than go to crown, I “opted” to spend Saturday sleeping for like 12 hours and today after mysteriously being totally unable to get to sleep last night working on my workbench. I installed one…
Apr 8, 2008 12:39am

yew lives!

My laptop has returned from the hard drive failure intact, thanks to the Time Machine backups. Yay for automated backups that actually work. Replacing the hard drive was a bit of a production, but I…
Apr 3, 2008 7:27pm

Link

My laptop’s hard drive is dying. Fortunately thanks to the new Mac OS X I actually have backups, so I’ve ordered a new HD. It seems one can get quiet or low power but not both (although occasionally…
Mar 28, 2008 2:14pm

How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial : DivineCaroline

Submitted without comment; I have no personal experience with these matters.
Mar 24, 2008 10:47pm

Workbench

One pair of the legs for the bench is being glued together. Yay. I might actually get it on its feet and start installing the vises this week, if work permits. Wedged mortise & tenon joinery is…
Mar 24, 2008 8:46pm

Chisel review

I doubt any of you really care, but in case the Semantic Web comes to exist tomorrow I’d like prospective purchasers to be able to see my impressions of the tools. Capsule version: between the two of…
Mar 22, 2008 5:40pm

Tools

I received a traditional English style pigsticker mortising chisel today. It’s somewhat difficult to really convey my impressions of the thing in text, so have some photos instead.


This is…
Mar 20, 2008 7:48pm
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Could someone please sit down the slower students in the class and explain to them that ‘hackers’ who seek to alter a device’s software for the purpose of giving it more functionality are not the same as ‘hackers’ who try to find illicit ways to compromise your data for personal gain.

Kay apparently believes there’s a rash of people breaking into the homes of Apple customers, installing applications on their iPhones or enabling them to be used with other carriers and then slipping away into the night.

” - Oh, Kay. | The Macalope: An Apple blog - CNET Blogs
Mar 18, 2008 11:37pm
“ You see, when the wingnut feels threatened, it excretes a foul substance which forms a protective layer of disingenuous stupidity designed to deflect dissonant facts and beliefs which could damage the wingnut’s tender underbelly of pure stupid. In order to harden this protective layer into an impervious carapace of ignorance, the wingnut needs to come to believe this tactically-held nonsense - needs to incorporate this protective layer into its body of stupid beliefs by making itself believe them for real. But then, of course, if this carapace is threatened, it too will have to be protected by a layer of disingenuous stupidity, and so on and so on until you start writing books called Liberal Fascism. ” - Oh, he’s good « Liberal Fascism
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