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A Bit of Home Improvement with Ryobi Tools

19 January 2008 – 9:54 pm

Back around Thanksgiving, I hit up a sale at Home Depot and bought myself a 4 piece Ryobi One+ combo kit1. After Christmas I went back to Home Depot and picked up the Ryobi Tool Bag. The tool bag came loaded with a nice assortment of drill bits and a racheting screwdriver with [...]

By Mark | Posted in DIY | Also tagged bathroom, DIY, home-improvement, ryobi | Comments (0)

Admiring My Tool

28 August 2007 – 11:29 am

I carry a Leatherman Squirt P4 and once in a while, I take out of my pocket and set it on my desk. Either because it's poking my leg or I'm using it for some reason or another. Today I had it sitting out and was concentrating on our current big project, headphones [...]

By Mark | Posted in Life | Also tagged funny, Humor, office | Comments (1)

amaroK & Magnatune

22 October 2005 – 8:55 pm

As has been noted on this blog multiple times, I use Linux. Specifically, I use SuSE Linux. For my desktop environment, I use KDE. There are several music players available for KDE but the one that is far & away the best is amaroK. It's got some great organizational tools, a [...]

By Mark | Posted in Music, Software | Also tagged chocolate, IM, iPod, iTunes, linux, money, MP3, offer, podcast, quote | Comments (0)

What A Day

31 August 2005 – 12:42 pm

I had originally planned on attending a Pampered Chef party with my wife last Sunday. I had been thinking it would be some pleasant socializing over some tasty food with a bit of somebody trying to sell me some pricey kitchen stuff. That is to say a not entirely unpleasant to spend part [...]

By Mark | Posted in Life | Also tagged Books, breakfast, Car, Chicago, Code, con, dinner, Food, friends, IM, Life, Link, Love, movie, Movies, party, quote, radio, RPG, tea, war, weekend, Wife, work, working | Comments (1)

Firefox Tip

19 August 2005 – 4:52 pm

Have you been using Firefox for several months? And during that time noticed that it's taking longer & longer for the Save File dialog box to come up? Then likely, you've got the same problem that I've had. Fortunately, there's an easy (but slow) fix for this.

Instructions:

Open Firefox.
Go into Tools -> Options [...]