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Friday, September 10 2010 @ 07:29 AM CDT

New Heater for Shop

Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 02:35 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
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About three weeks ago, I installed a new LPG fired Unit Furnace for the shop. At 75,000 BTU/hr, it takes only about 1/2 an hour to warm the place up to 65 Deg F from 50 (where we keep it when not occupied). Makes it real nice working out there this winter.

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Tomato Harvest

Saturday, October 28 2006 @ 07:04 PM CDT
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We brought in the end of the tomato harvest over the last week. Patty and I cooked up/put up (canned) 40 quarts of delicious marinara.

In addition, Patty processed up about a full quart of fresh basil pesto, toasted/skinned about 20 servings of anaheim peppers, and froze them all in small portions. We are looking to a gourmet winter.

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Update on RoR App

Friday, October 13 2006 @ 06:55 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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I've been able to steal a little time away from winterizing the farm to improve the Insulin Dependent Management Capture app I'm writing as a venue to learn some Rails. It works so well that I have abandoned my spreadsheet app and plotting, for the new Rails app.

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Gymnasium Re-Assembled

Sunday, August 27 2006 @ 09:37 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Yesterday, I put the finishing touch on the Farm Gymnasium

with installation of a newly re-upholstered incline press bench back. We were very fortunate to have located this gym in the warehouse of large body-building shop in the Denver area.

It's a Taurus Intermediate 5 Stack. We had to replace some cables, re-upholster a few items and a lot of cleaning. It spent it's first 30 or so years in a downtown Denver Gym, training boxers. Nice find for a home gym.

Additonal gym components include:

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Ruby on Rails

Monday, August 21 2006 @ 02:54 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Yesterday, I learned some of the fundamentals of Ruby. Today, built my first RoR web app. Not pretty to look at but, fully functional logic and view. Actually I had very little to do with it except set up the database. Pretty easy to see what all the excitement over RoR is about.

Now comes the hard part: Pretty views and more sophisticated controllers. Using the beast and fine tuning the schema will help outline the work ahead.

It's a simple app that provides a facility to input events in the management of an insulin dependent diabetic regime. For now I'm calling it: Insulin Dependent Metrics or IDM. Pretty dull name. Being web accessible, I can use it at the various computers around the farm and on the road for that matter. I am particularly interested in making up to date personal diabetic metrics available to my diabetic care giver.

I plan on iterating towards facility for report generation with a selection of table and graphical representations of the data.

Developing .....

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Back in the Saddle (w/ a new hosting service)

Saturday, August 12 2006 @ 10:52 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Bunch of happenings since my last post:

I was preparing a post to elaborate on my new 80m full wave loop and homebrew balanced feedline. When after several edits, I clicked the save button and half an hour later, I received an error from GeekLog, that the article could not be saved.

A day later of sniffing around, I found that the images I had tried to upload, (full size using netpbm suite to resize thumbnails for the article summary), were the culprit. The netpbm binaries were not in place on my host providers machine.

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gMFSK Turned up on FreeBSD Box

Sunday, July 16 2006 @ 07:24 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Spent some time today evaluating Digital Comms/Modem ports for the amd64. I found 4 systems in the ports tree for FreeBSD and tried em all. Settled on gMFSK by Tomi Nanninen, OH2BNS. Nice interface and the DSP seems to be very sensitive. The system supports MFSK, RTTY, THROB, PSK31, MT63 and FeldHell.

I had a nice MFSK16 qso with WV7T, Mike in Colorado. Looking forward to trying the other modes.

Now, to ambush my bud, W7VOS, Rod. ;^}

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Strawberries Are In

Tuesday, July 11 2006 @ 03:11 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Yummmm. Been getting a few nice berries for awhile. Got busy on some other grounds work and missed a few days.

Dropped in on the veg garden this morning and BAMMO;

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Real beaut's that are so sweet. NOT those big ugly hollow starchy berries you see at the grocery.

Gonna have to take up a bigger bowl for collection tomorrow.

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Well Said!

Friday, June 30 2006 @ 04:55 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 241

In a well done Britt manner:...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/30/microsoft_wga_snafu/

has pinned the tail on the 'WGAf' donkey.. brrruuhahahaha

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Update: More Workstation Tweaks

Monday, June 26 2006 @ 05:28 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Turned up Opera 9 on the FreeBSD HotBox. For me, far moh betta than Firefox..

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