by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 25, 2007 | HousePosts
Actually, he was just crawling down the stairs… We were sitting down to dinner last night when two of the kids screamed and ran like mad into the kitchen. “What’s up?” we asked. “Snake on the stairs!” they replied. So we ran to the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 24, 2007 | HousePosts
And washing away the sins of the past… If you think your past won’t catch up with you, think again. Two years ago, when we finished the house, I had put down some nice new mahogany decking with the full intention of sealing it before the end of the summer....
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 23, 2007 | HousePosts
Or what a way to spend a week of vacation… You may recall that some months ago we purchased some reclaimed Douglas Fir porch posts. The posts, which we had milled at a full 6 x 6 were to be used to replace the rather scrawny 4 x 4 posts (see the picture to the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 17, 2007 | Commentary, Macworld, Writing
Great program with a few glitches Let’s be clear about this: I love Apple’s new Pages ’08. So much so that I plan to start using it every day as my main word processing program. No, this isn’t some kind of left-over-from-the-nineties...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 16, 2007 | Macworld
Or, 30 more seconds lopped off of my 15 minutes of fame… With the advent of the Internet, podcasts, Youtube and the like the old fifteen minutes of fame adage may well be a vestige of the Andy Warhol past. But, I did get about 30 seconds on the Macworld...
