This is another one of my many do-it-yourself adventures, joining such classics as Some Like It Hot and Some Like It Warm and Some Like It Soft.

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve found a lot of great local deals on Craigslist.com.

Those deals, and others like them, have allowed me to virtually replace (pun intended) nearly all of my older PC equipment with [more...]

Two days ago, I installed Debian Squeeze onto my new 64-bit PC, using ext4 partitions, KDE4 and grub2.

Two nights ago, I was up until 3:00 AM, thanks to Debian Squeeze’s version of KDE4.

My experience may surprise you. It certainly surprised me. [more...]

This short announcement is to let you know that I plan to replace this announcement with today’s Journal post some time this evening, after I’ve taken a little nap.

Yesterday, I installed Debian Squeeze onto my new PC, using ext4 partitions, KDE4 and grub2.

Last night, I was up until 3:00 AM, thanks to [more...]

I’ve told you about several of my Craigslist deals, but it’s been almost 4 months since I found my last one — a network laser printer that I’m still really happy about.

Since then, I’ve looked for a third computer to add to my network, to serve as an NFS file server for my wife’s and my computers.

Judging by the normal prices I’ve seen on Craigslist for the past several weeks, I figured that it was going to cost me around [more...]

More than ten years ago, up in the Frostbite State, my wife and I used to shop at a Cub Foods store that had 22 double-length aisles filled with groceries.

The selection was tremendous and the prices were great, but the store was so huge that it always took a long time to find everything that we were looking for.

So, way back then, I created a [more...]

This is yet another one of my many do-it-yourself adventures, like last month’s Some Like It Hot and Working Hard To Make It Soft, as well as My $135 Gamble last Christmas.

A few nights ago, I went into the garage to do some laundry. After a few minutes, I heard a loud buzzing noise that sounded like [more...]

This is yet another one of my many do-it-yourself adventures, like Working Hard To Make It Soft two weeks ago and My $135 Gamble last Christmas.

Two days ago, I noticed a small stream in our garage. It was only about 6 inches wide, slowly flowing from [more...]

If you’re like me, you like to understand how things work.

And when one of your things needs fixing, you like to try to do it yourself.

And maybe even improve its functionality or reliability. [more...]