Archive for March, 2008

Weekend Project: Scroll Saw Stand / Wheeled Cabinet

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Having found face-frame cabinets are pretty darn easy to produce, that I had a half-sheet of 9/16″ plywood left over, have 14″ of empty floor space between the work bench and the shelving unit, needed to build a stand for the restored scroll saw, and had some things left that needed a logical place to [...]

Garage Cabinets: Major improvement in organization, cleanliness, and appearance!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I spent all night moving things around in the garage, ripping up the old shelves, resizing them, etc…
Before: (Before I had the table saw, fold-down workbench, this is a really old picture.. but it shows how it looked when it was -clean-)

After:

Obviously, I still have a lot of little clutter to clean up and put [...]

Even Poly Understands

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Good girl, Poly!

Our newly elected congressman, the grandchild of our previously totally useless congresswoman, littered my entire neighborhood with these. Seriously, they’re blowing all over the place, littering the roads, lawns, and sidewalks. Jerk.
I sure hope this guy at least decides to show up for work.

FreeHost3270 Bug Fix Bonanza!

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I’ve been working with FreeHost3270 quite a bit the last day at work.
I found a race condition in the disconnect code, that was doing some very bad things to my application.
So I fixed it.
Then I rewrote all the socket I/O code to use the java.nio package.
I’ll start doing some profiling in the coming weeks. I’m [...]