About a year ago, while CompUSA was going out of business, I went banzai on buying up gadgets that I could use at prices I was comfortable paying. Especially after you figured there was zero shipping cost. At the time, I was working on upgrading the server layout at home, and was getting OS X [...]

The varnernet server uses a pretty um, strange way of handling virtual directories right now. I’ve not taken the time to get susexec and cgi for PHP5 setup and running, so we have some peculiar behavior. For instance: websites run from ~/public_html that need write access to the filesystem must have the default ubuntu www-data [...]

Sure, it’s an entry-level consumer grade camcorder. There’s no mount for a light, no audio in, no S-VID out, no FireWire, no DV, etc… All features my Cannon ZR60 has. But the SDR-H40 has a 40GB hard drive (no fussing with tapes!), USB 2.0 interface, can edit clips on the camera, can burn directly to [...]

I’ve got a few paint-grade projects out in the shop ready to be primed, and hopefully will find the time tonight to give the HVLP sprayer a little love and hit them with a couple coats. I’ve found that I really like using PVA Primer — but with my HVLP gun I tend to need [...]