Wed: Dec 23, 2015

How to Recognize Poison Ivy, Oak, & Sumac and Treat Their Rashes. Not so useful in December, very useful in the coming spring...     #>


Heres a quick rundown for those looking to fresh install Windows 10 with an 7 or 8(.1) key. I haven't gotten the upgrade notice yet on either my laptop or desktop but I'm gathering links and things in preparation for it. I plan to take an image of my hard drive just prior to installing so I can always roll back to a working Win7 if I need to...     #>


How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers? Wonder what's happened since the article was published in July... Also, this is pretty good: have I been pwned? and they let you do it for an entire domain if you can prove you own it: have I been pwned domain search (the output is a nice Excel file or HTML, I only see 3 compromised emails).     #>


Carrot Hot Dogs. Interesting idea, but I'd rather just have the hot dogs...     #>


Garage Door Opener Installation -- by Home Repair Tutor. I swapped mine out not too long ago and this would have been handy to watch first (as it was it wasn't too bad, but I am pretty mechanically inclined...)     #>


GoPro AutoexecHack, changes the firmware in a GoPro for a bunch of different things. Amazing list of stuff in there.     #>


How to Extend Garlic Season With Garlic Confit. Tried this and it came out just ok. I think my oil was too hot, it's more of a fried garlic than confit...     #>


SWAG Portaband Tables. That's pretty clever, turns your portable bandsaw into a table-based bandsaw. You'd probably want to change to a narrower blade but it's still a great idea.     #>


Dynamic Duos: How To Get More Nutrition By Pairing Foods. Interesting.     #>


10 Helpful Websites for Protecting Your Photography Copyrights. Read the comments too, there's more than 10.     #>


Frico cheese crisps. Ohhh, I've done plenty of Parmesan crisps, these look like a great variation.     #>


Everything About An Engine. That's pretty fantastic - I'm a big believer everyone should have at least a basic understanding of how engines (and cars in general) work. About 2 years ago I sat down with Anna and we built one of the see-through engine models, it was great, had LEDs for spark plugs that lit up and everything, she got a solid idea of how those things work from that.     #>


Merlin Bird Helps You Identify Birds With Five Simple Questions and FlowerChecker - Plant identification service.     #>


SSL with Virtual Hosts Using SNI (Apache configuration). Use this in combination with Let's Encrypt and make your websites secure, and be able to run multiple websites on one server.     #>


MusicBed - Licensable Music. Someday when I start making videos the music is going to be very important.     #>


Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou. That is adorable.     #>


Aosta Italy. I was strongly encouraged to visit if I get back to Italy.     #>


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