Written by: NetworkError, on 14-10-2008 21:38
Last update: 15-10-2008 20:59
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Sometimes it's fun to take a trip down memory lane. I dug up a bunch of sites I built many many years ago. Several of them are predecessors to this site. Some of them are just little side-projects. They're all just static HTML and often over-done Photoshop effects. I've listed them in chronological order. You may notice that I get less and less egotistical as time goes on. AMAZING! Enjoy!

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Written by: NetworkError, on 13-10-2008 19:09
Last update: 13-10-2008 19:21
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Our bathroom gets ridiculously cold in the winter. (It was built as an addition. The builder made the walls entirely out of cinder block. No dry-wall. No insulation. Brrrrr.)

When our space heater stopped working, we all started to worry. Luckily, it just needed dusting. Our house is rather dusty and after 4 years, our filter-less Lasko heater was a little worse for wear.

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Written by: NetworkError, on 20-09-2008 14:42
Last update: 20-09-2008 14:42
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I recently took my Kodak Easyshare Z700 down the green river. I took some amazing pictures and managed to keep from dropping my camera in the drink. Unfortunately, what I didn't plan for was the sand. The wind picked up on several of the evenings and blew sand into every nook and cranny of my gear. Sand got on my camera even though it was in it's case.

This brought a quick realization that this model of camera is not very sand resistant. In fact, a few fine grains of sand can pretty well destroy this camera. It survived the trip, though the zoom stopped working intermittently. As soon as I got home, I set about fixing it.

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Written by: NetworkError, on 20-09-2008 14:29
Last update: 20-09-2008 14:29
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For the final phase of the Enduro project, I picked up some cheep blinkers with the intent of ripping them apart and installing 6 volt bulbs and sockets. However, this turned out the be unnecessary. The bulbs are dual-filament and it appears each filament is 6 volts. So I hooked up one filament, set aside the wire for the other, and attached the ground wire to the body. Magic! Blinkers!

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Written by: NetworkError, on 10-09-2008 21:26
Last update: 11-04-2009 22:54
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I've been working on getting the old 1978 Yamaha Enduro DT250 all street legal. It didn't help that they started requiring blinkers on safety inspections shortly after I started the registration process. That put my way behind. I thought I would chronicle all the things I've done so far and what's left to do.

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Written by: NetworkError, on 10-08-2008 17:11
Last update: 10-08-2008 17:47
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I found some good motorcycle trails in the middle of town yesterday. Today, Kaiya and I went back and took pictures of them. It's amazing to me that these are right in the middle of my town.

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Written by: NetworkError, on 08-08-2008 17:29
Last update: 03-04-2009 13:43
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My latest project is reading books on my new Blackberry 8330. They're in PDF format and they seem to be a bit much for the poor, stupid Blackberry PDF distiller. I tried converting the whole file to HTML with a command line utility called pdftoheml, but that was a bit large as well.

So I had to come up with a way to read a PDF file one piece at a time. I figured the path-of-least resistance would be to create a web-based pdf-to-html converter that did its work one page at a time.

That brings us to today's project. I created a class (and controller) that wraps the Linux command line utility "pdftohtml". The controller tells the class what "book" (PDF file) to read and which page to read. The class then outputs the HTML for that page. The HTML is mostly generated from "pdftohtml", but I'm going back through the output and re-writing parts of it. I'm also adding pagination, a book selector page, and I'm saving the reader's place in a few cookies.

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