Links of the Month
Our own personal del.icio.us set of links. Basically, this is a repository of things we have (OK…Joe) found interesting on the web. Listed by month.
January 2008
Home Depot has a section of their website dedicated to help with appliance repair tips and parts.
The Oregon state website has some very useful information in their Resource Conservation Management section on saving in home costs.
When we were in our due diligence period of our recent home purchase, we thought that we should probably have the septic system inspected as well (a suggestion by our home inspector). When I mentioned this to my boss, he said that we should have an inspection using a digital camera. It can truly tell you the condition of your pipes and lines.
July 2007
I really like GNU Image Manipulation Program, also known as GIMP. I have been using it off-and-on, for the last couple years. Long before that, I used Adobe Photoshop Business and Home Edition for years. I have increased my use of GIMP lately, but couldn’t figure out how to rotate the image. I found a helpful discussion at Flickr that helped me out.
Iris has very nice containers for craft items. We got a couple containers from Target that look fishing tackle boxes. Quantum Storage, based in Miami, Florida, has an awesome selection of bins and other storage items. They are the distributor for Monoflo International, a company that provides nestable totes that we used when we moved our old business to its new location.
March 2007
I would like to suggest a number of food/cooking related sites. The Cook’s Thesaurus has an amazing amount of information about different kinds of natural foods. It’s also good to know how to store them. I love food chemistry and there is a lot of great information out there: about.com, the Exploratorium (the museum of science, art and human perception), and Robert Wolke’s Food 101 articles in the Washington Post. Lastly, Chad Ward has the most thorough article on knife sharpening I have ever seen.
David Allen has a section on his website with tools and tips for your workload.
February 2007
Robbie’s Pet Home Remedies mentions some over-the-counter medications you can give to your pet.
Bill Atkinson describes three good uses of an ExpoDisc: Grey balancing, color shift across your array (lens cast elimination), , and making a map of sensor dust for dust mapping. Cameras Brookwood also has a helpful article on the use of the ExpoDisc (Leica Gallery does too.)
Ruíz, Nayarit, Mexico is a great little town Joe visited back in the late 1990’s. One fascinating group of there were the Cora people.
Owning a Nikon SLR means possibly considering new lenses. Thom Hogan’s Making Sense of Lens Acronyms helps decode Nikon’s complex product designations.
Scorecard.org lets you know what companies are polluting in your county.
PhpGedView is an amazing project to help people store genealogical information. I may consider using this sometime in the future.
January 2007
Geoff Hutchison has several useful projects he is working on. As a chemist, many of his applications/tools (especially for a Mac) could prove very useful.
PBS did a special called The Secret History of the Credit Card that had some really good information and resources. You can watch the series on their website. On a related note, cardratings.com has a list of free credit report and credit score offers.