Continued from The Backyard Office – Part II Time to tackle more of the interior finishing. Drywall Putting up drywall isn’t super diff...

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Continued from The Backyard Office – Part I Now with the shell of the structure in place, it was time to tackle the interior. I spent quite a b...

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With the approaching birth of our second child, it became obvious that our 3 bedroom home was going to get a lot less spacious…and that I would have t...

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Finally, all of the major work is now done in the bathroom. Installed the vanity, toilet, lights, plumbing, medicine cabinets, etc. Check out all the ...

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I decided to exercise my brain a bit and learn something new. I’m mostly a Windows developer (VB, .Net, SQL Server), although lately the day job hasn’...

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Edit: Added some additional info about the tile, installer, etc. So, we decided not to tackle the tile job ourselves…wanted to save time and sanity. ...

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Just added Photos... Drywall taped and mudded. Cement board taped and mortared. Cement board water sealed. Walls and ceiling te...

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Whew! Finished up the drywall today. Starting in on the cement board tomorrow perhaps. See the Photos section for the evidence.

Have been catching up on the bathroom remodel the past couple of weekends. Completed framing, roughed in plumbing and electrical, and insulated all wa...

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By using the built-in rules in Outlook you can automatically CC an email address on outgoing messages (and even specify additional criteria like key words in subject lines, etc.), but there is no option to use BCC. This article will show how to modify Outlook to automatically BCC an email address on all outgoing messages.

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This article will show you how to import an Excel phone list into Outlook. Example: My current engagement involves a few different companies and the ...

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Using UltraEdit's powerful external tool integration, this article will show you how to submit an SQL query directly from UltraEdit and have the results returned directly to the editor.

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Nick Bostrom (Professor, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University) has put his paper discussing the probability that we are living in The Matrix on this website – www.simulation-argument.com

Here is an overview of the paper (from New Scientist magazine), read the full paper for all of the probability details and various arguments for and against.

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There is a cool blog article on Evernote's blog that discusses how some third parties are using the Evernote API to integrate into their applications

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If you have Windows Update set to run in the middle of the night (as most of us do), it is rather annoying to return to your computer in the morning only to find that it has automatically rebooted due to an installed update. There is a way to prevent this from occurring, but it does require a registry hack (Windows XP/Vista).

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Watch a cool video that explains it...

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Started tackling a master bathroom remodel...

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OK, as the election draws to a close and Obama has all but swept it, it is time for me to throw a little cynicism into the mix... I wasn't enamored with either party to begin with (yes, I know there are more than two, but wake me up once one of the other parties starts making a dent in the election process), and although I'm a registered Republican (mostly to vote in the primary) I threw my vote Obama's way.

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In order to upgrade to the latest version of DotNetNuke, rework the layout/skin or test out some nifty new module, it is usually a good idea to do so on a local copy of DNN before pushing those changes out to your live site. Unfortunately, getting a copy of an existing hosted site down to your computer seems like quite a chore (but it really isn't that bad). In this article I'll walk you through the steps that I took to get my multi-portal DNN site copied down to my local computer, and up and running.

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Just picked up a BlueAnt Z9i after researching dozens of headsets. This one got rave reviews for its sound quality, size, design, etc., but what reall...

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This article will discuss the ability to send emails from within a VBScript. This is extremely handy when wishing to get status messages from automated processes.

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OK, I'm going to rant a little bit about something that hardly anyone complains about... the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Note: Your sarcasm detector should already be pegged at this point, so you might as well shut it off.

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An introduction to two outstanding remote desktop management tools.

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Making the switch from Wordpress to DotNetNuke...Why, why, why!?

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This article will give you a brief example of how to create a VBscript process that can retrieve data from an Oracle database. The techniques presented here can more than likely be adapted to connect to other databases as well. I’ll walk through a script that I wrote to solve a small problem with a web-based application that I support. The finished script will also touch upon techniques for logging and setting the date/time from within a VBscript process.

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I developed some supplemental APA 9 Ball scoresheets to help you track the score of a match a little more effectively.

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