Before – Welcome Bag Room Drops

We wanted to have a room drop for our guests at their hotels. This is when the hotel leaves something in each room – a bouquet perhaps, or a gift, or a folder of information for a conference delegate. We decided to leave a bag of goodies for everyone. The hotels all agreed, and some… Continue reading Before – Welcome Bag Room Drops

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Before – Taylor’s Tonics Special Editions

Taylor Peck, Cassie’s old high school friend, and our officiant at the wedding, owns and runs Taylor’s Tonics. I’ve written about them before. As a lovely gesture, he brewed up a couple of special limited edition sodas to celebrate our wedding. He slipped a bottle of each into the guest room drop bags. There was… Continue reading Before – Taylor’s Tonics Special Editions

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Busy Weekend In The Hills

OK, so we’re pretty much moved in now, and settling in to our new place in the Oakland hills. Sadly the whole excitement of moving to a bigger place has been tempered my some unnerving surprises about the property and the landlady, but we’re going to make a go of it, enjoy it, and if… Continue reading Busy Weekend In The Hills

Uses For Leftover Scraps Of Contact Paper

Cocoon yourself entirely. Be discovered five weeks later after the neighbors complain about the smell. Some form of collage, probably. Build a scale replica of your house, left the cupboards get really dirty, then clean them out and apply the little scraps.

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Busy Move

Cassie and I are moving to the East Bay, to an area of Oakland called Montclair. It’s a nice spot up in the hills, with less of a view of the city, but more of a pastoral distant view of the bay through the many trees. It’s a bigger place, with a guest bedroom, so… Continue reading Busy Move

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Arthur Bryant’s Original Barbeque Sauce

Being the kind of old-world savage that loves ketchup on things, I was very pleased to discover this sauce. We got a bottle in a gift basket, I think. It appeared in our cupboard one day. Either that or the ANGELS put it there because it is DELICIOUS. I’m no BBQ-er, and I’m well aware… Continue reading Arthur Bryant’s Original Barbeque Sauce

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Backup Your Android Phone Photos With The Google+ App

It’s easy to snap a load of photos and then run out of space on your phone, especially if your phone has an 8MP camera. I wanted to figure out a way to backup these photos automatically to my PC or a cloud service, and after looking around at options like Dropbox/DropCap, I discovered that… Continue reading Backup Your Android Phone Photos With The Google+ App

The Myriad Ways Office2PDF by Tracker Software Sucks

I’m trying to convert a heap of documents into a single PDF. Acrobat 9 is crapping out for some reason, but I can always fall back onto PDF-Xchange and Office2PDF by Tracker Software, which my company decided to install instead of Acrobat. I say “fall back onto” in the same sense that you would “fall… Continue reading The Myriad Ways Office2PDF by Tracker Software Sucks

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