Another volunteer day at The Brenton Arboretum! Getting closer and closer to spring! Can’t wait to see this place in May, it’s going to be amazing! From the Brenton Arboretum website: “This unique central Iowa arboretum combines the horticultural study of trees with a commitment to natural landscape management and conservation. At the Brenton Arboretum, [...]
Was a volunteer again with the Des Moines Civic Music Association at the Byron Stripling Quartet Show last Friday night. Got to wear my spankin’ cute silk red tie even! Trumpet virtuoso and smooth vocalist, Byron Stripling, and the band amazed me with both jazz classics and fresh contemporary jazz compilations! Byron’s ability on the [...]
Second cache on our lunchtime treasure hunting adventure, called Fortress of Solitude. *insert spooky music here* The GPS is right on pointing to this one’s location, so we bound out of the truck down to the spot. Jenny starts searching aroud the base of the structure and I sit down. It’s a nice little quasi-bench. [...]
So, met up with Jenny for some caching yesterday. Both of these were level 2 in difficulty, so we had to put our big girl game faces on. Drive up to the first one, jump outta the truck and the GPS was bouncing all over the place….is is left…no wait right…ooops left…right again. Grr! There [...]
Went out geocaching yesterday late afternoon around Racoon River, Iowa. What I thought was going to be a 2 mile hike turned into a 6 mile hike. Yeah. Sometimes that happens. ha! I started out on the path and went out the very edge of one peninsula only to find that I still had a [...]
Very often I find that my cell phone photos have a grey wash to them or they just look flat in color. So, I use the Levels adjustment tool in Gimp to fix them. There’s lots of discussion about what levels are and what they do, etc. but I tend to focus on the practical. [...]
I’m using the opensource Gimp to manipulate and edit my photos these days, and thought I’d put together a short tutorial on how to crop photos. I’m using version 2.4.7 but any 2* version should look the same as my screenshots. Follow the link above to get the latest Gimp download, just click on the [...]
Sure, using stylesheets is the way to go, but what about those times when you just need to format some text inline. For example, whenever I list something on eBay, the “Description” box will allow for fancy html / css markup but you have to do it by hand. And no linking to a css. [...]
Developed this php script for one of my clients eCommerce sites. They needed their shopping cart to calculate shipping costs based on the weight of the item and the destination. And all US shipping was to be Free. Best application for this code is in Click Cart Pro version 6+ but here is the stand [...]
I’ve been testing all the various cd ripper packages on my Debian Lenny Distro of Linux but none of them would rip to mp3′s. They would rip ok to OGG files, but I can’t play those on my cellphone’s mp3 player. As you know from my other tutorial, that it’s a breeze to load your [...]