I downloaded a cool export tool for my dvd library that turns it into a web page. Check it out here: http://www.yourservice.com/steve/library
June 28, 2008
June 24, 2008
cool mac feature
Was playing around and discovered if you do the following: <ctrl> “two fingers on the mouse pad and drag up” that the screen zooms in. This is really cool if you want to quickly blow up the screen size but not change any application fonts.
Feed me Firefox!
Ok, somewhere between installing firefox on my mac and now they added RSS support inside of Firefox. The only thing that was keeping me on Safari was the RSS feed displays in the toolbar. It now supports this natively instead of loading an external feed program.
I will run Firefox exclusively for the next few weeks and see if I can deal with the program changes.
June 17, 2008
A weekend at the train show.
As I mentioned in the previous post, Angie and I went up to Ontario to the The Big Train Show. This was a two day event. We drove up to the hotel on friday and unpacked the bridge. We went over to the show on saturday morning and took a clinic on split jaw products. We learned about their new product line.
After the clinic we went back to the hotel (across the street) and ate breakfast. Yes the class was at 7:30 in the morning. After breakfast we loaded the bridge back up in the truck and took it across the street. We unloaded it and entered it into the scratch built contest.
After dropping off the bridge we drove back to the hotel and parked the truck and walked back to the show. The vendor show was just opening and we walked around the show. You can see some of the exhibit pictures in our gallery.
We bought a number of miniature people and animals for our garden railway. As we walked around the show, we noticed some new vendors and some of the old regular ones. We ended up purchasing a lot of items this year. The list of items are here:
Wireless railcam: www.railcam.net
Rail Clamps and reversing unit: http://www.railclamp.com
Airbrush: http://web2.airmail.net/toolman/
We also purchased some shirts and other small items. On Sunday we went to the Pomona Faiplex to visit their outdoor railroad. The pictures are in the gallery. When we got back to the show, we attended the airbrush weathering clinic. We watched the instructor take a beautiful new engine and make it look like it had been in the outdoors for 20 years. It was quite interesting to watch the transformation.
After the clinic we walked back around the show to buy all the items I put on my list from the day before. I am glad I waited because I got the railcam for $70 less because it was his last one and would not have to ship it out.
We picked up the Bridge from the scratch built contest. The bridge took 2nd place, not to shabby when you compare what it ran against.
We loaded the bridge back up on the truck and headed home. No damage was incurred at all on the bridge.
June 6, 2008
The Big Train Show
Angie and I arrived in Ontario, California tonight for The Big Train Show. We will be attending some clinics and have entered our bridge into the scratch building contest.
The bridge was packed in it’s travel box (over 6′ long) and strapped down in the back of the truck. It survived the trip and did not budge an inch in the back of the truck.
More details about the show this weekend.
