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Earth Hour Saturday March 29 2008

29 March, 2008 (05:26) | household, internet | By: bbowers

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Earth Hour is promoting everyone to turn their lights out for one hour between 8 and 9pm their local time. Google will be turning their homepage black for that hour as a symbolic gesture. Modern displays use no more power displaying white than they do black, but it’s a gesture.

putting stuff back together with metal screws

10 March, 2008 (11:11) | household, tips | By: bbowers

When you reassemble something using metal screws into a plastic hole, here’s a good tip to keep from getting the screw in cockeyed. Put the screw in and use your screwdriver to turn the screw counter-clockwise until you feel it drop into its old threads. Slowly begin turning it clockwise and it should tighten [...]

repair cooling fans from computers, video cards

8 March, 2008 (07:02) | household, tips | By: bbowers

I do a lot of work for non-profit organizations that aren’t able to just go out and buy a new device when one fails, so I learn to fix simple things or at least extend their life. I used one of those life extension tricks on a network switch at my house this weekend. [...]

Build a wooden train table

4 March, 2008 (07:43) | fun, household | By: bbowers

My sons started playing with Thomas the Tank Engine wooden trains last year, and they didn’t have anywhere to setup the track. The coffee table was the last resting place for the figure eight track. I looked at various toy stores and couldn’t bring myself to spend $200+ for a small table.I am not much [...]