Caulking baseboards January 27, 2009
Posted by reuben257 in Home, renovation, thoughts.Tags: baseboards, caulk, crown molding
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I was wondering about caulking baseboards because we have some gaps between the old baseboards and the wall, so we were thinking that putting caulk in there would make it look better. Turns out we were thinking right. Here is a video that does a good job of showing how to apply and “tool” the caulk.
I also wondering about caulking crown molding as well, which seems to be an ok thing to do according to the sites I have viewed. This video gives a couple extra tips, such as filling in nail holes, and using windex when applying caulk.
WordPress.TV January 17, 2009
Posted by reuben257 in WordPress add-ons, internet, thoughts.Tags: tv, wordpress, wordpress resource, wordpress.tv
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This is a pretty cool resource for keeping up in the wordpress world. Way to go WordPress
Free Ringtones… For real! January 12, 2009
Posted by reuben257 in Favorite Sites, internet, thoughts.Tags: free ringtones, phone, phonezoo, ringtones
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I have never really been the guy that has custom ringtones for people, but this just makes it too easy. PhoneZoo is a site that is structured a bit like a social network, but you can take ringtones uploaded by other users and send them directly to your phone.
Like I said, it is set up a bit like a social network, in that you can set a status and have friends and what not, but I haven’t seen a reason to utilize these functions as I have enough social networks. However, I am really liking the free ringtones. You can also make custom ringtones from your voice or sound files on your computer.
Another Favorite Firefox extension January 10, 2009
Posted by reuben257 in Favorite Sites, Firefox add-ons, internet, thoughts.Tags: firefox, gmail, remember the milk, signature, todo, wisestamp
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Today I will highlight a couple of FF extensions that work well with Gmail.
So the first one is the Remember the Milk add-on for Firefox. This one excites me because it works well with Gmail, which is something that I frequently use. Remember the Milk is a handy todo list manager that has a lot of different ways to access it, and share with friends, family or co-workers.
Remember the milk
The next one is called WiseStamp, which is a signature creator that can actually be used with a variety of email clients including aol, gmail, hotmail, and yahoo.
WiseStamp
Tickled with Fuelfrog January 9, 2009
Posted by reuben257 in Favorite Sites, Garage, internet, thoughts.Tags: fuelfrog, track gas mileage, track gas mileage via twitter, twitter
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how cool is this.
Ok, so maybe this won’t make everyone as happy as it has me, but I think this is one of the coolest ways to incorporate technology into daily life. Fuelfrog is a site that will keep track of your fuel mileage for you. Sure there are probably other ones out there that do the same, and there may even be better ones, I really didn’t do that much research about it after I found Fuelfrog, if there is I would love to hear from you.
BUT, you can upload your MPG (miles, price per gallon, gallons) via twitter and it will automatically track your mileage. So why you are sitting there waiting on the gas to pump, you can send a text to twitter and keep track of your mileage. Yeah, yeah, you should check your oil and make sure your tire pressure is good, but seriously who does that. Well, I do, but I never see anyone else doing it.
update fuelfrog via twitter
So, I think this is pretty cool, How about you?
Djembe January 9, 2009
Posted by reuben257 in Djembe, Photo Blog, thoughts.Tags: african drum, Djembe, flickr, Photo Blog, photo post, san ban, sangban
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I have had a renewed interest in the Djembe as of late. Granted, this photo is of my San Ban (sp?), but I have been looking to play again. It has been since before Missie and I hike the trail that I have played. I have found a meetup.com group in my area that I will get out and play with soon.
Also, curious if this photo will rotate as I have taken it sideways.
…Ok, so it doesn’t seem like it automatically rotates it. Apparently my phone doesn’t tell the computer which way it was facing. I know there is a way to do it with a command in the text probably. I am pretty sure I was able to do it on www.reubenandmissie.com, but that was using a plugin called postie.
Well, now it is saying that the photo is unavailable since I actually went onto flickr and rotated the photo there.
Well, I will continue playing with this and please bear with me if my site is a little messy. Any feedback is welcomed, especially if it will help with the order, go ahead an leave a comment.
Chatty McChats alot December 26, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in Communication, Instant Messaging, internet, thoughts.Tags: app, chat, chat client, digsby, google talk, gtalk, im, video chat
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So, I have been messing around with instant messaging clients quite a bit lately. I recently got a webcam, so that effects the way that I am looking at the chat clients a little more.
I have always been quite a fan of IM ever since the dial up days of AOL and being able to “talk” instantly to someone, usually at that time, I didn’t even know. Since that time, I progressed to the AOL instant messenger desktop application once I went to college and didn’t need to use AOL to connect to the internet anymore. (which partially explains some of my recent frustrations while I was at my parents house as I had had High Speed Internet since 1996)
Fast Forward to present day, well say like the past year. Since I have been using gmail and google much more, mostly under the influence of my brother in law Greg, but also, independently I have realized that google has incredible things to offer. I have messed around with the in browser chat and the desktop app gtalk.
Well now I have moved on to Digsby, as I have written about already, which does a wonderful job of incorporating all of the chat clients into one place as a desktop app. It also holds your social networks (facebook, myspace, linkedin, and twitter), in one conventient place, which I choose to have in my startup menu where I can easily see my friends updates from any of those networks or update my status.
Digsby in start menu
Which finally brings me to the point of my story. I never have really used the yahoo chat client or the Microsoft one, but since I digsby incorporates those as well, and I do have logins for each of those, I decided to have digsby login for me. I don’t know anyone who uses these and I am curious if you do how you like them. Let me know.
I am sure that I have more to say on this topic and I think I may come back to it.
Hit Increase December 19, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in blogs, internet, thoughts.Tags: alphainventions, hit increase, sudden increase
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Strange increase in hits
Look at the spike in hits that happened yesterday. I haven’t really written about anything more interesting than I have been, but I can attribute the increase to a site called alphainventions.com. As you can see from the next slide, the follow through clicks are limited. This got me curious, so I went to alphainventions.com blog to check it out and apparently the developer created this site to cycle through recently updated blogs to foster more immediate communication between bloggers. I am not really sure that itis working as intended as I only got about 3 or 4 click throughs even though the traffic was so highly increased and didn’t receive any comments.
This snapshot shows that a bit:
blog referral
Woot! December 10, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in blogs, thoughts.Tags: ?, blog, change, title, woot
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So woot was the name of this blog when I took it over from another Reuben, which I liked, so I left it the name. It got me curious as to what exactly woot is, so I did some googling. The biggest thing I found was the one that sells one item a day or at a time at a discounted rate.
I was prompted to write this because I bought my first woot, which was a webcam for 20 bucks.
first woot
So, I was wondering what you think, is woot! an appropriate title for my blog?
LOBO December 9, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in Garage, LOBO, thoughts.Tags: F150, ford, LOBO
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I haven’t uploaded any photos in a while and thought it would be good to have some of my truck on here. It shows the progression a little bit here. I don’t really have a camera right now other than my phone, so my photo taking is way down. I did make some inquiries today as to getting my “weather proof” water damaged digital camcorder fixed. That may be a little while as, I don’t have means to pay for the fixing right now. Gotta get a job.
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- Lobo before paint
