I ordered my Macbook last week and paid for 2-3 day expedited shipping (rather than 5-7, which usually equates to 7-8 days), and, remembering that it is TOMORROW in China, so it was really shipped on the 24th, this is ridiculous!It’s here in Phoenix, since last night, and they don’t plan to deliver until Wednesday?! Yes, today is a holiday, but that’s no excuse for it taking 7 days!!!
worldwaronecolorphotos.com => Photos from World War IWorld War I……. This site contains hundreds of photos taken by the French in the last two years of World War One.This is a site containing hundreds of actual color photos of World War I.
I’m not even going to try to include one of these pictures, they’re too big, but really worth a look. A wrecked B25 in remarkably good condition was recovered from a lake in South Carolina.
BBC NEWS => Divining rods ‘help beat drought’Thirteen million people have been banned from using hosepipes. Water company engineers are using divining rods to help tackle leaks and beat the drought in the South East.Southern Water said divining is used by some of its crews, although modern electrical equipment was mostly used.
I ordered my new Macbook yesterday, and, with any luck, it will arrived early next week. (I’m dreaming that it might arrive this week. Some hopes!) In any case, the Macbooks, like the Macbook Pros and the last iterations of the Powerbooks and iBooks have a motion sensor used to lock the hard drive in … Read more
USATODAY.com => Up jumps the ‘Da Vinci’ devilThere’s no doubt that the book the Da Vinci Code has taken the world by storm. But is it a good story or something more sinister?
The whole thing is pretty much done. I’m missing two handles and the microwave shelf is still on order, but everything is set in place and being loaded up. Even though Mr. Soong did what I consider the “hard part”, it was a lot of work. It’s not something I’m looking forward to doing again, … Read more
Mr. Soong’s work is done. We hired him in the remove the soffit, affix the cabinets to the walls, re-install and re-duct the range hood and cut the countertop. I’ll finish the rest. The most finished are the wall cabinets, seen here. I’ve mounted the shelves, doors and handles and they’re pretty much finished. I … Read more
Just before lunch we mounted and completed the first new cabinet. This one is actually completely new space over the refrigerator. Prior to this it was just wasted space. Progress is good on the rest of the cabinets, too. the range hood is completed, and the lower cabinets have been set. Technorati Tags: Blog, Construction, … Read more
The plan this morning was to get out to Home Depot and find a better way to install the electrical box that needed to be placed for the range hood. That ingenious rail system has a drawback. It places the back of the cabinet a full half inch away from the wall, making it very … Read more