The family and I just came back from a week's vacation and so not much modeling has happened this weekend. I did, however, clean, asse...

I did not finish it until today, but I did start it on Sunday. We needed (or I wanted) a heavy duty workbench for outside projects. Most of ...

This weekend I assembled one of the row-houses I lasercut some weeks ago. The following is a short tutorial for the Wednesday Gamers to ass...

And so the now completed armies of the Welsh and the Vikings head off into battle (or, more likely, small boxes for safe keeping).

I am almost done with my Welsh and my Vikings. I only need now to put on a coat of matt varnish  to finish them. ...

Yesterday I learned that even if your Java class serializes via java.io.Externalizable, so giving the class complete control over the marsha...

Parkinson's Law: Work fills the time allotted. Gilmartin's Law: Time taken from work for play will be returned with time taken f...

During the week I prepared the bases with sand glued and mounded around the figure's base. I then painted it. I first made the mistake o...

I enjoy listening to The Moth , I highly recommended to all feeling people, except that I often become glum afterwards as I have no exciting...

Weekend workbench. 8 Strathclyde Welsh, 1 Welsh mounted warlord, 1 "chubby" Welsh warlord, and 4 Jomsvikings. (The horses were pai...

How to organize your Lego bricks for efficient building . Brilliant!

I have a dream that one day a webapp's drop-down & pop-up menu takes up the full vertical space available. [Old developer now hurrie...

Thunderplot looks to be a useful tool for quick plots. I copied some log data from a terminal window and pasted it into Thunderplot. There ...

Found this at the bottom of a drawer today.

In the mail this morning I get http://www.instructables.com/id/Adhesives-101-How-to-glue/ wherein I found out about http://thistothat.com/ ...

This week we updated our production Apache Tomcat installations to 8.0.15 (from 5.5.30). We don't need any of TC8's additional capab...

I was asked to post the code associated with Logging and the utility of message patterns . CommonLogger and SimpleMessageFormat are now at h...

John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture: We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do f...

Thank you http://www.everymac.com/ for the information and instructions for replacing my 2010 Mac Mini's hard disk.