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Ukulele Kit Construction, Part III

Next step: applying finish to the ukulele.

Ukulele kit Construction, Part II

After letting the neck/body joint dry overnight, it’s time to put the fretboard in place.

Ukulele Kit Construction, Part I

As soon as the second half of my workbench was built and my tools hung, the overwhelmingly manly urge to build something hit me. Given my long-standing interest in luthery, my small budget, and my limited selection of power tools I decided to try putting together a Grizzly H3125 ukulele kit as seen on BoingBoing in December 2004.

Strange Spam

See also: Spamusement

Installing RubyGems on Mac OS X 10.3

I decided to install RubyGems and the Rails framework on my PowerBook so that I might follow along with ONLamp’s breathless Rolling with Ruby on Rails tutorial, but when I tried to complete the installation of RubyGems with the following statement in the Terminal:

% sudo ruby setup.rb install

It kept bombing out with the error

Endlessly Bookmarking Ways to Get Stuff Done

Sites about improving personal organization and productivity have been hovering on the del.icio.us popular list for weeks now. 43 Folders, Getting Things Done, 50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work, Life Hacks and so on.

anc_header plugin for Textpattern

The anc_header plugin allows you to specify custom HTTP headers within your templates.

Download

anc_header 1.0

Installation

After downloading the plugin file, browse to your Textpattern site’s administrative interface, click the admin tab, then click plugins. Click the Browse button, locate the file on your computer, then click the Install button.

Missing the Point

Sure, you're using orange peels and CO2 instead of oil, but you're still crapping up the planet with shit made out of plastic!

Resizing Multiple Images from the Terminal in OS X

Until I decide to spend the time hacking together a Folder Action to accomplish the same thing, here’s a one-line solution for quickly resizing a bunch of images.

Maybe Next Time

No worries. Next time you have that extra $1.28 rattling around the bottom of your account, you know where to get rid of it.

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-Andy

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