From the monthly archives:

November 2003

Oyster Mushrooms

November 12, 2003

The ‘Espresso Oyster’ patch seems more worthwhile. Here they admit it’s just sawdust spawn which they recommend you mix with coffee grounds. They also say that hardwood sawdust is fine and shredded paper will work in a pinch. So that’s a big old plastic tub from WalMart (where else would you go for plastic?) with [...]

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Photo Phollies

November 10, 2003

I bought a Nikon EOS 300D a couple weeks ago. This is one seriously cool camera. We wanted another camera so I can take garden pictures while Lisa travels with her camera. We’ve each won a (bush league) photo contest this year, so we felt justified in upgrading to semi-pro gear. The biggest win over [...]

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Mushrooms, indoors

November 10, 2003

Our order from Fungi Perfecti arrived today. Those are the Cinnamon Cap and the Pioppino ‘Mushroom Patches’ which basically say “put them in a cool place and water them.” I did. We’ll see.

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eGroupWare doesn’t suck too badly

November 5, 2003

After bouncing PHPGroupware, I took a look at eGroupware, which is a fairly recent (six months or so) fork of PHPGoupware. The story from the PHPGoupWare forum is that a group of developers who had been having a little trouble following the rules (PHPGroupWare is a GNU project, so it’s Stallman’s way or the highway), [...]

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PHPGroupWare Isn’t Ready Yet

November 4, 2003

Lisa and I are looking for Groupware to use in our new ventures. That’s a fancy way of saying calendar and todo list. We don’t need webmail because I do have secure SMTP working. (I’m using two mail servers, one for incoming, and one for outgoing) In the grand tradition that everything we do has [...]

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Nice start to November

November 1, 2003

I’ve been gone all week in DC, so coming home to a serious day of gardening was just what the doctor ordered, and the weather cooperated nicely. There wasn’t really much blue sky, but it was warm and it wasn’t raining, and I’ll take that after the cold and wet fall we’ve been having this [...]

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