From the monthly archives:

March 2004

Playing in the dirt

March 12, 2004

I’ve been planting yet more seeds — I started some marigolds for my window boxes, some cilantro for my kitchen, and I’m trying my hand at melampodium, notoriously hard to grow from seeds, but I can never find it in the nurseries around here and I love it. I also transplanted out my pansies, moving [...]

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Zen-Cart anti-Koans

March 9, 2004

Zen-Cart is the Open Source shopping cart we’re using in the vast Richards web-empire. It’s a fork of OsCommerce. They seem to be doing the same kind of cleanup that the OsCommerce team is doing, but actually delivering code. Version 1.1 seems much cleaner than the current OsCommerce build. However, calling the documentation sketchy is [...]

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Tomatoes

March 8, 2004

I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I had ordered a bunch of heirloom tomato seeds from Tomato Fest last month. I bought their short season collection, hoping for an earlier harvest that I got last year. But anyway, in his book, he talks about planting his seed in the first of April, and [...]

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Belkin cassette adapter car stereos

March 4, 2004

This is a widget that looks like an audio cassette with a cable coming out of it. The cable plugs into the headphone jack of a piece of audio gear and lets you run the output through your car stereo. Technically it works. Unfortunately the output sounds like a crystal set. If you care enough [...]

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iPod not ready for prime time

March 4, 2004

I bought Lisa an iPod for christmas, so she can listen to it while she runs. She loves it. Unfortunately, the experience has not been so pleasant for the tech support crew. Which of course is me, myself and I. I got her the windows version, since that’s what she uses. There is, of course, [...]

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Pansy progress

March 2, 2004

Once the little things finally germinated, the pansy seedlings seem to be growing at quite a pace now. I pulled them off of the heating mat today and down to a shelf below, so that I could use the mat for other seeds and so that I don’t fry the little things. I’m going to [...]

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