Mmmm. Wood floors. Got solid oak installed downstairs over the past couple of days. Really looks outstanding. I’ve got a bunch of pics up at the usual place, but they simply don’t do it justice. If you have a chance to come see, do so! 
Got an estimate for putting ceramic tile in the kitchen and bathrooms, and replacing the rest of the carpet (stairs and upstairs hall/bedrooms) with new carpet. Scheduled to go in after all of this ISCA hubbub is over with.
Monthly Archive for November, 2004
Firefox made it’s 1.0 release yesterday. If you haven’t tried this attractive alternative to IE, go do so now! It’s substantially faster than old Mozilla/Netscape, standards compliant (unlike IE), less likely to allow your machine to be filled with spyware (unlike IE), has all sorts of cool extensions to add additional functionality (even redefine existing functionality)… oh and it won’t give you the plague either (unlike IE)! 
It’s just dripping in plague juice! I bet it’s lymph nodes are as big as cats!
Making progress again on the house (and remembered to bring my camera again too). A bunch of the double-paned windows that had broken seals were replaced on Tuesday (turns out some of the remaining windows were misordered and the sliding glass door is on backorder). Big improvement on the ones that have been replaced though. Will actually be able to look out the windows now. Got the light green paint up on two of the walls in the dining room (but not the overhang near the cathedral ceiling), gold along the north wall with the big picture window in the living room and the sliding glass door in the dining room that leads to the deck. Got a bunch more wallpaper taken down, so hopefully we can get a coat of paint up on the remaining dining room wall that leads into the kitchen soon. The solid oak flooring should be going in on the first floor on Monday and Tuesday, so the place should be looking pretty good soon.
So apparently Dell is now shipping a 20″ widescreen LCD ala the Apple Cinema dispay. Looks like it’s got pretty sweet specs in addition to being priced several hundred less than Apple’s. Now if only Dell would have some outrageous deal on it.
- 1680×1050 resolution
- 16:10 aspect ratio
- 16ms refresh (12ms gray-to-gray)
- 600:1 contrast ratio
- 300cd/m2 brightness
- analog (VGA) and digital (DVI) inputs, as well as video inputs for S-video and composite connections
- Picture-in-Picture and picture-by-picture support
- four USB2.0 connectors
- rotates into a portrait display position
