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I was stumbling around the internet when I came across a very cool mod for all you dremel users out there. The mod is based around an old sewing machine pedal. It give you a lot more control over your dremel tool while using it. Here is the Dremel Mod

Just updated the Photo's gallery with some new photos. I took them a dillon state park at night and they turned out very well.

I just got done watching the movie Dr. Strangelove. Its a very good movie and I hope every one will check out my review of the movie here

I just wanted to take a second to thank my co-worker Drew for taking the time to make me a new graphic for the footer. I think it fits in much better than the crap I had down there. Thanks again man.

We are getting a crazy amount of hits and so far the web server is holding out. Yesterday the site received 1,142 hits and so far today google is reporting 672 hits for the site and climbing. I hope all the visitors to the site are enjoying the site.

Woooo the site and the H300 project have been featured on www.hackaday.com . The youtube video views are going threw the roof and as soon as analytics updates I should know how many site hits are coming in from the site. Don't forget to check out the outtake video on youtube.

This is the nerf gun to end all nerf guns. Even better it is very easy to make and comes in around $30 in parts. Check it out

Some of you may have noticed that when you normaly make a link be it image or text based, there is always a little dotted outline that shows up in firefox. I just read a very simple article on how to fix this. I think it make's things look a lot cleaner on a site. Here is a link to the article I got this from and here is the code.

a {
   outline: none;
}

After some time to stabalize, the numbers that are arriving from stumbleupon are going down. I am going to add more of the sites pages to see if I can keep the traffic up.

Just finished adding support to the back end to add quotes to the random quotes that are shown at the top of this news section. A small victory but it was an item on my todo and now it is done.

In the span of a day this site has went from having 7 unique hits per day to 65 unique hits today. What did I do to get this increase in traffic? I added two of this sites page to StumbleUpon. It is hard to say if this trend will continue or if it will level off. All I know is that the power of StumbleUpon is a great thing. I have gone ahead and added a few more pages from this site to StumbleUpon and I am hoping to see even more traffic than ever on the site. So to every one who is reading this from StumbleUpon. Thank you for visiting and please look around.

StumbleUpon - Firefox Plugin

I am almost ready to publish some thing to do with NERF. I just need to get videos taken to use in the project.

I was bouncing around the net and found a really good article on when you should not normalize your database. I have often thought that there where times when this would be faster than joins. I have not had a chance to check out the validity for myself so take at your own risk.

I just posted it in the reviews section and hope every one will take the time to read about my spork.

I just got done adding a couple things to fckeditor so I can make link to an image use lytebox with out having to touch the html code. It just a nice little feature in a long line of things I am doing to improve the site.

I just enabled mod_deflate to compress page contents to help speed up load times of the site.

I stumbled on this article about an led with a brain. It makes it a lot easier to send simple commands like #00ff00 60% over two wire serial. That would set the led color to green at 60% brightness. We are now to the point when we should be having a network of microcontrollers to carry out complicated tasks. For example lets say each of your fingers had a microcontroller to manage each finger but each would report back to a "hand" microcontroller to help coordinate the moments and such. The finger controllers can also send emergency messages to the hand which could relay them further depending on conditions.

Any way here is the link and I hope you find it as interesting as I did.

Just finshed up the back end code to add new links quickly to the links section. Means nothing for you other than I can add or change a link in the blink of an eye.

Oh and tomorrow the world will see one of the newest toys from HNet Inc. It promises to be a good one.

I just got the contact form up and working so incase any one has been trying to get in touch with me through the site, you are now able to do so.

Just wanted to let every one know I posted a review of my new Cardo S800 bluetooth headset in the review section.Click Here to read it.

After getting into audio books I have really realized that Hollywood is making movies the wrong way. In short they are rushing threw things to fit it into a two hour time frame or three hours at longest. Which means your missing the point of the story and possibly one of the points of life. That is it should be about the journey and not just about the ending.

Now lets take another look at things. Lets start with a very popular and very well done movie, Lord of The Rings. This was handled better than most movies but I think I could have been better and made even more money. How you ask? Simple split the movies up even more. Instead of three movies why not four or more. This way your not loosing any of the story from the books and your also making more money with more movies.

Any one who knows me knows that I hate how short movies are. I think though I am always pissed off not because of the shortness of movies but because there are parts left out or parts that are rushed threw. This could be fixed by breaking the story into more movies. Now don't get me wrong if the content is not there then DO NOT add random shit to extend the movie out. If the content is there then by all means bring it to the public as the full thing.

After a day of searching I figured out why I could not get apache's mod rewrite to work. I found out there is some thing called MultiView for apache. Now that I have the fix I am going to go over it with you. Just incase it helps you fix your problem.

MultiView behaves sort of like mod rewrite and I will explain that more in a moment. The only problem is that it takes precedence over mod rewrite rules. In this example / will be the root of my htdocs foulder for my site. Now if I enter a bad path like this for example /projects/amissingfile/ mod rewrite will take the last known good path which would be /projects/ and tries a couple of things. The first thing it will try and do is find a file for example /projects/amissingfile.php or /projects/amissingfile.php. Once it knows there is no file with that name it will fall back and try /projects.php or projects.htm and in this case it would find /projects.php.

Sounds great but it was interfering with my mod rewrite rules. I had a rule that goes some thing like, if you try and reference a file in /projects/ then redirect to /projects.php. As you can see both MultiView and mod rewrite were trying to do the same things. Only mod rewrite never got a chance to do it's thing because of MultiView. So to fix this, in my .htaccess file on the first line I did Options -Multiviews and then did my mod rewrite rules. Here is the entrie .htaccess file just so you can take a look at what I have done.

Options -Multiviews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^projects/.*$ http://www.hnetinc.com/projects.php [R]
RewriteRule ^software/.*$ http://www.hnetinc.com/projects.php [R]
RewriteRule ^reviews/.*$ http://www.hnetinc.com/reviews.php [R]
RewriteRule ^tutorials/.*$ http://www.hnetinc.com/tutorials.php [R]

The [R] tells mod rewrite to do a 303 redirect or some thing very similar. The reason I did it this way was because with this I can still use relitive paths for my css and javascript files. More information about MultiView can be found here.

A couple of my co-workers have started a site for everything metal music related. I asked them to give me some info about whats going to be going up on the site and there plans. Here is what they had to say.

"knuckles first is an up and coming site for all things metal. Expect plenty of music reviews, band interviews, artwork, downloads, videos, t-shirts, plus random news and tidbits, and maybe even some sweet merchandise"

Definitly a site to keep an eye on as these guys know what they are doing.

http://www.knucklesfirst.com

I decided to play around with synergy seeing as how well it worked and man is it neat. Makes this laptop more usfull because where it is sitting its hard to type or use the mouse on it but with synergy i get to use my regular keyboard and mouse. Very cool stuff.

Just got done adding the pagination system to the web site. I promis to keep it under controll and not split up any content into mulltiple pages to get more clicks to the site. This is mostly for the listing pages for reviews, projects, and news. They can be a long list and I think its nice if they are split up to a point.