Mark Denovich

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Sweet Justice

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee." The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore…

My Moveable type usage

In response to a post from Six Apart: My wife and I are using MT, so 2 authors, 2 weblogs. Our current setup has MT somewhat integrated with our photo gallery and with my wiki. It's not perfect…

T minus 19 hours

...until I pick up my Spider. Hot damn. My stomach is actually getting a bit nervous... or maybe that's the Coke and Landjager I had at lunch talking back to me.

Key HTPC component

After getting my HTPC mostly configured, I disgustedly let it sit unused for a few weeks. My cup of computer hatred had runneth over, and I didn't want to deal with it. A week ago, a friend…

More thoughts on Hybrids

This is a somewhat rambling response to a comment in my last entry... I hear what you are saying, but I have to disagree on the emissions part: Ford, Mazda, BMW, and a few others are now selling PZEV…

Hybrids, 2x as much shit to fix

I've always viewed hybrid cars with a suspicious eye. As a guy who spends way too much time working on cars, I'm intimately familiar with how many ways they can fail. Hybrids seem like a…

Less is more

I decided to go with Great Lakes Brewing's highly regarded Edmund Fitzgerald Porter. Look at the picture... Mmmm! I can get it in 1/6 Kegs which limits the inital outlay and allows me try…

An ode to spring

I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm enjoying this spring more than any in recent memory. The winter wasn't exceptionally bad, but by it's end I was truly longing for a change in…

What beer for my fridge?

We still haven't disposed of our old refrigerator. It's been taking up space in our dinning room while we decided what to do with it. I've finally decided: I now have a beer fridge!…

Treo 600 Camera improvement

I stumbled across a post on Treocentral that detailed a new Picturemail Replacement. You can find the program attached to the first post in that thread. An intrepid forum user has developed a program…