Happiness is ….

a working garage door. Our garage door has been a little on the shabby side for some time now, and stopped going up without binding in mid-January. We have been used the garage for going in and out of our house since we moved here in 1992, so it felt very awkward having to use the front-door instead. It took me a week just to find the keys that worked in the front door.

However, this morning a new door was installed. The salesman had recommended we replace our old masonite door with another, since evidently steel doors can present more of a problem in high wind areas since they are more rigid. Now I have to prime and paint it.

Gimp

The past few days, I have been trying to learn more about “the Gimp.”:http://www.gimp.org/ I’ve used it since I installed Linux Red Hat 9 last September, but hadn’t done much more than cropped and resized photos, and adjust the colors a bit. I’ve found a lot of tutorials of varying quality on the web, but so far have been most pleased with Grokking the GIMP – Learning Advanced Image Editing Techniques.

Official US Time

NIST maintains a site that gives the official U.S. time using a Java application. It looks as there are some other interesting exhibits on this site as well. For some reason I haven’t investigated yet, my computer is not synching correctly to a network time server, so I decided to find an online clock.