Posts Tagged ‘ Do It Yourself ’

Ma Mon Luk!

I had long wanted to take a leisurely walk down Raon Street, haven for do-it-yourself’ers and handymen. I needed to purchase two simple tools: a set of hex keys (Allen wrenches) and a rubber dust blower.



WordPress 2.5 peeves petted

A week ago I updated this WordPress installation to the latest version 2.5. This I easily did through webhost’s Fantastico software update facility, where all I had to do was click on a couple of buttons and the server did everything for me. That’s how I updated my WordPress no sweat, even in this sweltering [...]



The Taxman Cometh

It’s the lovely month of April when all above-minimum income wage earners are required to fill out the long blue forms and the short white forms and make the necessary (no to mention confusing, at least to me) computations of the amount of money the government takes from us to spend for the betterment of [...]



Fixing a hole

It was almost three years ago when we moved back into this house, which my father built by the sweat of his brow. What we first saw when we got here in 2005 would have made him cry, and I am still thankful that it was just Sam and his brothers who saw the terrible [...]