Hobbies
Whatever keeps me busy
Raspberry Pi ramblings
Last Spring, when I rebuilt this website, I used a Raspberry Pi on my home network as an internal web server to host the site development. Setting it up for that purpose was pretty easy once I got PHP/MySQL and WordPress installed on it. However, there were a couple of config files that had to be manually modified which required [...]
Swords of wood
A couple of weeks ago I decided to make some swords out of some scrap wood that I had lying around at my parent's house. I've always enjoyed creating things and since most of my creations are not in a tactile form, I thought it would be nice to make something I could touch, and my Dad has a workshop [...]
Trains, Trains and More Trains
One of the many projects that I've been meaning to do for the longest time has been to build an outdoor/garden railroad with the G-Scale (large scale) trains that I've been collecting for a number of years. Now that my parents have moved back to Wisconsin, and subsequently have a big backyard, I finally decided to go forward with this [...]
Designer Computers
Now this is a cool design for a small computer. It still amazes me that no one has yet to commercialize small designer PCs. I mean, the Mac Mini is a big step in the right direction, but I would like to see more companies market this same approach to small computer design. No, they don't have to be made [...]
DVD Burning
I recently bought a really nice DVD Burner (it's just amazing how cheap these drives are now) and one of the first things that I did with it was create a DVD video disc that contains the three movies that are on this site. The software I used to compile the video onto the disc was not the world's greatest, [...]
The Equipment I Use
I currently use Windows XP running on an Athlon XP 2000 machine with 1GB of RAM that I built two years ago. Surprisingly, this computer has aged pretty well considering all the new stuff that's out there today. I want to upgrade it at some point soon since the motherboard in this machine can take a higher-clocked CPU than the [...]
Ted’s Favorite Movies from 2001
This is the complete list of movies that I enjoy more or less. Some of these movies are well known while some of the others are lesser-known cult classics. This list is composed of the movies that I feel are worth writing about. James Cameron's Films Hands down James Cameron is my favorite film writer-director to this day. All of [...]