http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress WARNING: This blog contains writings known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:15:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/10/31/homebrewing-pages-updated/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/10/31/homebrewing-pages-updated/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:56:50 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=384 I’ve done some more work on my brewing gear, updated a few of my old construction pages, and added a couple new ones. Converted more kegs into brewing vessels. I used a new welding company, Grand Valley Specialty Welding, who did much nicer work than the last guy. Also added a glass sight gauge to [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/10/31/homebrewing-pages-updated/feed/ 2 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/03/27/mediterranean-cruise-2007-diary-online/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/03/27/mediterranean-cruise-2007-diary-online/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:18:09 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/03/27/mediterranean-cruise-2007-diary-online/ I just put up my diaries and some photos from our Mediterranean cruise in 2007, on the Emerald Princess.  The photos are also available in full 6 mega-pixel glory at my home-hosted photo gallery (it’s slow, but lots of disk-space.) Photos in the diary are just thumbnails, and link to the big ones in the [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/03/27/mediterranean-cruise-2007-diary-online/feed/ 0 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/03/25/photos-from-china-online-now/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/03/25/photos-from-china-online-now/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:57:20 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/03/25/photos-from-china-online-now/ After much delay, photos from our trip to China are now available online.]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/03/25/photos-from-china-online-now/feed/ 0 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/01/29/caribbean-cruise/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/01/29/caribbean-cruise/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:28:15 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/01/29/caribbean-cruise/ Our 7-day honeymoon cruise in the Eastern Caribbean has come and gone, and was a quite a delight. I heartily recommend it to anyone. Some photos are up on my home-based photo-gallery. We’re already planning another cruise. We can get the Mariner’s Society platinum medallion if we cruise 700 days on Holland America… maybe someday. [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2007/01/29/caribbean-cruise/feed/ 1 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/22/site-reorganization-underway/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/22/site-reorganization-underway/#comments Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:04:02 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/2006/10/22/site-reorganization-underway/ I’ve started migrating all of my static HTML content (homebrewing, electronics, music, etc) into WordPress. In K2, I’ve finally got a WordPress theme that makes the site look and work the way I’ve always wanted. The new pages will be seen at the top, hanging from tabs there.  One major new feature that this gives [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/22/site-reorganization-underway/feed/ 0 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/12/k2-wordpress-theme/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/12/k2-wordpress-theme/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:54:22 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=114 There’s a new look on the site now. I’ve installed the K2 theme for WordPress. My motive for doing this was two-fold. First, I will be migrating much of my content (homebrewing, electronics, etc., pages) from the hand-crafted static HTML pages into WordPress, basically using WordPress to manage the whole site. I want the new [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/12/k2-wordpress-theme/feed/ 2 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/09/new-photo-gallery-site-online/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/09/new-photo-gallery-site-online/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:32:59 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=107 The diskspace limits at my web-hosting service are pretty good for US$4.95/mo, and I get all the bandwidth I need. But unfortunately the disk space is not enough to accomodate my ever-growing photo gallery. To solve this, I have setup a web-server at my home, which I will use mostly just to host photo-galleries. With [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/10/09/new-photo-gallery-site-online/feed/ 0 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/01/18/disk-space-troubles/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/01/18/disk-space-troubles/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:55:20 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=70 Visitors to my photo gallery or music pages may notice that large number of photos and the music files are missing-in-action. This is a temporary condition, which I am working on repairing. My web-host company fixed some problems with their disk-quota system, and immediately discovered that I was way, way over my quota. Like 5 [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2006/01/18/disk-space-troubles/feed/ 1 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2005/10/01/royal-medieval-faire-photos-online/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2005/10/01/royal-medieval-faire-photos-online/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:15:25 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=67 I have added a gallery of 350 of the best photos taken by Craig and myself at the 2005 Royal Medieval Faire. I think I’m way over my space allocation for my web-hosting account now. For some reason, their space quota system doesn’t seem to be counting up the space properly. Nobody tell them…]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2005/10/01/royal-medieval-faire-photos-online/feed/ 0 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2005/07/22/now-fortified-with-advertisements/ http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2005/07/22/now-fortified-with-advertisements/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:50:49 +0000 piper http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/?p=62 Visitors to my home page will notice that I’m now showing ads, provided by the Google AdSense service. I don’t know how well this will work out for me, with only a few thousand visits per month (but steadily climbing). But hey, it’s free, and only cost me a little time to set it up. [...]]]> http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2005/07/22/now-fortified-with-advertisements/feed/ 0