Nerhood Weblog

Have you ever wanted to create Plasma (an ionized gas) in you home? If so, then all you need is a microwave oven, some grapes, and the Microwave Grape Plasma tutorial.
I have not tried this, but I am tempted.
Note: This procedure could cause severe damage to the oven or bodily injury so please try [...]

Even though it has been around since 2001, I just recently stumbled across the Wikipedia, an online, free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It currently has over 600,000 entries. It is an amazing piece of public knowledge and it shows the power of what people can do with the Internet.
I’ve started linking terms that [...]

Sometimes it takes me a while to grasp the significance of things. For the longest time we’ve talked about keeping a log of all changes that we make to the servers at work, but we never seemed to get around to it. Who wants to write something by hand? Then while surfing yesterday I came [...]

This is the first meme in which I have participated. Memes have basically become the Internet version of a chain-letter. I was not tagged by anyone, but have come across enough of these that I felt I should participate too.
Total number of books I’ve owned:
I probably own over 100 books, and by the time you [...]

I’m not much of a video game player, but about a month ago I need to blow off a little steam. So I fired up my copy of Marble Blast Gold for the first time (it came preinstalled on my iMac). It’s a pretty fun and challenging game. I play it for a couple of [...]

SourceForge is a wonderful place. While surfing around yesterday I came across a fantastic new Open Source application for inventorying Windows based computers. WINventory is a computer hardware and software inventory system based on MySQL, PHP, VBScript, and WMI that provides a wealth of information about the PC’s on your network in an easy to [...]

Sarah is getting quite expressive in her actions. We’ve been playing a number of games with her. We ask, “How big is Sarah?” She responds by raising her arms over head, or ask her to clap and she claps and gets really excited. She really is a lot of fun.
Just like with Ellie, we have [...]

As you may have noticed, I’ve decided to try out Feedburner for my main RSS feed for my site. If you are having problems with my feed please leave a comment so that I can track down any problems. Feedburner offers some additional usage statistics beyond what I am currently getting with Awstats.

After seeing a couple of posts about web-based news aggregators, I thought I would give a couple of them a try. For those of you wondering what a web-based news aggregator is, let me try and explain. One popular method for distributing content (particularly on weblogs) is called RSS. RSS publishes an article title as [...]

For quite a while now I’ve been displaying a random quote on the front page. I don’t know if anyone reads them, but they do add some interesting and changing content to the page.
In addition to adding about 100 more to the list of quotes, I have set up a quotes page that displays [...]

A couple of months ago I posted my initial impressions of Maia Mailguard.
Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system for the popular amavisd-new e-mail scanner and SpamAssassin. Written in Perl and PHP, Maia Mailguard gives end-users control over how their mail is processed by virus scanners and spam filters, while giving mail [...]

We had a cookout this past weekend and we were scheduled to bring shrimp. While shopping I found a really great deal on limes so I bought a bunch. After some searching on the net for a recipe that used limes, I came across one for a marinade. The recipe below is a what I [...]