Yearly Archives: 2007

Today's Solar Gadgets and Technologies

The Eco friendly street lights by Sharp  More options with solar shingles Solar Powered Gadget Bag at CeBIT  Tweet

Cool Solar Power Products of the Day

Part of the problem with solar panels is they’re so big; you have to have a large surface area to produce any respectable amount of power (yes, I could go on a tangent about how we need to be working for better efficiencies and low-power consumption, but that’s a topic for another post). Putting solar [...]

How to Get Free Stuff From Smith's Deli; or An Open Letter to Smith's Regarding Suggested Policy Changes

Let me preface this article by indicating that I’m an honest guy. Yes, I do have some hacker tendencies, but they’re all white-hat. That said, it’s somewhat difficult for me to categorize my feelings regarding what happened last night at my local Smith’s grocery store (a Kroger company)… So let me do so in an [...]

Dynamically writing your META tags using ASP.NET C#

Every year I have to go through our web sites and increment the copyright year to reflect the new year. This is time consuming and, frankly, the web site is run by a computer, so why can’t it take care of itself?   This is easy enough to do in a copyright line sitting somewhere [...]

Self-Reliance Tips of the day

How to make a small camp stove that even MacGyver would be proud of How to make a very simple electric generator Tweet