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Initial results of my search for an image scanner today. ... Click to read more

Kathy and I want to make some changes to our new house. I decided to try the various home design CAD systems to see how well they could handle my split level. I choose to look at 2 major packages.

• FloorPlan by IMSI. I had some experience with version 8.2 and now its at version 10.

• Punch by Punch Software. I had also tried this some time ago ut at that time it was too slow and cumbersome.

I purchased FloorPlan ($50) 10.0 and tried it out. While better than 8.2 it still requires strange workarounds for what I think are simple things. ... Click to read more

Well I bought a house, finally. The trigger was the very unfortunate death of my landlord. Terry was a great landlord and a good person and his untimely death due to cancer was horrible. His wife notified me that the house had to be liquidated to a trust fund per the will. Since my Lady and I had to move I decided to see if I could qualify for a purchase. Nancy, my new landlady, graciously gave us 4+ months notice.

I started the search at the end of August 2005 for financing. Once I discovered that I qualified Kathy, my lady, and I began the search. ... Click to read more

Maintaining web pages, content and special media types can become a huge time sink. This is especially true when everything is done in pure HTML. Using a design tool helps initially but maintaining content, revisions, file uploads, etc. becomes almost impossible with such a tool. In theory CMS (Content management system) rescues us from all of that. In practice a CMS really provides a platform allowing the site administrator and users to focus on content first and worry about presentation a bit later.

There are many excellent CMS available and they are very powerful. ... Click to read more