Old Matt Zaske Blog

Weekly Events! Well, I’ve not yet had a chance to put together the Mock Bus Crash Pictures, but at this rate it would appear as though either tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday night will be the night. This week I finally broke down and got a new cell phone. My previous one had been in a…

Exciting Sunday Well, as it turned out, we went to see the mock Bus Crash scenario which was used as a county-wide emergency drill down in Renville on Sunday (28 March). Mostly I wanted to go because it was supposed to be ‘the end of the old bus’ — which had been a staple of…

Web Update Project! Well, after trying to decide what to do today, I decided that (to be low-key and not too involved) I would take on the conversion from HTML (anywhere between 3.2 and 4.01) to XHTML (1.0). Essentially it’s a change to ensure everything’s in lowercase and also that all necessary attributes are in…

Another Week Down… …and more projects complete. This week (at work) entailed a web host move from a local ISP who was ‘overcharging’ for services (compared to other outlets) to my preferred hosting company, Seagull Networks. The preparations for such a move have been in the works for about a month, actually. But only has…

Cleaning House… Well, once in a while I find it necessary to go through my bookmarks in Netscape (particularly brought on by the size of the Personal Toolbar Folder which, if you’re familiar with Netscape, acts much like its own ‘root’ of the bookmarks (e.g. they’re on the ‘same level’ as the bookmarks button). As…

I like to SAMBA! Well, something like that… As it turns out, I was finally able to do something with Samba that I haven’t been able to (of course, I hadn’t tried a lot, either) previously. You see, for quite some time I’ve wanted to ‘properly’ set up the Samba server (providing Network Neighborhood/My Network…

AND…IT WORKS! Well, after some tinkering last night (namely just starting the machine for short (My guess for that is the motor mount. When I reattached the motor to the base, I didn’t tighten the screws very much. Obviously they’re tightened appropriately for the use, but there are huge rubber washers which have a lot…

Dishwasher Update Part Deux Well, as anticipated, the parts for the dishwasher arrived earlier in the week. And, as anticipated, I didn’t have any time to mess with it until today. So, I took the machine apart for the second time, although this time to ‘completely put it back together.’ Essentially, since the motor and…

Dishwasher Update… Well, it turns out the problem wasn’t as difficult as I’d anticipated. Although I found some service outlets for the unit, I contacted the manufacturer directly and was able to obtain info on how to disassemble the unit to diagnose the problem. I’m happy to report that as of today (Saturday), replacement parts…

Damn The Dishwasher! Well, it’s finally happened. I’ve been expecting this for some time, actually. The dishwasher is dying. Now just about two years ago (actually not quite, if I recall — anywhere between 18 and 24 months), I broke down and bought one of those $200 countertop dishwashers which are few and far between,…