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Please excuse the mess…

Jan 12th, 2010 | By

Just to warn you, I’m in the process of switching the website over to one entirely powered by my WordPress blog.  All my static html pages will be transferred over, even the homepage.   I’ll remove those pages last and auto-link their addresses to their new ones.  It should make the [...]



Quick Update…

Jan 7th, 2010 | By
Quick Update…

First I’d like to wish all my customers and purveyors of my site a happy and prosperous 2010.  Sorry if I didn’t post many updates in 2009.  I ended getting a bit burned out and needed a break.  I WILL resume commissions for boats this winter.  I’m going to run [...]



Going on sabbatical from boat-building…

May 14th, 2009 | By
Going on sabbatical from boat-building…

Yup, you read the title correctly.  Effective today and lasting into the near future I will not be taking any orders for canoes or kayaks. To tell you the truth, I needed a break.  For the past couple years I used most if not all of my free time being [...]



Website Programming Update

Nov 21st, 2008 | By

This week I had a chance and updated some of the programming of the Update Pages (the blog). Notably I was able to speed up the blog by about 60% by using a caching plugin for WordPress called WP Super Cache.  Being a dynamic site, WordPress would recreate every post [...]



Better blog links…

Aug 15th, 2008 | By

I got inspired by Björn Thomasson’s excellent site and took a small step to clean up my own. I’m now using permalinks for my posts.  Under the old system this post would have been something like this: http://clearstreamwood.com/WordPress/?p=888 for instance.  Now it’s more user-friendly: http://clearstreamwood.com/WordPress/website/better-blog-links The underlining structure is still [...]