The Greatest Show on Earth

By Jim, on September 27th, 2011%

I just finished Richard Dawkins’ book The Greatest Show on Earth, in which he explains the evidence for evolution. In fact, that’s the subtitle: “The Evidence for Evolution.”

I’ll mention here that I’ve long been a “believer” in evolution, although it turns out that my understanding of the theory and knowledge of the evidence were . . . → Read More: The Greatest Show on Earth

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MSDN “Cannot Service Request” error

By Jim, on September 17th, 2011%

As I noted in my previous post, I’ve been having some trouble accessing MSDN information from my browser. I thought I’d solved the problem, but it came back this morning. I had been viewing pages on MSDN for a couple of hours while working, and at some point I clicked on a link and got . . . → Read More: MSDN “Cannot Service Request” error

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Can’t get help!

By Jim, on September 13th, 2011%

08/16/2011 – Problem solved. See below.

I don’t know why, but about a week ago I started getting a page that says “Unable to service request” whenever I try to get to Microsoft’s online documentation. At first it was just the MSDN documentation. Now it’s most any page that start with http://msdn.microsoft.com/.

This problem is . . . → Read More: Can’t get help!

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Demystifying Wood Grain

By Jim, on September 1st, 2011%

One issue that carvers of all skill levels continually fight with is wood grain. As beginning carvers we’re told to “carve with the grain.” Unfortunately, that advice often comes without an explanation of what “with the grain” really means. Many a beginner has understood that it means to carve parallel with the grain of the . . . → Read More: Demystifying Wood Grain

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