alex chiang: web 6.0

 

Month: April, 2007

etsy fool

So, Jenny has been doing a lot of good work lately and has been posting her work on a website called etsy. Looking it over, it’s a pretty neat site, where lots of craftspeople sell various things that they’ve… well, crafted. Etsy serves as a middleman, making life easier for the artists, allowing them to [...]

planning for euro ramblings

We only have three weeks, and we’re trying to make the most of it. My preference is to spend a lot of time in one area and attempt to acquaint with it, as opposed to scattering like buckshot, far and wide. Our tentative plan is to spend a few days in Strasbourg, then wend our [...]

vw lupo reservation

Spent some quality time on teh googles today to try and find a car for the upcoming European vacation. After banging about on Expedia, Orbitz, Avis, and the like, I decided to give up my US-centric ways and searched on european car rentals, which brought me to autoeurope.com.
A few clicks later, and we now have [...]

solar a-no-go

On a whim, I decided to price out a solar installation for my house. I was thinking that since my house is 100% electric (no natural gas), it might be a worthwhile investment.
Boy, was I wrong.
From March 2006 — March 2007, I used 16,858 kWh of electricity, which averages out to 1404 kWh per month. [...]

spring blogging break

Hi loyal reader.
If you hadn’t noticed, I took a much needed break from blogging, not because I had nothing to say (well, not really), but because I had too much stuff going on in life. The dearth of posting was compounded by the fact that once you fall off the horse, it takes a [...]