Anyone here have a Blog on Blogspot . com ?
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Comments (2)Hi plantboy...aka chrissyboi, Welcome to The Bulb Forum! I just took a quick little peek at your blog (late leaving now), and can tell I like your gardening antics and writing style. I look forward to following you around as you garden on your London roof. Sue...See MoreAnyone have a blog set up?
Comments (13)I have unlimited forum/blog space--practically. I think 150 discussions with 150 lines of replies is pretty much unlimited. I paid a life-time fee for the platinum plan which allows me complete control over the content and who I allow to post. It has the googgle ads but does not pay me, instead, for every day that google displays it's bar ads, I get a free day in the contract. So basically, by signing up for the deluxe plan which got the google ad bar contract I'm in business for free for the rest of eternity. BTW...I don't use my forums anymore as they really are not as competative with the GW. I have them set aside for a rainy day and will use them if needed. I did keep TrudiBlog on my site as I was building it but after NAL/AgNIC accepted my membership application I removed it and a lot of other personal pages and content from Wintersown.Org. It was much better to have the site wholly focused on WS and I carved myself from it. Sob. My biggest beef about TB was that I was spending as much time updating that as I should have been spending doing something else....like fine tuning my site or my life. I found the blog was an excuse to screw off from hard work. 86ing it was kinda tough--like standing on an ice flow and pushing yourself away from the berg ;-0 But now that it's done I feel freed from the responsibility of regular updating. T...See MoreNew here -- just getting started -- anyone use plan3d.com?
Comments (4)I used plan3d for my kitchen design. I had previously bought a copy of 3D home Architect (version 5) and was bitterly disappointed in how truly awful it was. It would crash frequently, it would corrupt the save file necessitating starting over from scratch, and there were many things it just couldn't do. But my biggest complaint was that the entire program was driven by the overhead 2d design, and to actually see the design in 3d you had to select a menu entry after which the machine would work for about 10 seconds and then display a rendering from your selected viewpoint. Want a different view? select a different viewpoint and wait another 10 seconds. However having worked as the graphics engine programmer at a small game company, I knew that the computer could display the entire view 60 times a second. After discarding that program I tried plan3d, and at least by comparison with the previous software, its wonderful. :-) On the whole plan3d is easy to get started with and easy to get a fairly reasonable representation of your kitchen. The interface is much more geared towards working in 3d, you can do all of the placing of cabinets and items in the 3d view. Other features of Plan3d that I liked: - If the program doesn't have a texture that looks like what you want, it is easy to take any other texture and apply it to the models in the program. For instance I planned on having quarter sawn oak cabinets, but none of their wood grain patterns had the look of QS Oak. So I downloaded an image of quarter sawn oak from a website, and simply dragged it onto the cabinet models. - The layouts are precise enough that you can rely on then. My kitchen is oddly shaped, with entry to the living room at an angle. I planned on tiling the kitchen, but wanted to avoid tiny little tile pieces along the angled edge. By getting the dimensions of the room _exactly_ right and using a 12x12 tile pattern in the program I was able to figure out how exactly to lay the tile to avoid tiny pieces around the edge. (The program was worth its price just for this.) - Lastly although it was mostly gimmicky, you can click on the cabinets, or appliances or door in the view and see how the door will swing as it opens, which can help figure out things like "will the fridge door block the entryway when its open?" or "will the dishwasher block the aisle too much when it is open?" Of course that is not to say there weren't things I disliked about the program. - I wasn't thrilled about their subscription-based pricing model, but I suppose that that is a big part of what allows them to keep the price low. - Given that the program downloads models, and textures over the internet, if you have a slow internet connection (like I do) the program will be slow, and if your internet goes out (like mine often did) you can't select any new models or stock textures until the internet comes back. - They have a relatively small set of models, if ou want to see the difference between a side by side fridge vs a freezer on the bottom fridge. Fine, you can. If you want to see Bosch model X wall oven vs the GE Monogram wall oven, too bad. - For floors and countertops, you can make them in non-rectangular shapes, but the interface for doing so is hard to figure out, hard to use, and even caused the program to crash a few times. - Lastly and most annoying, often times I would click away from the item I had been editing, too see it without the large red and blue ball-shaped item adjustment handles, and would inadvertantly drag the floor or move a wall. After finishing my remodel I took a bunch of pictures and then for laughs decided to move my plan3d viewpoint to the same location and take a snapshot to compare the plan3d to the real thing:...See More~Has Anyone here used Priceline.com?
Comments (6)JERRI!!!!!! How ARE you? I figured you'd forgotten all about us here at the KT. ...that or we pissed you off and you swore off coming here..LOL SO glad to see you! We went ahead and booked with priceline and I"m pleased with the prices. If I'd had a little more time to book the trip I'd have used a travel agent. As it was hubby just announced yesterday we could go...NEXT week! We're staying two. nights at the Flamingo on the strip. I like that. There were cheaper packages at hotels further away. The Flamingo is close to the trade shows. I MAY add another night on the backside of the trip, simply because I can't see going all that way for two nights and only one night at the rodeo. Thanks for the help guys. Next year I'll just go ahead and make the arrangements. This waiting until the last minute drives me crazy! Lori...See Morebkay2000
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