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		<title>Living Room &amp; Dining Room Completion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually completed the living room &#038; dining room a while ago (actually right before Christmas 2010), but I finally got around to taking the &#8220;after&#8221; photos that I&#8217;ve been meaning to take for a while now.

Before &#038; After:

















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		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/06/01/living-room-dining-room-completion/</link>
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		<title>Project Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last two weekends have been pretty productive. I finally took the time to properly wire up the accessories in the Jeep. My lights have been mounted on the roof rack for well over six years, but never wired. The air compressor has been mounted in the back for three years and not wired.
I did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/05/24/project-progress/</link>
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		<title>Review of JCR Offroad Rock Sliders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I installed my JCR Offroad Stage 2 Rock Sliders for XJ and I thought I&#8217;d share my thoughts since JCR is a fairly small shop and there probably aren&#8217;t many reviews online for their products.
My primary reason for purchasing the sliders from JCR was because they have the option for many long arm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/05/02/review-of-jcr-offroad-rock-sliders/</link>
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		<title>Fighting Chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owning a house is fighting chaos. Hopefully you can fix stuff quicker than it breaks.
This has been a tough fight since Zee was born. There just doesn&#8217;t seem to be enough hours in the day to take care of everything that needs to be taken care of.
Over the weekend I (attempted to) tackle the outdoor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/04/12/fighting-chaos/</link>
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		<title>Internet Radio in the background on the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we all know that the iPhone doesn&#8217;t allow 3rd party apps to run in the background. Push notification is a great solution (for battery life and even may even be a better solution than background processes for many apps). There are a few app ideas that we&#8217;ve had in the past that just don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/03/05/internet-radio-in-the-background-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Getting video from the Zonet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a Zonet ZVC7611 because it was relatively inexpensive for an IP camera (about 1/3 of the cost of the Panasonic I&#8217;m currently using). I figured if I was going to disassemble a cam to try to improve the IR image, I&#8217;d rather do it to a cheap camera.
The problem is the camera [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2010/01/20/getting-video-from-the-zonet/</link>
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		<title>Time Ticks By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things on my &#8220;want&#8221; list is a QLOCKTWO. Of course at about $1200, it&#8217;s ridiculously overpriced (but I guess that&#8217;s the cost of art). I never seriously considered purchasing one, but making one is certainly within my capabilities (I think). Really this is another great project for the Arduino board, so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/12/14/time-ticks-by/</link>
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		<title>Ticking drives and such</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if I mentioned it or not, but as part of my laptop updated I bought a 320GB drive to swap into my new MacBook Pro. I&#8217;m not sure it it has always done it, or if it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s new (in the last month or so), but the drive ticks. It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/11/11/ticking-drives-and-such/</link>
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		<title>That Pool is a Dump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a pool owner, probably the biggest fear you have is that one day, a catastrophic failure will dump the contents of your pool in a matter of minutes. Today that fear was realized for Cara and I.
The story starts months ago when I got home from work and the pool pump wasn&#8217;t running. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/10/04/that-pool-is-a-dump/</link>
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		<title>The Format of Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As soon as you get serious about a musical instrument you start to think about music differently. You tear apart songs into their components and begin to listen to the intricacies that are contained within. I wouldn&#8217;t say that the enjoyment is any different than for those who don&#8217;t play an instrument (I might even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/10/02/the-format-of-rock/</link>
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		<title>iPhoto Shared Libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to express some disappointment in Apple in regard to iPhoto. iPhoto does not have any functionality for users who might want to have a unified library of photos. It&#8217;s a little bit of an all-or-nothing situation. I would have even be willing to move up to Aperture (Apple&#8217;s high end photo management app), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/09/21/iphoto-shared-libraries/</link>
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		<title>The problem with movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love movies, as my extensive DVD collection might seem to indicate, but things are different than they were only a few years ago. I buy few DVDs now, in fact I&#8217;ve bought only three movies on DVD this year. Unlike music (which I still purchase a lot of), I haven&#8217;t replaced DVDs with some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/09/20/the-problem-with-movies/</link>
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		<title>How dumb are you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this thing about packaging. Packaging can be an afterthought, and it&#8217;s rare that a company really engineers their packaging (Apple is a rarity here). I think poor packaging can be forgiven up to a point. Sure, there&#8217;s an expense involved in reengineering a package if there&#8217;s a problem, so it&#8217;s rare that a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/08/29/how-dumb-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Maybe they should have used the rest of the chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night John, Justin, Theresa, Brian, Ben, and I went to Mohegan Sun to see Chickenfoot. Anyone who knows me knows that I&#8217;m a fan of Hagar (and Michael Anthony too). Take Hagar and Anthony and throw in Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joe Satriani and you should have an amazing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/08/21/maybe-they-should-have-used-the-rest-of-the-chicken/</link>
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		<title>The Wave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simply buying a car can put you into a club with others owning the same car. I was thinking today, after getting a wave from a fellow WRX owner, what are the deciding factors that establish the need (or want) to wave to someone else. If you&#8217;ve bought a Corolla you&#8217;re not going to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/08/10/the-wave/</link>
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		<title>Putting the word out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of research into my family, really the big mystery is my mother&#8217;s side of the family. My mother was adopted when she was four (and I know it&#8217;s uncouth to share an age, but this happened probably around 1951 or so). About a decade ago she was able to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/08/09/putting-the-word-out/</link>
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		<title>New MacBook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my post complaining that I didn&#8217;t want to upgrade my machine because it still had a year of AppleCare on it, my MacBook died (it must have been listening to me). Luckily I had AppleCare on it, so the repair didn&#8217;t cost me anything (that repair alone certainly paid for the cost of AppleCare). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/08/07/new-macbook/</link>
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		<title>Home ownership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I continue to work on a variety of projects around the house (I cut down the butchers block last weekend, and this weekend I bought and cut the profile of the baseboard), I realized that we&#8217;re nearing the four year mark in our house (not that it was a shock). With average home ownership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/07/13/home-ownership/</link>
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		<title>Upgrades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Dell had a deal on Samsung 23&#8243; monitors, so I picked one up ($168 shipped to my door for a monitor that supports 1920&#215;1080). On the up-side this thing is super bright&#8230; almost too bright. On the down side it is a low end LCD, so the overall quality of the image is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/07/11/upgrades/</link>
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		<title>Ghostbusters is better than Star Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To those who still deludedly think they prefer Star Wars over Ghostbusters, all I need do is ask you this: you don’t really want to be a Jedi, do you? In a greige cowl, getting off with your sister, without a single gag across three films? I think if you thought about it a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driestone.net/2009/07/07/ghostbusters-is-better-than-star-wars/</link>
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