Sorry to hear about your fence. Here in eastern Ontario we tend to get hit like that once and a while. A good way to get rid of all that junk is to just burn it. If you have a fireplace, that's ideal. If not check with your city's bylaws about backyard fires. Roast some marshmallows and try to find some sort of upside from nature's little stints like these.
Hey Vlad. I'd say it could have powered the entire house, but I didn't. Just the important stuff like heat, water, fridge and a few lights. oh, and internet/computers. ;)
I removed Disqus to see what the wordpress 2.7 upgrade did for comments. I'm not sure if I'm going to put it back. I don't really like how the few posts with hundreds/thousands of comments is handled.
I'm forced to page those comments, and the Disqus paging leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm thinking of giving IntenseDebate another try to see how that does. I'm waiting on feedback from them on how they'll do with a post with 1600 comments.
Thanks Scott,
I did update several blogs of mine to 2.7 but kept the Disqus. It would be good to hear your feedback on IntenseDebate once you give the a closer look.
Good luck with clean up. Had you live closer I would bring my chain saw- love to do this kind of work.
OK, we're on ItenseDebate now. I like it so far.
I had some good fun with my chainsaw yesterday. LOTS more work to do.
Nosir, not Javascript. It is a wordpress plugin with all the comments in the code. That was the biggest hangup I had with it a year or so ago when I took my first look.
(I'm replying to this via email, leaving quoted text intact.)
Tried to reply to this message via e-mail before completely setting up the account with them. I really like it. Wonder about spam, would be good if I can continue to use Spam Karma.
I'm using the beta (of course)
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Last night in New England we got a massive ice storm. According to reports there are hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power this morning.
We've been without power for six hours now. I drove around in it this morning and there is no power for miles around. We could be in for a long outage here.
Thankfully, I got us set up with a gas generator a few years ago, fully expecting to never need it. Bitter sweet redemption.
We had some pretty major damage here at the Jangro homestead. We heard the crashing limbs all night coming down with a crack, whoosh, thud. Thankfully, the house and cars wheren't hit. Or the power line to the house. Clean up is really going to be a drag. There are dozens of chainsaw worthy branches all over the yard.
Here are some highlights.
Front yard, massive tree lost a whole side of its limbs.
Nooo, not my new fence!
The fence post cap ended up like 30 feet away.
This gives you a pretty good idea how thick the ice was on the pine needles. Enough to snap huge limbs.
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You can view the whole set over at Flickr.
If you'll excuse me, I need to go buy some more gasoline.