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Near my parent’s house there is a small home that has a metal workshop and he’s there every day even if there’s nothing to do. Honestly I don’t know what his real name is though his nickname is Paquico and everyone knows him by that name.

As a personal project I decided to take a couple of photos of his workshop because I find it quite interesting and the workshop has all of these dark spots that really come out well with the industrial and gritty side that it comes with the working on metal side.

I decided to go with B&W for this project as it would pull that same feeling I get when I go in there and because of this I went with Ilford HP5+ on my Kiev 88CM medium format camera and because this film isn’t found locally I had to order it online.

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This past Wednesday I read this article about using icons to enhance your WordPress blog and I’ve also wanted to do so for quite a while. What I did first was search for small and good looking icons for my blog and they had to be small so that I could place them on the same line as the title and I was able to find this site which has a lot of icons hat are free and can be used non-commercially.

I looked through the icons and found the ones that I wanted and that also would fit with the categories that I use on my blog and came down to a list of 12 icons which will be used.

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Well, you are probably already tired of hearing reading about OpenFiler and how my experience has been with this appliance so I plan on this being the last post in which I fully talk about this software. :)

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Well…after writing my previous post on this SAN/NAS Appliance I proceeded to give it another try but starting from scratch and not using the VMWare image that they have available at their site.

This is the second part of my review which might actually extend over to a third part but I’m not sure so keep reading to see how things went this time around. :)

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I'm currently in the phase of reorganizing my home network since there is currently one server that was added and I'm planning on adding more storage space. My parents aren't 100% thrilled of the whole idea due mainly to the fact that I'm spending a lot of money on this setup of mine.

I've heard of OpenFiler Network Storage OS which basically takes any server that you can install this OS on and converts it into a Network Attached Storage or NAS device that is more powerful than your average NAS device that can be found cheaply on the market. Now this isn't for everyone since it basically requires the user to build or purchase or recycle a PC or Server in order to install the software and then set it up.

This is my quick review in regards to this application and how it stands up for what I need…which is probably overkill for a home network…but then again this is what I do :)

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