Two for the money

This past weekend I had nothing much to do. Well, with the exception of rebuilding the opening mechanism on an overhead skylight. A simple job of removing the old non-working chain mechanism and installing a new one. After 2.5 hours of swearing, ladder climbing, sweating and significant grumbling, I had it done. The old mechanism has stripped out and jammed. In the end, I had to take it apart, in place, grease and all, in order to get it to loosen up.

Removing two and three inch screws that have been driven into fir with a screwgun is no fun when you're working overhead, with little hand clearance, with a small phillips head screwdriver. Plus the sun was blazing down through the skylight. Good light for working but bad for the body. In the end, I managed to remove the offending mechanism and install the new one. A little soap on the screws made the installation a lot easier.

All of which has nothing to do with the title of this post. I discovered a new feature of Freeway Pro, the software I use to create and manage the website. iFrame. Normally I avoid Frames like the plague. This little gadget allowed me to embed the Blog in the Website. Nifty. No need for writing Java... which I don't know how to. No need for messing with widgets or security or anything. Just install iFrame (sorry folks, it's a Freeway Pro Action that only works from within the software.), direct the Action towards the Blog and there you have it.

I'm not quite sure how to address the navigation part of things. I added a link in the top level navigation bar under Blog and a note at the left bottom of the Gateway page. That'll have to do until I come up with something spiffy and clear.

Yes, the embedded blog still lives over at it's Typepad home, but now you can avail yourself of my pithy comments twice! For now, I limited the page size in the website which means scrolling some. I might change that but I figured there are yet people out there using 13 screens?

Till next
Gary