Category Archives: How To

How To Make Your Own Animal Picture Holder

Not long ago, in a land called Photojojo, some folks cut little plastic animals in half to make photo holders. And since I had some 99 cent figurines from the party store lying around my house (from an old house party, of course) that project had always stuck with me. Luckily, a friend’s birthday crept …

April 5, 2011 – 2:21 am | By Jewel | Posted in Film + Photo, How To, PhotoJournal | Comments (0)

Installing PHP, MySQL and MacPorts on Snow Leopard

Funny. I drafted this in January and kept coming back to it when I had to do a fresh wipe and install back in September. Since it’s still in the draft archives, I thought I’d pull it back out in case it helps someone else. It’s been a long month recovering from a corrupt hard …

November 28, 2010 – 6:38 pm | By Jewel | Posted in How To | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

How I Fixed my HP C5180 Printer

After several weeks of no working printer, I finally sucked it up and decided it was time to fix it. The error message “Ink System Failure” had me thinking that I’d installed a faulty ink cartridge. (I have them refilled at the awesome Inkwell Xpress in downtown Portland, where Good Dog Bad Dog used to …

May 21, 2009 – 1:44 pm | By Jewel | Posted in How To | Comments (22)