IKEA Looking at Milwaukee

The Milwaukee Business Journal reported in its May 27, 2005 print edition that Ikea has retained a real estate broker in Milwaukee to find a location for a store. The store would be 215,000 square feet, as compared to the 300,000 square foot store in Schaumburg, Illinois, the closest Ikea store to Milwaukee (and our …

Clean Computer Room

No more dust bunnies in my computer room! The computer room at work was cleaned on Saturday, for the first time as far as I can determine. Cleaned professionally that is. We used Michael C. Kearney and Associates, and they did a fantastic job. I’ve wanted to bring someone in to clean the room for …

Latest St. Louis IKEA Rumor

It has been a few weeks, so it is time yet again for a new IKEA in St. Louis rumor. A blurb in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch claims that Westfield is showing prospective tenants plans for Northwest Plaza which show IKEA located at the corner of Lindbergh and St. Charles Rock Road. No comment yet …

Deck Progress

Construction started on our backyard deck last week. I’ve posted some photos of the progress so far. Here’s a sneak peek: !http://images10.fotki.com/v193/photos/2/247084/914007/IMG_1379-vi.jpg alt=”Deck Construction Progress! On an unrelated note, I haven’t posted any photos of Collen for a while, so here’s one: !http://images9.fotki.com/v178/photos/2/247084/914007/IMG_1373-vi.jpg alt=”Collen”!

Upgrade to MT 3.17 and SpamLookup

I finally upgraded to Movable Type 3.17 from 2.63 last week. So far I’m very happy with the move. I’m not using any of the dynamic publishing features, but will work on that in upcoming weeks. It definitely looks better than the old version, and the performance seems to be better, much snappier response. I …