I recently purchased my own sword, for use at the SCA, and built a scabbard for it. A scabbard serves two purposes; first as protection for the blade while the sword is stored or in transit, and second it can be used as a defensive weapon while fencing.

Like many people, I often read in bed. However, my wife doesn’t really appreciate me having the overhead lights on when she’s trying to sleep. I decided to solve the issue by building a more targeted reading light. Here’s a brief description of the project.

For a while I’ve been meaning to create a place to write up various projects I’ve worked on, or the occasional other topic. Well, here it is!

Google+ and similar site work great for sharing posts, but I wanted something with better formatting and image embedding opportunities to allow more detailed write-ups.

I initially considered using Github Pages, since it’s based around git and Markdown, thus is really simple to set up and use. However, I soon decided I’d rather host it myself, since I already have my own web server. Besides, the engine behind Github pages is Jekyll, and I can quite easily run that myself and get essentially the exact same feature set.