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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

US Democratic Nomination Dean Campaign Hype I don't know what to make of the US Democratic Nomination Race going on at the moment. If you're in the blogosphere you'll have heard the hype about the Dean Campaign. In fact it was sounding like Dean was an absolute shoe in. Don't even bother with the vote, he is in. I have to think that this is due to an extremely small number but high profile bloggers actually supporting Dean and turning the hype machine big time. Yes there is some sort of grassroots thing going on here and that is exactly what it is. Its grassroots, very small and largely unknown in the real world. What it emphasizes to me is that the blogging community is still a far ways away from being mainstream. Yes, most of us knew that blogging is becoming mainstream but I think this shows we have a much further way to go.   1:28:52 PM     Aluminum duct work needs a technology upgrade I don't understand why in this day and age aluminum duct work is still being used in homes to push air from the furnace to all over the house. Everywhere you turn the experts are saying that you have to seal the joints to prevent air loss. I can attest to this as my basement used to be the warmest room in the house before I taped up just about every joint I could get my hands near. The builder (Mattamy Homes) taped maybe a few joints horribly and obviously did an absolutely horrible job of the duct work leaving all kinds of air loss throughout the entire basement. I can't imagine how much is being lost in the runs in the walls where I can't get at the joints. In the larger picture though I have no idea why the industry doesn't use some sort of PVC piping or some other material that can be sealed and leave 0% air loss at the joints. Baffles me as to why this wouldn't be standard practice. I'm sure the cost is a little more but very unlikely over the top. By the way, the stuff called duct tape is not what you want to use for this. You want an actual aluminum foil tape. Ironic that duct tape is very good for just about anything but this.   11:27:04 AM

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