It seems like it’s x-ray day on the Make blog. Here are two links from a guy who takes beautiful x-ray photographs and from someone who leaves a hidden treat for airport screeners in his baggage.
September 26th, 2008
This is Not a Mac Blog!
The more observant among you may have noticed the little SiteMeter icon in the lower right corner. That’s what I use to track visitors to this blog and is the reason I know that 99% of the traffic to my humble blog is to see my post on backing up Mac to Linkstation. Because of that, I thought it necessary to clarify: this is not a Mac blog and I promise I write about other stuff, too. 
I take two lessons from this:
1) Apple really needs to get its act together on backing up to something other than TimeCapsule, and
2) If you want to drive traffic to your blog, then write a detailed technical article about something arcane but needed.
September 14th, 2008
How to Add Two Wireless Access Points to Your Home
I have a long, skinny house. It’s so long that one wireless access point doesn’t quite reach from one end to the other. It doesn’t help that all my neighbors have their own in one great storm of EM radiation.
So, I have to have two wireless routers. The problem is that most consumer routers are set up by default to assume they’re the only one on your network and that they are the ones connecting to your ISP. After much struggling, I found some directions on how to add a second wireless access point to your network.
The one thing that I have to add is if you have a switch or hub between your two wireless routers (as I do) then you need to make sure your “Internet side” router is connected to your switch with a cross-over cable to the “uplink” port and your other router is connected to your switch with a normal cable to a normal port.