Posted in Everyday Stuff, Home on Dec 17th, 2008
Moving across the country was a good experience. Selling a house in Michigan was very challenging, but I made it happen with lots of hard work and good people. To make a house sell in that state requires updating everything to the latest standards (heated tile, wood floor, finished basement with bathroom). I used PODS [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff on Dec 3rd, 2008
Ideas are all around you, some are fads, some are trends that come and go, and some are trends that stick around and turn into a way of life (think cell phones). Great sites for tracking the latest trends: http://www.trendhunter.com/ (has an email list you can get trend summaries on, user posted) http://trendwatching.com/ (they have [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff on Oct 15th, 2007
Today is blog action day. The topic is the Environment! Everyone loves to talk about the environment, but very few people do anything about it. There are millions of ways to help out the world we live in, recycle, use less energy, etc. A couple things that I have done are to replace all the [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff on Oct 15th, 2007
A couple weeks ago I installed the Zone Alarm Security Suite from zonealarm.com. It has been working quite well after a few days of tweaking and a beta version. The version published on their website when I downloaded it had a bug in the virus scan engine. The bug basically took over your computers CPU [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff, Finances on Oct 8th, 2007
This article deals with the wealth of information out there, and how to make sure yours is accurate. There are a few things I do to keep tabs on myself. The online world has an excellent memory. You most likely have done it; Google yourself! Type your name with quotes “a name” and see what [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff on Sep 28th, 2007
If you are like me, your sick of spam, phone calls, and catalogs that you neither want nor requested. Well here are some tips to wipe the slate clean. On a side note, when dealing with corporations, a great resource to bypass automated menus is gethuman.com. Privacy policies: Each company you deal with has one. [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff on Sep 26th, 2007
I have been using Vonage Voice over IP for a few years now. It has saved me hundreds of dollars in un-needed charges from at&t/SBC. The cheapest plan at&t offers is $12 a month for 500 local minutes and no long distance, which is very reasonable. The issue is fees that they charge on top [...]
Posted in Everyday Stuff on Sep 21st, 2007
I have been using M$ Office 2007 for a couple months now, and my overall impression is that the new features don’t justify a new purchase. Everything has been organized into “ribbons” which are groups of features that Microsoft thinks are the most popular. Having used Office 2003 for years now, the learning curve is [...]
Posted in Cellular, Everyday Stuff on Sep 11th, 2007
In a previous article I talk about my Sprint Mogul phone. I have used Google Maps for mobile and TomTom handheld on the phone. Both of them work very well, but they have a few major differences. Read for more info.
Posted in Cellular, Everyday Stuff, Online on Sep 10th, 2007
I was traveling quite a bit this year, including a trip to Dubai. I needed a phone and SIM card that will work all over the world. So I stopped by my local at&t store since they have GSM phones, and most of the known world uses GSM (except for Japan and others). I asked [...]