Today instead of a product or service I want to share a photo I took. I love my home. While I live in the suburbs, the wildlife is everywhere. Squirrels, ducks, rabbits, robins, and all forms of little critters wander about my property. One day recently when the temperature was exceedingly hot I looked out […]
[Update: Since Intuit acquired Mint the rate of innovation seems to have decreased significantly…I still use it occasionally, but not nearly as much as in the past. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a totally pleasing replacement for Mint…I use YNAB to do things right now.] Haha. Got ya! Not that kind of mint. I use the
Image via Wikipedia I can’t even remember why, but for some reason recently I had a desire to read Lewis Carroll‘s Alice in Wonderland. I pulled up a copy of the e-text from Project Gutenberg. I hadn’t read the little volume in years. How had it become a classic piece of literature? From all I
Book Review: Alice in Wonderland (Author: Lewis Carroll). Read More »
[Update: We let our Newsweek subscription expire…it went downhill and downhill fast. I’m not even sure if they still publish it…] I’m big on utilizing the internet for a lot of my research. Books are quickly outdated – even magazines, especially on technology topics, are often outdated before they hit the shelves. But, despite predictions
Perhaps a year ago I wrote an article praising Blockbuster Total Access and explaining why I preferred the service above Netflix – now the tables have totally turned. What happened? Well the main factor was Blockbuster’s decision to essentially kill the Total Access program. They performed price hikes several times within a several month period
I don’t know about you but I hate seafood. I like shrimp and I don’t mind halibut – but don’t try feeding me salmon or just about any other type of seafood. Thats unfortunate for me healthwise, as seafood appears to be extremely good for you – if you get the kind without mercury. Over
As a youngster I was fascinated by the American Civil War. My bookshelves still reflect this fact. I have Freeman’s classic series Lee’s Lieutenants, Bruce Catton’s three volumes on the Army of the Potomac, and Shelby Foote’s three volume series, once considered definitive, on the war. As I grew older my interest waned a bit.
Book Review: Rise to Rebellion and The Glorious Cause (Author: Jeff Shaara). Read More »
Growing up I lived in Westerlo New York. No, its not a big town. Yes, that’s the reason you’ve never heard of it. In any case, its way out in the middle of nowhere and to this day large portions of the town can only access the internet via 56k…err, make that 28.8k. As a
As I thought to myself, “I should really write a review tonight” I felt the blogging blues strike…I didn’t feel like it. But being the good blog author that I am (or want to be) I decided to plod ahead anyways. What could I review? Well I actually have so many products and services –
Image via Wikipedia [Updated July 28, 2017: OpenOffice.org is still available, but Sun Microsystem’s methods of managing the source code caused releases to take a long time. Then Sun was acquired by Oracle, and they eventually cut the OpenOffice.org project loose entirely. It now rests in the hands of the Apache Foundation – good hands