Some oft repeated ideas, but worth mentioning, tricks to keep your house cool this Summer. Some new ideas that I hadn’t thought of like, “plant trees or shrubs to shade air conditioning units” I will look into doing this weekend. There’s always more you can do, but while I’m not going to paint [...]

My fortune cookie with tonight’s Chinese dinner read, “This year your highest priority will be your family“.   Here, here, let’s all remember what is truly important to all of us; material possessions will only take you so far.

We have the following quote pasted on our refrigerator at home, and it relates to me, my wife and family.  “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T. S. Eliot

The New York Times tested the adage that you shouldn’t cook with any wine you wouldn’t want to drink. And guess what: It worked out just fine. “It wasn’t that the finished dishes were identical — in fact, they did have surprisingly distinct flavors — but the wonderful wines and the awful ones produced equally [...]

It’s funny, I’ve always figured how much an hourly rate transmitted to annual salary by taking the hourly rate and muliplying by 2080 (number of work hours in a year), but today I stumbled across a simplier/quicker way to estimate this on Life After Coffee.  “…a simple way to estimate yearly income from hourly rate [...]

A cat active in the Wordpress circles, PhotoMatt, has an awesome page of quotes from Jazz musicians through the years. I have a couple I want to submit, but cruising through them is very inspiring.

BILL Lundberg: Mmmm…yeah, you see, we’re putting the coversheets on all TPS Reports now before the go out. Did you see the memo about this?  PETER Gibbons: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve got the memo right here, but, uh, uh, I just forgot. But, uh, it’s not shipping out until tomorrow, so there’s no problem.  [...]

According to tech site Intechnology (does that name remind anyone else of Initech?) the top 10 most common passwords are: Thomas, arsenal, monkey, charlie, qwerty, 123456, letmein, liverpool, password and [...]

What a terrible statistic from Texas, “One out of three Texas students don’t graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the state’s largest cities, according to education experts. The research group says more than half of students in Texas’ largest cities drop out. The dropout rate among blacks, Hispanics and low-income [...]

As a follow up to TJX Companies data breach reveals credit card data, it’s now been confired that customer data stolen HAS been used to make fraudulent debit card and credit card purchases “…in the United States and overseas, the Massachusetts Bankers Association said Wednesday. The fraudulent purchases have been made in Florida, Georgia, and [...]

So my new job requires me to drive 29 miles each way, a big farther than my last job, but since I don’t have as much traffic, it doesn’t seem to take that much longer, still, I’m using more gas. Just did a tank to tank to get my miles per gallon, and I’m [...]

Damn, file this under pathetic and sad, Americans spend more time with PC than spouse. “A recent survey conducted by Kelton Research discovered what many spouses have known for years. A startling 65% of people asked to participate spent more time with their household PC than with their own spouse. The survey also found that [...]

This could be interesting…  “Search engine giant Google has announced it will be photographing the Australian city of Sydney this Friday, Australia Day, and is encouraging Australians to come out and hold signs, or arrange themselves into funny formations.  If the photos are of a good enough quality, Google Australia has promised that the photos [...]

If you like Flash or not, it’s still a pain to surf without it since is so widely used (not always for the best; record companies, I’m looking at you), so it’s great that Adobe has released Flash Player 9 for Linux. They have a blog about their Linux development, and some nice wiki [...]