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How I Lost 40 Pounds 24 Mar 2009 | 06:42 am
I spent my thirties being 20 to 30 to 40 pounds overweight. I am married and have two small children. I work at a desk job and have a long commute. There is not much time in the day for myself, let al...
Homebrewing 11 Mar 2009 | 01:24 am
Making your own beer is both relaxing and delicious. I started a few months ago when my wife gave me a beer making kit for our anniversary. I’m not really sure the significance of beer as an anniversa...
How I Survived a Water Spill on my Laptop 17 Mar 2008 | 02:56 pm
It was bound to happen. Parking my laptop on the island in the kitchen with two boys under five precariously drinking out of open cups as we wean them from the sippy is an accident waiting to happen. ...
Recovering Digital Photos 26 Feb 2008 | 05:17 pm
Everyone knows you should backup your precious digital pictures after you transfer them to your computer, but what happens if there is a problem in the camera itself? I still had pictures from the hol...
10 Things I Do everyday with my Treo 680 Smartphone 17 Jan 2008 | 04:30 pm
I have had many Palm handheld devices. Models m100, i705, Treo 270, Treo 600, and now the Treo 680 smartphone. There are so many things that I use it for, but here is a list of the 10 things I use my ...
Don’t Drink the Water! 9 Nov 2007 | 05:09 am
..at least not from glasses in your hotel room. A secret camera operation revealed that none of the hotel chains investigated properly washed the room’s glasses. Yuck! The fancier hotels always have a...
Weather Report 21 Sep 2007 | 03:28 pm
I am continually amazed that people still watch the evening news to get the weather report. And the games the news team play with the audience — “Tomorrow, it may snow or hail fireballs. Find out afte...
5 USB Flash Drive Safety Tips 9 Jun 2007 | 09:47 am
Flash drives have replaced the floppy and the CD for portable storage. Their physical size continues to get smaller and the capacity increases offering the ability to store so much information in a co...
Gender Prediction 25 May 2007 | 02:10 am
It seems that a favorite past-time of women is to predict the gender of unborn babies. There are all kinds of methods including the dangling of rings over the belly to Chinese birth charts using age ...
Rent Movies on your TiVo 1 May 2007 | 03:22 pm
With two little kids, we don’t go out to the movies much. It seems we don’t even get to watch TV that much either. Our TiVo has helped manage our TV watching, but even with the “Silver” cable package,...