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Custom made wooden computer accessories
2007-10-16 13:22:00 If there’s one thing computers don’t do well, it’s matching your home decor. Wood Contour may change all that. These beauties are made from one piece of wood, and you get to choose from 29 wood varieties - Mahogany, Beech , Oak, Ash , Birch and others. Hand crafted and custom made, the company ... More About: Computer , Accessories , Made , Custom , Wooden
What goes around, comes around
2007-10-13 13:58:00 Do you believe in Karma? I do. This story tells it perfectly. I have always said it myself, “what goes around, comes around”. His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby ... More About: Goes , What Goes Around
Color Swashes
2007-10-12 09:59:00 Trying to find a good HTML color reference page is really tough, I haven?t found one that is useful to me. There are always missing elements to it, no color codes, I can’t copy and paste the code, there are colors but no reference codes etc. Therefore, I went ahead and made a simple chart ... More About: Color
Never give up
2007-10-11 23:19:00 Abraham Lincoln was a failed businessman, deemed too temperamental to be a lawyer, was defeated in his run to be a congressman, commissioner of the General Land Office, Senator (twice) and vice president. He ended up becoming one of the most important Presidents in the history of United States. Winston Churchill didn’t even pass sixth ... More About: Give , Give up
Checkout my Tumblelog
2007-10-11 03:19:00 Check out my new Tumblelog , a compilation of bits and pieces around the blogosphere. It is my online scrapbook of interesting links, photos, quotes and more. I figured it’ll be good to use it as a place to put online links without the frills, lengthy text and comments i.e. just keeping it simple and sweet. ...
Bad day in Ohio
2007-10-10 22:43:00 Train derails (not far from where we live) causing a huge fire and couple of schools closing. There was supposedly hazardous materials on the train. 14 year old gets suspended for fighting, comes back to school with two guns, starts shooting and then kills himself. Four shot and wounded. Just unbelievable! I hate the fact ... More About: Ohio
Useful Tweak: Freeing up memory when using Firefox
2007-10-09 23:56:00 My Firefox 2.0.0.7 browser has been a very slow and unstable lately. It has also been a memory hog, consuming about 130K of memory with around 20 or so tabs open. My friend AG recommended I look at this Firefox tweak from Solo Technology. This tweak allows memory to be freed up everytime you minimize ... More About: Memory , Tweak
Baseball mascot mania
2007-10-09 21:46:00 It’s down to 4 teams - Cleveland, Boston, Colorado and Arizona for the right to call themselves 2007 Major League Baseball World Champions. Thought I might profile the 4 team mascots… The Cleveland Indians mascot is a pink heffalump called Slider. Birthdate is July 29, 1990. Origins unknown, he lives between homeplate and the teams dugout. ... More About: Mania , Asco
Mancar vs. Womancar
2007-10-09 04:05:00 J gets a kick out of me pointing out a “mancar” and a “womancar” while driving on the road. Sounds like caveman talk, doesn’t it? Me drive “mancar”, you drive “womancar”. Don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not in anyway being sexist. I’m just thinking in terms of how one perceives a driver and the ...
Not a total geek
2007-10-09 03:22:00 Looks like I am a geek but not a total geek. Take the geek test here. 71% Geek Share This More About: Total
Smelling like beer
2007-10-06 18:15:00 For $5, you can get two bars of Guinness Stout soap. Just be reminded that you can’t eat it or you’ll get a soapy stomach ache. I don’t think that smelling like Guinness would be very appealing but that may be just me. This may another reason your husband or wife can’t yell at you ... More About: Beer
Go Tribe!
2007-10-06 05:57:00 Indians 2 - Yankees 0 As a Cleveland Indians fan, shame on me to watch a movie instead during the game. We watched Ben Stiller’s The Heartbreak Kid instead. Didn’t realize it was rated R until J told me as I was surprised at the nudity and crudeness. Overall a funny movie, Jerry Stiller was his ... More About: Tribe
Life is short, make it count
2007-10-05 18:56:00 How would you react if someone wrote you an apologetic email for something they did 5 or 10 years ago? Derek Powazek paints a gracious picture, “if I wronged you this year, I’m sorry. If you wronged me, I forgive you.” Reading his post, it made me reflect on my life… how have I been in ... More About: Life , Make , Count , Short
Former Australian & English Soap Opera stars making it big
2007-10-05 04:18:00 Amazing how many Australian / English Soap Opera stars are coming to America to make their name. I know this because I used to watch a couple of the soaps (namely Neighbors and Home & Away) when I was schooling in England. They are doing pretty well for themselves… 1. Michelle Ryan She was Zoe from the English ... More About: Stars
How NOT to make a Powerpoint presentation
2007-10-03 20:50:00 This is hilarious but true. When I go to conferences and meetings, I cringe at some of the Powerpoint s people make. I’ve probably seen them all… too colorful, too much information, too boring, too confusing, silly graphics, unnecessary animations etc. This video pretty much sums up how NOT make a Powerpoint presentation. It was done ... More About: Make , Presentation , Resent
The dancing lady
2007-10-03 17:57:00 This is an optical illusion, look at the dancer below. Which way is she spinning? If you see her spinning clockwise, then you are left brain oriented i.e. you are a logical and analyzing person. If you see her spinning counter-clockwise, then you are right brain oriented i.e. you are an artistic and intuitive person. ... More About: Dancing , Lady
10 year old gives birth!
2007-10-02 22:04:00 This really shocked me. What is the world coming to when a 10 year old girl gets pregnant and gives birth. The father was 13 and as it was reported, the girl looked like a 10 year old too. I assume that means her body had not matured and developed yet. Her parents didn’t realize ... More About: Birth , Year
Breast Cancer Awareness month is here
2007-10-01 22:35:00 October is Brea st Cancer Awareness month. It’s a month to get people talking about breast cancer, to raise awareness and to raise money for research. Breast cancer does affect many lives, men or women. If you can, donate and help support the improvement of breast cancer research and the unfortunate that have been diagnosed with it. Last ... More About: Breast Cancer
For the rich only: The supersonic private jet
2007-10-01 17:11:00 Lockheed Martin and Supersonic Aerospace International has joined forces to make the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST), a high speed luxury jet that flies coast to coast in 2 hours at Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approx. 1,056 mph to 1,188 mph) quietly without the eardrum-blistering sonic booms. Specifications Range: 4,600 miles Speed: Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approx. 1,056 mph ... More About: Rich , Private , Riva , The Super
SearchMash: Google?s experimental search engine
2007-09-30 23:39:00 Google owns and operates an AJAX-like experimental search engine called Search Mash. There is no mention of Google accept in the Terms of Service. It would seem that this is an experimental playpan for current development, one similar to AllTheWeb (an experimental site for Yahoo). Visiting the site at random intervals allows you to experience Google’s experimental ... More About: Google , Search Engine , Experimental , Engine
Leveraging VoIP with click to call technology
2007-09-28 20:56:00 Seems like there are more and more click to call companies offering cheap national/ international calls. I read about it months ago but didn’t really pay attention until USA Today and Techcrunch reported on it today. Here’s how it works: 1. You go their website, create an account 2. Using their dialup interface, you put in ... More About: Technology , Click , Voip , Call , Click-to-Call
Vulnerabilities in Google mail
2007-09-28 11:18:00 Bullseye on Google : Hackers expose holes in GMail , Blogspot, Search Appliance by ZDNet’s Ryan Naraine — In the past few days, there have been multiple disclosures of security vulnerabilies in a wide range of Google products, including a persistent e-mail theft issue affecting the widely used GMail service. Share This More About: Vulnerabilities , Google mail
Prime time TV showdown
2007-09-28 00:59:00 Prime Thursday is here. 8 pm Ugly Betty (ABC) vs. Survivor: China (CBS) vs. Are you Smart than a 5th Grader (FOX) vs. My name is Earl & 30 Rock (NBC) vs. Smallville (CW) 9 pm Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) vs. CSI (CBS) vs. Don’t Forget the Lyrics (Fox) vs. Office & Scrubs (NBC) vs. Supernatural (CW) 10 ... More About: Time , Prime , Rime , Prim , Prime Time
Wordless Wednesday: Work Tantrums
2007-09-26 06:01:00 A normal work day … We all need a little release sometime … (Courtesy of Bob my Cubeman) wordless wednesday Share This More About: Work , Wednesday
A Classy McDonald?s
2007-09-25 15:42:00 A McDonald’s restaurant looking like a Starbucks. Yes, that’s how it looked like when we stopped to grab a bite at a McDonald’s in Woodmere, Ohio on the weekend. We were really oohing and aahing at how nice and luxurious looking it was. The building had a modern architecture with strategically placed plants, the floors ...
Trendio: A Stock Exchange of words and news
2007-09-25 14:34:00 Trendio is a stock exchange of a different kind. It lists current events, news and popular word (tags) as stocks where the value is calculated according to their presence in the media. Therefore, the more talked about it is, the higher it the ?price? would be on the stock exchange. It is a fun way to ... More About: News , Words , Exchange , Stock , Chang
GameAlmighty: A superhero themed game site
2007-09-24 11:21:00 GameAlmighty.com is a new online community for the video gaming world. Think of it as a game-centric version of your favorite social networking site and your favorite online video source all wrapped in a Web 2.0-driven package. Its objective is to offer gaming reviews, previews, latest industry news, videos, podcasts and other creative content within ... More About: Site , Game , Superhero , Mighty , Meal
Fall TV schedule
2007-09-22 22:16:00 For the TV addicts, AOL came up with a great site for all the dates and times for the new and returning TV series. Good time to set the Season Pass recordings on those TIVOs. Can’t wait to watch the new shows Bionic Woman and Caveman and the returning ones… CSI, CSI: Miami, Numb3rs and ... More About: Schedule , Fall
Using water wisely
2007-09-22 11:34:00 Water - Use it Wisely shows you 100 ways to conserve water depending on your geographical location in the country. I am definitely guilty of wasting water. From the list of 100 ways to conserve water for my location, here are ten things I should watch: - When washing dishes by hand, don’t let the water ... More About: Water
A Friend In Need
More articles from this author:2007-09-21 08:32:00 (This happens to be the 24 year old stepson of J’s Aunt) In November of 2006, three weeks before graduating from the Delaware County Municipal Police Academy, Steve was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer known as neuronendocrine cancer. He underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatments and had a large tumor surgically ... More About: Friend 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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