Many, if not most, aspects of my life are digitized. My photos are online in albums in Picasa. My favorite recipes are entered into recipe software. I use Google Calendar for my appointments and Remember the Milk for my to-do list. Even my knitting projects, yarn stash and needles are cataloged online in Ravelry, a [...]
So you’ve discovered Fairy Godmother Tycoon, and you’re having a great time, except that you’re stuck somewhere (I got stuck in Pirate’s Cove for hours). I’ve now played through the game twice, and thought I’d write down some tips to help you get through the game with maximum enjoyment and minimum frustration. Use the Recipe [...]
People who want to learn things might do better by simply stopping to smell the roses, researchers reported on Thursday. German researchers found they could use odors to re-activate new memories in the brains of people while they slept — and the volunteers remembered better later. Writing in the journal Science, they said their study [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I am a big fan of psychotherapy. Although medication has had a greater role in my successful depression treatment, psychotherapy helped me to recognize my inner demons and banish or deal with them, thereby leading to my becoming a much happier person overall, which I would assume is helpful in fighting [...]
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you’re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers’, a new research report shows. Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items [...]
George is once again my hero. First of all, for Christmas he got me a Roomba and a Palm GPS system. I hate to vacuum and I’m always getting lost, so I was ecstatic to get both presents. Unfortunately the Roomba died due to a battery issue, but they’re sending us a new one. It [...]
New York Times: Faced with a growing uproar, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman the News Corporation, announced this afternoon that his company had canceled publication of the pseudo-memoir/confessional by O.J. Simpson, “If I Did It,” as well as a related television special that was to be broadcast on the Fox network next week. Read article Well [...]
Celebrities without makeup I’m not sure why they bothered to put Halle Berry in there, since she still looks beautiful without makeup. I mean, the point of the page is to show how celebrities don’t look much better than us without hair and makeup stylists. But Halle still looks a lot better without makeup than [...]
People who own vicious dogs such as pit bulls have significantly more criminal convictions — including crimes against children — than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, researchers reported on Thursday. Read full story Now there’s a big surprise.
Hey, you did it! You took back the house and might even take back the Senate. After twelve years, you must be raring to go on all the initiatives that have been dead all those years. Hold on a minute; I just have one thing to say – don’t blow it! I’m not talking about [...]
