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Entries from October 2007

Cool Halloween Costume

October 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Ok this is one of the obligatory posts. Last year my daughter and I came up with a REALLY neat costume. It actually won a prize in the town Halloween Parade! It took about 4 hours spread over 3 days to complete and people really loved it.

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Tags: Children · Home and Family

Adsense makes a lot more sense

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Over the next couple weeks Google will be doing a phased rollout of  a NEW Adsense feature.  Where you can create Adsense code and then modify the way the ads display from the Adsense without changing the code on the pages.   This will save a LOT of time for those who like to change the [...]

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Tags: EBusiness · Web Development

Cold weather approaching and the dreaded heating bill is on the horizon!

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

With many are getting ready for winter. The concerns about heating costs are on everyone’s mind. As oil prices are high keeping warm almost seems a luxury. But rather than have icicles on ones nose when in the living room. I’ve complied a list of tips and tricks to keep [...]

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Tags: Home and Family · Saving Money

Shortcuts and OpenDNS

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

As a follow up to my post on OpenDNS I decided to delve deeper into the feature of shortcuts. Shortcuts are as they are name quicker ways to get to your result. In this case it’s similar to a bookmark or favorite that has a keyword in your browser. However instead [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites

Getting around MySpace(or any other site) block from School/Work/Home

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Since I do a LOT of support and browse a lot of help and answer sites I’ve come across a LOt of people asking the following questions.

“How can I get to MySpace at school it’s blocked”
“I can’t surf to this site at work is  there something I can do?”
“My parents have blocked my internet can [...]

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Tags: Technology

Night Terrors - Just SCARY to say the least

October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A few days ago my daughter was in the car with her mother (my ex wife) and fell asleep. She let out a scream and when my ex looked back her head was slumped, eyes open, drooling and was unresponsive but seemed in distress. My ex had never seen her do this [...]

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Tags: Children · Health

Saving Energy With minmal effort.

October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Most of us have an electric bill and most of the power that comes from US power plants is fossil fuels. So turning on the light not only is a financial cost but a environmental and political cost. There have been people who have turned off all electricity in their home which [...]

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Tags: Home and Family · Saving Money