Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I just love the site Lifehacker. Some of the best ideas are here! This latest one, Motion Detection Is an Effective, Dead Simple Security Camera App is a great tip for making some quick and easy (and of course, like any DIY project, limited) security camera action. I’ve looked into security cameras before, but dismissed [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve been moaning and groaning lately about my problems with my photo blog– I just don’t have time to deal with the photos! I loev taking photos, I love looking at them… but it has become a hassle [...]

I saw this excellent article by Paul Strassman (writing a guest post for Larry Dignan) at ZDNet. I admit, though- I did not know that government officials– in this case, the Department of Defense– use Gmail for their government correspondence. Holy cow! Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has been a consistent advocate of increasing [...]

Looking for a home or some land but don’t want to jump right in to a bank loan yet? How about a land contract for real estate? A land contract is a contract between a seller of a property (oftentimes an investor) and a buyer, where the seller provides the financing for the buyer. I [...]

This is one of my newest creations, The Older Geek. It’s still just a baby, but growing fast. I *finally* have the theme just the way I like it, and have been starting to write posts. It’s my latest leap into building more blogs. With The Older Geek, I hope to have more tutorials for [...]

There was some problem with the new WordPress 2.9 release that occurred a few weeks ago: complaints were rolling in that scheduled posts were not publishing. I didn’t experience the problem (I hadn’t any scheduled posts), so I don’t know if the issue affected any of my blogs. But the WordPress dudes have solved the [...]