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Recycling Old Cell Phones

November 6, 2010

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Now that our house renovation is (mostly) completed, we’re trying to get our life back after the major upheaval. We still have boxes and boxes of stuff. I was stunned to see ALL the stuff we have stored. One box had 4 old cell phones! They are out of date and useless now…. but I [...]

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I Only Have Eyes For You

November 4, 2009

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I know quite a number of people who have had LASIK eye surgery, and sing its praises. It’s been very successful, and this branch in ophthalmology is becoming more and more popular. I’ve looked into it myself, with the hopes that such an uninvasive and simple procedure would solve my four decades of glasses-wearing. Unfortunately, [...]

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Real-Time Weather Service

January 28, 2009

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A huge snowstorm blasted the Northeast today. At first, it was predicted to be a fast-moving storm with sleet and a few inches of snow, then it changed to be up to 6 inches, then 12 inches (!), then it suddenly became a very slow mover with only 5 inches. Our local weathermen, while valiant [...]

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Store Your Stuff Online For Free

December 23, 2008

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I had an idea when thinking about making backups of my data– store it online, for free! Just create a Gmail account and email yourself your files. Don’t go sending any whopper files or anything, but you could easily send documents and stuff like that. You see, I make weekly backups of my blogs xml [...]

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A New Feed

November 13, 2008

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Ugh, here I thought I had all the hard work over. See that little “Subscribe to Email” form in the upper right-hand side? I’ve been spending about 2 hours on that little thing, trying to get my feed subscription service plugged in. I could not figure out why it wasn’t going through! Grr! Then, the [...]

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Online Drugs Identifier

November 1, 2008

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Here’s a very interesting website! It’s Pill Identifier. I have it bookmarked. I sometimes take prescription medication for pain, and all the bottles and pills of mine plus everyone else in the family is confusing. Sometimes I find a loose pill and I have had no idea what it is. This website will help you [...]

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