This has been a winter that started early, was instantly cold and cruel, and hasn’t let up one bit since. No January thaw, none of those freakishly warm, 60° days in February, no relief whatsoever. In the last week or two I’ve seen a couple of robins and heard the eerie wail of the Sandhill [...]
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This deal’s been covered extensively on Flyer Talk and a few travel blogs, so the best deals may in fact be behind us, but you can still score a trip to the Bahamas for a very reasonable price, courtesy of a special code at Expedia Vacations. Gary Leff does a great job of running this [...]
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A couple of months ago I posted about the 60+ RSS feeds I use to stay up to date, thinking that you might find some of the related sites of interest. There’s a simpler tool I use which features many of the same feeds: My Alltop.
Most of you will remember that Alltop is a feed [...]
Happy Friday! This has been a long week for me, and as I write this, it’s not over yet. My Thursday afternoon ended with an emergency trip to my dentist’s office and I am now am grappling with the fact that an obscenely large dental bill is in my near term future. This is why [...]
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2/9/2010: I began blogging exactly two years ago today. As with many fledgling bloggers, I started on (the free) Wordpress.com (lifeapps.wordpress.com – try it – it redirects to this site) and almost exactly six months later, made the jump to a hosted site and this URL.
Between the two sites I’ve posted 695 times, and the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I spent a few hours at DEN, and in a moment of weakness, ended up paying $7.99 for a T-Mobile daily hotspot fee. Aaarrgghhh! Yes, I carry a Blackberry and it’s great for quickly checking emails, but it’s awfully limited when it comes to truly working on, and exploring, the internet. I had tried to figure out a way to tether the Blackberry to my laptop, but it wasn’t possible as we were transitioning to a new provider & new phones. With my new Blackberry Tour and a simple program from Verizon, I’m now able to surf the net…
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