Everyone has a person like this – someone who just doesn’t fit your gift-giving pattern. Hobbies are different, interests are different; more than likely, you’ll just mess it up trying to buy something for them. Why mention this? Because the good folks at 1800baskets.com asked me today (yesterday? what time...

I know the title is somewhat cryptic, but I’m talking about the benefits of quality design for a reason – and it starts with my bathroom sink. My sink is the usual hard plastic bowl dropped into a particleboard/melamine counter. Cheap, ugly, and a maintenance nightmare (the edge where the...

Limits. We all know about that. For example, over the years I’ve had problems with web hosting, mainly because of limits. In one site, I was in trouble because my PHP was too active (obviously, a common thing for a WordPress blog!). In another, I had too many files in...

I noticed on TV that there are more and more shows about saving, instead of spending: parts in talk shows on economical buying, fewer ‘rich cribs’ types of programming, and so on. And here it is the end of the month, and I wonder: how many people reading this are...

As a kid, I often heard (and said) that line: “Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite” Ah, the innocence of youth. I just read about them on Bed Bugs Guide, a site that offers treatment for bed bugs. Among the nasty aspects of bedbugs: • They can live without feeding for months,...