You read that right – if you want to make sure that an airline doesn’t lose your bags, or that TSA staff doesn’t steal things out of your bag, you should pack a gun in each bag that you check. It doesn’t even have to be a real gun – a simple, totally-legal-in-all-50-states starter [...]
Found this little productivity gem, courtesy of Ernest Hemmingway, over at The Second Act:
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think [...]
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The Sims* 2 Game Crashes or Freezes During Game Play
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The Sims* 2 game crashes or freezes (locks up) during game play.
Error: “The ialmrnt5 display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display functionality. The [...]
How to Train the Aging Brain, a very interesting article in today’s New York Times, highlights a new understanding of how the middle-aged brain works. As it turns out, many long-held beliefs have been proven untrue; for instance, our brains do not lose 40% of our brain cells as we grow older. Instead, we retain [...]
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I’ve recently started using MediaWiki in my business. At this point, my exposure has been fairly limited. Still, I see great potential in using a Wiki as a personal information management (PIM) tool.
However, I’m not sure that Media Wiki is the right tool for a PIM. It lacks a few features that I [...]
I have had a lot of friends get married lately.
Some of them have asked me how to go about changing their last name – what needs to be done? Who do I have to tell about my name change? What is the procedure for changing my name after getting married?
I’ve pieced together [...]
One of the nice things about the game Bananagrams is that the game lends itself to rule modifications.
For instance, when my family plays, we don’t use the “Dump” option – in my opinion, allowing “dumping” of tiles encourages intellectual laziness, and more often than not it benefits the person dumping the tiles. [...]
Ow, my neck!
I don’t know how, but I’ve managed to pull something in my neck.
I’m finding that it’s a big pain to keep a standard heating pad on it, owe to both the unruly size and unrly (and confining) cord.
So I created a home-made heating pad using rice and a sock. Heres how [...]
