It looks like a cute little tower and I know my way around Linux, so the idea of at $200.00 tower that could be a nice addition to save my laptop from being borrowed by the 18 year old after reading Wired’s review was dashed when I read the full list of the 630 Wal-Mart [...]

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Classic. Timeless. Luxury. Those are the three words listed on the Pure Pearls website and after spending some time visiting their site, I’d have to agree. Pearls are classic, they are timeless and just looking at these pearl bracelets as an example says luxury. That doesn’t necessarily have to equal expensive though, [...]

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My problem with the process where it’s required to own a domain you have to either list personal contact information or pay more than you should have to to remain private is a simple one, if you have a private phone number and the authorities need it, they can get it, so why can’t those [...]

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One of the awesome features of the power of the internet is to be able to take a topic like hotels in Germany and with some internet surfing find places that you never knew existed but become a place you dream of being able to visit. Let’s take Peacock Island as an example, [...]

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This sounds tempting…private bedrooms, a movie theater, and a gym fitted with saunas and jacuzzis and able to fly…
Lufthansa Technik already has drawn up a general design for a customized luxury A380 interior, although a customer would collaborate on specific details, Habbel said.
A rendering of the layout provides the owner with two spacious private bedrooms [...]

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After surviving the trick or treaters, the decision that pumpkins were too expensive and teenage drama assocated with this evening’s Halloween festivities, maybe Russia has it right after all to try to ban Halloween. Not necessarily for the reasons they are stating:
Moscow schools have been ordered to ban students from celebrating Halloween despite the [...]

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Time to flash back to a song moment from my past, this time from America, “You can do magic”. This song along with Ventura Highway was a favorite for many years.

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I wrote about this months ago when it was mentioned that this was going to happen and now it finally has, you can view Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper” online at 16 billion pixels. Well maybe, when I’ve tried to visit the site a few times it has not wanted to load [...]

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No, I’m not referring to drunken pennies, but ones that you put into a penny press that is “smashed” typically with some sort of a special design. Our Toledo Zoo has a machine that smashes pennies, with the imprint of “I love my Zoo”. Those of you who live in the Toledo area [...]

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I don’t have an iPod but I live in a house with teenagers who do, and this exact problem has come up where they wanted to take a song from their iPod and put it back into their iTunes. I discovered how that wasn’t that easy to accomplish and I highly recommend this Wired [...]

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It surprised me to discover that according to Wired, Facebook could be worth 15 billion (yes, that’s billion not million dollars) details of which the company is expected to announce on November 6. Though the article is quick to point out:
With all the dreamy-eyed developers and enraptured tech evangelists filling Silicon Valley with their [...]

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I write at times about my political blogging, so here’s me covering one of the recent candidate forums here in Toledo. I try to attend as many of them as possible to be able to give people more information about the candidates and their positions. The hope being that the more information [...]

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There are a surprising number of senior citizens in the NWO area that live here for part of the year and the rest of the year head for a vacation home Orlando style. To the point the phrase “Winter Birds” is one you hear frequently meaning them as opposed to the bird migration from [...]

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Considering my lack of sleep recently, this New Scientist article caught my attention, Lack of sleep is a lot like mental illness. Some thought provoking points were made in this article.
Feeling cranky after a bad night’s sleep? Now there could be an explanation. Brain activity associated with psychiatric illness has been observed [...]

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Watched the movie “Mr. Deeds” more than a few times where he was a greeting card writer, or always felt that you had what it took to write the messages inside of greeting cards from business Christmas cards to other types of holiday cards? Well, here’s your chance to not only strut your stuff [...]

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Wired is reporting today that IPhone’s Security Rivals Windows 95 and that the same flawed firmware that made up Windows 95 is the basis of the iPhone. Which as the Wired article points out, is not good.
Flashing back to 1999,
The same problem in Windows played a big role in stoking a plague of [...]

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It’s a given that the cost of creating organic biodegradable plastic is higher and there is debate as to the long run benefits to the environment. However, this is creating more interest in companies taking a look at bio-plastics and creative marketing of using it as this CNN Money article, on green plastics points [...]

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I’ve shared articles on climate change in the past, this is an additional one by CNN on the topic of the rising seas and areas of the world that are threatened by an underwater future, Rising seas, sinking land threaten Thai capital. A great deal of the problems with the land sinking can [...]

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Living in a neighborhood where more than one person needs to adjust their car security alarm is something I experience on a regular basis. I’ve also talked with other residents who have much larger noise issues from inconsiderate bars or neighbors, so reading about the upcoming movie Noise sounds like it would be one [...]

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If you are looking for the perfect place to get real estate signs or political signs or even signs to display on your car (my husband keeps saying he’s going to get one that says the name of my local blog on it), Build A Sign wants you to stop by and check out what [...]

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