Guitar Tip: Your First Guitar (Beginner)

Whether you’re into acoustic or electric, as a beginner go with electric.  If you’re the type of person who tends to buy self-improvement type things (treadmill, exercise bike, etc.) only to use them a few times and let them rot away, go cheap.  A decent beginner electric can be had for around $150. [Read more →]


Green Tip: Lawn Maintenance

In the summer, set your sprinkler timer for 2 minute intervals at 12am, 1am, 8am, and 8pm  every 2-4 days.  This will minimize the chances for run-off and evaporation while still providing a deep soak.  In the winter, you can cut out the 8am & 8pm waterings. [Read more →]

Apple iPhone 2.0 Release (Today?)

Just a quick news flash: The newest iPhone has already been shipped, so it should be hitting the shelves very soon.  It’s promised to be faster and cheaper. [Read more →]

Alleviate Visual Studio 2008 Crashes

Visual Studio 2008 OptionsVisual Studio 2008 OptionsVisual Studio 2008 OptionsWhen I first began usign Visual Studio 2008 it was excrutiatingly slow at saving changes, switching between tabbed files, and switching focus from another program to Visual Studio 2008. To make matters worse, any one of these tasks and a few others would cause Visual Studio 2008 to crash. [Read more →]

Living Air Filters Are More Efficient

Most air filters only catch dust and pollen, but the furniture, paint, and carpet among other things in your home can emit organic compounds like formaldehyde and benzene in concentrations 2 to 5 times higher than outdoors.  Based on research NASA did in the 1980s, a French product designer, Mathieu LeHanneur, and a Harvard University biomedical engineer, David Edwards, have devised an ultra-efficient filtration system that eliminates toxins using plants. [Read more →]