Mothers’ Day is fast approaching – I hope you have a lovely gift picked out already! If you are getting mom something techie like a new laptop or windows phone, or finally friending her on Facebook, this might be the perfect little addon. Mique from Thirty Handmade Days has come up with this printable ‘Guide …
I received a comment from a reader the other day, asking: What is “the simplest way I can be warned whenever a fresh article has been made?” – Nidia It actually came at a pretty good time, because this is something that had been bugging me for awhile too – I have a number of …
Every time I walk past the big bowl of leftover Halloween chocolates near my front door I am tempted to eat one. I have an internal battle with myself, though it always goes the say way: “mmmm Snickers… or Twix… but I already feel so sick from eating them all… but they are so good… …
Halloween is almost here! Last night we spent the evening enjoying a delicious homemade pizza and carving our Halloween pumpkins. We picked them up at the supermarket, along with additional bags of candy, as I had previously broken down and opened some of the chocolates early. My husband generally favours a spooky Halloween pumpkin face, …
I love it when we try out a new recipe, sit down to eat, and think, “This dish is missing… something.“ Somethings that would complete this dish: Slices of Eggplant Shredded Chicken Pan-fried Zuchinni Shredded Spinach Sundried Tomatoes Sliced Mushrooms Ground Pork Shrimp or Crabmeat What that means to me is that this dish has …
The New Timeline! Control How you Share Control What you See The main thing that Google+ had going for it was a unique way to manage your ‘groups’ (or ‘circles’, they called them) of friends. The idea is so simple, yet totally opens up the amount of information we are willing, (and want,) to share. …
SQL Server has a lot of useful built-in aggregate functions, but for some reason there is nothing built-in (that I know of,) to concatenate strings. This drives me batty. I have this problem over and over again, and have been looking for an elegant solution for a while now. The problem is always the same: …
So it is 5 o’clock and you are staring in to the fridge asking yourself the same question you always ask at this time: “Rice or Potato?”. Why is it that dinner time starch is always an afterthought? For years I would plan out which meats and veggies I was going to make, and then …
We have had our dog Bowser for 3 days now, and already he has me questioning myself. He is a handsome 2½ year old Golden Retriever / Lab mix that we are adopting from the K9 Rescue & Rehab shelter in Kirkland. He is the gentlest dog I have ever met, and the only one …
I was a loyal Googler for many years. When it came out, I loved it, cherished it, and promised never to stray. (And honestly, as an upgrade from Webcrawler, it was like night and day ). For close to 10 years I kept that promise, telling everyone who would listen about how great Google was …