Category: life hack

Sometimes I get to write about the most mundane things. The other day I noticed that the temperature display on our jacuzzi was upside down. See photo. What in the world could cause that? I figured power surge. But then I went to my tried-and-true scapegoat: the kids. Kids have…

For my 50th birthday, I wanted to visit Pearl Harbor, the location where the Japanese Empire shocked the United States out of its malaise of “mixed” neutrality, and thrust “the sleeping giant” into WWII. The idea of walking that hallowed ground had been a dream of mine for as long…

Assembling delight. One piece at a time. Someone showing up at a party, box in hand, stiffly packed with crazily-shaped colored tiles, wouldn’t normally get me all hot and bothered.  I mean. Does my addled brain really need another puzzle? Is it a Liberty Puzzle? Fuck yeah. I’m in. When…

As kids, we often had interesting guests that visited us from around the country and the world. One such visitor was Mr. Franson from Sweden. He was a minister from our church that came around twice year–you know checking on the flock and all. While his accent was a bit…

Do you have a Barky McBarkface on your hands? Are your mornings, afternoons, evenings filled with the dulcet sounds of yapping?  Anyone who has brought home a new puppy or even a rescue knows how stressful and challenging barking can be. Our case was no different. Every time our little guy…

I rarely post video to my blog. However, there is no better way to demonstrate the lengths bad guys will go to separate you from your precious banking information. It’s easy to be duped. Please share this video.

UPDATE: August 9, 2018 If you’re using XFINITY from Comcast, their updated routers now make this process MUCH easier. When you log onto your Xfinity dashboard, you can Pause individual device access to the wifi. Set parental controls. Even establish bedtime parameters.  Here’s a screen grab from the dashboard. Another…

**NOTE: This article is not intended to be taken as medical advice. I am not a medical professional.** My brothers and I have this problem. Every once in a while when we are eating, food gets stuck down in our throat. This food plug does not block our airway, but…

Here is why ALL computer users need to be vigilant. (Scroll down to read the 7 habits that can make your Internet surfing safer). Today “one of the largest global cyber operations in history” attempted to take down the Blackshades racket. Here is why I think this is important news for you…

Look, I admit it. I love Google. That company does so much cool shit, I’m there. I’m not an Android user, but that doesn’t mean I can’t luv on Google a bit. I picked up an Acer C720 Chromebook for work, and while I really liked the machine, I just…

So you finally bit the bullet and built out a mobile version of your website. Congrats! Now the question becomes how to install the mobile redirect code / script into your hosted WordPress?  For those of you who use WordPress for sites other than blogs, adding this code might be…

Not exactly. I’ve been slammed with questions about the Internet shutting down on Monday.  Fact: The Internet is NOT shutting down. Some DNS servers are being shut down. You can hop onto legitimate DNS servers in a few easy steps if you need to. However, when I click through my…

Oh my god we’ve evolved! You may have heard that Emoji is now natively supported on your iPhone. By “Native” I mean Free. No jailbreak necessary either. Everyone else around me seems to have found this out long before I did. Oh well. Sometimes…yes…I live under a rock. What is…

Dear Amazon, I’ve been a Kindle reader since September 2010. I love it. The point of reading an analog book (paper book) has been completely overshadowed by the utility I’ve found in being able to digitally highlight phrases, sentences, words and quotes on the Kindle–and then search those things later–on…

Fellow Facebookers take heed. What would happen if your entire Facebook profile including friends, posts, links, messages, photos and videos vanished tomorrow? What if you logged into Facebook only to find your account had been deactivated, or worse…deleted!? If you’re one of the millions of people who have already found…

I was a Delicious addict until my Firefox got so junked up with plugins that I gave them all up for the speed of Safari. When I defected to Safari I lost my toolbar access to Delicious. That sucked ass. Delicious was an integral part of my day. Now with…

I admit it. I’ve been sucking off the Pandora Internet music service teat for the past few years without giving them a dime. I’m so ashamed. That’s me, the dirty rat, carelessly skipping off to another service when I had completely used up my free monthly allotment of 40 hours….

Traveling abroad with your iphone can be scary. Not for any other reason than you have no idea what your phone bill is going to look like when you return home. Some information out there tells you that you need to jailbreak your phone. Call me a pussy, but I’m…

I clone therefore I am. The other day a friend of mine lost his hard drive and all of his email. Needless to say, he was at the bar. The whisky was flowing. And it was only noon. On a Tuesday. Chances are if you’ve been using computers long enough,…