If you take a picture and crop off some of it, and save that cropped picture with a new filename, and send that cropped picture to somebody, it is POSSIBLE (but very unlikely) that they might still be able to see the WHOLE, original picture BEFORE you cropped it. THAT could have bad consequences!!
NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY. If the cruise control is on when your car begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose contact with the pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take off like an airplane. NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow you to set the cruise control when the windshield wipers are on.
If you want to try doing your own personal income tax returns for 2007, check out this freeware which I used last year and I was very impressed with it: http://www.studiotax.com/en/main.htm.
This "condition" is not really a "disease" as such; it is more, imho, like a "condition." If you have it, as I do, your fingers turn white, cold, "dead" when your body is cool or chilly. I've always heard that the only way to avoid it is to have the nerves cut, in your wrists, or to move to a warmer climate. Now I have learned that there is a drug that solves the problem; it is ADALAT. It works for me; almost 95% of the time.
I bought an item from Tiger Direct some time ago; I was most unhappy with it and never did get any satisfaction so decided NEVER TO BUY from them again. Then, some time later, I found a C$12. charge on my Mastercard account from something called "WLI*ReservationRewards 800-732-7031." I asked Mastercard to send me complaint forms to reverse this charge, which I suspect is FRAUD. I called RR at that number and they tell me that the charge resulted from my purchase from Tiger Direct and this is a MONTHLY charge! Glad I checked my account carefully.
Today I got an invoice from "Domain Registry of Canada" to renew my domain name: sticksite.com. I knew this could not be correct so I checked and find that this is a complete SCAM! If you have a domain name, be careful and avoid getting ripped off big time here!
Last week a friend of mine got a bladder infection; those miserable things almost everyone gets from time to time. Somebody suggested "Birch Tea." So, I picked green leaves off a birch tree, put them into a pot and poured on boiling water, let that sit for about 5 minutes. Three or four cups later, the infection was gone and 4 days later it was still gone! Quickly I picked more leaves and dried them for possible use in winter.
UPDATE:
It took away the 'burning sensation' but not the actual infection.
There is absolutely no need to spend your hard-earned $$ to have your cards printed for you. You can make them yourself with FREE software. Just go to http://www.openoffice.org and download their free suite of office tools; this is similar to Microsoft's expensive suite. No longer do you need to buy "Word" or WordPerfect. I use OOo's "Writer" part to make my own cards. If you want to see my result, you can download the file by clicking HERE. This is an ".odt" file which means you need to have the OOo suite installed to open it. If you like, you can use it as a template to make your own cards.
Yes, I mean bleach; the dangerous liquid you use to remove stains etc. This stuff is very dangerous and I wish somebody had told me this. A friend bought a large (5 liter) jug of the stuff and set it into a cupboard at home. Then she did not look at it again for some weeks. When she did, and picked it up, to her shock and horror, she found it weighed nothing. It had drained; about 90% of it was GONE. The "seam" on the underside of the jug was faulty and while there was no visible hole, it had slowly leaked out, dissolving a large hole in the bottom of that cupboard. It could have been much worse. We went to the store (Real Canadian Superstore) and looked at the shelf where she had taken it. There was a circular area the size of that jug, where all the paint was gone. I have contacted the company about it. They invited me to email pictures of the damage to them and take the empty jug to the store where she bought it. I did all that and hinted that a monetary offer be made to my friend for her grief and damages. I'll report here later how they decided to handle this. My TIP is to set such a jug into something like an ice-cream pail.
My son Dave told me this:
"At home I have a wireless router, but the only device that I connect via wireless is the family
computer – clear across the house. The reception is terrible – I recently bought a new router thinking
that would resolve it, but it only slightly helped. It was slow and dropping off the network constantly.
Finally in desperation I turned to something I thought was akin to voodoo. HomePlug.
You run an Ethernet cable from your router into this little device that plugs into any electrical socket.
Then anywhere else in the house you put another of these little devices and run an Ethernet cable from it
to another PC. Voila – a network via the power grid of your home; can hardly believe it. Jude’s computer
is now downloading stuff off the internet at very high speed. I didn’t believe it would be possible."
I saw this on BBC TV; a new music tool. It allows you to upload your music to their site and then you can access it from anywhere, anytime. It provides the HTML so you can put a link to your music on your website. Here is what that HTML presents on YOUR website:
Note that my music has been sorted, by Mediamaster, into "Albums." Unfortunately, that is automatic and it is wrong; few of my tunes belong in the albums where they have been put. If enough people sign on, and ask for this to be changed, maybe they will fix that.
I had been getting excited about moving into Linux. The Ubuntu version, latest release is "Feisty Fawn" released April 19, 2007. THEN I read sites like this: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Feisty_Installation_Guide and, sadly, it becomes clear to me that Linux won't be ready for us "non-geeks" in my lifetime. Too bad.
A lot of people suffer from this sleep-depriving nuisance. Spasms in the legs, at night, force them to walk the floor and/or rub their legs in an effort to stop the misery and let sleep take over. I know somebody who has suffered with this for many years. NOW, after various efforts at solving it, including specialized footwear, it seems that the solution is "DEEP COLD." I'll provide more info as soon as I can get it and a picture of the container. UPDATE: it does not work every time. My cousin tells me a banana per day helped him.
The OTHER side of the story: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2332531355859226455
Wow; an hour and 16 minutes of it yet! Guess Al Gore IS wrong, just like I've been trying to tell him all winter. If I listened carefully, the whole film can be summed up: "Yes, the earth is warming up but it is all caused by the SUN; CO2 produced by man, animals and nature, has nothing to do with it." And here I just made a couple of solar cookers; wish I'd heard about this before ;-) At least now I can feel less guilty about EXHALING again. On CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck did a special on May 4, 2007, telling us the same thing; AL GORE IS DEAD WRONG!!
My Toshiba laptop 'puter started turning itself OFF at the most inconvenient times, whether I was working on it or just sitting looking at it and cussing it. "Brenda" suggested putting bottle caps under it to raise it off the table and provide better air-circulation. That worked for a month. Then it started again. My next solution was to buy a can of compressed air and an "Allen Wrench" to open the bottom of the computer. I blew out all the dust I could and so far, that has solved the problem.
This is the greatest idea since sliced bread. Everybody has, from time to time, "Stuff" they don't want anymore. AND, everybody WANTS something FREE from time to time. Freecycle takes care of all that AND tries to reduce the amount of "stuff" going to garbage dumps. Many cities have a Freecycle "group" now. It is TOTALLY FREE; no money is allowed to change hands. Sign up and watch the emails come in. If you want to get rid of something, list it and before you know it, somebody will come and get it. Watch the incoming emails and if you see something you want, just email the person offering it and arrange to go and get it. Well over 3,500,000 people have signed up around the globe. Check it out at http://www.freecycle.org/. But, PLEASE, watch the "rules" and help the moderators keep their sanity.