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You know the legend: In the northern hemisphere, water goes down the toilet clockwise. And it twirls counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. It’s a cool factoid, in itself. And it has a cool name — the Coriolis [...]

Today is my lucky day. I get to assemble my 10×10 gazebo today !!! and as you can tell I’m just so happy about it. Seriously though. The house we bought has a huge back yard, well huge for us considering we were living in a town house condo before we moved to a single [...]

most mornings I wake up with a song in my head, or at least a fragment of a song. So I figured I’d add anew post featruing songs I wake up with in my head. What’s some what annoying about this when it happens is that like I said its usually a fragment of a [...]

For me spring heralds my favourite night time activity (other drinking on a deck at a cottage) which is observing the night sky. For me its a great way to relax. I usually head out to the back yard sit in one of my patio chairs and crank my neck upwards and watch for a [...]

We’ve been thinking about trading in our car, Were currently driving a dodge calibre. Nice car dont get me wrong but were wondering how well this car is going to hold its value. And wondering which car will hold its value the longest. The reason we’re doing this is obviously to save a few dollars [...]

A friend of mine is having a baby and mentioned getting Organic baby clothes for the newest addition to the home.  SO I was wondering why and what are the advantages to dressing your baby in Organic Baby Clothes. 
The child’s skin is relatively thin and quite susceptible when they are very young. Clothing that is [...]

Is there an official date for the beginning of BBQ season ? I dont typically BBQ during the winter and wait until spring, or warmer weather lets put it that way before I start the BBQ up. Maybe there shou d be an offical start date for the beginning of bbq season. It would appear [...]

Living The Green Energy Home Dream
With all the advances in green energy technology, it is easier than ever to start converting your home into a green energy home.  A green energy home utilizes renewable resources to provide electricity, hot water, heat and peace of mind. 
There are several ways to implement your green energy home plan. [...]

I’ll bet most o you didnt know that “ottawa”was actully the name of an indian tribe!!.
Well its true. Hersa brief history of Ottawa and he originsof the word ottawa.
Ottawa comes from the Algonquin word “Adawe” meaning “to trade” and originates from their role as traders even before contact. Variations are: Atawawa, Odawa, Outaouacs, Outaoua, Tawa, [...]

I finally got my laptop connected to my big screen tv.  So I’m now able to use LCD screen as a second monitor.
I didnt wind up using an S Video cable. Instead I used a VGA cable that I got from future shop. To be honest for what Im going to use it for for [...]

Ive had a PS3 for a little while now and just recently ive begun finding out all the cool things you can do with it. Being that it has a hard drive it will take an operating system. Has any one out there put linux on their PS3?
Id like to use my PS3 as my [...]

X-mas is always an interesting time of year, stressful, busy, relaxing, family, friends….
It goes on and on doesnt it. Our christmas this year was more about Aidan then it was about gifting each other. I personally dont need x-mas gifts. Scroogy I know, but for me its about kids and the excitement they get from [...]

lately if you’ve been hanging around here for any amount of time you’ve probably come to the conclusion that Ive been writing about money and debt and the Canadian financial system.
WHY you ask, well mostly because I think it is very important to understand where and how you and I and everyone else gets our [...]

Beer Making Starter Kit with Ingredients
Most Basic Beer Making Starter Kits contain all of the basic brewing equipment you need to make a great beer your first time out, will grow with you as your brewing skills advance, and allows you to make Beer and just about any 5 gallon recipe you may have found [...]

It should come as no surprise to you that probably the most mis-understood thing in this world is money, it isnt taught in school, our parent have a loose if vague understanding of it, and you and I have no freaking clue about money. Mostly because it was mis-understood to begin with and then that [...]

1 1/2 cup Cream of Wheat
Instructions: Place a dish of Cream of Wheat where the ants can access it.
Note: After they eat it, the cereal expands and the ants will explode.

Here is the latest update in the sad tale of what is really happening in our society.
Go to Zeitgeistmovie.com
I am Canadian and am hoping this never happens.
The message is as universal as it ever was and hopefully will stop.
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have [...]

Some House members balked at giving the Treasury immense power — the ability to buy up hundreds of billions of bad debt. And there were ongoing complaints over insufficient accountability, transparency and large-scale government intervention. But Paulson, along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, has been intent over the past week on broadcasting warnings about [...]

Home Energy Saving Tips
Now that we’re happy home owners we’ve been looking over our home energy bills and been doing some reading about home energy and looking for some home energy savings along the way.
Those energy bills add when you’re not paying attention to them. Save energy and save money was my last post in [...]

Help how do i get rid of ants?
I have been getting some pesky little ants and I have no idea where the ants are coming from. I have tried getting rid of ants by spraying and cleaning (obviously). SO I seeking some advice about how to get rid of ants. So far I have googled [...]

Here is part two of the design or re-design of my blog As I mentioned in a few prior posts about my blog theme re-design custom wordpress theme design make over You may by now know that I have contracted forest parks for his professional design services to do a custom wordpress theme for this [...]

Cleaning Your BBQ Grill Properly
A barbecue grill is more of an investment rather than just an entertaining accessory. It can be used and re-used many times over and give you years of outdoor fun and reason to celebrate. Like any investment, a barbecue grill needs proper care and maintenance to bring out its best for [...]

So I figured now that I have upgraded to wordpress 2.6 that I would try out the admin panl and the new post functions. One of them being uploading video. A few years back I took some family home vids of our little monster at x-mas. LOL late uploading and sharing the video I know.
So [...]

As I mentioned in a prior post about my blog theme re-design I have contracted forest parks for his professional design services to do a custom wordpress theme for this blog.
I’m not saying that I don’t like this wordpress theme by garryconn (you have to subscribe to his email list to grab a copy).
But I [...]

Street Hockey and Road Hockey Rules
Its that time of year again yes boys and girls its Street hockey. Or road hockey if you’re from Canada.
Street hockey can be played by anyone, anywhere, anytime. You can play one on one, or 10 on 10! This list of rules and regulations was found on NHL.com and should [...]

Came across this Facebook parody by a U.K comedy troupe.Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like if you were to do facebook in real life, you know take the social networking site into the real world. We all know facebook can be a bit on the stupid side.
Seriously I dont know how many [...]

Hey everybody over the next little while my blog is gonna act and look weird.
Forestparks from TheRandomForest.com and I are going to do a theme re-design here LIVE, so you’ll get to follow along as this blog gets re-done.
I’m shooting for a much more personal feel on this theme. I’ll be keeping the core wordpress [...]

Creating A New Digital Fingerprint In StumbleUpon
Written by Garry Conn on May 30th, 2008
Yesterday I wrote a pretty lengthy article that explained what I think the future will hold for Google and SEO. Today I want to discuss with you how you can build, shape and mold an online identity or digital fingerprint that you [...]

A friend of mine is a network support technician, he gets a ridiculous and infuriating number of requests for help removing temporary Internet files and cookies. Working on a help line, he is not allowed to field those calls, but in his private network consultant business, he deals with those issues all the time.
It is [...]

Often times I get a blog post idea or start a with blog post idea in mind and don’t really want to log onto my Wordpress account to start writing. Hey I’m usually pretty busy and want to just hash out an idea and then come back to it later. So I thought I would [...]

I had an interesting experience recently and thought that this
was relevant to blogging. Actually it’s something that I have been
mulling over for quite sometime but it really struck home while I was
out with my girlfriend at a pool bar called tail gators oh about a month ago or so.
As an advance warning this post is [...]