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When I had my first child, I made a child-proofing to-do list.  One of the things on that list was putting child-proof locks on all the lower cabinet doors in the kitchen.  I ended up only doing one—locking the cabinet under the sink where we store household chemicals—because buying the locks and installing them was […]

  If you read other blogs, then you already have access to some potential traffic. All you have to do is update your profile to include your blog address and comment on those other blogs. If one of your comments piques enough curiosity, people will want to know who you are. When you leave a […]

  You’ve heard it before.  You go to a buffet, and someone always tells you what you need to eat “to get your money’s worth.”  On the flip side, there are always some foods you are advised not to eat at buffets because they are cheap and fill you up fast. Ever notice that the […]

  There is growing evidence that unnatural things throw our bodies out of whack.  Food preservatives are bad for you.  Cell phone radiation is bad for you.  Shampoo is bad for you.  Even your daily multivitamin may be bad for you.  This list can go on and on, but it all comes down to this: […]

Google gives special treatment to websites with domain names that match search terms. If someone searches for “pet food,” Google is more likely to show results where the words “pet” and “food” are in the web address. You can use this information to your advantage. Make a list of all the keywords associated with your […]

The fundamentals of how we make a living have evolved over the past few centuries. The changes were brought about by the Industrial Revolution and have accelerated alongside technological advances. Allow me to show you a gross oversimplification to illustrate my point: The distant past-1840: Doing things we hate for ourselves. We worked our parents’ trade […]

  I don’t like to waste time.  Some things like sweeping the kitchen floor, mowing the lawn, and walking the dog aren’t wasting time, but are time-consuming activities that we must do.  These activities don’t take much brain processing power. One way to make your time more productive is to listen to podcasts while doing […]

  Amazon.com has a page showing some all-time bests.  I went in and looked at the data in an attempt to find the best book on Amazon, ever. Top 3 best-selling books of all-time Top 3 customer-reviewed books of all time Top 3 best books of all time Now to the fun part.  Which from the top […]

  A couple years ago, Apple iTunes let you give each song a star rating of 1-5 stars. It was great and powerful, and it let me use “smart playlists” to create a tiered system for my music. Then iOS 10 came along and took away the star ratings.  They might have also taken away […]

After my computer’s motherboard fried in 2016, I bought a new computer. I had been working on the cloud as much as possible, so I didn’t have to install much software on my new computer. To the uninitiated, “the cloud” is a fancy way of talking about data stored on the Internet. But there was […]