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- Tips For Greening Up Your Garden. “Green” may be the new buzzword, but when it comes to gardening, eco-friendly techniques have been around for years. Here are four simple, inexpensive methods that can turn your garden into a model of green efficiency. 1. Watch the way you water. As the mercury rises, so will your water...
The Great Garden Experiment - April 2009 Two weeks ago as I kicked off this year's garden experiment, I was stymied by a long string of Spring rains. Fortunately, the rain held up long enough last weekend to get the garden fully installed. Saturday, I got up bright and early. By 10am, I was picking up the...
The Suburban Garden Expirement A vegetable garden can be a great way to save some money and become more self sufficient. Not to mention they can bring their owners hours of "fun" in the yard. We have lived in our current home for almost three years now and we have never had the time...
Use Terra-Sorb Water Crystals To Save Water In Your Garden Our gardens are beautiful and can be an excellent way to put our eco friendly green thumbs to work. But plants need water, and lots of it. If it doesn't rain regularly, that usually means using the hose or sprinklers. Unfortunately this is very wasteful of water--it runs off...- Gardening with Energy Consciousness Two new books are providing a fresh look into what modern gardening really is. In an few words, it is based on ecological ethos instead of a particular look or feel. The first book is by Tim Richardson and is entitled “Avant Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape.” The...
- All About Gardening Gardening is perhaps one of the best hobbies that a more laborious nature lover can take up. The reason why I choose to call this hobby laborious is because it surely does involve a good deal of physical activity. This hobby is not meant for those nature lovers who simply...
Four Beneficial Insects For Pest Control In Your Garden Are you finding drooping plants and half-eaten leaves in your carefully tended garden? Sooner or later, every gardener will encounter evidence that undesirable garden pests have arrived. Left unchecked, these creatures have the potential to ruin our gardens. Going green means we try to use the most natural ways...
Bananas on Boats Most of us in the west associate bananas with the Caribbean or Central America, where the "banana republics" evolved in the last century. So some you may be surprised to find out that the banana is not native to the western hemisphere. In fact, it seems to have originated...
Prefab Wednesday - The zeroHouse. Holy Moly Batman...a house that powers itself, composts its own waste, collects its own water, and is completely automatic doing all of these things. When can I get one? Maybe if it is ever made I can get on the list, but for now, the zeroHouse looks to be just...
Five Great Ways To Recycle Or Reuse Old Tires. In most communities, there are recycling programs that take back assorted stuff like electronics and car tires that are of no use to anyone. Here where I live, a lot of tire places will take the tires back and recycle them for you free of charge. But if you live...
The Good, The Bad, and The Righteous You know, life is confusing. So much good, so much bad, and it seems lately to swing between these extremes with amplitude growing in geometric progression. Are people getting more bizarre? Cruel? Angelically wise? Mind-bogglingly kind? [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="And we're eating it all up..."][/caption] Or is this the...- The Best Water Purifiers/Filters for Your Home Having water purifiers/filters for your home is necessary nowadays. It is estimated that over two billion people in this world today suffer without access to good clean drinking water. On top of this more and more people in The United States are complaining that the water which they drink from taps taste different even small different. The taste of chlorine, lead and fluoride are what makes our water taste funny almost to the point where it is undrinkable.
- Bali Outside of Thailand, Bali is one of my favorite places. I love the fact that business takes me there three or four times a year. However, Bali is not the nicest place to be all the time. From December to February it can rain heavily every day (although not all...
- Linking Your Way To The Top Of The Search Engines keyword elite One of the most important things you can do to raise your search engine rankings and drive more traffic to your site is to convince other websites to link to yours. It's free, of course, and very easy, but doing it properly does take some time and effort....
NOW Who Has Got a Dirty Mind? What a week! The January frost has just set in, and already things are heating up beyond the melting point. Put your seatbelts on, kids, cause its gonna be a wild ride! [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Get ready for a hoe down, y'all!"][/caption] Day 1: 6:00am - What's the world...
Sink or Scuba This is part two of my experience learning scuba. Read part one first. Today is the big day. I get my first taste of diving beneath the waves. Am I nervous? You bet. Adam picks me up early and drives us to the pier in Bang Rak. We're taking the...- Killing Time in Soekarno-Hatta Yesterday was one of "those" days that makes you understand why some people hate to travel. My flight from Bangkok to Jakarta was delayed by half an hour, which is bad enough, but when I got to Jakarta I found that my connecting flight to Semarang was delayed by more...
- How to tell if you've taken frugality too far I want to get a Boston Fern, both because I've been feeling really daring about being able to grow a plant lately, and because they're supposed to be one of the houseplants that are good for purifying the air. (Also, they're pretty and it would look good in a hanging...
- Hiding Out in Ubud Before I embark on a grueling (as usual) trip through the rest of Indonesia on business, I'm treating myself to a few days of rest and relaxation at Payangan Hideaway. Actually, it's one of the owners who is treating me to this little break. The word 'hideaway' is extremely appropriate...
- The Ultimate Guide on How to make Flock or Firefox Run Faster var sd = ""; var cb = Math.random(); var d = document; d.write(''); d.write('< \/scr'+'ipt>'); Having trouble with a slow Flock or Firefox browser? Been looking at all the hack pages where they have you messing around in the about:config area? I have the answer for speeding up Flock...
- Google Enters the Offline Client Game Google has finally entered the ranks of its email competitors Yahoo! and Microsoft in offering an offline version of its interface. Yahoo! and Microsoft have both offered offline clients for their mail, calendar, and contact information with Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop and Windows Live Mail for some time now and Google...
- Moolanomy weekly roundup #14: "Frugality" edition This has been another great week for the M-Network with our aggregate feed now moved to FeedBurner Ad Network. For our subscribers, this mean faster feed, less encoding errors, and you can actually see who wrote the post now! As always, we are committed to provide high-quality full feed. Group...
- Purposeful Shopping: Money Spent In The Local Economy Goes A Lot Further. Sure, the convenience of those big-box stores is nice because you can get almost everything you need (and a bunch of stuff you don't, if you are anything like me) in one place, but do you know where your money goes after you give it to the clerk? It heads...
Migrating Mail and Contacts from Hotmail to Zimbra For anyone wanting to switch their email address from a free hotmail account to a Zimbra mail account without losing any email the switch can be made quite easily. You'll need a Windows installation and your Hotmail and Zimbra account info to get started. You can also find info on...- Real estate: Asset or liability? Flexo takes issue with Robert Kiyosaki's definitions of asset and liability: An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket. I can see Flexo's point in that Kiyosaki is recasting the definition of the words. The proper financial...
- The elusive nature of happiness, part 4 [One] You can't change your genes, but you can tinker with the essential wiring of your brain. Selective serotonin reuptake [this is such an interesting word to me...and has some spiritual parameters, even the next word, 'inhibitors'] inhibitors, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and others work to prolong the action of...
- Gardening with Energy Consciousness Two new books are providing a fresh look into what modern gardening really is. In an few words, it is based on ecological ethos instead of a particular look or feel. The first book is by Tim Richardson and is entitled “Avant Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape.” The...
Friday's Quizzlet: Blues Brotherly Love Appetizer: What do you think is the perfect age to get married? To have a child? No one has any business getting married until they're at least 27 or so. See the world, meet some people and as cliched as this sounds - 'find yourself'. I've had a pretty wild...
Breaking Down Budgeting A personal budget is simply a spending plan. Before you work on personal budget planning you need to have a good idea of where and how your money is being spent. It can be a tedious process, but it can also be a true eye opener if you are not...- The Pros And Cons Of Contracting During my current job search, I've talked to a number of recruiters and they've all said the same thing: contracting is your best bet in this economy. Companies are understandably reluctant to make long-term hiring commitments due to the current economic situation, but still have work that needs to be...
