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Lawns getting greener

Lawns getting greenerOnce again, what percentage of lawn ownersfertilize and water thier lawns? Listening to you, you'd think everyone with some sort of lawn waters and fertilizes it every day of the year!And you're wrong: we didn't get the idea of "the lawn" from the English Garden, people realized early...

Tags: lawn

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Lawns getting greener

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving up the restrictions on emissions fron many small engines. This will include outboard motors lawnmowers. Those new, small conbustion engines will have to get cleaner over the next few years. Perhaps they can couple that move with a little...

Tags: Lawn, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Americans growing their own: veggies this time

Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...

Tags: lawn, herb

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Americans growing their own: veggies this time

The high energy prices may be hurting a lot of retail businesses: not gardening. Sales of garden plants, seeds and supplies are way up. Americans are growing their own. These are not World War Two "Victory Gardens." These are 21st Century Inflation Gardens. The outdoor...

Tags: Lawn, Plant, Americans, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-12

My Verizon FiOS experience is about to begin

On July 3 I had one of my last Comcast outages--I say that knowing I'll have another one soon. This Comcast outage had particularly bad timing since I've been evaluating Verizon FiOS. Amazing how quick I called Verizon after this latest Comcast glitch--the knocked out the TV and Internet access...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2007-07-05

3D Lawn Darts (exe)

3D Lawn Darts brings the to your mobile device! Toss your darts in the backyardclassic game of lawn darts or really challenge yourself and play on the moon. The fun and challenging 3D characters will have you playing over and over again. Your friends will love the easy to use...

Tags: 3D, Lawn, Camera, Bluetooth, Games, Wireless, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-07-05

When gardeners go digital

My gardener called yesterday to ask for my email address. Seems he wants to send his invoices by email starting next month. Happily, I said "yes" and gave them my address."In what kind of file will you send the invoice ," I asked?"I don't know what you mean.""Well, if you're...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Additional Resources

Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…

Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…Actually, all of the biggest web companies all use Linux because it is somuch more flexible and powerful. Of the biggest, MS is the only one using Windows.And, yes, the applications availability on the Desktop is a problem for Desktop Linux, but, the is...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, EEEPC, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

(Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)

(Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)one correctionThe model T first ran on alcohol. John Rockefeller was making kerosene for heating and lighting, and gasoline was a useless byproduct. He was literally dumping it into a river at night.Then he realized there could be a huge market for this stuff....

Tags: Ford Model T, alcohol, Ford Motor Co., photograph

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment

Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First AmendmentYour point still fails...Freedom of expression doesn't extend to having a legislated, forced audience!By the logic you illustrate here, it would be "illegal" or "unconstitutional" to1) not answer the phone or door, if proven that you were home;2) turn away...

Tags: Spam, e-mail, antispam law, First Amendment, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2008-09-14

LIVE from the Apple event

LIVE from the Apple eventiPod NanoI'm glad I just bought my son a 4 GB Nano for $199 from the Apple web site. OUCH!Apple events are better than Sleeping pillsAnother Yawn event from Apple, there will be a day when no one comes to hear Steve Jobs pamper his ego...

Tags: Games, Apple Events, MP3/MP4 Player, LOL Here, accelerometer, Apple Inc., Apple Event, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

(Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)

(Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)Fuel economy?The BMW is nice, but at $99,300 I think the fuel economy is a much smaller factor to purchasing a vehicle similar in price to my house with much less square footage and no lawn.RE: (Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week)Ever driven...

Tags: Top 10 Reviews, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

The harsh reality of suburban broadband

The harsh reality of suburban broadbandi live in parsippanyand my Optimum line does not go down ever! I've had it for over a year now and I have decided to not even consider switching to FIOS as I have zero issues of any kind. My speed test results are 27468...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cable, suburban broadband, harsh reality, broadband, Fios, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Windows will go open source when pigs fly

Windows will go open source when pigs flyMicrosoft can not afford to go to open source....People will see how much of other companies IP they have used.Er??? >> Er???"Pliny the Elder" had it right, your ("SpikeyMike") logic is wrong or you misread the post.expanding on the statement: If MS code...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, F/OSS, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...

Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google wins

Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google winsEven more embarassing than thatis that it should be "withdraws".A withdrawal is what a drug user experiences when he has no more of his addictive drug. Or is that what you meant ;-)Withrawls???Somebody please fix the headline for this article! It's embarrassing!THE INTERNET AND...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., withdrawal

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

Count me out for ad-funded Works

Count me out for ad-funded WorksAlbany is a rented version of MS OfficeActually, [url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1345]Albany is a rented version of MS Office supported by security, collaboration, and other services[/url]. Albany, as I understand it, has nothing to do with MS Works.RE: Count me out for ad-funded WorksHi, Chris.While some folks who...

Tags: advertisement, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

Frustrations with development languages

Frustrations with development languagesWhat's left?It seems that you don't like any programming language....Seriously the "failure" of Java EE you refer to isn't necessarily a failure of Java, it is likely a failure of software management by the IT department concerned. Many companies tend towards highly complex solutions and "smart" ways...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, Scripting languages, Ada, Java, programming

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Costs: Wintel vs. open source

One of the true wonders of our age is the ability lots of otherwise reasonable people have to tell you with every evidence of believing it themselves that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last for years - and then go off to spend well over a thousand replacing...

Tags: Wintel, Hewlett-Packard Co., Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?

Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?Nah, they do it for the pay checkWhat recognition does an open source programmer get? None! They are just one of large number of contributers. If you want recognition you write proprietary software that you sell as your own business....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Like Linux, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft SQL, My-SQL, MySQL, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-26