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Low-Volume Flush Toilets and Stingy Paper Towel Dispensers – Part I

Modern efficiency and conservation are wonderful things . . . except when they aren’t. Efficiently conserving, that is.

I’m not a wasteful person. I save all my old twist ties so I can reuse them. We store our emergency water supply in empty 2-liter bottles. Our kids draw their pictures on the backs of sheets [...]

Practical Tips & Tricks

I’ve only been able to try a few of the ideas below, so please let me know if they work for you. Some are original but a big chunk of them are re-written from an e-mail that was circulating for a while.

Reheat Pizza – Tired of soggy day-after pizza crust? Throw a piece or [...]

New Accounts at Digg.com, Reddit.com, and Technorati.com

I just signed up for new accounts at www.digg.com, www.reddit.com, and www.technorati.com in order to learn more about those websites and services where I’ve been lurking for months and months.

In order to complete my Technorati profile and claim this blog as my own, I have to make this post including some code that shows [...]

More Research and Experimentation

Today was another chance to continue to research, install, and experiment with Word Press plug-ins. Because there are so many, it’s difficult to pick and choose. So far I’ve installed and/or activated the following plug-ins, though several still require some tweaking:

Akismet Auto-hyperlink URLs** Code Auto Escape del.icio.us widget Google Analytics Google Search widget Lightbox [...]

Opening Day

After purchasing the domain name and a hosting account, I finally settled on WordPress 2.0 as the software to power this blog. There are still lots of details to be ironed out, not the least of which are the theme and elements that will appear in the sidebars. The themes that emphasize content while minimizing [...]