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  • Recovering from Fraxel laser resurfacing

    I’m currently on my 5th of a series of 6 fraxel treatments. My doctor has the most recent “version” of the Fraxel laser, the Fraxel SR1500, which is more powerful than the earlier model.

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    Posted on Feb 21.08 to Health | 2 Comments »  

  • How to force-quit an application on a Mac

    Most of us are familiar with good old control-alt-delete — the way to force quit a program that isn’t responding on the PC. But if you’ve recently purchased a new and pretty Macbook (like me), control-alt-delete won’t do it for you.

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    Posted on Feb 04.08 to General | No Comments »  

  • How much am I supposed to tip??

    I wish sometimes that people would just tell me what their expectation is. I certainly don’t want to be rude, but sometimes I really don’t know what the expected tip is. Generally, I tip 20% for everything, be it drinks, dinner, or haircuts. I don’t use valet parking much, but when I have, I’ve usually given the guy $5. My haircuts are $40, and I usually leave $48, but last time I was there, I told the guy in front to put $48 on my card and he rang it up for $50.. Subtle hint from a friendly gay guy that I should be tipping more? I took it as such, and welcomed the input…

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    Posted on Jan 31.08 to Finances and Money, General | No Comments »  

  • Baseball Report to Reveal Names of Steroid Using Players

    Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on Thursday will release his long-awaited report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs (i.e. steroids, etc.) in Major League Baseball. Speculators say that the report has already been leaked on the internet — and that these are the names:

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    Posted on Dec 13.07 to General | No Comments »  

  • The best rewards cards for credit card deadbeats

    The credit card industry refers to people who use their credit cards frequently, but then pay the balance in full every month as “deadbeats” or “freeloaders.” Why such a negative term for people who are diligently and responsibly taking care of their finances? Because the card companies can’t charge them any interest. (Don’t feel bad for them, though, they still make money on transaction fees charged to the seller every time the card is used to make a purchase.)

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    Posted on Sep 28.07 to Finances and Money, General | No Comments »  

  • How walkable is your neighborhood? Now you can calculate it online.

    We’re all familiar with Zillow, the online housing value estimator. But when looking for a house, another way to measure its livability is by the walkability of the surrounding neighborhood. That means determining how many amenities and service businesses (restaurants, bars, grocery stores, fitness clubs, schools, parks, etc.) are available within walking distance.

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    Posted on Sep 26.07 to General | 1 Comment »  

  • How to display html or javascript code in a Wordpress entry

    You don’t think about it until you have to do it, but it’s difficult to print HTML code in a webpage (or blog) as actual HTML code. The solution? More HTML code, of course.

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    Posted on Sep 25.07 to Blogging, Design, Computers | 1 Comment »  

  • Javascript to hide email addresses from crawlers (and spammers)

    There are of course many ways to do this… One way is to always use an image to display the email address, so a user has to manually type it into their email client. An easy way to hide email addresses, while still using a mailto: link, is to use a simple javascript function.

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    Posted on Sep 25.07 to Design, Computers | 1 Comment »  

  • The XO free laptop program (one laptop per child)

    The much-fabled $100 laptop is almost ready to go into production. The plan was to create an inexpensive laptop, rugged and resilient to heat, cold, humidity, and tumbling about, and get governments to pay to distribute them to children in the world’s poorest nations, so that they could access the education that the internet provides.

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    Posted on Sep 24.07 to Design, Computers, General | No Comments »  

  • How to get a free online credit report

    I’ve been watching my credit at TrueCredit.com. Keeping track of my credit online lets me know what to expect if I apply for a new loan or line or credit, and lets me know right away if something incorrect is showing up. TrueCredit.com includes a free credit score (not included in most free credit reports), and provides graphs of your debt-to-income ratio, available credit, balances/payments, and total debt over time.

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    Posted on Sep 24.07 to Finances and Money, General | No Comments »  

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