Deer control for your Garden

For years my father has lived in the country area city. He likes to grow flowers and food. Some of the food he grows is corn, tomatoes, carrots and other produce for his own consumption. One of his biggest issues has been keeping critters out of the garden. The biggest one is the deer. What? The small hoof prints with the ability to reach over the four-foot fence to pull up and damage the garden produce. The deer damage was two fold, one the fencing around the garden has to be repaired every other day, two the lose of produce that you have spent money, blood, sweat and tears getting the food developed to eat. Lets also mention the destruction of flower plants and grass destruction.

Then on March I went to the annual Home and Garden show, at the HG show there was a product that you could sprinkle around your garden. This mixture works like mothballs that repel moths, the grain mixture was a deer repellent supposed to keep the deer intruders away from your garden. It works for a while until he could harvest the produce. Then when produce gone the deer damage went away. But as the planting season comes back around the deer comes back. Now there are electronic deer repellent for your garden along with DeerOff repellent from the folks of Havahart. They have available many different quantities sizes of their DeerOff products and a couple of electronic repllants that I am interested in trying one of those. It getting cooler Deers beware.

Socializing the New York Times

The folks of New York Times has launched a social network. NY Times has created its new social networking site called TimesPeople. It is easy to join and works like the other social networks with followers and you can follow those that write articles amoung the users. Join TimesPeople social network for free and you can start sharing your recommendations and your comments with the other fellow Times readers.

As part of the NY Times and TimesPeople you will be able to share ratings and reviews of movies, Broadway shows, restaurants

Remembering your first car

Your first car was freedom. This new found freedom would mean you go where you wanted and even take a few of buddies with you. Once you go your new wheels it was time to clean it up and customize it to your required taste. The other fun things to do with your automobile is to tune your car for speed and performance, it did not matter in which order. The old school performance of a car was big carb and new headers. Now since the coming of 1981 cars, performance adjustments of power, torque tuning, and ways to improve fuel mileage is done with digital computer performance chips. There are ways to even re-program your current car performance chips. The folks at StreetBeatCustoms offers you several ways to improve your car or trucks performance with computer Performance Chips or reprogram your automobiles ECU. These performance chip brains are good for improving gas mileage, this a good thing with fuel being so high.

Just wish I could have go a hold of my dads old mustang before he got rid of it. That is ok I got a Gran Torino with 400 engine in it. That gave me a little power.

Career Search Changes Remains the same

A few years back before the advent of the internet, when looking for a job the use of newspaper and word of mouth was about all you had to go by in your search. This could limit a good full job descriptions when employers were trying to find an employee to fill a position. This all went a way with the introduction of the internet we use. Now you can display a full description of a job position and then some. This has made the internet a great tool for job search and find, the same to be said for employee finding. The funny thing I have not found any of my jobs via the internet. My jobs were found via newspaper and word from a friend. I have been told that people find jobs from the internet want ads. It seems down south the group of folks I talk to have found there jobs like mine from word-of-mouth or newspaper. Go figure that. I guess I might need to start reviewing the newspaper again.

The game for finding the best flight deals

I know that the cost of a gallon of gas is going down a little, but not enough reduce you costs from you pocket that much. You still need to watch the signs to find the best prices at the pumps. There are two gas stations that I frequent because over time they have the best fuel deals. Travel on a plane has to be very tricky due to fuel costs, with some charging you extra for carry on luggage and reducing services on flight to save those companies money from the high cost of fuel. This is making the search for flight deals just more of a game, I want the cheapest and safest flight possible while the airline company need to make up there costs due to high fuel costs. This issue just makes the use of computers and internet flight deals website very useful in this game of finding the best deal. I just hope the fuel cost will go down a lot for everyones sake.

We can always use math tutoring

I know it is still mid August but School has started. I can remember when it was in September when school started. Now in the push to raise the test scores. I have noticed that their is more help with tutoring these days to prepare for standardized testing, and one-on-one tutoring programs designed to improve student grades. Being ADD, It would have been nice to have a turtoring service like Club Z, they are are a one-on-one tutoring service that could help me to improve my grades and test score, especially a Math Tutor, I could always use more help in math. Now a days with the fight to get the highest grade on the Standardized test, services like Club Z have become very popular.

Baseball Cards - An Investment that got LOST

Back in the 70’s I began collecting anything I could get my hands on. Football cards, Basketball cards and the big fish baseball cards. This collecting forwarded on up to the 90’s. Over this time I have boxed up and protected these cards for safe keeping until someday I knew when I wanted to sell them. We grow out of things sometimes. I have monitored the value of the cards since day one hoping that one day I would have a valuable hoard of cards. In the 90’s I checked the value of my cards, and main group that I knew I had had increased in value very nicely. One set was worth close to $1000, that was then over 15 years ago. Now cards are not a commodity that will last for ever, they are paper and anything at any given time to mess them up and their value disappears.

Now for 2007, you would thing that the value of card, baseball cards to be exact would be worth more now than when they were bought 30+ years ago, do-you-not-think? We I was in for the shock of my life. A card worth book value $90, a 1974 season card, would be worth more now, not this same card that no new ones has been made for 33 years is now only work 23 percent of its value in 1990. About 25 dollars, not sure if the ebay.com gods have bastardized the hobby to what it is or what. The baseball card industry does remind me of the housing marketing, you buy something and hold onto it for 30 years, when it is time to sell the value has gone way down.

What is really bad the new baseball card value books now relay these reduced values. These must be the same folks that made up the new global warming hoax.

Somebody help me out please

A Mike Schmidt MINT 1974 Topps Baseball Card #283, his first card that he is alone on a card, but not considered his rookie card was valued over $90 in 1991, Mike a 500 HR hitter and in the Hall-of-fame, now is card is book value at $25. $90-$25 = $65 decrease in 15 years. Somebody is out of their minds on the value.

Anyone have a story like this????

When Anti-Virus Software does not work

The other day I had a computer get hit by a virus. I have been using AVG free software, with Spybot to control incoming viruses. These two software program work very well and they are both free from the internet. You can get a deluxe version from AVG/grisoft.com that will give you some extras. When I was having problems getting ride of the virus I made a decision to go buy some Norton Software, the 360 version which includes Anti-Virus and Internet Security software.

I removed the AVG and the Spybot because the Norton 360 would have everything included in the software. Loaded on the Software but could not get the virus software to update itself via the internet, It could not find the internet. I spent 4 hours of spinning my wheels with tech support and could not get the software to update itself. Still could not find the internet but I could surf with Mozilla, since IE7 was messed up and the Virus kept my firefox from opening. The hell I went through, by the way I had two computers at the same time that had this same virus. Since Norton would not work, I went back to old faithful and removed the Norton software, downloaded the AVG version 8.0 and Spybot 1.6 free softwares to a CD and installed them on both computers. After complete scans of the computers overnight they cleaned up all the trojan viruses among a bunch of other crap.

Sometimes free is better or Use what works. Just glad to it is over with.

Human Communication gets cheaper

Humans have a need to communicate. Weather they want to communicate with our fiends, family members or business associates, most of us use the least expense way we can to communicate. You can use a land-line, this has no direct cost except a month fee, a cell phone a few cents a minute can be inexpensive. Using smoke signals could be an option. The international calling cards have become a very cost effective method and efficient communication tool to keep you in touch with loved ones and friends, especially if they live outside the U.S.

Due to the changes in the tele-communication industry, the phone calling cards have become an inexpensive way to talk-to your friends outside the country. The india phone cards is one of the most popular calling cards in the calling card industry. Cheap phone calling rates have been none cheaper for communicating to your loved ones in other countries today.

Digital Travel with online travel guides

One of my traveling adventures was during my senior year in High School. There was four of us guys that went to Senior night weekend at the local Six Flags in Atlanta Georgia. At six flags there were lots of rides and lots of seniors from all over at the park for the weekend. My schedule was different than the other three guys, I had to drive a separate car, it was Saturday night and I had to be at work at 5am Sunday, the next morning. It is a three hour drive to Atlanta. I left about 2am, 1am CST, on my way back I went off road, riding on the edge with gravel, scared me very bad and also woke me up. I made it to work at 4:30am took an small nap and went to work. This made for a short vacation

Over the years I been back to Atlanta several times, either going Six flags or for business meetings in downtown Atlanta. The business meetings usually would be dealing with Information Technology.

One of my next vacation visits I will need to go on a complete tour of the nightlife and things to do in Atlanta from the folks at Trusted Travel and Attractions. They offer many discounted tickets for sightseeing tours available from their online travel guides in twenty-one of the best vacation cities across the United States. The next road trip I want to go on would be to the great state of Massachusetts, the home of famous American Boston Tea party, there is even a museum dedicated to it. I know I want to go to Boston in the fall to take in a Patriots football team and a Redsox baseball game, let not forget the Bunker Hill Monument. For something different one day I could take a trip to Madame Tussauds the see the wax figures.

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Improving your career with Cisco Certification

My background and training has been in IT for a few years. I started out cutting my teeth on UNIX back when Microsoft had a version of it. That has been awhile. The training include building the hardware, installing and wiring the terminals, also formatting and installing the Unix operating systems with custom setups. I have always enjoyed the support of a Unix system. At some point along came Microsoft and changed the computer networking game for small and mid-size businesses. What most techs liked about Unix was that all of users were feed from their own cable out of the central cpu, enable network troubleshooting and customer support a very quick resolve issue.

The other networking computer comes into the mix is the IBM AS400. This is a really good server box. The server never has to be shutdown, it just keeps on going keeping your business operational. For the last 8 of 10 years I have had the opportunity to utilize an AS400 with Cisco Networking and Firewall. I find the Cisco products functional easy to update and make mods to the script software language that it uses to run the hardware. Most all of my training on AS400 and Cisco products has been hands-on real world business support experience. I have been wanting to get a Cisco certification, especially the CCIE certification. This it the certification that all the IT people I have meet want. The Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching Certification says that the individual inquestion has expert-level knowledge of networking across various LAN and WAN interfaces, knowledge on a variety of routers and switches. This is also call the Expert Level Knowledge and Experience.

You can get your Cisco CCNA network associate certification, this certification test validates that you have the ability to install, configure, and troubleshoot routed and switched networks on the medium size level and implementation the said products along with verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN. The in between Cisco certification is the CCNP certification, the professional network is validated wit the ability to install, configure and troubleshoot wide-area and local-area networks with a range of between 100 to 500 nodes. Any of the Cisco certifications are very popular with employers and will put you on top during job interviews along with giving you boost increase to your base salary.

Thunderbird has new life

Looks like the folks at Mozilla are bring new life to it’s Thunderbird product. Thunderbird is an e-mail software product. Mozilla is fixing 9 patched nine security vulnerability bugs. It also looking like that Thunderbird 3.0 will be coming soon. The Thunderbird Alpha 1 preview has been sent for developers for over two months.

The bug patchs for Thunderbird, were fixed in Firefox that rendered the engine’s CSSValue array data structure. The vulnerabilities could be used by hackers to force a software crash along with running malicious code.

I have loaded and played with Thunderbird in the past, I think I will give it another try when they release version 3.

Wine and Digital Printing Technology

Wine is one of the oldest made beverages in the world. Today there are many varieties and brands of wine. Most do not taste that much different from each other. I have noticed that most of the current wine bottles have fancy labels.

Most of the fancy wine labels are made with Digital Printing Technology. The label manufacturer Label World can fix you up with custom digital labels for their niche market of large-scale businesses like wineries, food and medical industries and food companies.

Is there one industry that is not using digital printing technology yet?

Domains.me gold rush Isit.me couldbe.me Itis.me

Today the domain extensions “.me” went on sale at GoDaddy. There was a massive rush to get and register highly desirable .me domain names. I know by noon they were already selling the .me domain sites on forums. Since you had to pay $19.95 a year times two, the opening bids were $50.

The requests for the .ME open registration was so great there were more than a few issues. Like several people buying the same .me domain, thinking they all purchased the domain. I would hate to be the one that sorts that out. Not to mention some law suites I could see popping up. I have used GoDaddy for years and they are super about taking care of you when a problem arrives with a refund. Not sure is will surfice on this issue of the .me domains. The latest gold rush. I should of got the domian “ho.me” for a home furnishing site. Oh well.

Leave.me your favorite.me website.me na.me…….I like the na.me better
There is a lot of great words of.me.

Consumer Financial Digital Portal

You can tell how the economy is going my just watching TV, when the economy is good in the housing or car market, you will be in endated with ads on getting a home mortgage or car loans, no money down just take it off their hands. The other other kind of advertising when the economy is down is help with bills and consolidate your bills to reduce your payments

With the fuel prices rising and now they are having the high risk mortgage business is curling in around all the lenders and large amount of default on mortgages, there is a lot of requests for mortgage help on home loan to refinance or possible use the equity to pay bills, which helps with your taxes, by deducting the finances charges from you TAX bill when a equity loan is done. A sales technique that is used is get out of debt with an equity loan.

I have found a consumer finance portal designed to help people find the best ways to eliminate debt or get a great rate on a loan, save on your mortgage interest or points, Credit counseling, improve your Credit score and even help you Pay your bills, called Bills.com

Bills.com has lots of articles, tools, blogs all for free. I like the part about getting good deals on health insurance, auto insurance and home insurance, this could free up some coins. Their newest feature is the Bills IQ. The BillsIQ test will help you measure your financial health. My financially fit score shows I have some good things and some things that need a little work. I found BillsIQ fast and easy. These kind of free test helps you where you stand on your finances.