A friend of ours had a very bad experience with the home they use to live in. They came home from a sporting event and they were being robbed. The kids ran into the house first and they heard their daughter scream. As they ran in they were meet by three men on their staircase that ran by. They were all ok but had interrupted a robbery. They left their home that night and never stayed in it again. It was very traumatic for them to deal with and the children felt too frightened to be in the house even to pack their things. They moved to a house near us and had a security system installed. They shopped through the best ones and even let the kids help pick it out and watch it being installed. We were surprised at all of the security systems there are. There are even wireless security systems. Everyone feels so secure in their new home and all of the precautions have been made to make certain that it is a safe place to come home to. You can not take your home security for granted. This could have happened to any of us and does happen to many people every day.

When I was CIO of a national wholesale tire company, our headquarters was in a downtown area in a sixy year old building. If you have ever worked in a sixty year old building you know the power is not upto perfect electrical standards. This is where a UPS comes in handy to regulate the incoming power to your mainframe. The only problem with a UPS is it has a limited amount of time your batteries will keep you server up without additional electricity. To fix this issue because I had to keep all 16 tire wholesale warehouses, 16 retail tire stores, several commerical tire stores and re-capping plant able to access the enterprise server to run their business opperations. Directly behind the computer room was an open area bricked wall lockable room that I decided to install a Diesel Generator. This way when the electrical stops the power transfer switch kicks in power from Diesel Generator until normal power from the power company comes backup, cool keeping up and running 24/7. At some locations where they had Towable Diesel Generators that they used in normal business doubled to use as a power backup. The generators were a dream, within 30 seconds of the power going out, it kicked in and kept the servers running. The generator also makes you money by keeping your business locations running. The one funny story related to generators was when there was a heavy rain and lighting for hours,. Then I heard a snap and pop, the generator kept starting up and going off, had to go out in the rain and turn off. The lighting had hit the power converter box, so it did not know what to do until I got it replaced.

Last summer we moved to our dream home. It is surrounded by woods on three sides and has great curb appeal. To get the chldren a little happier about our move to the country we bought them a big swing set with monkey bars and the works. We were so happy and then it happened. In the late afternoon there are more mosquitoes then you can imagine. They are huge and determined to get anything from our poor dogs to my half eaten children by the time they come in. We would spray all kinds of things on our skin as well as bug lights from one end of our back yard to the nest. I bet they could see us from satelites. Nothing worked. With all of the diseases that moquitoes carry it is not just miserable but dangerous. We now look out of the windows in the late afternoon with our dogs inside as well. We can swim outside but nothing out of the water. It breaks my heart to miss out on our summer thanks to these intruders. Then I read the mosquito magnet reviews and I could not be happier to think that we have a way to get relief from these preditors. The people on the testimonials have the same exact problem that we do and when they used the mosquito magnet they caught so many mosquitoes that they took a picture of a full basket of them! A good point was brought up by another customer that if we all had one then imagine all of the mosquitoes that would no longer invade our summers. Think of all of the diseases that would not have a way to travel.

For people that are trying to quite smoking this could be the safe substitution you need to make it go smoother. It is also like you are smoking but there are no toxins. To stop smoking can be a very difficult thing to do. So many people have such a difficult time that they more or less cut back not quit. Or they get so nervous that they go back after only a short period of time. Either way it is far from a success. If you had something that could make it less of a strain on your system and easier on your nerves that may make it a transition that you could handle. There is a devise that can do just that. It is called a E cigerette.This electric cigarette can actually stimulate and satisfy smokers. With the high cost of cigerettes today this could save you an estimated 80% in a year. So many people are quitting with the economy so shaky and cost constantly on the rise with one tax after another being put on cigerettes and tobacco that this device could relieve so many people as they go through the painful process of quitting smoking.

Welcome to the 23rd century. You know when Kirk, Spock and Scotty would talk to the computer and the computer would do what they ask. Now you can talk through a software application for your iPhone that allows you to seache the web by voice commands, use voice commands with Google Maps, Update you Twitter with voice commands, dial phone numbers with voice command and update your facebook with voice commands, sounds like the 23rd century is already here. This is a very cool application, now I can say Computer, Computer can you here me computer and I expect to hear from it. Give thanks the folks at Vlingo, might be the most popular application this and next year.

Here is something perfect for all you home schoolers out there. A website that can help provide teens with SAT prep courses via online video with thousands of courses.  The folks at Brightstorm have teachers walk you through everything via video, that you need to know and comprehend for the SAT math, verbal, and the writing exams. This is a very cool service, wish Brightstorm was around when I need it, but it will be for our children.  Young padawan’s need to enjoy technology.

Have you noticed lately that the cell phone PDA technology has taking off like gangbuster over the last year or so.  Starting with the iPhone, that was a major marketing revenue generating marketing program. Now the iPhone has now past the Razor phone as the most owned or poplular phone. Lets not forget the gPhone from Google, a cell phone pda phone with Google software built-in.  Do you think Google wil make their employees get rid of an Apple iPhone and get a gPhone now they have one??? That would nice to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.  The cell phone pda accessories for these phones should be a hot item for the holidays.  Do not forget the Blackberry is coming up a new phone on Nov. 21.  Great for us consumers

The carbon based life forms and computers both depend on memory. Life-forms use memory to do most every activity that is done on a daily basis, if were not for your memory then you would start every day like a new born baby because you had no memory of doing anything. Now on the computer side, the harddrive store the computer data or like carbon based life memory, but computers use their memory like a working chalk board, you do what you need to do in the memory then when you are through you erase the computer memory of the hardware or software task and start over to the next project with a clear working area or clean slate. As we get older and as the computer gets older You can do with a memory upgrade and get a new lease on life.

Now that the iPhone has been out for awhile, even with an upgrade 3GB version that the people that bought the first time, bought it again. The big push now is to get an unlocked phone. Once your phone is unlocked then you can utilize other services and other software. I think from a phone stand point this hacking into a phone is getting kind of rediculous from the stand point of almost insanity.   With electronic manufactures knowing the equipment can be hacked into and changed, this is why the ones of us that do not hack into phones suffer. We are reduced on phone options do to hacking mess.  Time to go watch my cable TV, little fuzzy today, then you cannot complain when it is free .

Just Joking

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.