Google Wave is the latest communication tool from search engine giant Google.  Think of Wave as a combination instant messenger and discussion forum.   Right from launch the application interface has a familiar feel.  There is an inbox, a list of contacts, and an area containing “waves”.  A “wave” is a discussion on a topic, hence the [...]

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Come October I began my preparations for next year’s garden.  Gardening is a year round hobby, with only a lull during the November through February months. Below are a list of chores I performed at the end of the growing season.  By starting now I can avoid some of the pitfalls I faced during my first [...]

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Obviously I’m dreaming again.  The chance of a pretty young female smiling at me is pretty slim, despite my Internet fame and fortune.  Back in May I had planted a row of Sugar Baby Watermelons and completely forgot about them.  They started out as these tiny little vines that I knew from the start would [...]

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I’ve started to pick some of my carrots from the garden.  At first I was disappointed in their appearance, scrawny little stubs that they were.  Then I realized it was unfair to compare my first attempt at growing anything to the showroom specimens in my local supermarket.  Especially when they aren’t even the same species. Most [...]

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It was with mixed emotions that I woke up today to learn that Entrecard was sold.  Sometimes a leader is SO bad you begin to enjoy their nonsense.  Graham Langdon was Kim Jung Il with an asshat, running his online version of North Korea into the ground.  The following is the main announcement from the Entrecard [...]

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Today I was peaking over my garden fence and received a mild scare.  A dragon fly buzzed at me!  Sitting on the corner of the bird netting about a foot away, this thing created a buzzing hiss from its wings.  My 5 year old son came running over thinking I had found something cool; what could be cooler [...]

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Every week or two I run the lawnmower over the backyard, grass, weeds and all.  The last few times I noticed some bright red objects in the grass.  I dismissed them as some type of mushroom since they didn’t look like any type of strawberry I knew of. For the 4th of July my know-it [...]

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When I started this blog in October of 2007 I had no idea what the focus would be.   I was excited about blogging itself, but not any one topic.  Almost two years later I’m ready to change gears yet again.  All I know is that you have to write about what you are interested in.  If you [...]

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Seems like many users of WordPress received a nasty surprise when upgrading from an older version to 2.8.  While looking for answers I found plenty of bad advice.  Even more annoying are the WordPress mods rushing to close discussion on threads working to discover a solution.  Luckily, I found a fix through trial and error.  As [...]

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For the 2nd year in a row the Turnip clan visited the Poconos Great Wolf Lodge in Pennsylvania .  You can read all about my first trip there in my previous Great Wolf Lodge review.  This year my aim was to maximize our family fun time.  For the most part I think we succeeded! My boys are [...]

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