Blog Archive
Welcome to my Blog Archive. I am not the most active blogger, but I am trying to get better. You can click on a year / month to see the postings. In addition, while on a blog page, you can shorten the url (web address) to just the month or year to get to the listing.... check it out.
Earth Day is coming and I can save you some money
Ian — Thu, 04/19/2007 - 03:00
Earth Day is coming, in fact it is this Sunday, April 22nd. In honor of that fact, Home depot is GIVING AWAY 1 million Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs. This Sunday, all you have to do is show up at the Home Depot and the will give you a CFL bulb. While you are there you might as well pick up a few more. The free bulbs will be N:Vision soft whites, which were the best in a recent Popular Mechanic’s lab Test. In giving away 1 million bulbs Home Depot accomplishes the following :
Beware Good Enough
Ian — Thu, 04/12/2007 - 03:00
When I was younger I remember learning a poem that talked about the Evils of “Good Enough”. I had not seen the poem in a long time, and I am not even sure what made me think about it, but it got stuck in my head so I had to find it. With a little searching on Google, (you have to love google, you can find anything with google.) I came across the poem. It was shorter than I remembered, but it still carries the same message. I am posting it in hopes that other will find it useful.
iTowler News and Goals
Ian — Sat, 04/07/2007 - 03:00
Hello all,
Well it appears that I am falling behind my blogging goal. I was aiming to have 52 posts by the end of the year, and I might still make that, but I was really trying to have a post a week, and by that measure I am 7 posts behind. Whoops. I do intend to get caught up. So stay with me. Thankfully my father has been blogging as well, so there has been some new content added every now and then.
Homogeneity: It’s not a good thing
Ian — Fri, 04/06/2007 - 03:00
Homogeneity: Why it is a bad thing.
First off what does it mean? It is derived from the word homogeneous. In Latin it breaks down to Homo = the same, and gen = kind/race etc. So basically it means everything is the same. Why is this a bad thing, first off its boring. Why would you want everything to be the same, variety is the spice of life. Secondly it is dangerous. The whole pet food scare is a prime example of how our (and our pets) food supply has become too homogeneous.