Posted on July 16th, 2010 by MRJ

Tonight we went for dinner at Montana’s, a restaurant we go to regularly. One we think of as Nut free, except for the Ice Cream. But now we find ourselves questioning that. See when we got home Violet had to large welts on her legs. … Continue reading
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Filed under: Cloud Gazing, Family, Living Nut Free, Project 365
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by MRJ
When After the Deadline was first released for Firefox in the beginning of February, I thought it looked interesting. So I installed the Extension to see how it would hold up to day-to-day use. In the 3 weeks that have followed it’s become integrated with my day-to-day work flow… Continue reading
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Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by MRJ
Tonight my readers will get an extra post, I think. I’m sitting here at my computer working on my Project 365 Post and got distracted by the blogging service posterous. Its a simple blog engine that allows you to post from email. I signed up for an account when I
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Posted on January 18th, 2010 by MRJ
One of the biggest fears about moving to the cloud is how do you backup your data. The data sits on someone else’s server and usually there is no easy way for you to backup that data. You are at the mercy of the service provider to backup your data and if they go under… Continue reading
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Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by MRJ
The thought of an online photo editor always seemed silly to me. Why waste the time uploading your images just to edit them. There are a ton of great editors for windows, why move it out to the cloud. That was before I really started using Flickr and other online photo sites. Even then I… Continue reading
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Posted on December 18th, 2009 by MRJ
A few days ago for computer time Jacob and I decided it was time for a change so instead of the usual PBSkids.org or www.cbc.ca/kidscbc. I went to treehousetv.com. Tree House TV is a kids network that is mostly commercial free. So it seemed logical to go to their website with Jacob… Continue reading
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Posted on December 13th, 2009 by MRJ
A few months back someone twittered that they had been on Twitter for some amount of weeks. It was a high number I can’t remember who it was or how long they were on twitter, I just remember wondering how long I’d been on twitter. I looked it up on www.whendidyoujointwitter.com
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Posted on December 4th, 2009 by MRJ
Today while going through one of my inboxes I had an email from Live Labs with a preview code for Pivot, an experimental way to look at large amounts of data. As I sat looking at the email on my phone I found myself wondering what was Pivot. I recalled requesting an invitation… Continue reading
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Posted on December 1st, 2009 by MRJ
Today I take a look at 2 service for posting to multiple sites at once, Ping.FM and hellotxt.com. I’ve been members of both for a long time, but I find that I really only use Ping.FM. I’m writing this review to share my experiences with these services and to try and figure out why that… Continue reading
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by MRJ
Over the last week I have done 2 clean installs of windows 7, one for my Work computer and one for my home desktop. The process of setting up a computer can be time consuming, but for these installations I used two different tools to help make it easier. Ninite and… Continue reading
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Filed under: Cloud Gazing, Software I use