Over the past several days, my family and I have been driving across country. A couple days ago, we were in Moab, a remote part of Utah situated in the heart of red-rock country. One evening, my daughter and I took a boat ride up the Colorado, the trip narrated by a crusty old-timer with a great love of the land and an almost equally great suspicion of outsiders. Moab was, he told his passengers proudly, over a hundred miles from the nearest Wal-Mart. It was, quite simply, splendidly isolated.
It’s time for the 2nd Miami Changemaker Conference on July 18, 2009. This conference is the 2nd in a 3-year series - each one with its own focus. In July, participants and speakers will focus on “Placemaking”: How Local Residents Can Create Better Parks, Beaches, Blocks, and other Public Spaces. Advance registration is $25, with a special $5 registration for parents/caretakers of children 17 and under (requires filling out an application before July 8, space is limited). I moderated a panel
Palm should move as quickly as possible to implement a webOS Developer Beta Program to help test new features and functionality for future versions . That's what we're thinking, even though we know it's definitely not feasible in the short term or even medium term. See, we just heard the news today from our sister-site The iPhone Blog that Apple has released a new beta for developers of their iPhone OS, iPhone 3.1 . While We're happy to see that Palm has been rapidly releasing updates to t
Many novice gardeners are growing the Queen of the Vegetable Garden, tomatoes, for the first time this season, and may have some questions about everything from hornworms to entering the May Dreams Gardens Annual Tomato Contest.Here are some of the more popular questions and answers:How will I know if I have tomato hornworms on my tomato plants?It is generally not a question of if you have hornworms on your tomatoes, it is more a question of how can you can find them before they do too much dama
There's nothing like waking up on a summer's morning and opening the windows for a spot of fresh air. But did you know, if a burglar slips in through that open window, you may not be covered by home insurance? According to National Statistics Office figures, one in four households in the UK doesn't have contents insurance. No insurance means that if your possessions are stolen or damaged, either during a burglary or otherwise, you'll have to meet the cost of replacement from your own pocket.
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