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Swine flu has been on my mind, and all over the news. We just got our first case here in Michigan.  Surprisingly there have only been 257 ca...

Mark Perry's Carpe Diem , had another excellent insight about the competitiveness of manufacturing industries in the United States. Manu...

In keeping with the Spring mood, I planted my tomatoes today.  I use Wall-o-Water, which are these water-filled plastic tents. They help roo...

Everyone knows that the Spring will come, but it is always a surprise when it actually arrives.  Rather than blogging today, I am going to p...

The iPod fix of wrapping the controller in Teflon tape did not work, though I can't say why. It really should have.  Chris Peters (don...

My Shuffle Gen3 has had issues with volume control. If you have been following previous posts, then you know that the cause is moisture in t...

As you may recall from my previous postings,  my iPod Gen3 was replaced by Apple when the volume control stopped working. Now the replacemen...

This is the real, or inflation-adjusted, price of petroleum as compliled by Credit Suisse - First Boston, and lifted from Carpe Diem . I thi...

My iPod Shuffle, Generation 3 is back, or more correctly I have a new one back from Apple Service. I would rather not have had a broken iPod...

Genetic Engineering Threatens Yarn Dying Businesses