August 2010

Book Packaging

August 29, 2010

My wife, who has in the past achieved Power Seller status on eBay and has been selling used books online since the first days of eBay and half.com, shared a site with me today that may be of interest to you if you transfer wealth in the form of books via the Postal Service. http://www.multi-d.net [...]

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Site Growth and Upgrade

August 29, 2010

Over the past two months Freedom Harbor has shown a phenomenal growth in its membership. Because of the nature of this growth being organic with absolutely no aggressive campaigning, it is understood this is only a hint of what is to come. This means there will soon be a performance hit with the increased traffic [...]

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Camping – Choosing a GPS Receiver

August 25, 2010

Garmin is the market leader in Global Positioning System receivers, but they’re not the only manufacturer. Magellan, Lowrance and others make good units, too. With so many manufacturers and models to choose from what should you look for? Naturally, the answer depends on what you intend to do with it.

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Traveling Light

August 23, 2010

Like Starbucks, I remember the day when Rick Steves was strictly a local phenomenon in the Seattle area. He was giving travel slide shows through the Experimental College at the University of Washington around 1985. My wife (whom I was dating at the time) and I attended one of his shows and we immediately knew [...]

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Vegetable Gardening – Planning and Planting for Fall and Winter

August 22, 2010

Like Chauncey Gardiner, most of us think of planting in the Spring and harvesting in the Fall. And, for the majority of crops, that’s right. But species vary, climates vary and indoor container gardening often can be carried out year ’round. In some cases, it’s actually very helpful for next year’s crop to plant in [...]

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Sunforce 50012 1.8-Watt Solar Battery Maintainer Demonstration

August 22, 2010

This fellow got one heck of a deal from Newegg on the Sunforce 1.8-Watt Solar Battery Maintainer. Over 2 years ago I purchased a supposed solar battery maintainer from Silicon Solar out of NY that cost twice as much, it did not include shipping, and even though it said it included a blocking diode, it [...]

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Bringing Daylight Indoors

August 18, 2010

One of the things I’ve always shaken my head at was the design of homes that in effect, hide from the sun. And as a result, measures to compensate for this designed darkness are taken such as electric lamps connected to a grid or in an earlier day, gas, kerosene and candle wax. Wouldn’t a [...]

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Home Security – Safes

August 15, 2010

Many valuable items kept in your home are small enough to conveniently place in a safe. Though it’s less common to store documents there, now that computers have taken over the job, you may have a hand-signed will or old family photos you want to protect. If you have antique or rare stamps, manuscripts, baseball [...]

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Solar Power – Home Storage Systems

August 8, 2010

The standard solar power system used to provide electricity today consists chiefly of two components: PV (photovoltaic) panels and a storage system. The PV (photovoltaic) panels generate the electricity. A storage system stores any excess for later use when there isn’t enough sunlight to power all your needs. Batteries That storage system is usually in [...]

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Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham in Jakarta

August 1, 2010

A short video uploaded by MaxKeiserTV. An inspiring video of individuals taking responsibility for their freedom. From the video: “But why do we relinquish our freedom? Why do we allow others to run our lives like that? To me the dinar and the dirham represent the moral movement of absolute individual freedom.” A simple act [...]

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