Computer backups

Monday, 30 June 2008, 19:17 | Category : Business, Computers and/or Internet, Shopping, Technology
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I know a lot of people who have lost their valuable data when their computer hard drive crashed.  They were too confident that nothing bad would happen to them, or their computer, so they had not backed up their files.  When their computer crashed, they suffered a lot of data loss – they lost almost [...]

Roller blading

Monday, 30 June 2008, 18:48 | Category : Entertainment and Fun, General living, Health and/or Beauty, Sports
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Today I was rummaging around in the basement and found my old pair of rollerblades! It has been about ten years since I’ve used them, and to be perfectly honest I had even forgotten that I had them! I rummaged around a little bit more and found the elbow pads, knee pads and helmet. I [...]

My grandfather

Sunday, 29 June 2008, 19:07 | Category : Business, Family and Friends, General living
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One of my girlfriends asked me how it came to be that my parents were wealthy.  So I explained that they got their money from my grandfather.  My grandfather was born in 1909.  He was from a very poor family; his parents abandoned him to be raised by his grandmother, who was also very poor.  [...]

Spammers – you are wasting your time and mine

Saturday, 28 June 2008, 8:34 | Category : Business, Computers and/or Internet, General living, Technology
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Dear spammers
You are wasting your time and mine by leaving comments that are obvious attempts to get me to link to you.  I read all of the comments and look at the post that the comment is referring to and see if it makes any sense.  You would not believe how many of you write [...]

Did you know that there are dozens of different kinds of sugar?

Did you know that there are dozens of different Sugar Types?  My friend that I just mentioned in the previous post was telling me that there are dozens of different sugar types.  She explained that a lot of the sugar that we use in the USA comes from Brazil.  Brazil is the world’s largest sugar [...]