Feb

29

Failing Memory

Posted by cameron

February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

It’s a standing joke in our house that if I’m going to the store for more than one item I make a list. Yes, two is a list. Even for a single item my wife isn’t always sure I’ll come back with the one item I went out for. I’m exaggerating a little, but not […]

Feb

28

Google Health

Posted by cameron

February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Personal health records are now center stage in the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Google. A few months ago Microsoft announced their ‘health vault’ product, which is currently in Beta testing and can be seen here. I test drove their product and posted about it earlier. Today I saw news that Google is coming out […]

Feb

26

How We Change

Posted by cameron

February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How many times have you said, “I used to hate that when I was younger but I find it very interesting now”? For me that would apply to history, literature, museums, art, classical music etc etc. I guess maturity causes this in some way but why does it take so long for the finer points […]

Feb

23

Oh My! Another Snake to Worry About.

Posted by cameron

February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Discover just reported that I could see Pythons moving into my backyard in the future. Yes, you too. It seems that global warming is enabling wild life to move north. This study shows that the Python is already on the move and slowly spreading northwards. Today it can be found thriving in the Florida Everglades, […]

Feb

15

AARP Website Facelift

Posted by cameron

February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

AARP is getting ready to launch their new web site with features that are popular in social networking communities around the net. Think MySpace for the aging. This site is easier to navigate than the current AARP website, mainly through the use of tabs and sub-tabs. The old favorite content is there but they have […]

Feb

14

Presidential Election 2008

Posted by cameron

February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I hadn’t planned to write another political post but I stumbled across a web site today that has a handy tool for sifting through the issues. There is an online quiz you can take where your answers to major issue questions will lead to a list of candidates that best match your positions. I don’t […]

Feb

10

www.NewRetirement.com – A Review

Posted by cameron

February 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

This is a sponsored review of a site dedicated to retirement planning for all categories in a comprehensive plan; it is aimed at both current seniors and those in the planning stages. That site is NewRetirement.com. The centerpiece of the site is a free retirement calculator. This is probably the fastest and easiest to use […]

Feb

7

Favorite English Things – Memories of growing up in England.

Posted by cameron

February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments

It has been a long time since living there but great memories persist:

The countryside is not only beautiful but free of critters that might embed, or poison or eat me.

Everywhere is close by, even the next town.

Who can forget Tommy Cooper, The Two Ronnies, Morcombe and Wise, and Norman Wisdom. They were all hilarious.

England wins […]

Feb

6

Clark County, Nevada – Foreclosure Hell

Posted by cameron

February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

Sin City house prices had a huge run-up in the past decade. Today Clark County, Nevada is once again leading the pack, only this time it’s the foreclosure Capital of the USA. I think it is fitting that the gambling capital of the world should hold this record. Vegas runs true to form.
Clark County, Nevada […]

Feb

5

If at First You Don’t Succeed

Posted by maureen

February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

It has often struck me that among the common traits and characteristics of entrepreneurs are the less touted but familiar truths that many have had a fair share of failure too. Few of them have had a straight path to success. Infact, they might even argue that the learnt more from failure than […]

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