Grandpa Richard lost about 4.5 kg (10 pounds) a year ago. A big part of the method used was more fresh vegetables (in salads).
About 100 years ago, fibre rich foods, and whole grains, were a bigger part of the common diet in the U.S. and Canada. People did not have high levels of heart disease, [...]
How many times have you received an email about a dying child wanting to be in the Book of Records for most postcards, or an especially sad story about some missing child? Often, these emails are based on urban legends or just plain phoney stories some prankster starts.
A number of sites can be used [...]
A sad report in the Toronto Star this morning.
Around 1:20 a.m., as she headed west on Wilson Ave., a woman slammed her silver Volkswagen into the back of a parked TTC bus. The bus was empty and had broken down. The driver had parked in the curb lane, turned on the hazard lights and left [...]
It is rare for Grandpa Richard to promote a product, but in today’s world full of hackers and spammers, I believe you need to know about these.
Hopefully your home computer is well protected with anti-spam methods, and other security products. You also keep your software (like Firefox and Windows especially) up to date.
What about when [...]
First step?
Assuming you have a decent GPA, or experience of use to Google, you need to understand the types of questions that they ask during an interview.
Questions like, “How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?”
Or, “Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.”
To see not only 15 of the best [...]
How badly?
It is actually easy to do.
Spend less than you make, and invest wisely. The less you spend now, the earlier you can retire.
Our society seems to be based on, and NEED, consumerism. If you are not visiting the Best Buys and Leons of the world regularly, and coming out with 52 inch TVs or [...]
and then the next, everything is falling apart.
A co-worker that I have known for 7 years lost her husband to an industrial accident the other day. He leaves behind 2 children under 15 as well. We all feel so bad for her. She was always saying so much about her husband, and how much they [...]
My brother and his wife picked up a new puppy recently from a breeder. Unknown to them, the puppy was coming home with the potentially deadly parvovirus in his system. What happened next was heartwrenching, although the end of the story is looking like it will be a happier ending, as they got the puppy [...]
About 2 years ago I was shocked one day when I stood on the doctor’s weigh scale and saw the number 189 pop up. Grandpa Richard, slim built Grandpa Richard, almost 190 pounds!!!
(sidenote: I am very much a metric guy in a country that officially went metric decades ago, but 85.7 kg did not [...]
If you lost everything on your computer’s hard drive, how hard would you cry? If you do perform backups, where do you keep the backups? Right next to the computer? Ha!
The following is a very techie kind of article, but I thought it was cool.
Click here to read about the way some serious folks do [...]
