I caught most of the debate and votes on the new financial reform legislation on CSpan and, to tell the truth, I have serious doubts. To recap relevant past events, there was a big melt down on Wall Street, there is a serious recession with international repercussions and other financial problems,... read more

Hard to visualize, but I received a letter in the mail a short while ago from no less a mighty company than Google. Yes, Google, the search giant. Seems they decided to offer me $100 in free advertising. Since I am not the owner of this site, nor any other existing web site for that matter, I sought... read more

Compost is very important for your garden. It provides all the natural minerals and nutrients your plants need to grow. Composting is very hard work and time consuming, depending on the size of your garden. You should have a compost bin by your garden. This will be a great place to keep all of the... read more

The internet is changing fast. It changes on a day to day basis, but the thing that is always going to be be important for websites, is content. Not just any content, but original content. Search engines are cracking down on duplicate content. They are putting websites in the sandbox for having anything... read more

Karen Amato Schwartz passed away recently from a brain tumor.  She was a major contributor to this site as you can easily verify if you check out the other authors and their articles.  She was a good writer and if you are reading this let me suggest that going over any of her pieces should be well... read more

The economy stinks.  Unemployment is high and, according to the Obama Administration’s own admissions, likely to get worse.  People do not have money and businesses are in the red.  There are fewer and fewer jobs.  The federal deficit is enormous and getting worse. There is a war on terror... read more

Let’s see.  Interest rates went up.  Not much of an explanation was given.  It wasn’t a law of physics.  It was the Federal Reserve doing its thing, whatever that is.  A lot of people didn’t catch on.  They don’t like paying a lot of financial vigorish.  They get stuck. ... read more

Recently, I had a Queen weekend. When Queen was in its heyday 25 years ago, I liked them well enough, but now, their music sounds a bit different to my ears. The fact that my teenage daughter likes them says something about the ageless aspect of their work. One of my favorite songs happens to be “Play... read more

You can always tell the time of year here in Pittsburgh. It goes from Steeler Training Camp time to Steeler season to (hopefully) Steeler Super bowl playoff time, to the ultimate: Steeler Superbowl Sunday. Then, if the city is lucky, it’s Victory Celebration time for another month. Things are then... read more

Am I the only one who gets steamed at poor quality of customer service in department stores? There is a wide spectrum of tolerance-from those who accept poor service and still tip-to those who are ridiculously demanding. I fall past midrange, since I’m not irrational, but see no reason why those who... read more