going inactive
I’m doing my blogging at PortfolioLife.
Why create a rain garden?
Well, the how to explains:
A rain garden is like a bowl or basin in your yard that captures rainwater from your roof, sidewalks, and driveways, and allows it to soak into the soil instead of polluting local watersheds as stormwater runoff. As an added bonus, since rain gardens are planted with an assortment of native plants, they make an attractive, low-maintenance addition to your yard.
Prickly Eats, how to
Prickly pear cactus has been a staple of the Mexican and Central American diet for thousands of years. In parts of the U.S. it has been gaining popularity as an exotic, gourmet and healthy addition to one’s diet….
Exercise! Often!
Move It! New Exercise Guidelines
Crystal-Clear Exercise Advice From U.S.
Heart, Sports Medicine Groups
Heart, Sports Medicine Groups
By Daniel J. DeNoon, Aug 8, 2007, WebMD Medical News
New exercise guidelines make it crystal clear: To be healthy, you gotta move….
To erase any uncertainty, the new guidelines spell out what you have to do in graphic detail: To be healthy, you must exercise.
You need two kinds of exercise. The first kind is aerobic exercise — the move-your-butt kind….
The second kind of exercise is strength training. This means activities — such as weight lifting — that use the major muscles of the body….
Fact vs. Fiction
Your heart, your brain – your entire body – benefits from exercise. In this chapter, we’ll bust the exercise myths that hold you back and help you set goals.
many tools to help you
lucid dreams, how-to have
How to Lucid Dream
The most basic definition of lucid dreaming defines it as “being aware you are dreaming while dreaming.”
Speed Reading the Internet
There’s a great intro to this How-To published at Slate in 2004.
How To Speed-Read the Net
Ditch your browser—RSS makes surfing for news a joy.
By Paul Boutin, Slate, Posted Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 7:10 PM ET
The invention of the Web browser added pictures to the Internet, but all those images still haven’t made reading online a pleasant experience. If you’re someone who uses the Web as your main source of news, you probably have 60 bookmarks that you never use, or you open 30 browser windows simultaneously to keep track of the articles you want to read—but you never get around to all of them….
But there’s a way to keep track of… most major newspapers and nearly all blogs—in a lightweight, speed-readable format that lets you scan dozens, even hundreds, of fresh headlines a day without the time-wasting tedium of opening one Web site after another….
The main news feeds and starting points on the web (Google, Yahoo, cnet, etc) have how to pages on rss.
And there’s How to explain RSS the Oprah way
Today, I’m going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online….
If you are almost a geek, check out this site: RSS Specifications - everything you need to know about rss
and checkout AndyWibbel’s multimedia presentation on using Google Reader.
Ask Dave Taylor - really, its ok.
Back in November of ‘05, I bookmarked an entry How can I host blog images on flickr?
Someone had asked him, “I have been blogging for a while and now want to take the next step and actually include images in my weblog entries. The problem is, my weblog host doesn’t offer image hosting. A friend told me I should use Flickr to host my images, but I don’t see how that works. Can you help me out? Thanks.”
So he stepped it out.
I suspect there have been update posts since as this area has changed.
and today’s entry?
Check him out at Ask Dave Taylor.
Eons - Aug 4, 2007
Eons is a web resource for everyone. It’s aimed at the over 50, but I’m sure those wishing to understand the over 50 in their life will find food for thought as well.
EONS - Lovin’ life on the flip side of 50
About
What Is Eons™?
Boom, Boom, Boom — Have you heard it? It’s the beat of our generation of Boomers and Seniors - many of us at Eons included - who want to live the biggest life possible. Collectively, we intend to do, see, learn, and be more on the way to the reachable goal of living to 100….
Boom, Boom, Boom — Have you heard it? It’s the beat of our generation of Boomers and Seniors - many of us at Eons included - who want to live the biggest life possible. Collectively, we intend to do, see, learn, and be more on the way to the reachable goal of living to 100….
Blogs, members’
Partner/Spouse
Caring For Parents - Buzz
many resources and ideas
also friends, kids, grandkids, loss & grieving, and buzz
Campaigns have created profiles, some have added Eon specific content and activities
also people, fun, money, body, life dreams, obits, lifemap, travel
misc wikiHow #3
How to Cut a Mango, wikiHow
actually, several ways
How to Predict the Weather Without a Forecast, wikiHow
well, parts of it may be geographically constrained, “check the grass for dew”?
but some good ideas for simply learning to enjoy the day
How to Cut a Kiwi, wikiHow
some contradictory advice about washing the kiwi.
I tend to cut skin off without washing, but that’s just me.
Part of my why for this blog
I woke up this morning thinking about how our history shapes our expectations about illness.
Conversations - writing in landscapes