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Being a Bit More Interesting to Your Dog

September 17th, 2008 Catherine Posted in How-To, Pets No Comments »

There are numerous ways that dog owners work against themselves. Usually, when the dog will not listen and obey, it is the result of some error on the owner’s part. The dog watches the owner’s behaviour carefully and uses those observations to its best advantage.

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Setting the Correct Country for Google News

September 13th, 2008 Catherine Posted in How-To, Technology and Science No Comments »

There is an annoying problem that occurs for some Google users. Upon clicking for the Google News section, the wrong country is shown. For example, the person wanting to read the Google News may be in the United Kingdom and wants the U.K. items but Google presents the items from Google News France. Then the person has to change the setting, which, unfortunately, do not stay changed.

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Solving the Age Controversy from the Beijing Olympic Games

September 13th, 2008 Catherine Posted in How-To, Opinion, Sports, Technology and Science No Comments »

The story is one which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was hoping would fade out of the news cycles quickly. For the most part, it has. One of the controversies of the Beijing Olympic Games was the age of female Chinese gymnasts. Registration records of He Kexin, Yang Yilin and Jiang Yuyuan showed that the age of these gymnasts was fourteen years old. The Olympic regulations state that a female gymnast has to be sixteen in the year that the Games takes place. A competitor younger than that is ruled ineligible.

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Travel Regulations - WHTI

September 10th, 2008 Catherine Posted in How-To, Politics and Government, Travel No Comments »

It is called the “Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative” (WHTI) and its focus is border security. The travel site explains, in detail, what are the requirements of travelling across North American borders:

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Backpack Stuff

September 10th, 2008 Catherine Posted in Health, How-To, Personal Skills No Comments »

I haven’t weighed my backpack but it has considerable heft. There are books, food, water, gym clothing, power cords, a laptop, a CAT5 cable, a coin container, a few bicycle tools, a PDA… and that is just the stuff that I can see without unpacking.

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Recycling With Starbucks

September 9th, 2008 Catherine Posted in Business, Home and Garden, How-To, Opinion No Comments »

By now, the ‘reduce-reuse-recycle’ theme should be quite a familiar green topic. It is turning what is considered trash into something useful. Locally, Starbucks and other coffee outlets have been terrific in letting customers have their used coffee grounds.

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Chrome Patch Available

September 8th, 2008 Catherine Posted in How-To, Technology and Science No Comments »

Since Google’s Chrome is beta, it was expected to have some flaws. The release of this beta browser was a field test by millions of users. What the security community was watching was Google responsiveness to vulnerability issues and it seems that Google has not disappointed:

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