On Saturday, January 30, 2010, I traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to compete with my team-mates at Gracie-Barra Marbella in the brown-belt, lightweight, Senior 2 category of the European Brazilian

When possible, I try to spend my money in the local economy. For that reason, I decided to try buying my nutritional supplements from a Spanish provider — masmusculo.com — instead of the UK provider

Inspired by Steven Frank’s description of his own system, I thought I’d take a moment to document how I store and backup our important data.

Backup Objectives.

1. I want to get back up and running

Testing my blog after upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, I noticed that blank pages were being returned after posting comments. Some Googling and further testing revealed that the Akismet

REPLACING MY MACBOOK'S HARD DRIVE WITH A SOLID-STATE DRIVE (SSD) has proven to be the most dramatic computer upgrade I've ever made. The startup time -- including the operating system and my startup

Recently, I've been unable to use the Banc of America brokerage site. The site logs me out whenever I navigate from one section to the next. I emailed them, and got this response:

We are aware of a

Obviously not a perfect analogy, but I found it cute nonetheless.

10 friends visit the same bar each night to have a few beers. The bill for the 10 comes to $100, and they choose to split it

I've recently noticed poor 3G network speeds when using my iPhone, and wanted to conduct some tests to identify which of the following could be the potential culprit:

1. Could it be the new 3.0 version

The Rio Grande river begins its journey at the mouth of a cave near Yunquera, Spain, and makes its way down through the mountains and just by the Tolox venta where we like to have lunch on the

I recently contacted Bank of America regarding the refinancing of my home. (I'm hoping to take advantage of the relatively low rates currently available.) Refinancing involves speaking with a loan