http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home The family site becomes a blog! Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:12:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday marked my first day of what I'm calling 'training' for the MS Ride 08. It was a brief, eye-opening ride. I rode to Mary Ellen's house and was pretty tired by the time I got there. The problem is that Mary Ellen's house is only about ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=60 Check out this 'green' automobile blog to keep up with the Auto Industries half-hearted attempts to appease the green crowd. Neat news today on a VW Diesel-Hybrid. The reason I think this is extra cool is that it would be conceivable to use bio-diesel and hybrid tech at ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=59 Saw this cool list of 20 tips to help people save money. A lot of these I've seen before, but it is a nice round-up. http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/20-money-hacks-tips-and-tricks-to-improve-your-finances/#more-658 Bonus- ZenHabits seems like a cool little lifehacker-esque website. Found it cross-linked from parenthacks. http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=58 My experience with operating systems and computers is happily pretty varied. The first computer we had at home was a Texas Instruments keyboard terminal-type computer that you could hook a tape recorder up to when you wanted to save your work. My most recent computer (via work) is ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=57 Who said representative democracy doesn't work in the US? No, I know we don't have a direct democracy and that the presidential voting we do is largely symbolic, I wasn't talking about that. I'm talking about a Bill introduced by some representatives that seeks to balance out the ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=54 I just happened upon a scary article at Daddy Types that warns about the dangers of using plastics for food storage and consumption. Apparently the plastic can leach certain chemicals into whatever is being contained. Once consumed, even in very small amounts, the checmials can do 'Bad Things'(tm) ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=53 Now this is thinking! This Baby Rocker is driven by a microwave turntable motor. Simple and sweet! http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=52 Another entertaining YouTube post about Pachelbel's Canon in D and the Cello. Sounds like tons-o-fun eh? Well it is! http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=51 For those of you not in the know, free/stolen video clips are all the rage on the interweb. Several sites have popped up to help users provide their own content. Recently, Google bought one of the leaders (YouTube) for like 5 Billion Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers. Anyway, here ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=50 I read about 4 blogs on a regular basis- Gizmodo, Engadget, Make, and more recently Toolmonger. I saw a great quote in a Toolmonger post on how owning any tools outside of a certain set qualifies as a toy (obviously, rubbish). Here's the quote: So ladies, don’t buy your ... http://www.andrewrgraham.com/home/?p=49