My wife has been after me to get her a new phone since last summer. We have had our current Samsung SGH-s307 flip phones for almost three years. They have been great phones; I like the small size and, if something works, why replace it? I pushed back until...

Chris writes: I was doing some kitchen work and was removing an old and dated cabinet to make room for a bay window. I needed a place for my power tools so I decided to make it worthy of placement in the garage. I spray painted it with a...

Freezing rain, sleet and snow are heading into my area tonight and tomorrow. I usually use the first event such as this to signal the end of the season. We had a dusting of snow on Saturday morning and some towns put down salt. I view that as the...

Some things are so good that they seamlessly integrate into your life and you don’t realize just how good they are until you don’t have them anymore. For me that’s the Harmony 670 remote. I bought it for myself after last Christmas. It allowed me to consolidate to one...

It seems like a good time to share some of the things recently coming through my inbox. … I commented in the forum on chrome pony wheels and the difficulty finding them. Well, I got an email from a regular visitor, Ron, which informed me that CJ Pony Parts...

Some of the people who I work with joked with me that I must be out of home projects to be doing a garage remodel. Well, not really. If you are into cars as much as I am, which I figure you must be if you are reading this...

Once is a great while I use this space to write about the technical side of this site. You see, I am a geek at heart. My strategy has been to use technology at its fullest in order to present generally non-technical topics. I have thought about writing a...

I’m not one to just roll over and take it. My recent run-in with Ford left me wanting to take some action. Sure, I could write to the highest level Ford executive for which I could find an email address and explain to them how promotion of the Mustang...

Last weekend, we were driving through an urban area near where I live on our way to lunch and I spotted something off of the interstate in a parking lot. At first it looked like a car show with rows of cars but as I looked closer it appeared...

I had read about the effort by Ford to protect their trademarks more than a year ago. At the time I was glad I had chosen “triplewhitefox.com” as my domain name. Well, today I received some very bad news from CafePress.com which is the site that I have been...