If you are living in an area with hard water, you will likely find that it is hard on your kitchen equipment: such as kettles, pans, boilers, washing machines, dish washers, even your central water heating system will be impacted. Coming from Scotland, and living where I do, I was shocked to see how hard…
Image via Wikipedia Have you got your own stock of medical equipment at home? I know that Michael Jackson did. He even had a doctor on standby. There are a couple of things that I could think of: a pulse oximeter, a BP meter, and even a Staple Remover Kit. I’d also like quite a…
When we were members of a local health club, we spent a vast amount on the membership over the two years of the program, including the monthly fees and the purchase. Was it worth it? As always when you purchase a service rather than a product, you really don’t have much to show for the…
I’m a big fan of using second information technology products where possible. One of my PCs at home is second hand as you probably saw from the picture of my companion PC – a very old 1.5GHz AMD but sporting a new monitor! It feels like a NEW PC… Some used equipment is great value:…
I used a usb 2.0 wireless connecting USB dongle = whatsit. I can't find the options to set the encryption to 64 bit in Windows xp when setting up the wilreless network connection. The option just doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the Xp configuration. My other Pc has IBM connections which handles all of…