Home Improvement Tool and Toy Reviews

My brother-in-law was out visiting this past weekend from California and was telling me about this gadget that hangs in your window to keep your car cool while it is parked. He did not remember what it was called so I did a search and found it. It is called the Auto Cool Solar Car Fan.

Basically this sits in the crack of your window and uses a little fan to suck the hot air out of your car. The coolest thing about it is that it runs on solar power so you do not need to worry about your battery dying.

The best price that I found is from Amazon.com for $14.95.

Technorati : Auto Cool Solar Car Fan, Car Care, Car Fan, Summer Heat
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I want one of these to go along with my 3d Desktop.

Technorati : Air Monitor, LCD, LCD Monitor, Monitor

The wife and I have been talking about where we want to go on our next family vacation. Since we are closer to Florida now instead of California we are most likely going to go to Walt Disney World.

I would totally prefer to stay in a condo then a hotel. we stayed in a time share before from Trend West and it had it’s own kitchen and separate bedrooms. It gives you more of a home feel instead the hotel feel. Since Trend West does not operate on this side of the country I was checking out time shares and and came across Condo Express. They seem to have some really good deals on condos over in Orlando.

I can’t wait to go.

Technorati : Family Vacation, Vacation Rental, Walt Disney World

Well the outage seemed to last for about an hour but the Netvibes site is back up and running now.

There were a few times that it sputtered and spit out a little on my content but then it would go back to the 500 error.

I wounder if this has anything to do with the heat and the power outages over in California?

Technorati : Network Outage, Start Page, Web 2.0, netvibes

Yikes! The Netvibes site is down. This is not coll because this is my start page and I have all of my RSS feeds and links.

All that is coming up is a “500 - Internal Server Error”.

I did not want to deal with this type of outage and that is why I switched to Netvibes in the first place from Protopage.

I really hop they get it up soon.

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I came across the opportunity to post about this and could not pass it up. Will Hessler wants to know how many people used to wear tight rolled pants.

Well Will, I am one of those unfortunate souls - please be nice.

Technorati : Fads, High School, Tight Rolled Pants, Will Hessler

Stay away from Staff Search Healthcare in Austin, TX. They totally falseified the information they gave my wife in regards to getting her a job.

This is the excerpt from the Better Business Bureau complaint that I submitted on behalf of my wife -

I was offered a job with by Staff Search to work for a Medical Clinic for Seton. The position they offered was a 3 month temp to hire position as a medical coder. I showed up at the the position and found out that it was a 3 week temp position only as a front desk receptionist.

I left the job because it was not what I was promised.

I called Tiffany which was the person at Staff Search who offered the position, and she was upset that I had left. I explained to her that it was not the position that she promised and she was unapologetic. Because I accepted this position I turned down 2 other interviews that I now cannot attend.

If you are looking for a medical position in Austin, I would stay away from Staff Search Healthcare.

Technorati : Staff Search, Staff Search Austin, Staff Search Employment Agency, Staff Search Healthcare

First it was the Million Dollar Homepage by Alex Tew who made a million dollars by selling pixels. Now it is the Link Experiment by Brandon Rowe where he has an ongoing auction of 100 links off of his web site.

The biggest difference between the 2 sites is that when Alex’s site sold all of his pixels the money stopped. With Brandon’s site I think he has the ability to keep the revenue going.

You can check the site out here - linkexperiment.com

Technorati : Alex Tew, Brandon Rowe, Link Experiment, Million Dollar Homepage

Today is mine and my wife’s birthday. Yes, we were born on the same day but I am a year older then her.

I turned the big 3 1 today. Being in your thirties is cool, you are not old, but your are not young (like in high school).

I am not planning anything special today except lunch with my wife to celebrate with her mostly because we have little kids and getting away from them is, well, how shall we say, I think Houdini would have a difficult time .

Oh, and you know what is cool? My web host - Jodo Host - sent me an e-mail saying happy b-day. Cool.

Technorati : Birthday, Happy Birthday

I am a dad of three so naturally I am all about taking pictures and video as much as possible and posting it over on my themastersfamily.net web site for the rest of the family to see.

It had been some time since took any video and I used to upload it to my web host but that can really eat up your disk space and your bandwidth.

Enter Yahoo and Google video. I was not quite sure of the advantage of one over the other so I decided to try both.

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