Ready for Life

My car keeps failing me L
It should start, Triple A came to the rescue during lunch…but just in case I have to give it another jump after work, does anyone have any cables?
This was the email around my office yesterday. We all snickered, gave our colleague a hard time, but also realized how dependent we [...]

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Hurricane Workshop – This is a free event scheduled in Houston on Saturday, June 7th, 2008. It’s good to see several local organizations working together to promote this workshop on preparing for the Gulf Coast natural disasters. Looks like they even have a nice blog started at 2008 Hurricane Workshop
From the blog:
Focused on providing families [...]

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The tips below are from an article published on Reuters by Linda Stern. Read the full article for additional discussion of the topic.
Rising food prices are making it more difficult for families to maintain the same level of living on salaries that are not rising as quickly as the combination of food, energy, home heating [...]

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http://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbasket-world
I really don’t like posting things like this. It seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even if it is not true, media attention can make people believe there is a food shortage and cause panic buying. Self-fulfilling.
I will admit my first reaction was to rush to Costco’s and see prices and availability [...]

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CNN reports the FCC has approved an emergency alert text based system. The major cell phone carriers have indicated they would work with the FCC to deliver text-based messages in the event of emergencies. Customers would have the option to opt-out.
As I have indicated before, the only good emergency system is one that is familiar [...]

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NY Times article in Fashion and Style: Faced with a confluence of diverse threats, people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes. No longer the domain of gun-toting, camo wearing extremists, survivalists are going mainstream.

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This probably goes under the cateogry of “I’m Just Sayin.” Most of us are pretty comfortable for food. We want something, we go to the store, offer a debit card and walk out of the store with usually more than we went in to purchase. Easy.
Most of us are aware that the economy is [...]

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I am at SXSWi or South By SouthWest in Austin, TX this weekend. An annual geek fanboy/girl conference with panels on technology, community building, design and all things related to online interactivity. The latest focus spins alot of information on building communities. Both offline and online. How do the two interact? If you meet first [...]

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Every culture has valued salt for preparing and preserving food. We too often hear about how salt is bad for your diet. Let’s consider some of the reasons the Roman soldiers were partially paid in salt. For them, it had a very measurable and real value. Not to be worth one’s salt was also an [...]

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A few month’s ago, we traveled out of town to volunteer for a charity event. During the 3 days, I loaned my travel first aid kit to a colleague and we lost track of it during the closing ceremonies. He promised to find it and send via mail. While looking for it, he commented it [...]

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