Ready for Life

Water and mosquito eggs are the only two ingredients for a world of frustration, pain and even worse. Now, with the pesky little Culex mosquito carrying stronger and more virile strains of the West Nile Virus, bites can lead to serious illness.
A recent trip to the Houston Hurricane Preparedness Workshop and meeting the Houston Mosquite [...]

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Many people get a little spooked when they think about being tracked by satellite. Too many Martini’s and bad spy movies in your spare time? But, for those who shun the black helicopters, here is a non-implant way of letting your friends and family know you are safe when traveling or making your way through [...]

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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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It is Earth Day and worth a reminder to take care of those things around us. I retweeted a set of links today on how to reduce your carbon footprint. This has great parallels to simplifying your life and lifestyle. http://www.metroactive.com/metro/08.15.07/50-ways-to-go-green-0733.html
These ideas don’t require radical changes to every day life choices. Simple things can be [...]

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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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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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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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Freeze Dried foods are produced in a process where moisture is removed from the frozen product using a very low temperature and a vacuum. If it’s done correctly, only about 3% moisture remains in the product at the time of packaging. The end product weight is reduced by over 90%, while the volume stays the [...]

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I am planning a trip this coming spring and have already started to plan both in excitement and preparation of safe travels. One of my main concerns was protecting my belongings while not having the benefit of a home or automobile to keep my valuables. I won’t be packing much, but the things I will [...]

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