Gardening Calendar
Despite what many people think, gardening is a year round activity. Planting, fertilizing, and pruning are best done at different times of the year depending on the zone in which you live and whether you're dealing with annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs, trees, or bulbs.
Technology»
Graphic Designer Definition (5/23/13)Web-based applications have brought graphic designers closer to software development projects than ever before. Because the buttons, menus, and …
GIF Definition (5/21/13)GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format for pictures with up to 256 distinct colors. The format was introduced by CompuServe …
Functional Manager Definition (5/19/13)The functional manager is the person project managers report to within their functional organization. Typically, they do the performance review. …
Hobbies & Leisure»
The unstable nature of world events has led to growing fears that life as we know it may come to an unexpected end. Economic collapse, global …
Wiring a Juniper Bonsai (4/02/13)Step-by-Step Place the tree at eye-level and choose the front view. Prune off heavy branches near the base. Thin out the upper branches. Treat …
Growing trees or shrubs from seed will give you many seedlings, but needs much time and space. You are not "growing bonsai", only cultivating …
Health & Fitness»
Pressure Related Injuries (2/28/13)Being underwater increases the pressure on the body and on all the organs of the body. As a result, pressure related injuries most often occur in …
Would you know what to do if a co-worker was having a heart attack? Could you help, or would you just stand there and watch helplessly?
Yearly Physical Check Up (2/17/13)The following is a list of the things you should insist that your doctor check for, when they should be checked, and how often. There may be …
Money Management»
There's a lot of information out there, but it's scattered on multiple web pages and sites. Sometimes is just easier to sort, filter, and group …
The Excel Stock Quotes program is a collection of custom Excel functions and macros that allow you to insert stock data in to any cell in any …
ETF Definition (2/01/13)Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs) are very much like mutual funds. That is, they are baskets of stock that are bought and sold. They differ from mutual …
Travel»
If you live in Northeastern US you don't have many options for visiting a national park within driving distance. You can head up to Acadia …
Visitors to the Windy City may not know this, but the Chicago area is home to more hot dog restaurants than McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King …
While on a recent trip to the West Coast, we traveled through Pagosa Springs, Colorado. We arrived in town about noon and discovered a natural …
Pets & Animals»
A lizard-keeper who cares about the well-being of his animals will have the necessary sense of responsibility to provide the appropriate …
The most noticeable features of a rainforest terrarium are the luxuriously growing plants. They fulfill a decorative purpose and at the same time …
Lizards, which belong to the class Reptilia, resemble the dragons of the old fairy tales and the gigantic dinosaurs of long-ago eras. With their …