Hey Everyone, As you can see I changed my theme once again. This is a custom theme that I am still working on so some things may not work as expected or look weird. Please check back and watch the progress, I hope to have the site completely updated and functional by next week. Thanks for standing by… ~Phil Read more »
Blog Renovation – AGAIN!!!
Hello All, Sorry for the disturbance but once again I am changing the layout of the blog. Please bear with me for the next several days and please don’t worry if things look weird or don’t work. When I am finished everything will be working 100% and it will be for the better, I am making a central area for all my sites and projects. Thanks for your patience. ~Phil Read more »
BLOGGERS UNITE – WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY – CPSIA BLOG-IN
Sorry for getting this out there late, but better late than never! As parents and concerned citizens I’m sure most of us at one time or another have been confronted with the question of lead poisoning. But have you asked yourself what your government is doing to protect your children from lead contained in toys? The answer? They’re banning toys, taking books from schools and libraries, hurting low income families, killing entrepreneurial spirit and risking putting the economy in an even greater depression than we’ve seen in decades. I’d like to introduce you to their solution: the CPSIA. Do you [...] Read more »
Bronx Zoo in need…
Governor Paterson has proposed cuts to the Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquariums in NY state. This funding (ZBGA) has been in place for over 30 years and was created to make sure that our zoos, gardens, aquariums all have funding in hard economic times. Now Governor Paterson wants to cut this funding by 55% this year and 100% next year. This is not the time for these cuts, if ever there was a hard economic time it is now! All 76 organizations will be affected by the elimination of the ZBGA funding. Some points of interest: Living Museums cannot fire [...] Read more »
FDA possibly killing asthmatics?
UPDATE 1/26/2009 - Visit: iPetitions.com, savecfcinhalers.org - – - – - – - – - - In case you didn’t know as of December 31, 2008 you can no longer buy any prescription inhalers that use CFCs to eject the medicine. The FDA is also expected to phase out the over the counter (OTC) asthma medicine that uses CFC’s as well. What does this mean? No more rescue inhalers will be sold over the counter like Primatene Mist unless they change their ejection method to not use CFCs. What the heck? CFCs in my inhaler are that much of a [...] Read more »
New year new blog layout
Hello everyone, as I stated in my last post I have been busy working on a new layout for my blog. I finally had the time to upload the theme files, and while I was at it I upgraded WordPress to the latest and greatest. If you don’t see the new layout please clear your cache or click reload on your browser. You should be seeing a layout that looks like this: I decided to get rid of most of the advertising on the blog as it wasn’t making me a ton of money anyway. I felt it was more [...] Read more »
Happy New Year… Blog Update…
I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I hope 2009 will be a better, more successful year for everyone. I have neglected this blog for way to long, but I have been very busy with other web ventures. I will be back here updating more often, as a matter of fact I have a brand new theme that I will be installing before the end of the week. I have decided to focus this blog more on what I do on the internet, my projects, my websites, my scripts, coding, computer tips, as well as a bit [...] Read more »
Another Microsoft Internet Explorer Exploit!
Microsoft has released a patch on Wednesday to fix an exploit that could allow remote access to your PC. If you use Internet Explorer 7 you MUST apply the patch when it is available. You can read about the exploit here and here and you can read about the actual flaw on Microsoft’s website here. Why are you still using IE anyway, Firefox can do whatever IE can and more. If you like living on the bleeding edge why not try Google’s new browser Chrome? It is lightning fast and removes all the junk from your screen except for the [...] Read more »
GSP – Hendrix needs your help!
*** UPDATED 12/9/2008 *** Many of you followed Hendrix’s story via the blog and website over at NorCalGSPRescue, I am happy to be able to say that Hendrix has found a forever home! He is now living a real dog’s life on a ranch in Arizona where he gets to run around in his wheeled cart on 40 acres of land. He gets to play with other dogs and cats and has an adopter who has fallen for his great personality! You can read all about Hendrix and also if you would like to help feel free to donate while [...] Read more »
Where in the world is Phil McDonnell?
I have been asked, “What happened to you? Where have you been? Why aren’t you posting anymore?” Well to sum up my answer to all those questions, I have been very busy with life around me as well as the strike across the street from my house. If you don’t know what I am talking about you can read all about it here: www.fipna.org , to sum it up there is a nursing home across the street from my house that forced its employees to strike for the last six months. Victory for the workers finally came on August 21, [...] Read more »
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