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Let’s Blog Off: What is there to be optimistic about?

This week’s LetsBlogOff asks a relatively simple question; Is there a reason to be optimistic? When I first saw the topic earlier last week, my answer was hell yes. Here comes the weekend & I was simply going, who flipping cares & why bother? Fortunately, I did not write this article during that time, because […]

Safety Sunday: Bag your gear

For today’s Safety Sunday tip, I am going to turn it over to a good friend of mine – John D. Poole* of Birmingham Point. . . . . . That’s right: Bag your safety gear! No, I don’t mean discard it. A practice I’ve established for myself is using a gear bag for dedicated […]

Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This year’s topic is water & at this moment, over 4,700 bloggers in 134 different countries have […]

Say what… aka the acronym dilemma

I still remember it like yesterday, my partner in crime was talking to a whole bunch of suits – “While we tried to eliminate most of the TLA’s, three letter acronym’s, there are still a few we can’t get around, so if you have a question about one, please feel free to stop us & […]

Daily5Remodel: Socially Connected Remodelers

As seen on Daily5Remodel (which unfortunately has come to a close) & written by Leah Thayer: “Businesses are waking up to the possibilities of social media,” according to a special section in today’s Wall Street Journal. “Corporations can ignore [social media] and be subject to their use or figure them out and leverage them,” said an […]

Safety Sunday: Protect your hearing

Have you ever heard a slight ringing in your ears, maybe after mowing, shooting, or attending a concert? That is the first sign that you may have damaged your hearing, or are about to – hopefully it is just limited to the ringing sound, and is not permanent. Unfortunately for me, I fall into the latter category, which is […]

Building Green Homes: Step 10 – Drywall & Finishes

This is the last article in this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward involving the actual building process. In the last nine articles, we have gone over the major steps from designing to building a green home we completed over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how one can utilize those […]

Something’s just never change

This week’s LetsBlogOff asks a not so simple question; are blogs as important as bloggers think they are? Hmm, that really looks like two questions in one. For the first part, is one’s blog important; if one answers no, then why do it – if one answers yes, are they not being a little self […]