This week’s Let’s Blog Off question is posed to us by the famous (or is that infamous) traveler Paul Anater, which in the last month has seen him in places like London, Vancouver, San Francisco and now in Pennsylvania. For someone who seemingly appears to be more home on the road, he states “this time […]
Safety Sunday: Preventing Food Poisoning in conjunction with #BAD11 & World Food Day
What a trifecta; Safety Sunday, World Food Day & Blog Action Day 2011 all happen to fall on this Sunday, with the main focus being on Food. While we have addressed the issue of preventing food poisoning in some previous articles; Picnic Safety, Refrigerated & Frozen Products (including leftovers), the life of items in the […]
What is Let’s Blog Off – an FAQ
If you have been following the HTRC for any length of time, you know that every two weeks we generally participate in something called a “Lets Blog Off” which started up just a little over a year ago. Since it started, this will be my 24th Blog Off out of a total of 33 ones. […]
Let’s Blog Off: Privacy from an Information Security Specialist View
Before stepping back into the construction arena full time, my main day job for almost 10 years was working for the State of Arizona in the Information Technology field; where the bulk of the later years was focused mainly on data & information security. During this 10 year period, it was pretty interesting dealing with […]
Let’s Blog Off – Thumbtacks & Hanging Items on Walls
Ahhh, the lowly thumbtack and how I loathe thee… Antique plaster, solid wood, faux finished, paneled & perfectly finished drywall just pock marked with hundreds of little holes where posters, notes, pictures & calendars use to hang – enough to leave one thinking that it should be criminalized. While a few of today’s Let’s Blog […]
Let’s Blog Off: Kelly’s Kitchen Sync
Talk about timing, I finally got the time to finish Kelly Morisseau’s new book & was planning on writing up the review last Thursday when I got delayed. That night as I was sitting down to get it written, guess what pops across my Twitter feed, why this week’s Let’s Blog Off, asking what is […]
Let’s Blog Off Anniversary, SWAG, Random Thoughts and the Future
In just a little over a year, there have been a total of 29 “Let’s Blog Offs” ranging from topics like Shoe Shaped Bath Tubs, to writing you’re own Obituary’s & for this anniversary Blog Off, everyone is asked; What will your life look like in 20 years? To some extent, this feels a little […]
Let’s Blog Off: TV Shows & Advice
This week, the Let’s Blog Off crew decided to ask – What’s your Favorite “Guilty Pleasure” TV Show? Well as many of us occasionally like to do, we are going to take this one off the rails a little. I would have to say my favorite show that falls into their criteria (in a roundabout […]
Why you shouldn’t ask, what color should I…?
All right, I admit it; I almost skipped this week’s Let’s Blog Off. While the question is simple (What is your favorite color? – no seriously, that is the question), I could easily answer it on Twitter using only 5 of the 140 characters required. I had an epiphany or two on what I could […]
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth…
Yes it is that time for another Let’s Blog Off & this week’s is dealing with, is there a difference between a fact and the truth? As stated in the preamble; Finding truth has been a human preoccupation for as long as there have been humans. Aristotle defined truth as “To say of what is […]