Blog de Puree

One of my missions this winter, in addition to the growing list of home renovation projects, is to attract the Tufted Titmouse to our yard.

(Photo courtesy of www.birds.cornell.edu)
Along with its fun name, the titmouse is a cute little bird with a tuft of feathers that sticks up from the top of its head.
After a little [...]

Please say our worst fears are not true. Please say we’re not going to going to have to pay full price for the iPhone and get saddled with a 2-year contract from an average cell phone company.

According to SciFi Tech columnist Adam Frucci, Apple had the chance to revolutionize the cell phone industry, but instead [...]

I’ve started my new job at Helium.com, an exciting new user community that shares common global knowledge about everything under the sun, as well as manages its own product through a story rating system.
While I was very excited and nervous before my first day on Monday, the thrill of staring a new position isn’t what [...]

Special thanks to Randye’s mother for aiding us to rediscover a great way to feed and attract birds from our childhood arts and crafts days.
A couple of weeks ago, she sent us a recipe for pine cone bird feeders. It being rainy this past weekend, we took the opportunity to put some together. First, Randye [...]

My last day at CXO was like the last day of school—I was there, but in body only. I had one meeting to teach podcast editing. Took a long lunch with my friends. Emptied my e-mail inbox and subsequent folders, deleted old files, etc. On my way out, I handed in my laptop and security [...]

Bouch helps Paul surf the Interweb.

My time with CXO Media is at an end and I’ll be moving on.
No longer will I be making a dreadful early morning (crack of dawn) commute through the hell that is Rt. 128 to get to work. No more losing precious hours of my day to traffic.
A great opportunity has presented itself, in the [...]

With the help of Randye’s grandparents, we were able to check off another item we had to leave out of the original kitchen plan, architectural accent lighting. For this, we purchased some rope lights at Lowe’s that go above the cabinets.
They were easy to install. Rather than screwing in plastic pieces meant to secure the [...]

It’s been unusually warm this winter. From a global perspective it’s not out of the ordinary because earthly weather patterns are in an el Niño cycle. It being a nice day, we thought we’d head up to L.L. Bean on Saturday and air ourselves out a bit while enjoying some shopping without huge mobs of [...]

The world’s oldest newspaper, Sweden’s Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, has made the move to become an online-only newspaper. The paper, which focuses on bankruptcies, company and government announcements, has been published since 1645, making it the world’s oldest.
A number of major news Web sites, such as Wired News, predict that some of their number will also [...]