Personal Preparation

Extinguishers banned as a fire safety hazard | Metro.co.uk

28 April 2011

Fire extinguishers could be removed from communal areas in flats throughout the country because they are a safety hazard, it has emerged.
via Extinguishers banned as a fire safety hazard | Metro.co.uk.
Argh. There is always some kind of rationalization for doing dumb things but this is so going over the top.
They basically are saying that it [...]

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A Riff on The Fantasy of Survivalism

12 April 2011

Virginia Postrel’s final article for WSJ. She’s right of course, survivalists are essentially anarchists, though to be clear in the classical sense of no government rather then the present tense of destroy everything so a tyranny can be created.
The survivalists dream is to live in the middle of nowhere growing food, having solar panels, raising [...]

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A Warning on Smartphone GPS Navigation Apps

15 March 2011

Plenty of people with a smartphone have a GPS navigation app that they use to help them get around. One of the important things to check is if the maps are stored on-board your phone or not. I found this post at TUAW iPhone navigation in the back country and it has an important warning.
If you’re [...]

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The Wrongness of Extreme Parenting

19 January 2011

Amy Chua’s Why Chinese Mothers are Superior article set off a firestorm. On several levels, are the Chinese actually superior, is America in decline and all the rest.
Now you have David Brooks’ Amy Chua is a Wimp counter-point.
To recap: Amy’s children must: play piano or violin, get As, be #1 in all subjects except gym [...]

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Minimalism in Prepping

10 January 2011

When people think of survivalists or preppers they think of the guy with a dozen guns and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition. Or they think of a lady who is barefoot and pregnant, carrying a baby on her hip while canning or sewing.
Do people like that exist, sure, but they are very rare. [...]

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Our 4 Resources

6 January 2011

People have 4 major resources that they can call upon in their lives: Time, Energy, Money and Knowledge.
How you manage them is vitally important to your success.
Everyone has 2 innate resources they are born with: Time and Energy.
We all have 24 hours in a day to do whatever we want and we all turn the [...]

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Are You Spiritually Prepared?

12 October 2010

It is one thing to be physically prepared: lots of food, water, toilet paper and the like.
But are you spiritually… emotionally prepared for those things that guns and gold are completely useless for.
Could you actually help out at a crash scene without throwing up from the gore?
Can you set aside the things in your life [...]

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How To Setup an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station with a Time Machine Disk

27 August 2010

There are 2 kinds of computer users: those who have lost data because of a hard drive crash and those who will. I haven’t used a film camera in a decade. Keeping my precious photos of my child and other important documents is getting to be a big deal.
Apple has made it very easy to keep [...]

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How to Keep Your Cool: 12 Tips for Staying Calm Under Pressure – by Dumb Little Man

26 August 2010

There are going to be times when things go crazy, these are some good ideas for not going crazy yourself.
When I was just a little younger, I had great big goals and objectives and aspirations for every day of my life. These days, my biggest ambition is to get through each day with grace and [...]

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Where to Get the Best Free Education Online

20 August 2010

Where to Get the Best Free Education Online.
I’ve been using iTunesU as my main resource. I used that to bootstrap my knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign which I have been using for the ebooks I’ve made. But there are so many courses that it is almost unlimited educational opportunities.
The only problem at the moment [...]

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