I envy women who can look "dewy" and "refreshed" during the hot, humid days of summer. Not only does my combination skin kick up its sebum production into overdrive, I tend to sweat...
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Starting a couple of weeks ago, I began to run into Netflix streaming issues. Movies would take forever to load, and when they finally did, they would start lagging after just a few minutes. I then realized that this only happened between the hours of 9pm-11pm. I knew that there weren't any programs or processes running on our end that may contribute to this issue. And as someone who doesn't have cable, regularly using Netflix to unwind at the end of a long day, I got pretty annoyed. I began to suspect that either our ISP or Netflix itself was throttling our connection. After all, we, as a family, use the web extensively and always have multiple devices connected at a time. Additionally,...
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ETA, March 2015:I am now hosting this site with Squidix, and have been very happy with their service. You can read a full review here. Short version: my site was down for 45 hours this weekend due to Hawk Host's abysmal support. Because I was well within their "30-day money back guarantee" period, I have changed hosts...
Continue readingYou may have noticed that this blog was down this past Friday. In fact, you may have noticed that a bunch of sites were down that day, and I'll tell you why. When I first switched to HostGator, everything was fine and dandy. HostGator is was known to be one of the very few RELIABLE web hosts with affordable "UNLIMITED!" shared hosting plans. But in the past few months, I started noticing more lagging and time-outs. There were even a few downtimes, and then...
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Gather ’round, boys and girls! It’s time for show and tell: contact lens and eye care edition.
I’ve been wearing soft contact lenses for almost two(!) decades now, and I can’t believe I only just discovered the following contact lens care products. Yeah, yeah…a good portion of my readers are Asian and most likely have known about these for years. But I love them so much that I felt the need to write rave about them for those who might not be in the know.
First up is the iPool Contact Lens Auto Cleaner:
The iPool uses a combination of vibrations and silver nano-particle technology to thoroughly clean your contact lenses. It doesn’t matter if you wear hard or soft lenses, regular or disposables — just drop your lenses inside the cute animal case, fill it with contact lens solution, place it onto the AAA battery-powered base, press the button and wait for at least 3 minutes.
