I'm going to take a slight detour from my usual topics (while still coming back to the same drum to beat on it some more!). This month's ActiveRain challenge asks to list our favorite three tech tools. And while I am attached to my phone, laptop and email as anyone, they're not what gives me th
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10/29/2024
You want to be a successful blogger? Different audiences need different approaches.If you have a sphere of people that already follows you, you have a lot of freedom in choosing your topics. There's already a base level of trust, so it's easier to mix in topics that have nothing to directly do w
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10/22/2024
With so many different places and ways to spend your time, why should ActiveRain have even a minute of your day?Over the 18 years since we joined ActiveRain, we've put in a LOT of minutes in the Rain and still find value in the community.Why keep coming back?The short answer, "It's the people".Th
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10/15/2024
Our new home and garage aren't what most people would consider conventional. A Quonset home has metal arches that comprise the roof and side walls. Two foot wide arches are assembled, raised, and bolted to the next arch, repeat, repeat, repeat until the shell of the home is finished.They're str
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10/08/2024
Friday afternoon the remnants of Helene blew through the Cincinnati area, and with the strong winds blowing, quite a few trees didn't survive intact. Falling trees and neighborhoods that have above ground power lines is a bad combination, and fairly quickly there were over 100,000 homes without
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10/01/2024
