Baby

It is a bad cliche in books that one part of a city can tell a story. But in the case of downtown Holland, there is some truth to the idea.After spending my life here, of course I have an innate love for the shop-littered streets in this little West Michigan town. However, it took some romanticism and a sharp eye to notice the story that lies on Eighth Street – and I can’t believe it took me this    .. more …

For geeks who like to rock, we salute you. And for those who want to get into the DJing scene, it’s a good time with the recent release of two cheap but nifty gadgets to get you mixing.From Gemini comes FirstMix, a DJ controller, followed by the Numark iDJ Live device, both doing away with the traditional turntable set-up for some cheaper, more portable music fun.While you no longer have to wade    .. more …

Since the HP began offering its TouchPad at the fire sale price of $99 over the weekend, consumers have been scouring stores and websites trying to snag one (or a half-dozen) of the tablets”which sold at retail not long ago for (yikes) $500 apiece. The search for the heavily discounted tablet continues today for many shoppers who so far have been frustrated by the inability to find the item in    .. more …

Most likely to go missing are television remote controllers (33%), car keys (23%), mobile phones (16%) and purses and wallets (7%).The most common hiding places are down or under the sofa (40%), in the baby’s toy chest (14%), under the table (10%) and in the pram (9%).The strangest places parents have found missing household items include the washing machine or tumble dryer, the fridge and down    .. more …

For geeks who like to rock, we salute you. And for those who want to get into the DJing scene, it’s a good time with the recent release of two cheap but nifty gadgets to get you mixing.From Gemini comes FirstMix, a DJ controller, followed by the Numark iDJ Live device, both doing away with the traditional turntable set-up for some cheaper, more portable music fun.While you no longer have to wade    .. more …

The following is a Nassau Guardian/Freeport News article written by Sonia Farmer: It’s no secret that in most industries, including in the art world, women are taken less seriously, treated with less respect and paid less than their male counterparts. This is magnified in The Bahamas, where outdated laws and societal standards continue to keep women from achieving equal standing.It is even    .. more …

My friend Amy-Lynn is such a fussbudget. My kids are both slightly older than her twins, who aren’t quite crawling yet. Whenever we come over, she spends the whole visit swooping down and snatching toys out of my babies’ hands, saying “Oh no! That’s a cat toy, yuck !”Am I nuts? I don’t really care. Her cuddly indoor cats are healthy, if a bit obese, and I’m not a    .. more …

You know, in these post-John Woo (and Halo 2 )days we seem to take dual-wielding for granted. Two guns? Are you kidding? One gun’s like a baby’s toy. But try to imagine, if you will, the very first time that some badass whipped out two six-shooters in a gunfight. You’re sitting there – behind cover, obviously – looking at this monster of a human being who just changed all the rules. And you vow to    .. more …

The VINCI was created by a mother and telecom entrepreneur named Dan Yang, Ph.D., currently the CEO and founder of Santa Monica, California-headquartered Rullingnet Corp. She’s also the founder of Dowslake Microsystems Corporation. Now she’s breaking into education technology with the invention of a tablet computer for kids aged 0-4. Yang got the idea after finding her daughter playing around with    .. more …

This show! If every episode of this series could be as good as tonight’s episode was, I wouldn’t feel nearly as ambivalent about it as I often do. It felt like for the first time in a while the storylines were firing on all cylinders: tonight’s new plot was interesting, the ongoing sagas of Adam and Sean worked and now we have something new to look forward to, in terms of Andrea’s love life.I    .. more …