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Living in the high desert of Southwestern New Mexico an hour-and-a-half walk from Palomas in northern Chihuahua, this author jogs and blogs the rest of his life away.

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Sciences > Ecology & Environment Where have all the coyotes gone?: 1 of 5

For years, my neighbors would sing almost every night. Sometimes it would be just one of them, howling alone and lonely in the desert; most often it would be a party, yipping up a high-pitched storm when one of them brought home the bacon. When I first heard them, it scared me a little, but once I got to know them better, I ...
Computers & Technology > Business & Office Software Best softwares for managing all your emails at once: 2 of 3

The author has used Eudora and Thunderbird, and has had plenty of experience with Outlook on customers' machines. He can no longer recommend any of them; instead he casts his vote for Gmail, Google's mail service. Here's why. * Persistence: how many times have you lost all correspondence due to hard drive failure? Even if yo...
Personal Finance > Credit Cards The credit card trap: 20 of 24

It had been over 4 years since I had gotten to the point where I had to seek assistance to negotiate with the credit companies and pay off the debts. That royally botched my credit rating. But the applications kept coming, and every so often I was tempted to send one in. Rejection, rejection, but finally acceptance, and then...
Computers & Technology > Operating Systems Comparing the Windows operating system and the Mac OS X: 4 of 4

I'm not partial to either operating system: I think they're both bug-ridden, bloated, overgeneralized and inefficient. But either will get your work done. Here are a few notes on the differences as I, who have used computers since 1974, see them. * Reliability: I haven't seen a difference. Now, I don't own a Mac, and don't o...