Dr Copa

My wife has a job driving as a substitute school bus driver. This morning she had to get up at 3am to get to the bus yard to be “on standby” for 5:30am. It’s awfully hard to get up at 3am! We went to bed early last night, about 7:30pm so we could get enough sleep.

Anyway, when my wife left for work this morning there was frost on the windshield. I was surprised because I didn’t expect it to be that cold! We have not even pulled out the window scrapers yet! So we had to let the car run for five minutes to clear the windshield. Winter is surely coming!

I guess I’ve been living in a cave or something over the past several years.  I had never heard of Herbalife until my neighbor came over yesterday and was telling me that he has joined the Herbal Nutrition Network with the Herbalife Company.

My wife and I have become interested in Herbal Nutrition over the past couple of years because my wife has had a lot of issues with digesting synthetic supplements.  Herbalife is a large company that sells a lot of nutritional products targeted at several different markets – weight management, energy management, and several targeted segments such as women’s health, men’s health, digestive health, heart health, and others.

I was looking at their website today and was surprised to see that they also sell personal care products such as skin care and fragrances.  I like experimenting with different fragrances; I think I’ll buy one of their “Man” fragrances and see how I like it!

I love shopping on the Internet, especially now that the economy is struggling and the price of gasoline is so high.  Since I live so far out in the “boonies” there really IS no place local for me to shop!  So the Internet has been a great help to us.  The Internet has such a wide variety of things that you can buy; I’ve found that I LOVE the convenience of shopping from my desk at home!

There’s a great new shopping search engine that I like to use that searches all of the stores on the Internet – all thirty thousand of them, not just a few that pay to be part of a commercial shopping search engine.  The shopping search engine site is Shopwiki and they have search engines for the United Kingdom and the United States.

My wife got very excited over the link that the site has to a new trend in clothing Eco-Fashion.  She’s been so concerned about the environment that she tries to buy as many things as possible (when she needs to buy something) that is ecologically friendly.

One of the things that I’ve always been a little bit concerned about with these flash drives is how secure could they be?  They are so very small it is easy to lose them, and it could be very easy for some unscrupulous character to “palm” them and take off without you even knowing it!  Well, leave it to Kanguru Solutions to come up with a Security system they call the Kanguru Remote Management Console that allows the owner to access (and block) the Kanguru brand of flash drives, the Kanguru Defender, Kanguru Defender Pro and Kanguru Bio AES drives remotely!  What will they think of next?  This is SO Futuristic! 

With this new system, if one of the Kanguru flash drives goes “missing” it can be remotely deleted!  That prevents the data from being accessed by unauthorized users.  This puts me in mind of the old “Mission Impossible” television show where the tape automatically self destructs!

If the flash drive user forgets their password, the administrator can reset the password remotely.  The drives can be set to lock out users or delete themselves if the drive does not connect to the authorized server within a prechosen time period.  What great security measures!

I was amazed the first time I saw a USB flash drive.  My kids call them “thumb drives.”  The first one we bought didn’t have much memory (I think it was 128) and was really expensive, but it was a convenient way to move files from one place to another.  The next one we bought was four times the storage size (512), but the same big price.  A couple of months ago we found a USB flash drive for sale that was a the same price as the other ones we had bought a couple of years ago, but it had  whopping 8GB storage!  It’s incredible how technology advances so fast!