I am an avid reader of Angela Hoy’s WritersWeekly.com, a weekly newsletter for (you guessed it) writers.  Last week she wrote about the problem with deadbeats – publishers and clients who stiff writers (often deliberately) by taking their work and not paying them for it.
This problem seems to be quite common in the writing industry.  I [...]

There is a lot of debate as to whether there is any such thing as a paperless office.  Perhaps this is an ideal we can never truly achieve, but I do believe it’s something worth striving for.  I mean, just because you can’t achieve perfection doesn’t mean you give up trying and settle for crap, [...]

By Mark J. Donovan
A dehumidifier contains heating and cooling coils and fins. Warm moist air, such as in a basement is drawn over these coils and fins by a fan that is in the dehumidifier. As the warm air is drawn over the coils the water vapor condenses and collects on the cooling coils and [...]

With so many recent initiatives aimed at combating climate change, energy prices have obviously taken a hit. To compensate for this change, though, many architects and builders have begun using Daylighting to a great degree in construction.
“Daylighting,” or “daylight harvesting,” has been growing in popularity recently because it uses natural sunlight to its advantage. A [...]

Summary: New page: Modern computers generate a lot of heat, and with the heat comes the need for fans, and with the fans comes noise. Currently, there is only one way to dissipate heat without making any so…

Modern computers generate a lot of heat, and with the heat comes the need for fans, and with [...]

By Mark J. Donovan
Last year I put in a patio underneath my elevated deck using concrete pavers. The patio overlooks the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire and makes a great outdoor living space for getting out of the sun and reading a book or surfing the net.
The particular concrete pavers I used [...]