Every spring, once the last freeze is past, my MIL takes me to Home Depot and we buy flowers. Her back yard is beautiful, full of flowers and bushes and birds and bugs.  My garden is full of weeds, dirt, dog poo and last years dead plants. She has a green thumb, mine is the blackest black there is.  Plants cringe when they realize I’m reaching for them.  I can almost hear them screaming, “Oh no!  Our time is up!” Even though she KNOWS I’m a plant murderer, she buys them for me every year
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PRINCETON, Mass. — X Cafe LLC, a manufacturer of coffee extracts, has received the 2008 Award for Innovation in Business by the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE). The company was recently honored at a dinner on May 7 in Waltham with the prestigious New England Award. SBANE’s 2008 New England Innovation Award recognizes that innovation is at the heart of economic prosperity and seeks to single out those companies that have transformed their innovative ideas into a company, prod
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PRINCETON, Mass., May 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — X Cafe LLC, a manufacturer of coffee extracts, has received the 2008 Award for Innovation in Business by the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE). The company was recently honored at a dinner on May 7 in Waltham with the prestigious New England Award. SBANE’s 2008 New England Innovation Award recognizes that innovation is at the heart of economic prosperity and seeks to single out those companies that have transformed their in
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early mom’s day gift May 7, 2008 • 4 Comments DH just bought an iRobot aka Roomba last weekend for me as an early mother’s day gift! Normally I would cringe when he says he wants to buy things “for me”, because the stuff he wants to buy are usually what he wants, and not what I want, e.g. the 2-sets of knives, Blendtec Blender just to name a few. (Hmm… wait a sec… maybe he wants it more than I do since he is the one who does most of the cleaning nowadays. :P) But this time, I’m really happy
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Get her one of these Roomba iRobots… Click image for video
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“I have this feeling most of the day while I’m on support,” writes M, “but I’ve never thought to try telling people.” “I was at the theaters in Lake Forest, Orange County, watching some previews,” Kamran Kazempour said, “and this came up on the screen for a minute or so before the feature. ” While Jeremy wasn’t quite sure how an email address could fit in only four characters, he was a bit dismayed that his was too long to register… “Apparently, computers are not al
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I, LawnBott Slate - 33 minutes ago Today's New York Times salutes a new product, the Kyodo LawnBott LB3500, which mows your lawn by itself. Here's the manufacturer's description: It operates …

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TiVoRemote allows you to control your TiVo from your iPhone/iPod Touch IntoMobile, CA - 56 minutes ago Next in line - Roomba remote for the iPhone. Finally, in case you care to know more, there's Google Code page for the iPhone TiVo Remote app.

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Want to control your TiVo from your iPhone or iPod Touch? Now you can do that thanks to the new application called (no surprise here) TiVoRemote. The application is compiled by TiVo Community Forum’s member “Duckfin” and is still in the “quick and dirty” phase, hence user interface could use some polishing. After all, it should work on your beautiful phone/media player. Installation is, as expected, quite simple. Simply add “http://tivoremote.googlecode.com/svn/www/repo.xml” to your Installe
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