http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com Sharing what we've learned in life Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:25:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a month ago I noticed that the Home button was getting less and less responsive. The problem was intermittent, but it was getting more and more frequent. I would sometimes have to hit the Home button two or three times before it would register. A friend told me that he ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/technology/iphone-3g-home-button-fixed-kudos-to-apple.html While trying to explain to distant friends how to do something on their iPhones or to show them what an application looks like, I always wished there was a way to take a picture or screen capture of my iPhone screen and send it to them. Normally if I was on a ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/technology/how-do-i-take-a-screen-shot-or-picture-of-my-iphone-screen.html While there are different strategies for different maps, the one strategy that I've found to work regardless is you must manage your gold early in the game and raise your interest rates so that you'll have enough gold in the later levels to buy upgraded towers. - My Tap Defense strategy ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/technology/how-to-beat-tap-defense-on-the-iphone.html Yes, I know that you really can do anything that you decide you truly want to. I can honestly say that I have been able to achieve everything I ever truly wanted to. That's not to say that I don't have regrets or things that I wish I had done that ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/life/you-really-can-do-anything-you-want-to.html If you're here, it is most likely because you are like I used to be, annoyed that Windows Vista's Start menu power button puts the computer to sleep instead of turning it off. Well, you've come to the right place. We'll change it so in two clicks you can power off ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/technology/change-vistas-power-button-to-shutdown-not-sleep.html We finally got passed to the Masonic degree of Fellow Craft. I Say finally since it's taken us six months when most of the Brothers in the lodge completed all three degrees in three to four months. The degree ceremony itself went well. It was very similar to the Entered Apprentice ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/freemasonry/freemasonry-second-degree-passed-finally.html My wife's parents are visiting for the holidays. The other day they were out in the yard raking leaves and weeding. Yesterday, my wifes mother was in a panic saying that she'd lost her engagement ring and thinks she may have lost it while doing the yardwork. Both she and my ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/technology/lost-gold-ring-in-yard.html My wife and I got married when I was 25 and she was 30. We had been dating and engaged for about three years already. We were in no hurry to have kids as we were both gleefully working our hearts out and figured we had all the time in ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/fertility/infertility-from-a-guys-perspective.html I am happy to report that my Masonic classmates and I have gotten together several times since my last post for group studies. The good news is that everyone is farther along now than they were. The bad news is that it became screamingly obvious that only two of us had ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/freemasonry/progress-in-1st-degree-studies.html After a summer that has passed all too quickly, I received a communication in the mail announcing the first meeting of the lodge since going dark for the summer. I'm assuming that someone dropped the ball as the meeting was set for two days from when I received the mailing. This ... http://www.gettingolderandwiser.com/freemasonry/my-first-lodge-meeting.html