If you live in Europe this may be common knowledge. I don’t, and it came as a complete surprise to me.

I’m told that Switzerland has outlawed chairs in schools for the past nine years. Students and teachers have to either sit on balls or stand at podiums. They’ve known since the 1950’s that sitting is killing people and the government finally did something about it. In the past year, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have all followed suit.

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Marlo Schuldt of Heritage Collector sent me two emails about this.

And this will give some people pause. Google is photographing houses. If not yours yet, someday.

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How many of you re-install your operating system on a regular basis, or perhaps have someone around to do it for you? I only do it when things get so bad I have no choice. Now that I have a larger hard-drive I’m hoping “bad” is a longer way off than it used to be.

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Your passwords. Where do you keep them? I used to keep mine in EverNote, in Firefox and printed on 15 pages in a binder. I’m sure there are still others and I’ll come across them someday.

There’s a much easier way and it’s called KeePass.  It’s free.  Download and open the Portable version.  You might as well.  This way you can also keep a backup of it on a USB key and carry it around with you.  If your house disappears for some reason, you’ll still have a copy.  If you disappear while you’re out, there’s still a copy at home that your executors might need. continued …

I received the following letter which I reprint here.  It opens up the whole can of worms that’s been addressed in various forums before.  If anyone else has opinions please send them in.

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