Anything you need to find, you can find it online with the right search terms. Google is still my favorite search engine, even after all these years. It just always gives met he results I want.

Over the years I’ve had friends and family ask me to google a number of terms and keywords. I’ve had to google cities and companies, TV stations and phone numbers. Oh, and the medical conditions I’ve been asked to reasearch! From kidney failure to hangover cures, I’ve searched them all.

I think I need to offer search lessons to certain people in my family. My searching ability doesn’t need anymore practice.

I know there are many online resources for various health issues. I’ve found several sites in the past that I still visit when I need specific help.

The one issue I seem to research repeatedly is the availability of drug rehab facilities, especially broken down by area. I am a firm believer in family recovery so finding a facility nearby is very important.

If any of my readers knows of a reliable online resource for searching out rehab facilities by state and city, please let me know by posting here.

I love to tear a computer apart, add new hardware or swap out parts. The hardware part of computers has always been more fun that the OS or software part. Too bad I sometimes have to mess with the OS or software.

Probably the worse part of working on a Windows machine is not knowing what a file is. Important? Expendable? Malware? How do you know? That’s easy. Just go to What is That File and look it up!

I use this site hand in hand with the ProcessList site I mentioned a few days ago. Unlike that previous site, What is That File is a Web 2.0 site. it uses Ajax to bring up the information immediately.

And if that isn’t enough of a reason to love this little informational site, you can also choose from 5 languages besides English.

Whether you fix computers for all your friends, in your job or just work on your own machine, this is a site that will save you a lot of time and get you back to using your computer much faster.

That’s right, it’s me. And I’m talking to myself. Or writing to myself.

Future Me is an interesting concept. You simply enter your email address, a subject and message - to yourself. Then you can choose to make the message public or private. But the cool part is that you then get to choose a date to have the email sent to yourself. That’s right. You can choose any date in the future to email your note to yourself.

I tried this last year. First, I sent myself an email for the next day. Not so cool but I was just testing. Then I sent an email for my birthday in 2006 and one for my 50th birthday. (That’s sometime in the future but we don’t need to talk about when, exactly.)

Anyway, I got the email this year for my birthday and it was definitely interesting. What really struck me is that I mentioned things that I thought would be resolved by this time and yet, they are not. So I wonder how the email on my 50th will sound in the future. And I wonder if I’ll be as surprised to get it as I was this year.

Oh, and a really nice feature is the public email section. You can click through random emails that others have allowed to be made public. And it seems there’s even going to be a book published with some of the best public emails. Can’t wait to see that!

So go on over and send yourself an email for next year or your next big birthday. It’ll be like giving yourself a surprise!