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I got involved with the Internet in 1996, when we built our first Web site. I wasn't sure the Internet would take off in those days. Brilliant, eh?

Over my 37 year career in HVAC, I have been involved investigating many commercial and residential air quality problems. This article is intended to help homeowners to un...

You could replace a thermostat with a light switch, and the heating equipment would never know the difference. One day long ago, when I was newer in this industry than I ...

You can't make this stuff up. Some years ago, The Lovely Marianne and I visited Rome with friends and on a gorgeous Sunday morning in early spring, we got up early to att...

I was doing a seminar and during the morning break a contractor told me a story about something he has been doing for the past few years. I thought you'd enjoy this as mu...

Here on Long Island they've turned nearly all the "Blob" diners (remember that Steve McQueen movie from the '50s?) into grandiose castles. They've taken all those wonderf...

All the marketing in the world can’t get you around one properly placed, dopey employee. That person can take all your hopes and dreams for your business and flush them d...

There was a time in America when people were afraid of the air that they found inside their homes, and with good reason. Many of these people lived in tenements, and they...

Back when I was working for the manufacturers rep company we moved into this big new office on the Isle of Long that was split up into Dilbert-like cubbies. The place had...

When steam heating was new, back at the turn of the 19th century, coal was the fuel of choice. It burned hot, and it burned long. A good coal-fired boiler would stay lit ...