Notes while surfing

Happy New Year

Well, we finally did it. After 13 years in our new home town we bought a home. Thanks to everyone who's supported us over the years. In addition to the new home, 2019 was quite the year for us. Lucas received his Master's Degree from Cal State Northridge. We're so...

Introduction to Administering Your Website

This is a quick introduction on accessing the administration area of your website.  This is a short overview on the areas of your website's Administration area. It includes information on the front control panel, the tool bar, the Administrator menu, and where to get...

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

Image via WikipediaI have been fortunate enough to have had many wonderful women in my life who each left an impression on me in some way. But today, in honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I'm sharing a few of the women who inspired me.  Ada Lovelace was the worlds first...

Stop the Stream to Honor Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is dead.The news makes my life pass before me. I stare at the screen where Facebook users continue their posts about Farmville rewards and I want to yell Stop! Stop all the game posts; Stop all the Tweets! Stop everything for one second and recognize the...

Shout Out To My Heros: Help Boards

Today, I'd like to do a shout out to the unsung heros, help boards. Most of the time, these over-worked administrators and moderators only hear the rants and ravings of an unhappy poster. But, you can bet if you've got a problem that you need solved, there's a help...

I means what I means

If you could hear me when I'm using Google Search lately, you might think I was doing a Popeye impression; I mumble a lot. Ever since Google changed its search algorithm in March, I'm having to reteach myself to surf. I go to Google and type something, say ""Monkees"...

Cheating is the symptom of educational woes

I'm saddened by the news today that five children paid someone to take the SATs for them and as a result they could face serious time.“Colleges look for the best and brightest students, yet these six defendants tried to cheat the system and may have kept honest and...

What responsibility do we have to our followers?

This past week, I've gotten quite a few (hundreds actually) new followers on Twitter and Google+. What's going on? Does this have anything to do with the new changes on Facebook? Do people hate it that much? Or, does it have anything to do with Farmville changes? It's...

The Best Things in Facebook Are Free (for six months, anyway)

Spotify is a streaming music server that saves your play lists, of any music, not just what you've purchased, and you can replay that music from anywhere. Recently, that anywhere has included Facebook. How do you add music on Facebook? When you are logged into...

Mind Over Mouse?

To catch a mouse diaryDay one: Received the Riddex Sonic Pest Repeller and plugged them in. These were on sale real cheap at Amazon so I thought I'd give it a try before doing something more drastic. It was only a tiny field mouse after all. My family thought I was...

Mind Over Mouse?

To catch a mouse diaryDay one: Received the Riddex Sonic Pest Repeller and plugged them in. These were on sale real cheap at Amazon so I thought I'd give it a try before doing something more drastic. It was only a tiny field mouse after all. My family thought I was...

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Are you in a browser rut?

Since this website is about surfing the internet, I thought I'd talk about the tools of the trade today. I'm surprised at the many people who still use Internet Explorer. Are you one of them? I have a number of customers who were, but I've released them from their...

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All apologies to Irvine

I'm a pretty positive person and normally don't post rants against anyone, so I apologize in advance for this one, but I just have to get this off my chest.I was watching CNN during lunch and they announced that Irvine, California has been named, again, as one of the...

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Are we getting nastier?

I recently set up a blog for a customer and was encouraging him to integrate it with social media accounts such as Twitter and Facebook. He wasn't in favor of the idea because, he said, Twitter had become so "nasty." The tweets he'd seen lately were nothing but nasty...

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Will a Major University Please Stand Up?

The dryer had stopped. iTunes was blaring. My coffee had gone cold. The phone rang. I was oblivious to it all. I was in "my happy place." Others call it "being in the zone." Do you ever get that? I get it when I'm engrossed in a design project. One that offers a bit...

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Will a Major University Please Stand Up?

The dryer had stopped. iTunes was blaring. My coffee had gone cold. The phone rang. I was oblivious to it all. I was in "my happy place." Others call it "being in the zone." Do you ever get that? I get it when I'm engrossed in a design project. One that offers a bit...

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Surfing to Improve Your Brain

Image by TZA via Flickr Ready to exercise your brain cells? If recent news reports are accurate, I'd say the answer is yes. Apparently, millions of people are taking advantage of free classes online. According to Apple, its online store's educational section has hit...

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The greatest blog post ever written

I'm really bummed. Yesterday, I was away from my computer so I used the new Blogger app and wrote the best post ever written by anyone on the world wide web to date. Image via CrunchBase Seriously! I'd show you, but apparently it disappeared. Or, perhaps it appeared...

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