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...

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

Image via Wikipedia I 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 diary Day 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...

Note to self

Self, You keep complaining that you can’t find the notes you made about such and such. So, I started this blog to send yourself notes. I’ve installed the Safari Extension and the Firefox Addon for Scribefire. Now, when you’re surfin’ and run...

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Netiquette

Recently, my mother included the Heycuz newsgroup in the address list in an email. An easy mistake given my email address is similar, april@heycuz.net . The problem was that the email contained a political message, favoring Democrats. The fallout from our...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS, CUZ!

This Christmas, I thought I’d get you something you’d really love! I tried to get all of your corrections and additions done and uploaded before Christmas. Alas, another lot of corrections came in and I was not able to finish it up. In the past couple of...

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A Truly Golden Thanksgiving

Tomorrow will be a really special day! Yes, because it’s Thanksgiving but also because it will commemorate 50 years of marriage for my parents, Jim and Donna Heath. Looking through my photo album I’m amazed at how young and innocent my parents looked. I...

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To Grammie Glen, With Love

I have put off writing this as long as possible, because any thing I could write would never be enough to honor my grandmother, Agnes Glenevie Sullivan Heath Krupa. I cannot describe my Grammie Glen because everything falls short. She’s complicated and...

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Fifth Anniversary of Nov. 11, 2001

Steve and I were talking last night about the events of that dreadful day. It’s hard to believe its been five years already. That morning, I had been scheduled to receive a blood transfusion (because the chemotherapy had lowered my blood count). I had been...

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Old Man Davis

I mentioned a while back that one time when we were kids we were shot at. Though I said I’d tell you about it later, I thought I should share it while it was fresh in my mind. Chances are getting increasingly strong that I’d forget it.Anyway, Old Man Davis...

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What are Friends For?

My girlfriend Carol and I were very close. We were getting home late from school and we were so worried that we would get in trouble for being late that we decided to take a short cut through a junk yard. I’ll tell you right off the bat that this wasn’t my...

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