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...

Publish or Perish

I always liked those Dell Logic Puzzles. You know the kind I’m talking about— John wore a red shirt and liked green lollypops. Fred wore a shirt of another primary color and played basketball. Suzy’s dress did not match Fred’s or John’s but she liked both lollypops...

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What’s with kids these days?

Not long ago, after browsing a bunch of old family photographs, my son asked his grandparents what life was like when everything was black and white. Angry about the onslaught of laughter, he didn’t wait around for the explanation that the film was black and...

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The Most Powerful Thing

by Lucas Heath Pastis
 Remember how powerful a photograph can be. More powerful than any bombs As powerful as LOVE (Kim Phuc)


 
 They say that love is so powerful, it can make you do crazy things. I have been lucky enough to live a crazy life. There have been loves...

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I Lost It!

A tisket, a tasket, A green and yellow basket I wrote a letter to my mother, And on the way I lost it Due to computer problems, everything that was sent to me by email since March has been lost. If you have sent in any corrections or updates, please resend them to me....

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The Perfect Fishin’ Hole

by April Heath Pastis Maybe there’s something to the Scottish stereotype of being thrifty, because my mother has always appreciated a good deal. And this was a great deal. When I was about 10 years old, my mother had saved enough Blue Chip stamp books to buy my...

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