On This Independance Day
Some words of Wisdom to all of us from a great man…
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is [...]
Amateur Astronomer - Your Recommendations…
For years I have been intrigued by the stars. Last summer at the lake house we would have nights that would be so extremely clear and dark that the number of stars you could see were absolutely mesmerizing. There were a couple of times that you could see the shadows of our arm of the [...]
Vacation Video - Yellowstone Park
What’s could be worse than forcing your friends to watch family slides of your vacation? How ’bout putting those slides to music and making them available for the entire world to view? I was cleaning up one of my old computers and found a Windows Movie I made that is a compilation of pictures from [...]
Random Thoughts #1 - Stumbleupon
Stumbleupon is one of the many many social bookmark sites that are available to the Internet surfer. These bookmark sites allow you to save/remember sites and posts that you have visited or read. You can then share those posts with others on the same network and in some cases offer additional insight about the post.
I [...]
A Story to Tell
Do you have a story to tell? Do you want to get it published? Maybe Self Publishing is the answer!
Many years ago my mother wrote a children’s book. I just loved this book. It was a take on “Row Row Row Your Boat” and was a journey that the child was taking down the [...]
Guam - Hafa Adai…
Hafa Adia (Pronounced: Half A Day, Means: Hello, Language: Chamorro) from Guam! My recent business trip took me to the island of Guam. It wouldn’t have been that bad if getting there were just a bit more convenient. Our flights took us from Spokane, to Seattle to Japan’s Narita airport and then finally Guam. All total [...]
Shameless Self Promotion - A Link for a Link
I recently read an article about blog and website promotion where the author was offering tips for bloggers to help increase their traffic. One of the simplest of suggestions was to simply ask readers to link to you and you do the same for them. So the purpose of this post is to layout the [...]
American Idol and Voting…
For the past couple of seasons of American Idol I have resorted to an automatic, “intelligent” dialing program to place my votes for me. The interesting thing about DialIdol is that it “measures the busy signals” to figure out which of the idols are getting the votes. If it makes a determination that your choice(s) [...]
Blog Host Change - Apology and Retraction…
In the past month I have had two full weekends that the blog has been inaccessible due to problems at my webhost - Flexihostings. I was left no alternative, after another full day today where they could not resolve the problem, but to change webhosts.
This evening I moved the entire blog, all images, databases, etc… [...]
Geek Speak for Dummies
I got this great piece of email today… you know one of those that is forwarded to all your friends, etc…
Even lowly smurfs (computer users that know nothing about the inner workings of their systems) use common jargon like “megabyte”, “network”, ”motherboard” and “crash.” If you truly want to set yourself apart from the noobs, add some [...]
