Monthly Archives: July 2008
dailies, 7-30-08
Today’s post will be short. I spent most of the day finding and playing with themes. I’m still not totally happy with this theme but it will serve well for the time being. We had carpet installed in the master … Continue reading
Posted in my life, technology
Tagged Carpet, Day, genealogy library, library tomorrow, master bedroom, my life, post, randoms, theme, third day, time, Today
Leave a comment
of wordpress and ancestors…
I wish, oh I wish, that I knew more about wordpress than I do. I know quite a bit about it. Obviously, I’m posting on this blog, and that’s pretty good in itself. I can modify a theme *some*, which … Continue reading
Posted in my life, technology
Tagged bit, blog, genealogy, little bit, site, theme, tons of fun, wordpress
Leave a comment
a sad milestone: extreme makeover home foreclosure
A home in Atlanta, Georgia, rebuilt by the designers on Extreme MakeOver: Home Edition, has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis. It’s really maddening. All this time and money was given to the family to give them a … Continue reading
Posted in mini editorials
Tagged Atlanta, Edition, Extreme, Extreme Makeover, extreme makeover home, extreme makeover home edition, family, Georgia, Harper, harper family, home, latest victim, MakeOver, news, pay it forward, randoms, USD
Leave a comment
online shopping
Online shopping is an easy and convenient way to purchase things. However, in this era of identity theft, it’s also risky, to a degree. No one wants to have their identity stolen. Identity theft can, at best, cause major headaches, … Continue reading
Posted in technology
Tagged bill, credit card numbers, eBillme, finance, headaches, home, home addresses, identity, internet catalogs, misc, online, Online shopping, postal mail
Leave a comment
cuil- or is it?
I’ve read plenty of news out on the internet lately about Cuil, a new search engine that wants to compete with the big guys like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. I have mixed feelings about this. Cuil was developed by several … Continue reading
Posted in technology
Tagged britches, Cuil, digi misc, Google, google search, internet, internet start-ups, mixed feelings, plenty, search, search engine, search returns, self-employed website owner, start ups, Yahoo
Leave a comment
alzheimers
A few days ago, we got a card from a relative on my dad’s side of the family – a second or third double cousin, something like that. My dad’s family has been close over the years. They are from … Continue reading
watermarking photos and nextgen gallery
I have many, many photos to show you. But, given that I have so many photos, I’m convinced that there must be an easy(er) way to watermark them. Previously, I used GIMP to watermark my photos, which works, but it … Continue reading
Posted in technology
Tagged blogging, gimp, NextGen gallery, photo, photos, plugin, watermark, way, wordpress
2 Comments
IT certification
Computers have changed our world so much. I could probably name a thousand ways that computers have changed society, and you probably could too. But for now I am just going to look at one: education. Fifty years ago, the … Continue reading
today around the blogosphere, 7-28-08
Here’s two blog posts that I found today, quite by accident. The first, from The Greasy Spoon Cafe, is really quite a funny story. The second, from Art Is My Sunshine, is just… well, cute. It contains a cute cute … Continue reading
Posted in randomness
Tagged accident, Art Is, blog, blogging, cute photo, funny story, Greasy, greasy spoon cafe, Spoon, Sunshine, The Greasy Spoon Cafe, Today
Leave a comment
what a themin’ headache
I still haven’t gotten to the bottom of what has been causing all my theme problems. I changed it to this theme, “come my lady”, and it seems to be okay on this theme. But the problem on my other … Continue reading
