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Down Memory LaneI have just completed editing the more than 800 blog entries I’ve written since I started Barbara’s Blog. The transfer to a new service provider produced some glitches because I compose the blog pieces on Microsoft Word, which has certain idiosyncrasies. Most dashes and apostrophes converted themselves to question marks, so I had to delete and replace them. Before I… click here to continue January, 30th, 2008 Snow JobsGoogle’s Analytics is a fun way to keep track of those who visit your website. It has more statistics than I ever need to know, but the ones I do want to see are really helpful. It’s fun to learn what countries and/or organizations are represented. You can also get a sneak peek at who may be planning a SPAM… click here to continue January, 28th, 2008 New VistaMaybe I’ve actually found the instructions for moving files taken off my old computer via a CD into the appropriate places on the new computer. I’m afraid to try it out for fear it won’t work. I keep hearing such bad things about Vista. I love the way everyone tells you how terrible something is after you’ve already bought it.… click here to continue January, 26th, 2008 Born Too SoonWhen my son was in kindergarten, we lived a few houses away from Ainsworth Pharmacy, on Northeast 30th. That store still had a soda fountain and sold coffee for five cents a cup at that time. Granted, it was a loss leader, but it drew people in. Since my then husband always had a 32-cup pot of coffee going, we… click here to continue January, 24th, 2008 Arising Through the HazeAt last, I’m arising from the fire and brimstone into a position where I have my work cut out for me—getting all the stuff from two old computers fed into this one. There are fairly easy ways to transfer data if you have a network, but for some reason, we can’t seem to get a network going in my… click here to continue January, 22nd, 2008 Computer Hell January, 21st, 2008 Ranting AgainI wrote the following on Thursday (yesterday) and one of my more aggravating computer problems prevented me from posting it, so try again… Today I bought three of the highly touted, allegedly energy-saving fluorescent light bulbs shaped like pretzels. To my surprise, they are encased in plastic (a lot of it), that appears not to be recyclable. In… click here to continue January, 18th, 2008 |