If you like to read comics online, I have a gem for you. With this ComicsViewer free software download, you can have access to a large number of classic, political, off-beat, and family-oriented comics right from your desktop. Setup is easy, and it will aautomatically update when you run it. Enjoy….
I’ve been working on my personal start page, and I’ve been happy with the results. I was taking to my friend Doug yesterday, and is his wont, he made a suggestion that opened my eyes wide. He suggested that instead of having a single start page, I could make a number of pages, covering various topics, and link them together just like a live website. He also told me about Abyss Web Server. Abyss runs on Windows and Linux, and it is a desktop webserver. I’ve downloaded it, and I’ve read about it on the website and have just installed it. Another choice of dekstop server: Website Robot. With these tools, I will create my own locally stored website; from there it will be just a step or two to “going live” on the web, when I’m ready. The possibilities are exciting.
Folksonomy Excitement
Folksonomy is defined as
<blockquote>. . .a neologism (a new word or expression) for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. This feature began appearing in a variety of social software in 2004. Some examples of online Folksonomy being social bookmarking sites like De.licio.us and Jots which are bookmark sharing sites, Flickr, for photo sharing, 43 Things, for goal sharing, GenieLab, for music recommendations and associations, and Tagsurf, for tag-based discussions. Gmail’s labeling system is somewhat similar to then.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy </blockquote>
I have actually completed my personal start page; it is wonderful to have everything on one handy page when my browser opens. I’ve also removed some items from the left sidebar, since they are now living on my page. It feels good to actually remove an item from the ToDo list, for a change.
Quote:
I came across an interesting quote yesterday, in an old copy of Reader’s Digest: “In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.” Many people could take a lesson from these simple statements; most find it simply too easy to walk away from a relationship, sometimes at the first signs of discord. My husband and I have been together since 1996 and married since 1998. We try to remember what brought us together in the first place when times get tough. We have been able to meet all sorts of challenges, large and not so large, by standing shoulder-to-shoulder and working together; we negotiate well most of the time, and we know how to laugh at ourselves, which has saved our bacon more than once. So, we do look for “grounds for marriage”. It has been my experience that I generally do find what I’m looking for, as I believe most people do. You get what you expect, because you behave accordingly.
I don’t think there’s much in the world that can equal the face of a child at his first circus. We left home in plenty of time, but had to come back for my ID so we could park in a handicapped parking area, so we ultimately arrived just before the performance started. The staff member who showed us to our seats took us to the wrong section intially, and we ended up needing to move to our correct seats at the intermission. Otherwise, the whole evening was wonderful. Dylan laughed and tried to look everywhere at once. His stock comment? “Oooooooh!” The one thing he did not do that I half expected was cry. He jumped once, when a loud blast (part of the performance, not to worry) went off, but then again, so did I. The biggest hits, as far as he was concerned, seemed to be the elephants and the ponies. He’s just like his grammy in loving elephants. Jay even bought him a stuffed pink baby elephant of his own.
Confession, it is rumored, is good for the soul. All right, then. I confess:
I am a packrat. (I hate that term, but I’ve never come across a better one.) I’m not pathological about it, because I don’t have vast collections of old newspapers, magazines and other junk-type clutter. My husband, bless his heart, took steps early in our relationship to deter me from such a path and rescued me from this fate when he decided to go through my closets, with my input and assistance, and clear out anything that hadn’t been used in two years. Since then, my distaste for general clutter has taken firm root in my mind. I don’t even like to have more than a few icons on my desktop at any given time; those that are there are used constantly. Everything else is filed logically away. Thank goodness for My Documents and it’s sub-sub-sub (you get the idea!) folders. I use My Documents as a central filing system, which makes more sense to me than using it to store text files only.
I just found the Blogger For Word add-on . After reading and accepting the Terms and Conditions, downloading the add-on took seconds, and installing was a snap. When I open Word, there is a new toolbar for Blogger that allows me to write new posts, view all of my posts, save drafts of posts, and publish posts. I can even save my login information in a Blogger Settings button on the toolbar, and preview html before posting to ensure accuracy. I had saved a draft of a post on the edit posts screen, and just opened that post and copied it below, within the same Word document I’m using to compose this post. Impressive. Plus, I can easily save backup copies of my posts. I’ve already created a folder just for backups on my desktop. No more data loss!!! I can use Word’s Autocorrect and spellchecker. Put another way: The power of Word has just met Blogger. The only capabilities missing now are an automatic way to add tags, but that can be done easily with a quick edit on the Blogger compose window, so it’s not a big deal, and it would be helpful to have a date/time field available on the toolbar as well.
I’ve signed this petiton, and encourage everyone to read it and sign it.
What is a Widget, and what in the world is a Konfabulator? Never fear, the answers are right here. The Konfabulator is software that you download, then you can choose from approximately 1,000 small applications that run on the Konfabulator. If you have a Mac, you may already know what a widget is; they are part of the Mac OS. Don’t have a Mac? You’re in luck: The Konfabulator also runs on Windows. As the website says, “cross-platform goodness.” There are widgets that are serious, and widgets that are fun. Example of a serious widget is the Atomic Clock Widget, for keeping your computer’s time accurate, or the Weather Widget and the Radar Widget. There’s even a blogging widget for Blogger that I grabbed, plus Kaim Widget, for AOL’s Instant Messenger. For fun, there’s a Classic Memory game Widget, and if you really want to know how fast you type, check out the Typing Speedometer Widget. Want to know what traffic is like in South Carolia, London, Canada, Stockholm or Mexico City? No problem. If you read or speak German, play the German Lotto…the Dutch Lotto or the UK Lotto, yes, you guessed it…with a widget. Look up information on drugs and their side effects. Listen to a radio station. The cam widgets are just the thing. You can keep track of stocks, football schedules, and movie times. RSS widgets, a calculator widget (Green, no less, and a nifty little alien type guy in a flying saucer to keep you company as he drifts around your desktop will all help make your day more productive and more tun. Fun is a good thing.
The array of widgets is wide enough to ensure just about anyone can find ones they enjooy. Read a scriptur from the Bible; learn a new word,m play a gaame…the possibilities are nearly endless.