The other morning while I was out shopping for groceries, my friend Juan Gutierrez emailed me, asking for advice about a cheap (or free) database program that his wife, Cindy, could use to keep track of the books she reads. (She reads about one book a day. Wow!) Cindy has been keeping track of them in an Excel spreadsheet over the last year or so, but that has become burdensome and not flexible enough for her needs.
Those of you who use Internet Explorer may not notice, because of the way IE displays my template, that I have added a new page to this website. (That's a source of consternation for me that I haven't yet resolved, but that's another story.) So let me call your attention to it by linking to it here. It's listed in the sidebar on the left where it is called Software and Services. On this new page, I have listed a number of pieces of software and some web services that I use and enjoy. I have provided links to them all, and as my time permits, I may go back and elaborate more on each of them, but for now I just wanted to get the list up here so that I can refer you to it should the occasion arise when I am making posts.
The New York Times is reporting this morning that the identity of Funtwo has finally been revealed. If you don't know who Funtwo is, then you obviously haven't been doing your homework at YouTube. Here's a link to the video that made him an international man of mystery and a source of amazement to all who have seen his performance. (The link to the Times article requires a one-time, free registration.)
Some might say I'm easily pleased, and I'd find myself hard pressed to disagree. Take a look at this video first ...
Miss Carole Jean Oglesbee walked down the aisle and became Mrs. Carole Nelson on August 25, 1962. It's good to remember such milestones, I think. We divorced in February of 1981, but before doing so we had a lot of fun and interesting experiences together. And, of course, we had two sons, Jeff and Mike, who are themselves now fathers and husbands. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
First Daryl then Mike summarized their impressions and assessment of last night's meeting of the Knoxville Bloggers group, so there's no point in my posting a «me, too» post about that, although if I did post anything, that is essentially what I would say. I had fun at the meeting and am ready to attend the next one, if/when it occurs. I expect I'll continue to learn from the others and maybe even be inspired to extend my vision of what role my blog may play in the «great scheme of things» because of these associations. So all-in-all, last night left me with a good feeling and the impression that we got off to a good start.
Thanks to Mike Neel, a community of Knoxville Bloggers has been created on orkut, a Google social networking service. His goal, apparently, is to make it easy for us bloggers in Knoxville to coordinate our activities and meetings and to benefit from sharing what we know and what we want to learn.
The title of this post might be the headline if the Knoxville News Sentinel chose to cover the August 23rd meeting at 7:00 PM in South Knoxville of the nascent Knox Bloggers group. Bloggers, after all, are a solitary breed, eschewing as they do associating even with editors, so the secondary goal of determining whether to meet on a monthly basis is a bit like skiing uphill. Still the first gathering could prove interesting enough to warrant a return engagement. It, I suppose, remains to be seen.
One of the things I was going to catch you up on was OpenDNS that I began using on August 6, 2006, to speed up my connection. Tonight, I noticed that Paul Stamatiou has explained it for me, so I won't have to try to duplicate that. He gives an excellent explanation of what it is and how you might benefit from it in this post. Check it out.
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