Yesterday my friend Jerry Pounds called me to ask if I knew of a florist close to the hospital where our mutual friend Tucker was hospitalized so that he could order some flowers for him. I said, “No, I don’t, but what I’d do is go to Google Local and look one up.” He said, [...]
This morning I visited with my friend Tucker Childers at the hospital where he had to go this past Thursday because he had pneumonia. While there, I shot a video message from him to share with some of his concerned friends online. Using my Canon Powershot S2 IS, I shot 57 seconds in an AVI [...]
This post will probably be temporary because I am making it only to test whether I can activate the lightbox component of this template. If successful, clicking on the graphic below should use the lightbox javascript to display an enlarged version of the image “above” the post with the web page still in the background. [...]
Yesterday, I spent several hours helping my friend Tucker set up his new computer and get connected to the Internet. That gave me my first chance to have a hands-on experience with Vista, albeit with Vista Basic. I have, of course, seen some online video demos of it, but I hadn’t been able to sit [...]
The simple act of forming a question in order to ask it sometimes reveals the answer. And that is a meaning of Jesus’ saying, “Ask, and Ye shall receive,” that I had never thought about before. Here’s what led to that insight. This morning I wrote my friend Daryl Houston to ask for his help [...]
On Monday, I spent a bit of time helping a couple of friends with their computer issues. Tom, who is a friend here in Knoxville, called me over the weekend somewhat distraught because his monitor was showing the desktop in a sickeningly green color. I decided to take over the Samsung monitor I had removed [...]
I don’t know what it is about us old farts, but the older I’ve gotten, the less sleep I seem to need. Again this morning I awoke at about 4:30 A.M., so I tossed and turned for a little while and then decided to give in and get up. I started the coffee, which was [...]
Recently I blogged about the free genealogy program called Family Tree Builder that you can download from MyHeritage.com and how I had gotten involved with it because I wanted to see how the program worked and how easy or hard it was to enter information in it. Now I guess I should acknowledge that I [...]
Tonight I attended a gathering of a number of bloggers from here in Knoxville and the surrounding area at Calhoun’s on Kingston Pike. Glenn Reynolds was kind enough to post links to the blogs of those in attendance. The affair was surprisingly well-attended as we overran the table set aside for the fifteen that the [...]
The fear that on January 1, 2000, computers all over the world would stop working, because of the lack of programming foresight to allow for a change of the century in all the code written up to that point, was referred to as “the Y2K problem.” A disaster movie made a brief splash but as [...]