By Perry, 1 year and 9 months ago

The Wells-Fargo wagon

I'm kind of like a kid at Christmas this morning. I'm awaiting the arrival of the FedEx truck, hence the reference to «The Wells-Fargo Wagon» From Meredith Wilson's «The Music Man,» with «somethin' special» for me.

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By Perry, 1 year and 9 months ago

How to use Firefox's keyword feature

Life should be as simple as possible, I think.  That's why I love the keyword feature in Firefox. 

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By Perry, 1 year and 9 months ago

The machine is us/ing us.

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By Perry, 1 year and 9 months ago

Zoho Notebook

Raju Vegesna announced the Alpha version of a new Web 2.0 application called Zoho Notebook on January 30, 2007, and demonstrated it this week at DEMO '07. It looks pretty amazing to me, and I'd love to get in on trying it out. Check out the 3-minute video below.

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By Perry, 1 year and 9 months ago

Family tree

A few days ago, I talked about Face Recognition that was available from this site. On that same date, I downloaded their free genealogy software, called Family Tree Builder (FTB). And in subsequent days I've gone through their 56-page tutorial, an optional but useful exercise that helped me understand the software and maybe avoid some decisions that might adversely affect my options further along. (I'm probably one of the few people in the world who bothers to read the documentation for a program, particularly if it is good as it is in this case, almost as soon as I pick it up. I know many others, most people in fact, who just jump in and turn to the documentation only when they hit a wall and don't know how to do something. But the difference in these two strategies is possibly the topic of a worthwhile discussion in another post, so I'll save any further observations about that for then.)

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