When the power is STILL out…

When the power goes out…

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TODAY’S UPDATE:
The power came back on at 8:30 p.m. last night, ten hours after going out. We managed to get our car down the hill to the general store this morning and discovered that everyone’s power and phone service is still out, but the whole town is using a Pacific Gas and Electric [...]

The Mysteries of RSS feeds & “feed URLS”

Okay, so I’m a complete idiot when it comes to any kind of html or understanding any of my blog’s inner-workings. Today’s demon: RSS feeds and “feed URLS”.
I know that there’s tremendous potential to make my blog completely wonderful, bristling and clanging with all sorts of bells & whistles on my sidebar, drawing the blog [...]

What was I thinking?

BOOKMARKS!
Hundreds of them have accumulated on my computer over the past couple of years.
Tonight I am finally grabbing the Firefox browser monkey by the neck — ripping it off my back — and starting to go through each and every bookmark to see if:
1.) …the links still work. (A surprising number of them don’t!)
2.) …I [...]

Monitoring our ever-changing World

All of a sudden, it seems that everything has gotten so much more sophisticated on the WorldWide Web.
Since James and I gave away our television to a thrift store in St. Louis in March of 2002 — we couldn’t STAND it anymore! — most of our news comes from the computer.
During most of [...]