Posted in Technology, Uncategorized, genealogy on Oct 31st, 2009
Over the last year I’ve vacillated between buying another genealogy program and continuing to use iFamily For Leopard–it was called iFamily For Tiger when I purchased it. There are a number of reasons to continue with iFamily, most of which I have mentioned in previous posts but a rather special feature of the software was [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2009
While many ultra right wing conservatives may have regarded the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States with foreboding, I did not. The vote I cast for him was done without equivocation, in fact, it was done with pride and an abiding sense of relief that the highest elective office in the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2008
At Christmas we may experience a variety of sensory overloads. Articles documenting horrific tragedies, cases of insuperable bouts of depression often brought on by memories of lost loved ones, those rare stories that are so spiritually uplifting they risk becoming maudlin, or the usual example of conspicuous consumption cataloged in Neiman Marcus pop up almost [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2008
We are heading south to North Carolina after a 4 day stay in New Jersey. We crammed my 45th high school reunion, visits to family, and some genealogy research in our brief time in the Garden State. Rain and mostly cloudy skies coupled with visiting family members prevented us from getting out for any hikes [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2008
I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress this afternoon. The upgrade itself was very smooth; however, one of the plugins I was using to display photos just doesn’t work anymore. The fault could be entirely mine but after hours of failure, I’ll have to rethink how I will display the affected photos.
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