Monday, May 28, 2007

Customize Your Blogger Header

Freevlog » Blog Archive » Screencast: Customize Your Blogger Header: "This is the day all you Blogger users have been waiting for! No more header hacking! You can just upload your header image to your layout faster than you can say “img src=”. Hurray! Thanks New Blogger Team!"

Saturday, May 26, 2007

War Records Online

Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online - Yahoo! News: "Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online By DONNA BORAK, AP Business Writer
Thu May 24, 10:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.

On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975. The site also has the names of 3.5 million U.S. soldiers killed in action, including 2,000 who died in Iraq."

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Mind Your E-Mail Manners


"Don't contribute to rudeness on the Web; learn these ten rules and use them forever.
James A. Martin
Monday, September 25, 2000 12:00 AM PDT
Let's begin our e-mail etiquette course with a pop quiz: Your coworker Hank has such terrible breath that it's become a subject of office gossip. Should you send an anonymous e-mail to warn Hank, tactfully, of the problem?
If your answer is yes, you've violated PC World's second rule of e-mail etiquette: Don't use e-mail to deliver sensitive messages. But don't be discouraged: Lots of other people's e-mail manners are as bad or worse.
With the explosion in use of the Internet and personal computers have come massive violations of e-mail etiquette. An online survey conducted by Yahoo found that the majority of 13,000 respondents scored a C-minus in e-mail etiquette. As manners maven Letitia Baldrige recently said in a USA Today opinion piece, 'E-mail is so beloved, universally accepted, and adored that I feel almost like a traitor suggesting that there is a growing trend to abuse it.'"
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Class Photo

Last day

Community Learning Center

"Encore: The Senior College
ENCORE CLASSES: LEARNING IS FUN!
ENCORE is a new academic credit program at San Juan College designed for students 50 years and over BUT classes are open to everyone! ENCORE creates opportunities for students to maintain lifelong vitality through learning and these informative and fun classes can be enjoyed by students of all ages. Class tuition for students over the age of 65 is $5; tuition for students under the age of 65 is $25. The classes are offered for one college credit and all instructors are degreed or credentialed. "

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Jury Duty Scam

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives: "The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he'll need some information for 'verification purposes'-your birth date, social security number, maybe even a credit card number.
This is when you should hang up the phone. It's a scam. "

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Monday, May 07, 2007

Summer Course Schedule


I will only be teaching 2 courses this summer. Both will start Monday June 4 and finish on Wednesday June 27. The 2 courses are Computer Basics 1 and Working with Photos. Early registration for Encore members starts May 16, 2007.

More uploaded pictures

Lizard

The top photo is in a Webshots online album




The Lower Photo is from Picasa


Picture added from Online site

This picture is located in a Picasa online album




This picture is in a webshots album


May storm in desert

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Keep your pictures safe






KODAK Gallery: "In the event of a natural disaster, human error, hard drive crash or theft, Picture Protection can help you re-create the Prints, Photo Books and anything else you've created with pictures you have saved at the gallery. "

Please note: This is an advertisement from Kodak.




Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Mobile Blogging


By Biz Stone
See also: Blogger Mobile FAQ
Back in the day, mobile phones were rare and pricey. Rich businessmen carried them around in suitcases. I remember when I was in middle school and Melissa Miller's dad had a car phone. That was fancy. Mr. Miller is a fancy guy. These days, mobiles are low-cost and everywhere. In many countries, mobile phones outnumber their land-line counterparts. Around the world, mobile phones are increasingly pervasive and this is especially true when it comes to developing areas. People even decorate, customize, and accessorize their phones to reflect their personality. Sound familiar?
Mobile phones are perfect little blogging appliances that people carry around with them everywhere. Sharing photos and stories with friends while you're on-the-go by sending them straight to your blog—what could be easier? Turns out it can be easier, that's why we created Blogger Mobile. To create a blog and post to it using your mobile phone, you will need to follow these directions:




Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Webby Awards


The best of the web as decided by the academy and peoples choice.

Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria. See them all here.


Webby Award Winners:
"11th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners:"

"With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise -- and perhaps a little bragging."