#134 February 1, 2010 from http://www.don-guitar.com Online version: http://www.don-guitar.com/currentissue.html Archives: http://www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ First word, from Don: On the Our_Patch discussion list, over the last couple of weeks or so, we've talked about Haiti, religion, social networking, and a strange cat who invaded Sandi's house. Don't want to miss any more of that do you? Ok, so stop reading this, go to our contact page and tell us to add you to the list (be sure the email address you give is accurate and the one under which you wish to be subscribed). Right here ---> http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html You know you want to. It's ok if you just want to lurk instead of posting but the only way to get on the list is to email us and ask to be put there. Gee it got cold and rainy here over the last couple of days. I'm ready for Spring. I don't much care for Winter. I've always said 'I can work with sweat in my eyes but if my feet get cold I'm going to the house' and that's pretty much how I feel about it. I've been staying indoors as much as possible and cleaning out my computer junk room. Now I'll be the first to admit I'm not good at cleaning and, in all honesty, it's never been a skill I was keen to acquire so I sure hope it warms up out there soon. :) See you next time, Don Our feedback form and contact info: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Don on... myspace: http://www.myspace.com/donguitar facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Crowder/1321324044 twitter: http://twitter.com/eldergeek blogger: http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/ Lisa on... myspace: http://www.myspace.com/81825549 facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Miller/100000537499890 blogger: http://thedirtgoddess.blogspot.com/ Section One by Don. An odd little dictionary tool. http://www.voycabulary.com/ Dictionary of the Scots language. http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/ Scottish vernacular dictionary. http://www.firstfoot.com/dictionary/full.html On the origin of a popular phrase. http://www.bertramchandler.com/liberty.aspx ...and more about A (Arthur) Bertram Chandler. http://www.bertramchandler.com/ 'The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices.' http://www.grassroots.org/ What the heck is 'Social Bookmarking'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf ...and a few social bookmarking sites. http://delicious.com/ http://www.socialmarker.com/ http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php http://digg.com/ http://www.mister-wong.com/ http://www.whispurr.com/ http://www.savethislink.net/ http://www.addthis.com/ http://www.propeller.com/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/ http://socialogs.com/ http://wirefan.com/ http://bibsonomy.org/ http://faves.com/home http://simpy.com/ http://www.backflip.com/status.html http://spurl.net/ http://www.newsvine.com/ http://netvouz.com/ (and there are many more) How to take notes online. http://www.ubernote.com/ http://jjot.com/ http://jumk.de/notepad/ http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ http://www.ayenotes.com/ http://www.notefish.com/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/listit/ http://www.threetags.com/ http://mojonote.com/ http://www.mystickies.com/ http://www.fruitnotes.com/ http://tinypaste.com/ http://www.yourdraft.com/ http://www.copytaste.com/ http://notepub.com/ http://cl1p.net/ http://freetexthost.com/ http://friendpaste.com/ http://textsnip.com/ https://privnote.com/ http://jottit.com/ http://springpadit.com/ http://www.evernote.com/ http://www.notely.net/index.php http://www.webasyst.net/notes/ http://www.shorttext.com/ http://www.pastehere.com/Paste.aspx http://www.tasktoy.com/ http://www.syncnotes.com/WebView/Default.aspx http://www.mynoteit.com/ End of Section One. This publication is only mailed to verified double opt-in subscribers, and is brought to you by me, Don Crowder, my wife, Lisa Miller, and http://www.freelists.org Section Two by Lisa. For those of you already on Google Wave, a couple of much-requested features have now been implemented. http://googlewave.blogspot.com/ A complete online OS. http://www.glidedigital.com/ Stephan Hawking's physical restrictions have never limited his creativity. http://www.hawking.org.uk/ Run Windows programs on OS X. http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ View, convert, embed, share, upload or search for any document online. http://member.thinkfree.com/ It can be useful to navigate one directory up in a web site. You can go from a 'deep' page in a site to the home page or any directories in-between. Firefox and Chrome have handy extensions for just this purpose. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/869 http://goo.gl/7wWK Adam Beane, commercial sculptor. http://adambeane.com/home.html A site celebrating the art of manliness. http://artofmanliness.com/ Find out how safe your water is. http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/welcome Another Open-Source encyclopedia. http://open-site.org/ Paint your home without paint. This commercial site will allow you to do some virtual painting free with an account. http://colorjive.com/home.action Scads of bookmarklets. http://www.marklets.com/bookmarklets/ A great blog/comics site (IMO). http://www.shoeboxblog.com/ Are you Living or surviving? http://www.livingorsurviving.com/ The Internet Archive. Proceed at your own peril-headfirst! http://www.archive.org/index.php An amazing photographic collection. http://thundafunda.com/ Online tools that rival desktop applications at a great price-free! http://aviary.com/ Conversation, community and democracy. http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ http://www.publicconversations.org/ http://www.conversationcafe.org/ http://www.theworldcafe.com/index.htm Caring for animals makes us better people. http://www.humanesociety.org/ Another Internet encyclopedia. http://open-site.org/ End of Section Two. At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 380. This issue's collection of online news, blogs, magazines, videos and/or other informational sites. These are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may have offensive or questionable content. [Oops I forgot the Media section this time, drat] Section Three by Don. Spooks in the UK. http://www.haunted-britain.com/ Newspaper anyone? http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ http://www.thepaperboy.com/ Daily newspaper front pages (viewer discretion is advised). http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ Reuters.com Oddly Enough (weird news). http://tinyurl.com/2e3988 Movie mistakes. http://www.moviemistakes.com/ Talking funny in the UK. http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/ English tongue twisters (from a site in Austria!). http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm How can you tell a websites country of origin? http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/85tldn.htm Editor's note: In the virtual world of the web you can't really determine where the website is located because the host computer could be anywhere. For example, the fellow who created the English tongue twisters site, above, may live in Austria or he may have created the site for Austrian English students while he himself lives somewhere else. All you can accurately say is that the site was probably created for the use of people who live in Austria. When you're corresponding by email with people who live in countries that use the metric system, it's nice too convert distances and temperatures to values they'll quickly understand. Online conversion sites are useful for this. http://www.convert-me.com/en/ A few interesting videos. http://vimeo.com/6712657 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6aQbnHSRo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vss1VKN2rf8 Grant Robinson is a very interesting technically inclined fellow. http://grant.robinson.name/blog/ Here are some 'toys' he built for the internet. http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/ http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/ http://grant.robinson.name/projects/sudoku/ My mom used to say she could always spot my exhibit on parents day in early grade school. It was the one with all the clay snakes (I'm artistically challenged). So this site would be a good way to recapture a bit of my childhood except I could never draw anything, not even snakes. :( http://www.makeitshareit.com/ Snow humor. http://i.imgur.com/TkJHh.jpg (in Firefox I had to click the + sign to enlarge it) Blogs about traveling. http://www.tripcrazed.com/ So, would you ban this book? http://tinyurl.com/kv4js3 [wikipedia dot org] The payphone project. http://www.payphone-project.com/ Ok Americans, is your town on the list? http://www.americantowns.com/ http://www.hometownlocator.com/ How about the rest of you? http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ End of Section Three. If you'd like to help promote this non-commercial publication, please forward this ezine to anyone you know who might appreciate it. To spare them the forwarding carets (>> these things) I suggest you copy/paste the ezine to a new email window, or save the ezine as a text file to be inserted, or copy/pasted to a new email. If you've received this publication as a forward and wish to subscribe you may easily do so from online forms in either of these two locations: http://www.don-guitar.com/subsmanager.html http://www.freelists.org/list/donspatch Section Four by Lisa. Online image editing-no cost, no registration. http://www.picnik.com/ Tired of having to register to read an article? Here's a workaround. http://goo.gl/BQG3 Use the power of Gmail to upload and store all your files online. http://www.getgspace.com/index.html Photoshop video tutorials. Remember, with just a little patience, you can duplicate almost anything in GIMP, at a great price, free. http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/ Want a nice-looking website in record time? http://www.dotemplate.com/ Turn your photos into digital art-fast. http://www.befunky.com/ Online courses from leading universities. http://academicearth.org/ Make, organize your lists to get things done. http://www.gubb.net/ Beautiful cigar art, boxes and bands. http://www.cigarsoftware.com/index.html Turn your favorite websites into Mac desktop applications. http://fluidapp.com/ Beautiful pallettes to help you with your color dilemmas. http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30 Test your website in dozens of different browsers. http://browsershots.org/ The Setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews. http://usesthis.com/ A philosophy and a cause, the Right To Read. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html Mondegreens for pop songs of the last 50 years. http://www.amiright.com/ Useful and costless call services. http://telepixie.com/ The customer is not always right. http://notalwaysright.com/ What is it about marionettes that makes them so fascinating? http://www.czechmarionettes.com/ http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_5118_marionettes.html Intuitive, visual navigation for websites. http://www.spicynodes.org/ Who are the most isolated people on earth? Maybe the Sentinalese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people http://goo.gl/Jpy3 End of Section Four. We welcome all comments, suggestions, or criticism. The form doesn't access your email client (it's a CGI form), so your privacy is assured. If you know of a website that would be a good candidate for this ezine, please pass it on via our online feedback form. http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Section Five by Don. Maybe it's because I raised three daughters but I've always been an advocate of womens rights. Shortly after I started writing an ezine (for the now defunct Maxpatch.com) I discovered Cynthia Lanius... http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/cwac99.html ...and became an instant advocate of women in Technology. At the time Cynthia was something of a lone voice in the wilderness. That has changed. http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/cwac99.html http://www.girlgeeks.org/ http://www.techbridgegirls.org/ http://www.girlsgotech.org/ http://www.girlsintechnology.com/ http://www.girlstart.org/index.asp http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/ http://www.josietrue.com/ http://www.braincake.org/default.aspx http://tinyurl.com/ydfroyw [choixdecarrieres dot org] http://www.computergirl.us/ http://www.webgrrls.com/ http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/pdf/cwomen.pdf http://www.networkcomputing.com/1216/1216colwoodka.html http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dougproj/ http://www.engineergirl.org/ http://dww.ed.gov/topic/?T_ID=18 http://www.engineeryourlife.org/ http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/ http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~wit/exploring/index.htm http://etf.terc.edu/index.html http://www.chabotspace.org/visit/programs/first.asp http://www.gemsclub.org/index.html http://www2.edc.org/GDI/ http://www.josanders.com/educators.html http://tinyurl.com/ycsjwps [teachertech dot rice dot edu] http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Girls_and_Computers http://tinyurl.com/29sg2e [learningplace dot com dot au] http://www.beloit.edu/gwsci/ http://www.caaws.ca/girlsatplay/ http://gc3.edc.org/ http://programservices.etr.org/gcgweb/ https://www.girlsinc-online.org/ http://www.girlstart.com/index.asp http://www.girlswithwings.com/index.html http://intl.girltech.com/ http://www.iwaswondering.org/index2.html http://tinyurl.com/yfa3p2p [Pat McNees dot com] http://www.pdksciart.com/index.htm http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/weac/ http://www.sallyridescience.com/ http://www.scwist.ca/ http://mathequity.terc.edu/gw/html/TERCTimespaper.html http://www.binarygirl.com/ http://www.girltech.com/index.aspx http://www.womenswork.org/girls/compsci/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~karavan/afl/home.html http://teachertech.rice.edu/index2.html http://web.vtc.edu/WIT/ http://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/ http://tinyurl.com/yz29685 [meetingtomorrow dot com] http://www.womeninscience.org/ http://www.womenintech.com/ http://quest.nasa.gov/women/intro.html http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/ http://www.zoeysroom.com/ http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/math/gender/ http://awm-math.org/ While I was looking for sites that encouraged women and girls to get into technology (and being knocked out by how many I found) I also found plenty of sites which are intended to encourage girls in general, without any special emphasis. Here are a few. http://genderequalbooks.com/Brave_Girls_book_list.html http://www.feminist.org/ http://www.fragdolls.com/index.php http://www.agirlsworld.com/ http://www.girlzone.com/ http://www.gogirlsonly.org/gogirlsonly.asp http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/ End of Section Five. Archives for this ezine are available online here: http://www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ The current issue is also available on our website. http://www.don-guitar.com/currentissue.html RSS feed is available via this link. http://www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/feed.rss Section Six by Lisa. A new social content site. http://open.salon.com/cover The Internet Bus is traveling through India. http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/internetbus/ Students for the Exploration of Space, SEDS. http://www.seds.org/ A project by the Commonsense Computing Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, the Open Mind Initiative enables computers to learn general knowledge from ordinary people over the Web. http://www.openmind.org/ Mmmmm...5 minutes reading this site made me hungry. http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/ You might ask yourself 'What's that stuff?'. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/ I've managed not to pack on an extra 10 pounds this winter, but it's been a struggle. Here are some great tips if you live in a cold climate. http://bit.ly/5XmJL5 Good legal advice at a good price-free! http://www.thelaw.com/ An easy way to find quotations. http://www.thinkexist.com/ What if it's all been a big fat lie? http://bit.ly/K5kbM From the day you go online, you should be aware you're building an online reputation. http://bit.ly/d4j5Nl I love Google Calendar, but there are plenty of good alternatives. http://www.keepandshare.com/ http://www.calendarhome.com/clink.html http://www.30boxes.com/welcome.php An amazing amount of info on the outdoors in a beautifully designed website. http://www.dto.com/ Make your own high-quality logo. http://www.logoease.com/ Promoting Open Knowledge in a digital age. http://www.okfn.org/ The Tinkernut will show you how to do stuff. His 'Create A Free Website From Scratch' is excellent and directs you to free hosting. http://www.tinkernut.com/ Swap all sorts of things. Smaller stuff. http://www.swaptree.com/ Random files. http://www.file-swap.com/ More stuff. http://www.swap-it-now.com/ Gift cards. http://www.swapagift.com/index.html Car leases. http://www.swapalease.com/ Comics. http://www.sequentialswap.com/ Clothing. http://clothesswap.meetup.com/ Clothing and accessories. http://dignswap.com/ Surprise! http://www.coudal.com/swapmeat/swapped.php Baby stuff. http://www.swapbabygoods.com/ Stuff and freebies. http://www.swapsavers.com/ Treasures. http://www.swaptreasures.com/ Seeds. http://www.garden.org/seedswap/ Books, CDs, DVDs, Games. http://www.titletrader.com/ Assorted. http://www.swap-online.com/ Portal site. http://www.swapace.com/index.php ~~~ Even More Things Google: Google Sites About 3 Years ago I built and have been maintaining a site for Llano (county) Master Gardeners Association. Life events conspired to make it difficult or impossible to keep up with the organization and maintaining the website, and the site fell behind the group's current activities. It was decided to turn the site over to someone else who had the time to maintain it. I was very stressed out at the thought of turning over the site to someone who would have to learn the site, HTML and CSS and how to keep it up to date. Google to the rescue! For the last couple of months I've been geeking out, discovering the cool, efficient free tools Google has to offer and found the one that ties them all together to help me with this dilemma. The system begins with Gmail and its extensive functionality. There are many features that help you organize and structure your daily email. Getting a Gmail account is a good first step because you can share the address and password with the other Google products that will make it a complete system. Google Calendar is as simple or complex as you need it to be. You can have one Calendar or many in one account, making it easy to coordinate the events of one or more people or entities. Google Docs (documents) is a relatively full-featured word processor that not only saves all your documents online, but will download them to your computer in any file format you choose, and/or will publish them as a web page to which you can link on your pages. All free of charge. Google Sites is an easy, coordinated system for building a personal or professional website at a great price-free! Once you have chosen a template, you can further customize your site by adapting the HTML and embedded CSS. Here's the link; http://sites.google.com/ Some of the functionality is fixed, although there are compensations-you can't break the basic structure by making changes that won't work. All of the changes are done in realtime, so be aware that your viewers are watching. You can be sure your site is standards-compliant and I've found that so far the templates all feature fluid design. The most comprehensive tutorials I've found for Google Sites are here; http://www.steegle.com/ http://siteshelp.kccloudsolutions.com/ Picasa is another Google product that reportedly works seamlessly with Google Sites. A couple of years ago I installed it and it searched my computer for image files and organized them for me. I resented that and promptly uninstalled it. Now, I still haven't organized all those images and dumped lots more in disorganized, random folders. Perhaps it's time to give it another whirl. Still, if you don't want to use Picasa, you have the option of simply uploading images. There are numerous YouTube tutorials on how to use and customize Google sites. You can start here; http://goo.gl/1UdP As I said, Google has rescued me and in a short time I'll be able to co-administer the Llano Master Gardener's site with other members of the Association. The total cost of the site will be the time invested learning (which always yields its own dividends) and $10 a year for a domain name. End of Section Six. The Linux Corner. Bash Guide for Beginners. http://tinyurl.com/f2qkl [tldp dot org] Serious, heavy duty internet security. http://coyotelinux.com/ Debian news, tips, tricks and more. http://www.debiantoday.com/ Google Gadgets for Linux. http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/ Google's Open Source blog. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/ Roll-your-own Linux. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ http://tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro http://pcplus.techradar.com/node/3020 http://tinyurl.com/5o98p9 [informationweek dot com] http://susestudio.com/ Note: If susestudio intimidates you, there are a couple of helpful videos on youtube. Just go to youtube and type 'susestudio' in the search bar. A Little Humor. http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=419079936 http://tinyurl.com/ykmgrp2 [climate protection campaign dot org] http://www.aaaugh.com/jokes/computer_abc.html [more where that came from] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcA4Ry65FU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnPCMIUvT0g Josh Blue is a wonderful, brave, funny man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMSrpZi_6WM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uAs2KidfDg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0kA6ZwIA9s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0pdmqdb5Uc Tips for This Issue. http://ririanproject.com/category/computers-tech/ http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/safetytips.htm http://www.itexpressions.com/computertips.shtml http://www.networktutorials.info/ Contributions From Our Readers. Links from readers are always welcome and you can even write your own link descriptions if you like (just tell me when you send them if that's what you intended). Guidelines are available here: http://www.don-guitar.com/descriptivetext.html From our good friend Cyndi Dunn, a joke that may fall a little short of truth but is nevertheless funny. http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/thermometer.asp From our web-sibling Jerry Fox. The lost generation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA Oops, another famous joke bites the dust but is still good for a laugh. http://www.snopes.com/military/reinwald.asp From our web-sibling Norm Koedkritz, a moment in American TV history that's been entitled 'Homeland Security'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2C-2ul---4 From our web-sibling John Lepse. ( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ ) The harmonica man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSpoMWQRCiU Bill Gates and the Quiz Machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_oII4FzZEg [part 1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8EQPpqcnk [part 2] Beethoven's 5th argument. http://www.flixxy.com/beethoven-5th-symphony.htm John found this thought provoking. http://tinyurl.com/y89ungv [blog dot sojo dot net] The inspirational story of Doug Smith. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA0LoIhjnkc Lisa and I have discussed it. We agree, it's love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BB41MLgoWk Way back in nineteen mumble, shortly after I first got online via dial up, one of the first good friends I made, in the 40something chat room at go.com (because the 50something room was always empty) was the charming and delightful moonbeamrose. Through her I recently discovered Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, an awesome American. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo%27ole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q From our friend Lee Parmeter who is also the mind-behind our local Highland Lakes Linux Users Group. ( http://www.hllug.org/ ) The linux foundation will train you - for free. http://tinyurl.com/yzw4m9r [linuxjournal dot com] From our friend Steven Scott. Some UK consumers have have cause to be angry. http://tinyurl.com/yjvrwza [guardian dot co dot uk] From our web-sibling Randi Simon-Serey. ( http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x53/chowchowgrl/ ) A great site for nurses. http://allnurses.com/ From our web-sibling Bob Tegner. ( http://bobtegner.wordpress.com/ ) Astronomy apps. http://freeware.intrastar.net/planetarium.htm From our web-sibling Ted Whitford. ( http://twitter.com/tedleew ) Ted's Blip FM channel. http://beta.blip.fm/tedleew An alternative to compulsory registration. http://www.bugmenot.com/ Your version of the web. http://www.yourversion.com/ Convert a webpage to a PDF document. http://pdfmyurl.com/ A little scientific reading. http://www.sciencedaily.com/ An intriguing blog. http://circleboxblog.com/ Thank you Cyndi, Jerry, Norm, John, Rose, Lee, Stevie, Randi, Bawb and Ted. ~~~ Amanda is perhaps our youngest web-friend. In fact, she's a few years younger than my youngest daughter. Lisa and I decided that we're her virtual grandparents. We think of ourselves as her eMaw and ePaw. Lisa and I love her writing so we asked for permission to share some of her word-craft with our readers. She graciously consented. Breathing After the Bullet We all heard it break the air between us and crack the yew leaves hanging by the porch. So we looked at each other through the space where our talk had reared up mid-phrase. Our father measured his words in the rain-light, holding onto them in case they were wrong. In case we were all wrong, no one else spoke. It couldn't have been. It couldn't have been anything else. Our breath pawed the ground and shook its head and the chair springs whinnied as we waited for the bullet to circle the world and come back. Saucepan We had a little saucepan I loved, blue, speckled white like an egg, the kind everyone's grandmother had and it disappeared the way grandmothers do. Maybe one day I will find it and hold it, turn it over looking for some epiphany like waiting for water to boil. The Night Fishermen of the Chester River At 10:00, they turn up at the bridge hair white around the ears, skin pooling around their eyes dark like water. They cast out a line, wait, reel back in, cast out. Each gives the other's lines a wide berth and none bothers to leave lamps lit at home. Thank you Manda. Love you bunches. Last word, from Lisa: Still in a steep learning curve, I've been spending lots of time playing with Google Wave and my new Facebook account. Now I see the appeal of Facebook that I didn't understand before. You can keep up with people that you know and care about, but don't see nearly enough. You can meet new friends with shared fun or intellectual interests and much more. At first it's a little addictive, but like most new things settles into its rightful place in your life. Don just accused me of being fond of taking on challenging new projects. That's just a...a...base allegation. Yeah, that's what it is. Livin' La Vida Loca, Y'all. Lisa Our feedback form and contact info: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html Lisa on... myspace: http://www.myspace.com/81825549 facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Miller/100000537499890 blogger: http://thedirtgoddess.blogspot.com/ Don on... myspace: http://www.myspace.com/donguitar facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Crowder/1321324044 twitter: http://twitter.com/eldergeek blogger: http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/ Don Crowder and Lisa Miller Monday, February 1, 2010 12:10 AM CST - Buchanan Lake Village, Texas, USA Served by the U.S. Post Office in Tow (rhymes-with-cow), Texas Privacy: We will never share, sell, or otherwise compromise your email address. Privacy Policy on our website. http://www.don-guitar.com/privacy.html Freelists.org Privacy Policy. http://www.freelists.org/privacy.html The most important people on the Internet, for you and I as computer users, are software developers. 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