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Ad Blocker or No Ad Blocker - THAT is the Question
I write. I depend upon ads for a small (shall we say) pecuniary emolument. That emolument is provided by advertising. I get paid for "valid" (whatever that is) advertisement visitations. So I don't like ad blockers on that account. For the longest time, I
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Kids On Tablets
Haircut
My husband went for a haircut today and the barber was talking about her son. She said he was a great boy, very quiet, you would hardly know he was there.
Not There?
That wasn't like any young boys I have known! You definitely would have known m
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MP3 is the new format for most music enthusiasts, but I would like to go back to the days of the vinyl LP.
I like vinyl records and I have a computer and my wife gave me a turntable for Christmas with a USB port. It is apparently able to connect to a computer via USB cable and convert music on that vinyl LP to MP3 format.
The player is belt driven and runs off
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I only wish caller ID came with a ringer mute function for annonymous or unavailable calls
telephone call unavailable
I get frequent annoyance calls and my answering machine picks up and the caller never leaves any messages, but caller ID indicates that the caller is unknown or unavailable. That said, I would like to understand, just why, exact
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I only wish caller ID came with a ringer mute function for annonymous or unavailable calls
telephone call unavailable
I get frequent annoyance calls and my answering machine picks up and the caller never leaves any messages, but caller ID indicates that the caller is unknown or unavailable. That said, I would like to understand, just why, exact
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Kids On Tablets
Haircut
My husband went for a haircut today and the barber was talking about her son. She said he was a great boy, very quiet, you would hardly know he was there.
Not There?
That wasn't like any young boys I have known! You definitely would have known m
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Ad Blocker or No Ad Blocker - THAT is the Question
I write. I depend upon ads for a small (shall we say) pecuniary emolument. That emolument is provided by advertising. I get paid for "valid" (whatever that is) advertisement visitations. So I don't like ad blockers on that account. For the longest time, I
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MP3 is the new format for most music enthusiasts, but I would like to go back to the days of the vinyl LP.
I like vinyl records and I have a computer and my wife gave me a turntable for Christmas with a USB port. It is apparently able to connect to a computer via USB cable and convert music on that vinyl LP to MP3 format.
The player is belt driven and runs off
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Have You Noticed Ever Decreasing Website Ranks?
Most curious, indeed! Website rankings. They seem illogical, to say the least.
I've been taking note of various web site rankings. And they just don't make ordinary sense.
If you receive more visitations to your site -- if more people are reading your ma
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Printing Address Labels Now IMPOSSIBLE or is it
Spreadsheet
For many years I have kept a spreadsheet with all the addresses for my Christmas Card list and faithfully updated it as people have got married, moved house or died. Each year I used that list to print out roughly 80 address labels for the env
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Power Corrupts, So Does Technology
You've heard the old adage: power corrupts - absolute power corrupts absolutely. And you'll have to admit, there is truth in this statement. But the principal applies to more than just political power.TechnologyTechnology corrupts in that it is no respecte
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Hacked Off
There was an extremely annoying hack of IT sites this week. As far as I can make out, one of the plugins that is used for Word Press sites was maliciously altered, so that everyone who had it installed got unwanted attacks on their websites.
Plugins
A pl
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The Scene of This World Is Changing - Universities
Maybe I'm just old. I don't know.
Elementary education changes over time have been a source of grumbling. And from my perspective, rightly so. The schools seem to have lost focus on what is truly important. Standardized tests frighten school systems.
But
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Inventors Seldom See the Big Picture
I read what should have been a light, interesting if relatively unimportant, article on the invention of the push lawn mower. Fellow writer Anthony Davis provided this link:
Who Made That Lawn Mower?
The article triggered a chain of thoughts in my mind.
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