Does it really matter to you how annoyed your friend is when she posts on Facebook how loud the person next to her is at the coffee shop? Or how your friend feels after staying out too late? But if you have a funny story about what your kid did, don’t you want to share it? And…
Decorate your home with these quick and easy do-it-yourself ideas. Learn great tips to easily decorate your home. From bed rooms to living rooms finish decorating your home with easy ideas. From paint techniques to making your own items you will learn many different things here. How about a nifty lamp made from a china…
Well, friends, my on-again-off-again relationship with FamilyFirst that has lasted ten years is, I’m sorry to say, off again. The company which owns this blog has decided to go a different direction, which doesn’t include me. I wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors. And I hope that some day their plans…
Today’s FamilyFirst pick will combine two of my favorite things: Wikipedia, and Firefox. Wikipedia, YOUR encyclopedia, is the source for much of the research that I use for my Boomer nostalgia blog. If you type a search subject into Google, odds are that Wikipedia’s entry on the subject will come up high on the list….
Blogging is HUGE! And it’s going to get a lot bigger. So we have created a new category called Blogging. And the first entry in our new category is Squarespace.com. So, how does one go about setting up a blog? There are many ways. I prefer movable Type on my own dedicated server, but that…
Ok, so 85% of you out there (I’m taking the figure from those who visit my I remember JFK blog) are still running Windows. Fair enough. After all, Windows 2000 was a quantum leap for the manufacturer of operating systems, and XP was even better. Those two versions comprise 73% of what you run. Only…
Perhaps you’ve heard of James Best. Perhaps you haven’t. But I’m betting you’ve seen him, especially if you watch Nick at Night. James Best was (he’s still around, just retired) was a character actor. He played in over 600 TV episodes as a tough in shows like Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, rawhide, Wagon…
Blogging has turned the internet upside-down. When I first ventured out onto the web some thirteen years ago, you had to know something about html to produce a website. A domain name was quite expensive, and renting server space wasn’t cheap either. How things have changed. Now, setting up a blog is as easy as…
I Loooooooove my Gmail accounts. I’ve been hosting websites since 1998. Around 2001, spam was so out of control that my server was using at least half its active processes running spam filtering. I had taken to using an email address for a year or so, then abandoning it. Then, in late 2004, all of…
A recently published book called Hungry Planet has people talking about what we eat and how much we spend on it. Everybody, no matter where they live, has to eat. And what we eat and what we spend on it varies as much as the makeup of the human race itself. Today’s FamilyFirst pick is…