Computer/Software

Shiver Me Timbers!

I have a computer (I have many computers) that I use for just experimenting and trying new programs. It has a network name of “playground”. That should tell you something. I use it with my ham radio right now so it is not a critical machine. I have written about it before in this blog and have described the special small keyboard I bought to go with it. I had a SUSE Linux OS installed...

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A Little More Hype About Joomla

A couple of posts back I explained I am learning to use this CMS type website creation program. I am enjoying the learning process and it really is a learning experience. Before I started I was wondering if it was a “shake the Box” and out pours a functioning website. The answer is NO. You have to work at it like anything else worthwhile in life. But it does take a lot of the tedious...

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Always Changes

Sharp eyes or maybe just attentiveness has probably made regular readers here aware of the subtle changes in the layout of this blog. I am always tweaking here and there. Most noticeable is the two RSS feeds I added to the right column. They link to my two other blogs. I like that the RSS feeds tie everything together. I am not sure if a lot of webinites take advantage of RSS. If you have...

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Visual Digital Communication

I have been running a lot of little side business to keep myself out of the bars and awake late into the night. I closed one of them last year as I always seem to have too many irons in the fire. That was my TEDatum Publishing where I was making restored photo albums from old picture collections. It was very labor intensive editing hundreds of customer low quality photos into presentable coffee table style...

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