I had to spend some of my hard-earned retirement funds on a new doorbell button. It’s a bit more than a button. It is the “Ring” video monitor doorbell button. Halloween is here, and it will be fun capturing the visitors, but that is not the reason I made the investment. We are in an age of front door delivery. A lot of services leave packages at the door. Some ring the bell and some...
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Blognasium
I have many website blogs for my personal special interests. Mostly my hobbies. I have developed skills in building and maintaining well performing Content Management System (CMS) websites. Some of these dynamic sites have been created in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud. I have experimented on AWS for several years with the Blognasium URL. I have taken that experience and URL, and turned Blognasium into a WWW Community Website. for sharing its services with...
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There is nothing I dread more than filing my taxes, so the feeling of getting them over and done is a wonderful sense of relief. It doesn’t matter if I owe or can claim a refund. It’s the concern if I have collected and safely preserved the mountain of paper “evidence” randomly sent to me in the mail for the previous three months. The complexity of the process, if your working-for-a-living life is anything but...
Continue reading...The Evil Empire is Here
The “Star Wars” fantasy evil empire exists. Not exactly in the form presented in the movies. The evil empire has the sign “WWW”. Yes, the World Wide Web and the internet data system. The epic battle scenes are in cyberspace rather than outer space. On the surface, the empire presents itself to most people as a doer of much good. But it also has a very dark side. A very, very dark side. There is...
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