A Sign of the Time

I am a Sagittarian. A few days ago I just turned a new number up on my list of years of service, three score and four. I am wondering if my warranty has expired yet. Doesn’t matter, the people who made me are already gone so now I am in the Designer’s hands. He is still around as far as I can tell. This is a special time of the year for Him. He created...

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Re Bourne

The Internet is a strange place sometimes. So much electronic stuff all hooked together in a system that covers the world. It is really a wonder it all works as well as it does. Well today it didn’t work all that well for about an hour for me. I was playing with Ubuntu Linux on my “Playground” computer. Suddenly my web sites were gone and what seemed like all my website URLs were taking me...

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Intervention

My 90 some year old auntie Emma (Kautz) Mason whacked her forehead on a paving brick as she tripped and fell down leaving her daughter Trudy’s home in Canfield, Ohio last weekend. It all happened so fast I was told that Emma had no chance to break the fall with her arms. That would have probably broken her arm or other bones. The brick created a about 3“ x 3” L shaped gash that required...

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Ubuntu

Strange word but here is a link to the website where you can also discover the meaning. It is one of the newest and currently the hottest flavor of the free Linux personal computer operating system. It is based on Debian Linux, another Linux flavor or what the industry call a Dist or distribution. The Debian base is not a secret but is only important as a matter of linage. The average Ubuntu OS user...

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