Today is BlogDay. Happy BlogDay. I’m sure most of you have never heard of BlogDay, and that even includes most long-time bloggers. Depending on who you ask, BlogDay was on March 29th, April 20th, May 11th, August 1st, or most commonly referenced on October 17th (but only in the United Kingdom and only in 2006). [...]
Website Wednesday: TokBox My mom got a webcam so she can see Maegan and Dara and video chat with us. Then Amy got a webcam too. At first we used Google Video Chat because we all had Gmail accounts and I figured that would make it easy. It worked okay but even though we already [...]
Yesterday Patty had her first day of nursing school (pre-nursing), as she became a student again for the first time in over a decade. Today Maegan had her first day of middle school. She said everything went fine but that it was confusing. Maegan said she felt like she was a 1st grader again with [...]
So as I mentioned yesterday, Patty and Maegan spent the weekend with Patty’s mom and sister in Hilton Head. They had a good time relaxing at the beach, getting manicures and other girly stuff. While they were gone Saturday and Sunday, I was alone with Darah. After Darah only took a 15 minute nap on [...]
Last night Patty and Maegan left with her mom and sister for a girl’s weekend in Hilton Head. I’m now taking care of Darah alone all weekend (so I may have more stories to post soon). Before Patty left I set her up with video chat on her new laptop. This morning we connected so [...]
Website Wednesday: Fizy Fizy is a simple but cool online music search engine. Search for almost any song and Fizy will find it from somewhere on the internet and play it for you within the same page as your search results. Fizy has indexed over 75 billion mp3s from around the world and you don’t [...]
Check out this photo of a squirrel popping up in front of tourists taking a self-timer photo in Banff National Park in Canada h/t Bruce McDonald
Website Wednesday: Google Voice Google Voice is the newest among dozens of free web-based services that Google offers. It’s so exclusive at this time that very few people have it yet – except me. At it’s core Google Voice gives you a free phone number that will automatically ring and transfer to any one of [...]
Here’s a new idea that may motivate me to blog on more of a consistent basis. I’m constantly coming across useful or cool new websites. I also often I find myself telling a friend about a useful or cool website that either solves a problem they’ve been having or that they would otherwise find helpful. [...]
My mom is visiting us this week. Soon after she arrived we had bad storms roll through and several trees throughout the neighborhood snapped in the heavy winds, including one of the few trees on our property. We also lost power for most of the night and so we all just sat around and talked [...]