Today In History
Your first challenge is to search the web and find out what happened today in history. (Depending on which day you take the challenge, your answers may be different.) Then let all of us know how your search went. Was it difficult? Did you find any unusual facts? Anything else that you discovered? Using google as your starting […]
Why It’s Never Too Late 2 Learn
Why Life-Long Learning? At 60 years old now, I’m still learning, still trying to push myself past my comfort level. Why, do you ask, when I could be rocking on my front porch and reading a juicy novel? Because every time I learn, every time I accomplish something I was sure I couldn’t do – […]
Fighting Spam
During the many years I’ve had this blog, spammers have never let up their attacks on people. So rather than looking all over my site, I’ve gathered a number of the posts about spam that I’ve written and hope you find them helpful and reassuring. And don’t let the bad guys win by giving up, […]
Computer Security Tips
Yesterday, the computer literacy group I volunteer with received a number of handouts about computer security when on the Internet. I know sometimes I laugh these off, and I’m not about to stop putting myself out there in cyberspace, but I do need to be careful. So as a reminder to myself and a checklist […]
Public Domain Classical Music
One of the ladies in my computer club was looking for some public domain music to add to the slideshow she had created in Windows MovieMaker. We found some good classical music at musopen.com Let me know what you think of it and which songs were your favorites, will you? Do you still call them […]
Are You Overly Afraid of Identity Theft?
This week I started volunteering one afternoon a week with a local literacy group. They are teaching fundamental computer skills to adults and I’m helping out when needed. We spent our first two hours talking about the parts of a computer and learning to turn it on and off properly. A little boring to my […]