Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I caught wind of a wonderful WordPress plugin that allows you to shows “unconventional” fonts on your website. Fonts on websites are a curious thing. Your blog posts might look wonderful with the “Brady Bunch” or “Comic Superhero” fonts. Your computer displays them beautifully. But any other person viewing viewing your page still sees the [...]

We all can use some new fonts to spruce up our documents and templates, right? I do a lot of graphic design and template tinkering, so I have quite a collection of fonts. I have never paid one cent for a font collection. And you don’t need to, either. Here’s a little list of the [...]

I’m enjoying discovering new blogs with Entrecards. I don’t use them for this blog, but I use them for my other blogs. Some blogs are real stinkers, but a wholesome amount of them are really great! An entire Entrecard subculture is springing up, looks like! By far, the most popular Entrecarders are mom blogs. I’m [...]

There’s a website up to help you see if you are owed money from old tax refunds or other unclaimed funds in New York State; it’s the State Comptroller’s Office. For federal unclaimed funds, go here to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators. Wow, that’s a mouthful of a title. Years ago, I found [...]

As with “rap music” and “government intelligence,” I’ve discovered another oxymoron for ya: ATM security. Not! Watch this ‘expose’ and fasten your seatbelts. I never use ATMs anymore, and watch cashiers like a hawk when they take my card. And I always cover the numberpad when I punch in my PIN. Watch this video. It’s [...]

I’d read months ago that Microsoft wanted to make it possible for every home to have their very own home-based server. (I’d also once read about every home having their very own electricity generator– how cool is that?). Having a home server is actually very appealing, since I am a do-it-yourself kind of gal. It’s [...]