Archive for July 10th, 2008

Government, According to Dear Abby

My grandparents used to love reading the Dear Abby columns. Her columns were syndicated in our local newspaper, tucked between the comics, the television listings, and colorful ads for office supplies. I don’t think her advice was always wholesome, but it certainly was always entertaining. I saw this at a blog, and had to pass [...]


Google Maps Gone Wrong!

Ackk!!! We all wondered if this was inevitable! They’re watching us through our windows, through our computers, through our CAT5e Internet connections!!! LOL! I’m kidding, of course. Well, I hope I’m kidding. I found this online– watch this terrific video– well done and very humorous take on the Google gods. Let’s just hope this never [...]


Car That Runs on Air

Everyone around the world is groaning for a solution to the outrageous oil prices. I have been paying attention to various viral videos and Internet articles about alternative fuel sources. Here’s a fascinating video I discovered, about a car that runs on air. Can this be?

Unfortunately, all of these innovative vehicles are being crafted in [...]


Blog Directories for Your Site

Need some help getting your blog noticed? Check out this great post. It is done by Amy, and is a pretty good list of blog directories and blogrolls that you can join for exposure.
I have had very good success with Blog Catalog. The people at that community are quite active, and the administrators have done [...]


AWSOM Archives Wordpress Plugin

I have seen this plugin at work on many blogs, and it is indeed awesome! I am going to be uploading it and using it myself, soon. It’s the AWSOM plugin. It creates a drop down menu of all your archives, by title. I have seen others using it and I love it! I am [...]


Extract Images from Microsoft Word

Before I had image-editing software, and before I knew what I was doing, I used to paste all my images in Microsoft Word. But after saving it, I had NO IDEA how to get the image onto, say, a web page. My image had been essentially locked by Word.
I came across a helpful blog post [...]