Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’ve been on a lengthy investigation, trying to determine why one of my sites is not working, intermittently. I’ve been getting emails from friends who say they cannot access my site. (Not this site, my Freaky Frugalite blog). What’s weird is that all these things from all sorts of places started going wrong at the [...]

Do you use Photoshop? I use it and a few other image editing programs. I have to say, the built-in picture frames, brushes, and patterns in Photoshop are lame. It’s a good thing people put up their creations online; I just don’t have a ton of time to spend, creating new brushes and stuff. One [...]

I updated my Akismet plugin software, and weird things have been happening. On one blog, the plugin disappeared completely! Where’d it go!? On the other blogs, I can no longer “Delete All.” My heart stopped and I wondered if I was having hosting problems (AGAIN). But a quick check at the WordPress forums showed that [...]

Long, long, loooong gone are the days when we were at the mercy of car dealers, to buy replacement parts for our vehicles. Hurray! I love the Internet! I love car part sites! We have had to revamp and replace a staggering amount of parts in our minivans. It’s been staggering on the budget, too. [...]

In any other case, this headline “New Microsoft Browser” would elicit a big yawn from me. But this perked my attention: Latest Microsoft browser challenges Google It’s from the Financial Times, and they make you pay to read the article. So I did some hunting around, and found this, skewed differently. Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 [...]

It’s a long-standing joke about Google controlling so much of the Internet that they just may delete it, someday. They actually did (accidentally) delete their own blog a few months ago, amidst much snickering. Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. But what if [...]