Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Seek and ye shall find! My quest for more WordPress themes continues. I found another site dedicated to WordPress themes and plugins. Don’t be fooled by the plain theme; there are a lot of good tips, techniques, and a smattering of themes available. The themes are a little on the technical side for me, but [...]

I’ve been hearing about more hacking attempts these days. The most notable was the attack on Sarah Palin and her Yahoo email account. That was disgusting, but it goes to show you how quickly and easily some things can be hacked. I try to make my passwords with a combination of numbers, letters, and symbols. [...]

I’ve had Verizon Internet Service for three years now (times flies!). I recently upgraded from the Basic Plan to the Premium Plan, and thought I’d share a little bit of my experience, for those of you still on dialup or may be looking for another ISP. When I first ordered DSL with Verizon, I knew [...]

In my searching for some new themes for my blogs, I came across a a terrific tutorial about how to create your own WordPress blog! It’s How To Create Themes From Scratch. The tutorial is done by Kailoon, whose art and design I’ve admired recently. He has written a very comprehensive tutorial (he is self-taught [...]

I am on the hunt, once again, for the “perfect” WordPress theme for my Renovator blog. The current theme, while beautiful and colorful, is a little bulky and I sometimes get CPU exceeded errors from it. Sigh. I have been on a major, major quest for some good themes. The thing that always attracted me [...]

Here’s a great site I found for family researchers (like me). It’s the World Names Profiler. The Internet has really done wonders for my own genealogy research. Come to think of it, I don’t have a post about all the genealogy resources that I have found helpful. I’ll have to collect everything and do that! [...]