Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Another update?!? It’s really nice to know these guys are working their tails off and not letting the dust settle on the office furniture, but… wow. I have seen about 7 or 8 updates since I switched to Worpress over a year ago. And I have a ton of blogs! It’s such a laborious chore. [...]

I’ve been using the services of OpenDNS for over a year now. I am very impressed! I realized that I have never mentioned it here before, so here I go! OpenDNS is a free DNS service, offering speedier DNS service than your ISP’s service, Internet filters, and phishing filters. DNS is “domain name system.” This [...]

This is just a small thing… I’d mentioned before that I got an Apple Aluminum keyboard, and I love it. The tiles are very low, which makes typing effortless. Because I have the Apple keyboard hooked up to a Windows PC, there are some compatilibilty issues. For one, the specialized key functions (like the media [...]

This is a wonderful plugin for WordPress users, the Fluency 2.0 Admin plugin. Designed by Dean Robinson, it changes your blog’s admin interface. This is much, much more attractive than the generic (bland blue/gray) admin panels that come with the WordPress software. I am not much of a plugin user (I prefer to keep my [...]

*groan* I know there will be knuckleheads and Google cheerleaders who will rabidly support anything the New Big Brother (aka Google) will do, but Google’s new Latitude REALLY is taking things way, way too far. This is just BAD. The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share [...]

If you have an extremely informative website, you can really benefit from getting listed in directory sites (like Dmoz, for example). I have a relatively informational site, New York Traveler.net, that is full of stuff about New York State. I tried getting into various directories (like Dmoz and Yahoo Directory) long ago, without success. I [...]