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Something stupid; something crazy

By on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 | No Comments

One of my favorite recent movies is How to Train Your Dragon Hiccup and Astrid having a conversation about the loss of Hiccup’s dragon and more. Hiccup and Astrid are on a cliff overlooking the ocean, where the Vikings have taken off to kill dragons in their lair.  After commenting that Hiccup has lost everything […]

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My Favorite Poem: Rudyard Kipling’s IF

By on Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 | No Comments

In a day and age where so many people are hurting, a little inspiration from my favorite poem by one of my favorite poets seems in order. Enjoy. – Bal

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Blogging: Video or Text with Graphic?

By on Sunday, July 8th, 2012 | No Comments

I’m getting better at creating videos for my blogs. But this blog is not and will likely never be a vlog (video blog). I will probably always keep it something of a mix. The main reason is that I like to mix things up. There are times when a video seems right; other times not […]

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A PSA Reminder: See Your Doctor

By on Friday, July 6th, 2012 | No Comments

It was 1982. and I was seeing a friend on her death bed. She was 29, two years older than me. A group of 20 of us -  family and friends – circled her bed. and one of her family led a prayer and told Sue she had to be strong. I’d never seen a […]

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Caution! Use Your Own Links

By on Friday, July 6th, 2012 | No Comments

In the last post, I included a link that would take you to where you could get a larger-than-usual Dropbox for under $10. To create that link, I used my bit.ly account. For anyone who doesn’t know, bit.ly is a service that enables you to create short-links to destinations you want to share. I have […]

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How to get a bigger Dropbox for Dirt Cheap

By on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Do you have a Dropbox? (http://dropbox.com) Do you like it? Do you wish you had more space, but you don’t want to shell out the $9.99 a month that they charge? What if I told you you could get a Dropbox account for less than $10? That’s it. For a one-time payment of less than […]

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My Backup Solution

By on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

At the end of May, I told the tale of woe about my hard drive failing. It has been a struggle to figure out a working solution that fits my way of doing things. But after just over a month, I have a solution that appears to be working for me.  Here’s what I’m now […]

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Firefox / YouTube Slow Video Blues – Solved

By on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

I recently upgraded Adobe Flash to version 13.300.262. One unintended effect of this was that some sites loaded much more slowly, if at all, and I literally had to move the mouse cursor off the Firefox window for control to be returned to that window. Very weird. I’m not a techie, but I can some […]

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