[donspatch] #2007-05-01
- From: "Don Crowder" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 00:26:13 -0500
Don's Patch #69 from http://www.don-guitar.com May 1, 2007
First word, from Don:
I've heard that life is what happens while you're busy making other
plans but I'm not sure that applies to us lately. Planning requires
time to stop and think and we don't seem to have any of that.
We're running on what I call the "brushfire system". Problems
are popping up like brushfires and we "put them out" as fast
as we can but new ones keep popping up before we have
time to catch our breath. My mother, who we take care of,
has Alzheimer's, which is an ongoing challenge, Lisa's had
a sinus infection for over a week now and I've had an on-again,
off-again upper respiratory infection since November. Oh well,
we're bound to eventually have some sort of respite, meanwhile,
we just celebrated our second wedding anniversary, we're still
in love and whatever else happens, we certainly aren't having
any problems with boredom.
Don
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Section One by Don.
Lisa and I enjoyed the original Crazy Frog video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXlQh6JRVgI
and, if you do too, a google video search on "Crazy Frog"
will turn up a lot of additional videos, some of which aren't
quite as good as the original, but we did enjoy this little
interpretation of the original piece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgoOihBb78w
and this one, which is a sort of reply to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIAMgSulWM
It's interesting to see how well the second mimics the
first. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bj570ZqJEM
It's reached the point where I have trouble keeping up
with all the new features offered by Google.
http://labs.google.com/
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
What would you like to know about online auctions?
http://www.geekgirls.com/net_auctions_online.htm
I've mentioned both of these hard drive partition
management tools before but They're worth
mentioning again.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
Search engines sort the web's entire contents into
categories which you've specified with your search
keyword/s. Websites which gather links and sort
them into pre-defined categories are called "Portals"
and Dmoz is perhaps the famous of portals
http://dmoz.org/
but it's far from being the only portal site
http://mastermoz.com/index.php
http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en
There are even portals to portals
http://www.traffick.com/dir/web-portals/
and many sites will help you build your own portal
to use as a personal internet home page.
http://www.google.com/ig
http://snipurl.com/m6jv (Yahoo)
http://www.myway.com/
http://www.go.com/
http://www.protopage.com/
http://www.personalizedhomepage.com/
http://www.netvibes.com/
http://www.pageflakes.com/
http://www.webwag.com/
Sort of related. http://www.yourminis.com/
The Military Order of the Purple Heart.
http://www.purpleheartfoundation.org/main.asp
Create your own online survey.
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/
Information on pet food recalls.
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/
Pekka Saarinen's photos and other goodies.
http://photography-on-the.net/
Additional photography resources.
http://photo.net/
http://osx.soc.uh.edu/~jdavis/photography.html
Collanos Workplace is a cross-platform online
collaborative webspace. http://www.collanos.com/m1/en/
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Section Two by Lisa
Comprehensive site aimed at learning for seniors, but the
info is definitely multi-generational. Great learning site!
http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php
Recording and mixing your own music CDs.
and MP3s. http://homerecording.com/
Homeschooling information site written by a real mom.
http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/
This site claims to have something for everyone.
http://www.webnoodler.com/
Hot flashes and other symptoms of advancing...wisdom.
http://www.hotflash.org/
Directory for web development related resources.
http://www.hotscripts.com/
Visiting Washington, DC? Start here.
http://www.visitingdc.com/
Possibly the most important and little-known Founding
Father. He refused to sign the Constitution until a Bill
of Rights was added, modeled after his Virginia Declaration
of Rights. He feared the power of government. Imagine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason
Science experiments & science project ideas.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/
How laws are made.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html
Punctuation made simple. Really.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/intro.html
Commercial site but very cool idea.
http://www.madewithmolecules.com/
Beginner HTML and beyond.
http://www.sbrady.com/hotsource/toc.html
Up-to-date weather information.
http://www.weatherperhour.com/
App that makes colorizing fonts easy.
http://www.theill.com/hfc/default.asp
Graphics resources for web pages.
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/tutor/tutgraf.html
Lots of recipes from Hunt's. http://snipurl.com/1igrr
Costless tools and apps on Hutch's home page.
http://www.movsd.com/index.htm
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 392.
This issue's collection of news,
magazine, and/or informational
sites (chosen for maximum
diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.friends.ca/
http://infocentre.frontend.com/infocentre/index.html
http://www.theinternetparty.org/index.php
http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/
http://www.mjyoung.net/
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
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http://www.musicovery.com/
http://www.myapplemenu.com/
http://www.myshelf.com/
http://www.news-record.com/
http://www.news-reader.org/
Section Three by Don.
Physics is geeky-cool stuff.
http://www.physlink.com/
http://www.physorg.com/
Explore the "final frontier" http://www.planetary.org/
He got to go. http://snipurl.com/1ip0r
Would you like to receive a poem in your email every day?
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry/poemaday/
Lisa and I especially appreciate people who find joy in, or
despite, adversity. http://rachelcreative.wordpress.com/
Much to explore (check out the Guides at left).
http://radified.com/index2.html
A book club networking site. http://www.readerscircle.org/
Guitarist Redd Volkaert is an Austin (TX) legend. He's got a
nice collection of mini-mp3 recordings of guitar licks, which
he calls "pork chops", on his website. Pass these along
to your favorite guitarist. http://www.reddvolkaert.net/
Guitar goodies from Richard Lloyd.
http://www.richardlloyd.com/lessons/index.htm
Empowering blind and partially sighted people.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/
Ronald Lewis has an interesting blog. http://ronaldlewis.com/
Ancestry files for European Royalty. http://www.royalgenes.biz/
Her name is Susanne Lucretia Behling but folks call her Sam.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/index.html
Goodies from Samuel Audet.
http://www.step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/programs.php
Sand sculpture. http://www.sandinyoureye.co.uk/
Sanda Kaufman's doodle art. http://snipurl.com/1ip8r
and her image collection.
http://cua6.urban.csuohio.edu/~sanda//pic/travel/
Sea Turtles dot org. http://www.seaturtles.org/
Sea Monkey is a multi-platform internet suite.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Four (costless apps) from Semaphore. http://www.semaphorecorp.com/
The Society for Ecological Restoration. http://www.ser.org/
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Section Four by Lisa.
Beautiful chainsaw carving.
http://www.beartrackschainsawcarving.com/index.html
http://www.cuttingedgecarving.com/
Composting for the lazy.
http://www.supernaturale.com/articles.html?id=192
A complete, early edition of Huckleberry Finn.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/twain/huckfinn.html
The Human Clock; a different photo each minute of the day,
showing the time of day. http://www.humanclock.com/?s=1
An introduction to the classifications of animals.
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/huxley/
Mostly costless goodies from Ian Sharpe.
http://www.iansharpe.com/downloads.php
News and info for the disabled. http://www.icanonline.net/
ibiblio, a vast site about nearly everything.
http://www.ibiblio.org/
Make your icon backgrounds transparent or hide them 'til
you need them. http://www.sillysot.com/
Small, fast, general purpose server identification utility.
http://www.grc.com/id/idserve.htm
Vast computer info site. Cool stuff here.
http://www.infocellar.com/index.htm
The Pitcairn Islands were settled by the survivors of
the "Mutiny on the Bounty". Their descendents, about 45
people, live there today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island
Manage multiple ICQ accounts.
http://icqlaunch.lebeausoftware.org/
A very special, very pink bird.
http://members.aol.com/askdrjay2/rospoon.htm
The Florida Panther Society.
http://www.panthersociety.org/index.html
Life sciences and reference tools.
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/
African religions and their derivatives.
http://members.aol.com/porchfour/religion/african.htm
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Section Five by Don.
The seven day week.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Astronomy/7day.html
While shell extensions can be very useful things on Windows
systems, they are decidedly not recommended for novice
users. http://www.shellcity.net/
I'm sticking with a pencil and whatever piece of paper comes
to hand first, but making a shopping list online isn't difficult
and there are lots-and-lots of choices.
http://www.cozi.com/
http://www.digital-women.com/daily-01.htm
http://www.dontforgetthemilk.com/
http://landmark-project.com/ggl/
http://grocist.nfshost.com/index.py
http://checkmark.heart.org/
http://www.mygrocerychecklist.com/
http://www.organizedtimes.com/grocery.htm
http://www.webmomz.com/webmomz-grocery-list.htm
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/grocery-list-maker
If you can't think of anything you want you can just
borrow someone else's list http://www.grocerylists.org/
Or, if you want to help save the trees you can simply
memorize your list.
http://www.wikihow.com/Memorize-a-Grocery-List
Derek's virtual slide rule gallery.
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/index.html
Possibly taking the hassles out of logging in?
http://curverider.co.uk/blog/
What exactly is a "Social Network" anyway?
http://www.ning.com/
http://peepagg.net/
http://30boxes.com/welcome.php
Would you like a snakes-eye view?
http://www.soft3k.com/Snake-Eye-Vision-p12913.htm
Things that happen on a bus (parental discretion advised).
http://www.bustales.com/
Space dot com. http://www.space.com/
Add spell checking to your Outlook Express.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spelloe.html
A search engine for blogs. http://www.sphere.com/
Here's a site I could have used in grade school (I was
a small, shy child). http://www.stophazing.org/
This site is strange, and so are all of it's companion sites.
http://www.strangevehicles.com/
If you've got to be against something, this is probably a
good choice. http://www.sas.org.uk/
A health resource. http://www.taumed.com/
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
http://www.ted.com/ (some of these are very cool)
My very first electric guitar was a Teisco Del Rey that
cost my dad $40 in the Post Exchange in Fort Ord,
California. There are many people out there who's
first guitar was a Teisco Del Rey.
http://www.teiscotwangers.com/
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Section Six by Lisa.
Claude Monet's life, paintings, home and gardens.
http://giverny.org/monet/welcome.htm
Why are there seasons?
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sun/sun3.html
The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding.
http://www.sacu.org/
For those who live to eat. http://www.chowhound.com/
Internet server identification utility.
http://www.grc.com/id/idserve.htm
Children's activity & education resources.
http://www.theideabox.com/
The FTC's identity theft site.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/
Advanced HTML reference.
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html
The Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Center.
http://www.sicc.sk.ca/
Images of textures for any use.
http://mayang.com/textures/
Information and activities for children and teens.
http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/index.html
The Internet Public Library. http://www.ipl.org/
The Directory of Irish Genealogy.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~seanjmurphy/dir/index.htm
Costless apps for Windows.
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
Goodies from Ryan Bebeau.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bebeau/programs.html
Jack Hanna has been a part of our lives for
some time now and is still going strong.
http://www.jackhanna.com/index.html
CSS is an extension of HTML. Here's an
introduction and explanation of the basics.
http://www.jalfrezi.com/fstyles.htm
Jeff Mallett's songwriter site. http://www.lyricist.com/
End of Section Six.
Websites everyone should know
about. These aren't sponsors,
they're the best of Internet
publications and we highly
recommend them all.
http://askTCL.com
http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
The Linux Corner.
Linux newbie tips...
http://lawver.net/geek/geeked/linux_newbie_tips/
...and much more. http://lawver.net/geek/
Are you a heavy duty geek with a highly specific
requirement for your operating system? Maybe
Gentoo is for you http://www.gentoo.org/
or maybe Linux From Scratch would suit you.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
On the other hand, if you're deeply into the game of
Go you need Hikarunix. http://www.hikarunix.org/
History of the KDE project (a slideshow).
http://snipurl.com/1ime4
A LUG (Linux User Group) is an invaluable resource for
any new Linux user. Here's my local LUG.
http://www.hllug.org/
Perhaps one of these sites will help you find one near you.
http://www.linux.org/groups/
http://www.tux.org/luglist.html
http://snipurl.com/1iqoq
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Readers/Usergroups
An awesome resource for any Linux user.
http://www.howtoforge.com/
Here's a interesting distro that's worth considering for
older hardware; especially if you speak Spanish.
http://kwort.org/
Here's an interesting live CD.
https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/Web-Site/Welcome.html
Here's a nice nine page Introduction to Linux.
http://snipurl.com/1iqnm
Linux on Laptops. http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
Getting Started with Linux.
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html
Linux Survival. http://www.linuxsurvival.com/
A Little Humor.
These are all lengthy pages so scroll down.
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/suslick/laws.html
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/suslick/wisdom.html
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/
Tips for This Issue.
http://freewarewiki.com/WindowsTips
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/index.html
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_tips.asp
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/index.htm
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From our web sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://rrwbushangel.blogspot.com/ )
Gifts for you from Patrick (new additions here).
http://www.don-guitar.com/romanrw.html
Footprints Revisited. http://snipurl.com/1iuvd
Patrick was very impressed with this blogger's dollhouse.
http://community.livejournal.com/little_world/39277.html?view=211565
Bert Christensen's truth and humour collection.
http://bertc.com/truth.htm
Zamzar -(costless) online file conversion.
http://www.zamzar.com/
From our web sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
It's all about breakfast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast
http://ravenclawgirl.veoc.net/HouseElves/he_breakfast.htm
http://www.complementaryalternatives.com/default.asp?page=STORY3
http://www.aviewofamerica.com/Recipes/Breakfast/breakfast.htm
http://www.breakfast.us/breakfast/
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/breakfast.html
http://snipurl.com/1iv00 (kidsource.com)
Strange and unusual sites on the web.
http://www.szeles.com/strange.htm
Each of these images has one or more faces hidden in it.
Some of them are quite difficult to see.
http://www.coolbubble.com/gallery.asp?gallery_name=hidden
Seven deadly sins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins
S'up at the Smithsonian? http://eyelevel.si.edu/
Visited the Hubble site lately? It just keeps getting better.
http://hubblesite.org/
This kids site from NASA is fairly media intensive but nicely
done. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/
The historical Document of the Day from the U.S. National
Archives. http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/
From our web sibling Jerry Fox.
Put yourself in the money.
http://www.festisite.com/tools/generators/money/
Here's an inexpensive way to back up irreplaceable data.
http://www.jungledisk.com/
From our web sibling Bill Lanoue.
( Bill's blog http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ )
You may need a tissue with this one. We did.
http://snipurl.com/1ive7
From our web sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
The Covert Comic offers an odd sort of humor.
http://www.covertcomic.com/
From our friend Jon Reed.
Suzie Flynn, at 9 years of age, isn't old enough to run
for President of the U.S.A. but she has my support.
http://www.electsusie.com/index.html
From our friend Irving Stein.
Is this fellow a modern Edgar Cayce?
http://www.briansprediction.com/
( Never heard of Edgar Cayce? http://www.edgarcayce.org/ )
How to get past automated calling, sometimes,
and speak to a real person. http://ivrhacks.com/
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Jerry, Bill, John, Jon and Irv.
Last word, from Lisa:
April 24th was our 2nd wedding anniversary. Normally,
we don't 'do' much to commemorate events and this one was
no different. One thing I like to remind myself to do
every day is to count my blessings and not let everyday
annoyances get in the way of celebrating the good things in
life. One of my favorite quotes is a song lyric, "Only two
things that money can't buy, that's true love and home-grown
tomatoes." Who can top that sentiment?
I wake up in love every day.
'Til next time,
Lisa
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
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