Tiny bit of Internet traffic generates hefty amounts of sp*m
Posted on February 28, 2010 - Filed Under Personal News | Leave a Comment
Funny how just a tiny increase in Internet traffic to a website can generate hefty amounts of sp*m.
For those of you who don’t know what “sp*m” is, it is my abbreviation for that unsolicited and usually worthless garbage that comes as a comment on a blog post. The word itself came from that well-known ham-like [...]
Google can lead to ’sort of’ a backwards time machine
Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
Yes, I journeyed into the past yesterday. My wife came along. We used Google Maps — Street Level view.
For three years in the early 1970s, we lived on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. We were back there to visit for the last time in about 1984, I think it was.
Yesterday, I thought [...]
Do you take winter vacations? Where’s your favorite spot?
Posted on February 17, 2010 - Filed Under Travel | Leave a Comment
Do you take winter vacations? If so, where’s your favorite spot for a winter getaway?
I was moaning recently about the “blah” sort of weather we’ve had here in southwest Missouri. I suspect many of you reading these words have been going through the same sort of winter weather?
So, do you resolve those “blahs” by taking [...]
