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We got an email, well, 3 of them, on Fri about mid-day saying that they would no longer support MS Frontpage extensions and after 4 days (a weekend and national holiday included) the extensions would be removed from the servers. We spend a whole day searching for a local copy of Dreamweaver, called friends in other states trying to get someone to overnight it to us....yipes, 3 days now...still searching...finally buy it on the phone from a place in FL for almost 100 dollars cheaper ($309) and add on overnight shipping at extra cost...best we could do. I just got off the phone w/ 1and1....they told me to re-read my email letter carefully, and note that the only functionality that would not be working after the specified date is the stuff listed at the bottom of the letter. (which does includes forms). They said, in the States , shared borders and includes (SSI) will continue to work. Not sure outside of the states. I was in a huge panic as we have about 25 FP sites and all navigation pl...

This article on CNN totally brought me to tears. I skip most news articles but this one's title caught my eye. Disabled Iraqi children get wheelchairs, big smiles Beautiful day here, Rain was forecast a few days back. One lone Mexican is working on my house today. I said hey to him. It is Sat. s the total crew works on weekends, sometimes, no one and today, just him. Terrible news on Friday morning...the web host of about 20 of my sites, some mine, some for others, is deleting all MS Frontpage 'extensions' in 4 days, the email said. This means loss of functionality of all the sites which were built using FP's mini- behind the scenes programs that provide navigation and other shared functions. I wont bore y'all w/ the details, but let me tell you it is both a mental and physical scramble to figure out what to do and how to go about it and how to get my hands on the needed software in warp time. I called all over the neighboring cities and no one has on hand what...

Happy Valentines Day from me to all my readers, faithful or otherwise. I did not get any valentines in the mail to anyone this year...just no time for it. I may send Summertine greetings instead later on. OK, that t of the way.... I just got this email from my bro Stephen who is an engineer at large manufacturing plant in Mississippi. He says: This is a true incident that happened to me today on the production floor. There is a woman working here that is originally from the Ukraine. She has lived in the states for several years. She approached me today smiling. She said, “I was bored this weekend, so I learned the capital of every state.” I said, “Fantastic. OK well then what is the capital of Missouri?” She said, “m.” I looked at her funny and said, “m? I don’t think so.” She said, “I know it is because I learned them all this weekend while I was bored, I told you.” I said, “Then what is the capital of Mississippi?” She laughed and said, “m. The same as Missouri.” while laughing at me...

I used my laptop on the plane to jot some notes to add to this blog when I got to it, which is now so I will paste it in below. Progress on my house continues. We are suppose to have 3 sunny days in the 70's so they may work thru the weekend, don't know. The workers missed several days due to gloomy weather and of course Tuesday which is a NATIONAL HOLIDAY here. School is out, streets closed off for parades, even the state highway for a while. Mardi Gras is a BIG DEAL here in case you were not aware. I missed it being in Memphis, where no one but me even mentioned it. I wore some little gold fleur-de-leis earrings to Daddy's just to see if anyone noticed and commented about Mardi Gras. They didn't. Funeral notes: Several church going close friends who attended the very formal service, .... who happen to also be active Christians thought the funeral sermon was a little long. They mentioned getting 'restless'. Of course I would never tell Momma that as she was d...

Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats New bill would make it illegal for restaurants to serve the obese FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index. Wonder if the waitresses will do the Special K pinch to determine BMI. Or if they will have hula-hoops in various sizes for measuring girth based on age or height. I guess this means the Subways and McDonalds inside Wal-Marts might face a huge...

My Daddy died last night. I'll be heading to Memphis and it looks like by car. I've ck'd all he flights, even did Priceline where I don't get to specify a time or route but the only offer was too close to full price and about 3 times what driving costs. But worse, if I had agreed to there price I might have had to go thru Detroit or something and leave at 6 a.m. (which as we all know means leaving G.S. for P'cola about 3:30 a.m., no thanks). If Priceline had accepted my offer , which was what I paid to fly in December, then I'd have clicked the --OK button, and hoped for the best, but they didn't. Luckily, Cary is in Memphis already. She flew in on Thurs or Fri and had planned to stay a few days. Momma pretty much already has all the funeral details figured out ahead of time, but she and Cary don't know when Lisa and Henry get back from Costa Rica, and haven't called the church yet, so don't know if funeral will be Mon or Tues. The carpenters ar...

ओद्द थिंग, तेरे इस अ न्यू बटन ओं माय ब्लॉगर न्यू पोस्ट Well, I was gonna report that there was a new button on the interface that said "Use this button to type in Hindi" and I looked up, and low and behold, I was typing in Hindi...and I didn't even know I knew Hindi !!! And another observation...my spell check isn't even noticing !! But they are neat looking little designs aren't they ? My Mosaico Hidralico mold patterns came from Argentina. I found them on ebay of Argentina, by chance. I bought all that the dealer had. Eleven of them. I emailed him , he said they are hard to come by. I was surprised, some are little bitty. Well, about 4" x 4". (The standard is about 8" x 8".) I didn't expect that, but then the whole description was in Portuguese or Spanish and I only sorta really read one items entry, and the photos were all about the same size in the on screen description, but no matter, they are really interesting. I did expect them to ...

Very cool Russian kitchens. I was looking at all sorts of Russian kitchen websites today, and found this one. (CLick the Title) I added this automatically thru my toolbar) I love the curvy look. Most Euro style kitchens have very sharp edge, box-y designs. This is a more hospitable look I think. I can't find anything like it in the States. Every time I explain that I was curvy cabinets, people roll their eyes. But since the kitchen is a part of the living room area, I want it to look real-un-kitcheny and more harmonious with everything else in the room. If I cant order it from Russia at a discount, then at least I now have photos to show the cabinet-builder. Interestingly, I found about a dozen Russian kitchen manufacturers with totally uber modern styles. I have added photos of Russian Kitchens and links to the kitchen manufacturers here.

Yahoo's Molly McCall at The Buzz Log reports that Yahoo searches have spiked in the past week regarding "recession" She writes: "Over the past seven days, searchers propelled queries on 'economic recession' and 'recession' upwards. Lookups like 'last u.s. recession' and 'recession proof jobs' spiked. Even 'stagflation' - a term not normally found strolling the Buzz aisles-more than doubled its numbers." The phrase "definition of a recession economy" is up 500%; "what is a recession" is up 260%. This is seen heaviest in places you might expect, where the real financial centers are like New York, Illinois, and California. Strangely, the recession- related searches are extra-heavy in Tennessee, too. As the for square states, the nobody-lives-there states, and the- economy's-always-bad-anyway states, they don't seem to be all that alarmed.

Well, almost Sat morning...don't you just hate it in winter when you finally get out of the house to run errands, etc,,,and you go into a gas station or store and check out and the person behind the counter says 'have a good evening' and I am like just starting my day for real. They do it down here in winter. Due to the super short days, somehow they think it is evening the minute they finish lunch. That really bumms me out cause usually I have tons left to accomplish that day and am trying like crazy to get cranked up to get it all done...and not at all thinking about evening yet. Just another of the reasons I really hate winter. Well, fall is worse cause it is like the forerunner of the impending doom of winter. I really only like increasing day length, decreasing day length is not good for my bio-rythums. This week Heather and I worked on printable stuff related to Mardi Gras, which BTW is in full force down here already. MG is very early this year, not good, from the st...

I lose track of what day it is, but the faithful blog software always gets it right. I have continued to be really busy working on web stuff, and tile stuff. Oh yea, and paperwork stuff, as in getting taxed to death. I have had a ton of taxes to do. Business taxes from the City on both condos plus on the corporation. Owner assessments on the condos to pay building insurance ...ouch :o( a ton more paperwork that I cant even remember. I am terrible at paperwork. I hate it. But I have made myself use notebooks for everything. I have a paper punch that does all 3 holes at once, and I 3-hole-punch everything and file it away. As a result I have about 12 notebooks, and every year I have to come up with new ones...one year I was lucky and found clearance Pirate of Caribbean notebooks for something like 25 cents..I bought them all. I have used all of them now. I have to label them front, back and spine, to keep up with which is which so I got some clearance stretchy bookcovers that if I sew t...

See the snowmen of Breckenridge. And the snowwomen.

Well, you will be able to order it soon. I am going into the tile business. Not just 'any' tile, no-sir-ree-bobtail. This is fabulous tile that is available and used just about everywhere in the world except the USA. Why, I don't know...but I plan to change that !! I suppose that because it is labor intensive may be one reason it has ceased to be produced here, but I really think over time, that could change too. If McDonalds can have monkeys squirt out catchup in controlled amounts, then I am sure my bro. Stephen can engineer a system to have encaustic tile slurry squirt out in correct colors and proportions in molds in the USA one of these days. But for now, I have designed 6 field tile patterns and 4 tile borders & corners to be made outside the USA. Now, I have never been to this place in person, but I am sure it won't be too long B4 I need to make a biz trip. ;o) Click the image to see it bigger. The tiles will be named after my house project. The Villa Lagoo...

Villa Lagoon

A fellow named Dan Perry (no relation to Dave that I know of ) is having a contest to give away a very cool Goggle mini-fridge . He wants us to tell him how we'd utilize it if we won. Well, my current project, Villa Lagoon ( http://www.ConcreteCottage.com ), would not be possible were it not for Google. And, everyone can imagine how wonderful it would be to have a small fridge for cold beer or sweet tea in a guest room, so that is where I would use this awesome appliance since it is only because of Google that my guests will have a place to stay. I love having out of town company, and since I live at the beach, everyone loves to come down here. The contest's creator, Dan Perry, is of course invited to come for some Gulf Coast deep sea fishing, beach time and checking out historic Fort Morgan and Bon Secour Wildlife Reserve if I win. Not everyone appreciates Google paraphernalia as much as I do, but I gotta say, Google has definitely had a huge impact on my life and for that...

According to CNN...Missile Deflectors added to passenger jetliners. Tens of thousands of airline passengers will soon be flying on jets outfitted with anti-missile systems as part of a new government test aimed at thwarting terrorists armed with shoulder-fired projectiles. Three American Airlines Boeing 767-200s that fly daily round-trip routes between New York and California will receive the anti-missile laser jammers this spring, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which is spending $29 million on the tests. Jets will fly with the jammer device mounted on the belly of the plane, between the wheels. The device works with sensors, also mounted on the plane, that detect a heat-seeking missile and shoot a laser at it to send the missile veering harmlessly off course. Officials emphasize that no missiles will be test-fired at the planes, which will fly between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and the international airports in Los Angeles and San Francisco...

The comments under the photos are funny...

Carol will say this is repeating myself, but it is so newsworthy, I think I must let othres know. She told me the author of the Sweet Potato Queen books will be at Davis-Kidd for a booksigning. She posted this info on her blog. I then commented: Celebrities must be sweeping thru the South...Jill Conner Browne in Memphis and guess who was in Mobile today, none other than Jerrit, or is it Jared, yep I think that is it. They showed him signing autographs on a piece of paper that had before and after photos. I am sure our grandchildren will be lying on the sofa watching Antiques Roadshow when someone will present a signed , illustrated document about Jared for evaluation. They will say that they think he lost all this weight working to build mass transit systems--Subways...and the guy will agree, that in the old days it WAS hard, heavy work....and what a wonder that this document survived.

Think you might be flying out of Europe anytime ? Read and print this info and take it with you. Most or many US passengers will not know this and will lose their opportunity to take advantage of passenger protection rights (if needed) Here is a summary

I usually dont like interactive browser add-on stuff, but honestly, I have found Snap-Shots to be a big help and also a time saver when looking over search engine results...i can spot a MFA or spamy page before i open it and just move on to the next. I just found out, after making the preceding post that the Snap-Shots device will allow you to scroll thru a page of flicker photos like a slideshow without having to load the entire flicker page. See my screenshot of how it works. Remember, you can click the image to see it bigger. I dont know what the business model for Snap-Shots is, maybe they just sell userdata stats to others...maybe later it will become ad-laden. (It already has that small 'related-searches' list in blue, so technically, those are ads probably )..I'll uninstall it if that happens. But for now, I find it helpful. OK--just went to their site and it is aimed at getting site owners to install Snap-Shots on the site or blog, but quite frankly, I think it res...