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Sometimes, out of the blue – it seems like the world has turned against you. Trouble falls on you like hailstones. It’s important that you not lose your ability to think and to seek for good, wise answers. Don’t just freeze up and cower in panic. I’m thinking both physically and spiritually now – find [...]

Setting up my blogs last year and running them has been generally easy and untroubled. I don’t think I’ve had the swarms of visitors that are often predicted when people urge blogging on you, but that may be because I had not worked very hard at promoting them. I just have too many things on [...]

There are usually answers to every problem. The trick is to know how to search for the answer. Develop good research skills, and you’ll find the people who are glad to help out. Watch especially for topic specific forums. Just remember to be polite and clear – you don’t gain any points if you spill [...]

Thinking again, about my niece’s hint that she’s interested in trying out Linux I’ve just gone hunting for more helpful info for newbies. The tutorial site I got to first was http://www.linux.org which has some excellent pages of easy to understand explanations about trying out linux. It even recommends the idea of a dual boot, [...]

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” (Marian Wright Edelman) Isn’t that the truth? It is, in fact, easy to go overboard in either extreme. We [...]

Have you noticed that the people who market e-books and digital products from their sites are making money, as my Dad would say, “hand over fist”? Perhaps you are thinking to yourself, “Well, bully for them, but I can’t write an e-book. I don’t DO software either. I haven’t got anything to sell!” I would [...]

Find yourself a cache of Public Domain treasures in your area of interest and expertise. Then do any or as many of the following as you can; Simply re-sell it Turn it into web content for your site Re-package it (eg. Walt Disney turned old fairy tales into new and popular movies). Reproduce it in [...]

My niece emailed this week asking for advice in installing Linux on one of their two drives on their new computer. So I’m looking for the simplest, easiest tutorials to help her get going. In doing a Linux/Google this morning, I have found some good tutorials and only had time to go through one. Fortunately, [...]