Archive for the 'Administrivia' Category

This is my personal comment policy for this blog as of today.
Ordinarily, WordPress blogs have “no follow” commands to Google in their comment section. When blog owners like our network install software plugins like the one from Semiologic it disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
WordPress enables that as a default option so spammers will get [...]

I’ve been distracted for the last few days due to a friend’s funeral. Sorry to be away so long. I hope to get back in the swing of things soon.

I don’t know the kind of technology… it’s a local wireless internet system that is beamed from town out into the boonies.
I haven’t wanted to announce it too soon, I was afraid it’d die on me.
But I finally have high speed at my home! Woo hoo!
Before I was doing most of it on 26K dial [...]

As of today, the technicians still are nowhere to be found. They’ve put up a tower (see below) at some expense but haven’t wired it yet.
I can’t exactly figure out why because - for free - we’ve been out telling people about their service. Local people have been seeing the tower go up and asking [...]

Remember that photo of the tower from the other day?  Nothing’s changed!
I was hoping that the receiver/transponder would  be up and running yesterday afternoon giving us broadband access… then a whole new world of VOIP and SKYPE would open up.
But I’m still waiting.
Can you tell I’m excited?
I wonder if there are entrepreneurs near you who [...]

This is part of the saga of work at home people in the boondocks past suburbia.
In particular it’s about my wife needing high speed for her business because the old land line systems for medical transcription are being phased out. So it’s GET SOMETHING fast or lose accounts. And I also need it for [...]

I’ve told you before I live in the boonies. We’re trying to get high speed internet.
Right now the lack of that is making posting very difficult.
I’ll update you with some pictures as the plan unfolds.
I don’t know the name for this technology.
All I know is…
1) No “big name” DSL provider here. We’re just past their [...]

Happy Memorial Day… will you be working at home or have the day off? Either way, thanks for visiting.
Some tidbits for the day comparing Mother’s Day and Memorial Day.
Originally Mother’s Day which began in 1908 was designed to give the mothers of our nation the same respect and attention we give to veterans on Memorial [...]

You may recall I asked for some help to send books to prisoners.
Well, I’m back in jail again!
This time it’s once weekly at a county jail doing job seeking workshops for a couple of hours and for the most part doing alot of computer familiarization.
Got any business start up books you want to share? (They [...]

I blogged about the damage from a Tornado here last Friday.
The National Weather Service decided it was an F-3 tornado. We had an F-5 in 1998.
At this link are photos from the power company’s viewpoint as they repaired the damage.