dirtgoddess

There are few enough cars that pass by my house that you can look into them and see what the drivers are doing.   No one looked at my yard.   Then I started working in it, some days more, some days less.   Last year I planted roses which bloomed in late summer, people [...]

Well, I did it.   I accepted the WGA on my last Windows Update.   If I hadn’t I know what would have happened.   Very shortly Windows would have found that I am not running a legitimate copy of Windows XP.   I was informed that I had opted to ignore some important updates [...]

The European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, will soon be conducting the most ambitious, and perhaps most important physics experiments of our age.   Certainly, at a cost of $8 billion, the Atlas Particle Detector will be the most costly.   Since the 1970’s when something called the Standard [...]

A new gardening buddy can be lured into the world of computing.   Let me explain. I’ve long admired the yard and tidy little house of a neighbor down the street.   On a couple of occasions as I’ve passed by I stopped for a minute and asked her questions about the plants she [...]

I was collecting links for our ezine, something Don and I do in the evenings instead of watching TV, when I came across quotes from famous inventors.   We often find quotes by famous people because we often wonder about the people who “made it so”. That leads to researching the people responsible for innovative [...]

Ah, it’s happened again.   I have the bug, and it’s bad, folks.   Last year I broke my shovel and Don wouldn’t let me get a new one until my back felt better.   It’s much better, now that I have a new shovel. One of the most addictive aspects of the Internet [...]

Chris,
For years, in our ezine, personal correspondence, and little “sphere of influence” Don and I have made it a point to encourage girls and women to discard any outdated notions of chauvinism and make their own way in the technical world.   In a way, this has made us a little ultra-sensitive to any [...]

Viacom’s recent demand that YouTube remove copyrighted content from its library of videos resulted a reluctant stand-off by both companies over the last month.   Over 100,000 videos were removed but Viacom has not been compensated in any way for alleged copyright infringement.   This is the opening salvo in a TV War that [...]

Many people, myself included, are increasingly concerned at the attempts that are being made to restrict our access to the information available on the Internet.   The Digital Imprimatur, written by John Walker in 2003, is some meaty reading, but most of his predictions of how the Internet can be controlled and manipulated are [...]

Here’s a little tip I got from a member of the Highland Lakes Computer Club Digital Graphics Group (Texas) that I’ve used innumerable times since it was posted several months ago.
When you’re sending an email and wish to attach or insert a picture, you select “insert>file attachment (or picture-in Rich Text)”. In the window [...]