Melissa

October Is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a lot of people are changing their web site’s color schemes to go Pink for October. Pink for October is a web event started in 2006 by Matthew Oliphant. Pink for October is a web event to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for [...]

The past couple of days has been slow for me, since I’ve been recouping from being sick last Sunday. I hit out of nowhere with a nasty stomach virus/bug, which lasted for about 24 hours thank goodness. I have not been that sick in nearly 15 years.
I’ve just started back today eating solid foods, which [...]

Owning a home can be  quite a great investment, but when things start to go wrong, it can be a nightmare, sometimes.  If  your problems are easy enough to fix then learning how to identify the problem and fix them  is not only self rewarding, but saves money too.
 
 Just the other day I noticed there was water coming [...]

Just the other day I was talking with a friend about places to go for vacation or day trips. The most places I thought that I would enjoy going is from hiking/trail, mountain biking, white water rafting, museums, art galleries, aquariums, and landmarks like to the outer bank to see the Light houses. I know what most people would [...]

Last week I was away at the beach; I had a great time and enjoyed perfect weather. While at the beach I went to go see the Dark Knight.  Overall, the movie was good, and I like this series of Batman movies a lot better than the other series of Batman movies that came out [...]

Today many Americans are celebrating  a national holiday here in the US called, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July.Today we celebrate  the  declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Most Americans today celebrate the holiday with eating, spending time with family and seeing a fireworks display.
For the many who read this blog, may you have a very [...]

I posted this to my main blog at www.purplestars.com, but wanted to also post this to my Lockergnome blog to let everyone know what I’ve been dealing with since last year.  
“About this time today I was heading down to visit my parents for Father’s day. We had a great day until it turned tragic that evening. As [...]

I’ve got several e-mails from friends, family, and people who read my blogs asking how to change time and date on the menu bar. It’s fairly simple to do, and you don’t need to install a whole other piece of software to see today’s date in your menubar, you can add it manually in System [...]

Today is Memorial Day which most cook out, or spend time with family and friends. Today I spent the day with friends grilling out and making home-made ice cream.Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. It commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service to their country. 

You might remember that helpful web resource called WebMonkey? WebMonkey launched in August 1996 by the original owners of Wired magazine, which instantly became a surprise hit. In 2004 Wired pulled the site after a round of layoffs that hit the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos. [...]