Barb’s Blog » Archive for April 2005
Listening to… Beatles?
No! But a collection of Beatles songs covered by various bands and singers. Its sure a fun set of music! 1. Oasis – Got to Hide Your Love Away (2:10) 2. Al Jarreau – She’s Leaving Home (7:38) 3. Roxette – Help (2:52) 4. James Taylor – Yesterday (Beatles cover) (2:41) 5. Tom Jones – Twist And Shout (1:09) 6. Our Lady Peace- Imagine (rare live cover) (3:58) 7. Lynden David Hall – All You Need Is Love (3:30) 8. Me First and The Gimme Gimmes – I Wanna Hold Your Hand (2:06) 9. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts (1:33) 10. The Corrs – The Long And Winding Road (2:58) 11. Gregorian Chants – Hey Jude.mp3 12. Oingo Boingo – I Am The Walrus (4:09) 13. Meatloaf – Let it be (2:26) 14. Sting – Penny Lane (Live) (2:40) 15. Sumo – Day … Read entire article »
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Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered in eastern Arkansas
The ivory-billed woodpecker, a striking bird that once flourished in the forests of the Southeast but was thought to have become extinct, has reportedly been sighted in eastern Arkansas, a Cornell University researcher says in a paper released Thursday. More to the story, from USA TODAY … Read entire article »
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Listening to while working….
1. Canned Heat – Going Up the Country (2:51) 2. Counting Crows – Raining In Baltimore (4:41) 3. Nick Drake – Time has Told Me (4:27) 4. Nick Drake – I Was Made To Love Magic (3:27) 5. Hans Zimmer – And then I kissed him (5:35) 6. REM – Everybody Hurts (5:20) 7. REM-Michael Stipe/Natalie Merc – To Sir With Love (4:16) 8. Phil Keaggy – Love Broke Through (3:25) 9. Phil Keaggy – Time (Live).mp3 10. Hans Zimmer – Tennessee (3:39) Time Has Told Me Lyrics Time has told me You’re a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind. And time has told me Not to ask for more Someday our ocean Will find its shore. So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be What I really don’t want to be Leave the ways that are making me love What I really don’t want to … Read entire article »
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Herd of Buffalo Disrupts Traffic in Md.
If you’ve read my blog before, you know about our locusts, our weather, and so on. But have I mentioned our bufffalo?? Seems some buffalo escaped from a farm and some officers eventually rounded them up, of all places, in a tennis court! I liked when the evening news had an on site reporter talking about the ordeal, and in the background was a lone clean up person. News story » HERE … Read entire article »
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Bono and Bill Gates?
At first glance one would wonder what the two of them could possibly have in common. According to Yahoo News, plenty! According to the article, “When in Seattle, Bono Bunks with Bill Gates!” Apparently, besides Bono of U2 staying with Bill Gates while in Seattle, they are both very concerned with developing countries causes. link action multi casinoactivity suspicious casino reportingoklahoma ada casinoadserver gain casinocasino slots adams family1970 casino robbery harrahsparty casino 40 birthday ideasclub adel casino kiwanis Map … Read entire article »
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Spring?
While we get this spring bloom, to our close west they get 8 inches of snow! … Read entire article »
Firefox
I seem to be aiding friends and family with frequency these days to help them get malware, adware, spyware off of their computers. (Common symtoms are pop-ups, hijacked home page, slow or sluggish computer). I keep hearing mention of not using the IE browser to avoid getting spyware on your computer. One particular browser deemed very safe, and I can see by my stats is gaining in popularity is FIREFOX. By the way, anyone using FIREFOX, get all the latest Add-Ons, HERE . There you can find anything from a bandwidth tester, Dictionary Search, or the old game, PONG! … Read entire article »
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Picante & Caliente
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DaVinci Code (a la Enric)
When Petra came, she brought along a book with her that she seemed to not be able to put down. She read consistantly turning page after page. I kept asking her, “A good book?” And she would sort of shrug and say it was OK. After a few times of watching her really read the book I told her, “I am not convinced the book is only OK, you really seem to be reading it steady.” She then said the writer was really good at writing a story. While she was here I had work piling up, but when she finished with the book she asked,” Would you like me to leave it here for you to read?” And I told her if I ever got the time, yes I would like to. I … Read entire article »
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Comcast Woes
Two weeks and 6 long outages later, I decide to investigate if I am alone in the bad service and rather snide telephone tech support as well as the supervisor I talked to. I learned I wasn’t. I learned there was even a website where people were trying to take ‘fixes’ into their own hands in a forum dedicated to COMCAST. Apparently the outages were due to “upgrades” and outages were not expected, but did happen. Or at least that is what I was told. That was before I was told there were no outages, must be my computer. Yeah, Right. Forunately, the pen is mightier than the sword in many cases, and we can at least turn to the NEWS for information. “Comcast says a “memory leak” caused the disruption that inconvenienced some … Read entire article »
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From Russia, with Love
Today at our church we had a special guest speaker, Dr Sasha. Dr. Sasha and his wife came from Russia to tell us how their ministry was doing, and to outline to the church as supporters, how the funds were being used. Our church supports various missionaries, and from time to time we will get visits from them to tell us how things are going “in the field”. Today, we were blessed with Dr. Sasha and … Read entire article »
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Quotes…
I love a good quote. It’s like someone put into words thoughts you have had inwardly, but then says it just right, and better than your jumbled thoughts can manage. Others, teach you something. Still others are like poetry. Then there are some, like many from Oscar Wilde with bite and wit, that really make you laugh yet feel cynical at the same time. Here is one of my favorites: “To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental. ” ~Leopold Stein *sigh* Some might say I am TOO memoried. … Read entire article »
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Currently Reading…
I often post what I am listening to. I thought it could be befitting to also share what I read. Right now I am reading THYROID POWER. Yes, I have thyroid disease. In an effort to stop being a guinea pig to incompetant doctors who really know nothing about this disease (and I have been to many), I am going to try to take control of my own life and read up on the subject as much as I can. I can be my own guinea pig (for at least half the price or less) of those overpaid doctors. Apparently I have been on prescription medicine for the past 25 years only to find out it was only recently passed by the FDA for approval! Once learning the side affects of the … Read entire article »
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Comcast Cable, The continuing Saga
I thought I would update everyone as to my cable woes. I did get to speak to a human being, somewhat knowledgeable, even. She informed me that the outages were due to an upgrade. I told her that other ISP’s that have maintenence work to do INFORM their customers ahead of time so they can plan accordingly. She explained that the upgrade work wasn’t supposed to cause an outage, and that we would all be receiving mails explaining what has happened. (that is kinda like a sign AFTER the speed bump, but okkkkkk). I then mentioned to her a very practical (or so I thought) idea. Since COMCAST runs TV and INTERNET, why not dedicate a channel on the cable TV explaining such outages, a bulletin board, if you will. Oh, that might … Read entire article »
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Comcast
Comcast has to be one of the biggest cable tv and internet providers in the US. Not long after I blogged the speeds that cable is capable of, I am LUCKY to even connect! I am working on 5 long outages in the span of 10 days and my productivity is falling way short of what I need it to be! And you know what else bugs me? Not ONE darned explanation of what could be the problem. Nothing. Why should Comcast bother to provide its paying members anything? Where else do we have to go? I will now make it my mission to speak to a real human (if there actually is any) at COMCAST CABLE and see if this is the kind of service we are to expect in the future, and … Read entire article »
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Need for Speed
Coming from a one time owner of a Mustang Cobra II and a Camaro Iroc Z (with a corvette engine), I’ve always had a need for a little speed. That goes even more for my internet connection. I mean, there is no chance for a ticket if it goes too fast, no risk of an accident…so, let me go as fast as possible! So imagine my delight reading Tomorrow’s Net speeds could be up to 1,600% faster. My own ISP, Comcast was also quote in the following paragraph. While cable operators now usually transmit broadband at 3 million bits per second (3MB), a download of “a billion bits per second is completely doable,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the industry’s annual convention here this week. “The network could do this quite … Read entire article »
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More Music
In line with my page of my MP3 Collection and my CD collection, I have started pages of the top hits of the decades. So far using Billboard Charts for the top songs, here are the new pages with the Top Hits of the 50’s, 60’s,70’s and the 80’s More surely to come soon. … Read entire article »
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Next mood swing…
I love my daughter, I do. She can be, however, interesting to live with. We went shopping and this was the shirt she just HAD to have. It seemed apropos Here’s my princess, wearing, “Next Mood Swing. 6 Minutes” We all agreed, that’s so HER. She’s also a great sport to let me post this. … Read entire article »
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Get by with a little help…
For those of us using Word Press for our blogs, there was one element missing that other blogs have, that was of a list of recent posts to the right like many other blogs have. I rarely post on the .php yahoo group I belong to, as I have very little to offer. Someone mentioned Word Press, so I thought to at least post my opinion on it as I had used it. I happened to mention the one feature I thought was missing, and lo and behold Keith wrote a plug in for it, just that easy, so I could have the recent blogs listed. (The default is 10) You can look at the code and the zip file, along with the directions » HERE Thanks Keith! … Read entire article »
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Dinosaur Tracks
My friend Wendy in a recent mail sent me this interesting article she posted for an online newspaper, The Emmitsburg Dispatch. It seems not only is Maryland diverse in its geography with sea, coastline, bay and its mountains in the west, not only is its diverse in its weather extremes, its also full of history. Prehistoric history! Read: Dispatch story triggers discovery of many dinosaur tracks near Rocky Ridge If you get a chance, see a Maryland commercial! » HERE … Read entire article »
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Once I Understood the Questions…..
……I could provide some answers. I’ve been memed. What is a meme? Wikipedia describes it in blog terms as: MEME: sometimes used to mean any piece of information that is passed from one mind to another. So I was given a set of questions to answer and then to pass on… There seems to be a book theme to this meme. 1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? I never read a book that I would like to see burned. Even books that make me feel creepy, like 1984 one can learn from. I read 1984 as a youth in school. Oddly enough when I wanted to add it to my curriculum for my homeschooling, I couldn’t find it in my library nor my local bookstore. I had no idea … Read entire article »
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Reading, Rain, and Redlights
The three R’s of my weekend. Reading… I tried to start the weekend out right. I even did something for myself I haven’t done in a long time. I went to the library to get some informative, learning, and even some pleasure reading material. I went as far as to allow myself hours with a a good enjoyable book. Rain… Spring. As I look out my raining window and after driving half the weekend with the heavens having opened up … Read entire article »
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