With all the hub bub about the Tea Party, I’m getting a little sick of the “racist” cry. It was that cry about the John Birch Society in the sixties that turned me into a radical conservative. It seemed that every liberal black or white person you ran into, “knew” that the John Birch Society members were rabid racists. The longer and louder they screamed at me about those blankety blank people my resolve became stronger. There was a reason… There was this lady in my church – I’ll call her Alice. She and her husband Alan were members of…
Goodbye Windows – Hello Android!!
Was looking for something great from Windows in mobile phones, but that’s not happening this year. When Microsoft came out with their new Windows Mobile 7, they locked up the phone tighter than the iPhone. Everything has to be synced through the cloud – your contacts and calendar have to be on Microsoft’s “Live” computers. That was not my choice for where I want to put my business – you know, all my personal stuff. There are enough problems with identity theft and personal info getting into the wrong hands. But no, no, Microsoft actually was going to force you…
Gotcha with Capcha!
Finally allowed comments, and without “Capcha” (those characters you have to type) for a submission, got lots of junk. There are robots (actually, computers) that search blogs and guestbooks, waiting for a chance to enter some text and electronically hit the submit button. Those robots can’t read images, only text…so, when they have to enter the capcha text to submit their spam, nonsense or XXX rated advertising, they are out of luck. It’s now there big as life, which will cut down on how many pending “Comments” I have to read before they actually get posted.