This is just a quick post to capture some of the things I learned when helping my friend set up a website for a rescue group, in this case Maine Sheltie Rescue. We did the basics in a way that I would do my own site: Register a domain. I like to use 1&1 for that but really any company would be fine. Buy hosting. I always recommend Hostgator because they’re pretty cheap, they’re fast, and they hardly ever go…
My husband and I have our own online business (dog playgroups. Oh, so much fun!) which means that every year, we purchase TurboTax Home and Office so we can do our schedule Cs on our tax returns. In the past, I’ve always purchased the CD for around $75 – 80. This is the first time I bought the download, which is supposedly the same thing. It costs around the same price BUT… I found a website where it costs about…
Allured by the promises of belonging to Amazon Prime, I just signed up for my free trial. They tell you: Free Two-Day Shipping Free borrowing from their Kindle Library Free Streaming of Videos The last item is the least important because I don’t think we have a computer beefy enough to be able to stream effectively. But I do borrow eBooks from the library, so the free Kindle loan was tempting. At the moment, I’m really into the Discworld books…
I belong to a lot of forums, and I’m always really frustrated at their search functionality. Sometimes I want search for a word in just the title, but they don’t offer that as a choice, even in the advanced setting. Sometimes I want to search for something, but it tells me that the word is too common and won’t let me. (That might be true if I’m searching in any post content, but there shouldn’t be that many instances in…
My brother and I got my mom a DVD player for Christmas a few years ago. All of a sudden, it just wouldn’t turn on. Don’t know what I ever did without the internet, because Google revealed that it’s a common problem with a simple fix. You just have to replace the capacitor component 316. I was very intimidated by the words capacitor, board, and solder, so I left it to my brother to fix—the MIT grad. But MIT grads…
So here’s a tip for anyone who owns a pellet stove (or a wood stove, for that matter). We have a pellet stove in our living room. We also have dogs and occasionally take care of other people’s dogs. Our pooches know to stay away from the hot stove, but we were worried that others may accidentally fall against the hot glass if they are wrestling too energetically. I started searching for ‘pellet stove gate’ or ‘pellet stove child gate’…
I just learned something interesting about Facebook. I got an invitation to join from a friend of mine I knew from Boston. He now lives on the west coast. At the bottom of the email it had a section of ‘Other people you may know on Facebook.’ And it listed:two people I know from my churchone person who is another dog walker I see at the parka friend of the family who is recently graduated from collegea woman who was…
My husband and I recently went through hoops to try to figure out why our Whitfield pellet stove stopped feeding pellets. One of the things I did was take the cover off the gear box and remove all the cogs. When I did this I could see that one of the gears had worn teeth, so we’ve ordered a new gear box and motor. I’ve read on a webpage that some people take apart their gear box without making a…
My husband and I are huge Harry Potter fans. Recently we drove down to New York to visit my two nephews (reading The Goblet of Fire aloud in the car, I might add). At their house, my husband showed me a library book that was laying around. It was called "The Book of Hob Stories" by a British author named William Mayne. The thing that caught his eye (and mine) was the title of a chapter, “Hob and the Hinky…