DUSK IS A VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE IN THE PASTORAL, UNBLEMISHED SURROUNDINGS OF THE MOUNTAINS. I TRULY BELIEVE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DUSK IN THE CITY. THINK ABOUT IT, AFTER YOU SPEND A DAY IN A SOCIETY WHOSE PREVAILING PHILOSOPHY IS “WHY MAKE SMALL PROBLEMS WHEN YOU CAN CREATE A HOLOCAUST,” THEN YOU MUST …
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I moved toward the light without any fear of what was behind it I had a feeling everything would be alright now As I stepped inside, a warmth engulfed me. It was a sense of well being and youthful exuberence that I hadn’t felt in 50 years I was no longer the old man that …
tenterfield saddler
The late George Woolnough worked on High Street and lived on manners Fifty two years he sat on his verandah and made his saddles And if you had questions bout sheep or flowers or dogs you’d just ask the saddler, he lived without sin they’re building a library for him Time is a traveller, Tenterfield …
Facebook Privacy–does it really exist?
I have toadmit, I am not really a facebook aficionado but I do concede that this is the way the world is going. I DO NOT like the attitude facebook takes with regard to privacy, and we have seen a lot of problems over the years… Everytime facebook changes their policy, we find ourselves having …
Thinking and shooting
“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.” – Proverb
Freeze rows/columns in OSX’s Numbers spreadsheet
You can’t easily freeze rows or columns in the “Excel sense” in Numbers–Apple’s version of a spreadsheet. But what you can do is create header rows and header columns (the default grey ones) that ARE frozen. In Numbers: >> open the document inspector >> table inspector (3rd option for me, looks like a yellow table) …
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accented characters in osx
UPDATE: I upgraded my OS X to Mountain Lion recently and I am not sure if it is as a result of the upgrade, or some other setting change I may have made, but now if I hold down a letter key for a short period, I get a tool-tip style box (right) that then …
Home for Christmas…
I don’t have any idea how many people might see this (I really should introduce some IP tracking software on this site)… But for anyone who’s interested, we’ll be home for Christmas. I have a few things to do in Thailand that expire mid December, but I might manage to extend them until later in …
it works
He rattles his glass She jumps up fast And pours him a glass a tea Deep in her heart she believes That’s the way it should be Yeah, now I’ve seen my dad get fightin’ mad Over on little four letter word He’ll tell you fast you don’t talk like that around her We may …
it’s 5o’clock somewhere
The sun is hot and that old clock is movin’ slow, An’ so am I. Work day passes like molasses in wintertime, But it’s July. I’m gettin’ paid by the hour, an’ older by the minute. My boss just pushed me over the limit. I’d like to call him somethin’, I think I’ll just call …