For my next Winter Genea Bloggers challenge, I played around with Wordle. It’s a fun little application that allows you to fill in a box with text. Then it creates a Wordle…a representation of your word list in living color. I decided to do a Wordle based on my ancestor surnames. This is not a…
Winter Games: Backing Up My Data
I have completed my first task of the Winter Genea Blogger Games. I decided to start on the task I have procrastinated on too long: backing up my data to my flash drive (Task C). Last night, I hooked up the flash drive and I began. First, I made a fresh back up of all…
Using Google Docs to Back Up Genealogy Data?
One of the challenges I took on for the Winter Genea Blogger Games is to back up all my genealogy data. I would like to use an external source (my flash drive) and an online source. This way I will have two backups in case of backup failure (like the time my Zip Drive failed…
My Puppy is Growing Up
While I’m waiting for my domain issue to straighten out, I thought I’d take a break from our normal genealogy programming. My puppy, Misha, has turned 8 months old. Here’s the little stinker: In this photo, she’s enjoying one of her favorite past times. She’s hiding under her favorite blanket. That’s where she takes her…
Let This Be A Lesson
This is for those who own domain names and their own websites. Last night, I made a change to one of my blogs which is a subdomain on one of my domain names. This morning someone asked where my blog had gone. Much to my horror, the domain name was parked by the domain reseller….