OpenOffice: An Alternative to MS Office

Many colleges now make MS Office available to students for free or at a great discount. But what about your home computers? You may have MS Works included in your installed programs, but maybe not. There is an alternative to the Microsoft Office products. And the really nice thing is that they are free! OpenOffice [...]

Sweet! Indians beat Yankees

For me, the Cleveland Indians season this year was a complete success. Oh ya, I’d love the team to win the World Series this year, but for me, spanking those bad boys from New York in their own backyard makes the season complete. The whole lot of them stink. Go Tribe!

I’m Addicted

I’m not sure why, but I found this site that shows the photos that are being uploaded to the popular blog site Blogger as a slide show of sorts. It’s called Blogger Play. The photos are of various people, places and things. In some ways it reminds me of the great varied diversity of people and their [...]

I’m Addicted

What is More Boring Than American TV?

I watch only a bit of television. I’d prefer to read a book or bang at the computer or just about anything else but watch the boob-tube. My son, Joe, is teaching in Taiwan for a year and has a posting on his blog a narrated video of his TV experience there. Here’s the link.

Plants are People Too

I’m not sure why these kinds of articles and opinions bother me, but here’s another in a long parade of articles challenging humans as exceptional. Unlike others which seek to elevate animals to “people” status (or conversely lower humans to but one many unexceptional animal species on Earth), this one seems to imply that humans are [...]

Save A Few Bucks on XM Radio

Here’s an interesting note. My XM radio was included in my new Honda and the car came with a free three or six month trial of XM. When this expired, I let time pass and then got a card indicating a special rate to re-subscribe. When I called, I was offered an even better (than indicated on the [...]

Catholic Carnival Is Up

Here’s the link to this week’s Catholic Carnival.

D-Day Prayer

On this day in 1944, Allied forces mounted the largest sea invasion history has seen and began the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation. Roosevelt asked for Americans to pray with him for the success of the mission and the lives and souls of those soldiers involved in the landings. Compare the tone [...]