This is a tale of the two main places or areas that had the most effect on my up-bringing. And likely moulded my personality and views. The first 14 years of my life were spent in North Easter Ohio, in the township of Burton in Geauga County. Initially in the

Well…here is a post. Small and nice on Flower and Bird photos I have taken these last few days. I hope you like them. Enjoy Here we go

As everyone should be aware te servers that host FDL had been under attack for around a month or so. Making ti very difficult at best to even connect to the site let alone login, comment and post, Keeping the reader posts at MyFDL inaccessible most of that time and

With CT involved with his daughter’s wedding and all, thought I would put up a post.   Tiny Alice was a local Cleveland group from the 1970s. They began as an acoustic jug band but evolved into and electric band. Played many venues in Cleveland most notably concerts in support

This past week has been al about changes. Here at FDL with new servers, a new main page layout and new commenting system. Starbuck’s latest blog was on change in photography. This one is on technological change. As Lawrence Welk would say, “What an appropriate a number”. Humans are not

Yep..I am a type 2 diabetic.  And I am a smoker as well. Will not go into that except to say I really enjoy smoking and have ever since I started when I was around 12 or so. But be that as it may [ and it may], I have

You take one step forward and two steps back. Or so it seemed. Having been around some 65 years and more than a bit of a geek, I have seen a lot of New And Improved, come and go. Broken promises of things to come, as it were.  Here is

  Risk is the potential of losing something of value. Values (such as physical health, social status, emotional well being or financial wealth) can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action, activity and/or inaction, foreseen or unforeseen. Risk can also be defined as the intentional

This is going to be a very geekie post. It’s about PCs and Operating Systems. Just about anything that has a computer processor has an operating system of some sort From the ISS to the iWatch. From the complex general purpose to the simple single purpose. An operating system (OS)

Pie in the sky: Noun pie in the sky (uncountable) A fancifulnotion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusorypromise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen. I believe that the people of this country are inflected with this to a very large extent. Maybe from the very first