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It’s Thanksgiving day here in the U.S. The leaves in central North Carolina are red and golden and brown. The sun is shining, and it’s chilly with a hint of melted frost on the porch railings. Fall is in full force and Thankgiving encompasses the natural beauties and bounties of the season.
Thanksgiving is a great [...]

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Since I was accepted as an Amazon Associate, I’ve been playing around with the available widgets and settled on one that I liked. Unfortunately, whoever writes web code for Amazon apparently doesn’t practice clean W3C web standards because the Amazon widget code doesn’t validate. It’s very frustrating!
Actually, I suspected something like this issue would happen [...]

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Yesterday, I decided to dismantle my old computer work desk. It was a huge armoire of sorts that contained the computer and other peripheral items. It covered most of the wall and was dark. I wanted something smaller and lighter and easier to move for when I decided to redo the walls and floor as [...]

Filed under: Home & Garden by rebecca
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I’m not much of a shopper. I don’t like spending money and I don’t like the hassles of trying to navigate a store in order to find what I want and safely escape with my sanity intact.
Well today I went to Home Depot and bought a few things that I’ve needed for months. I’d been [...]

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I will be presenting a speech tomorrow for my Toastmasters club. I’m on the third speech project in the Competent Communicators book. I’m supposed to “Get to the Point” in this speech.  I’ve decided to do my speech on how using the new B-C-P Toastmasters website can enhance one’s experience with Toastmasters. Not only will [...]

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This evening I spent time designing a “tab” button for my About page and then found out while testing the new button that my categories were all linking to blank pages instead of to the posts assigned to those categories. Very puzzling.
It turns out that just having a category.php file in the directory will prevent [...]

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Do your houseplants look like this poor, wilted philodendron? Are they parched and gasping for water? Are their leaves drooping, curling, turning yellow? When was the last time you thought of them? Go and check on them now and see if any are suffering from lack of a good soaking or misting. (Just be careful [...]

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I’m trying out a couple of WordPress plugins for displaying photo galleries. The first is called NextGEN Gallery and the other is Flickr Photo Album for WordPress.  The Flickr setup is giving me validation warnings. I think I will need to customize the photo album templates for the plugin to clear those. I also can’t [...]

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….or at least something’s not right in the house.
I belong to Toastmasters International and am currently V.P. of Public Relations for my local club, B-C-P Toastmasters. I’ve set up our club website on freetoasthost.org and have been administering it. Adding content to that site can be a very frustrating process at times. I am forced [...]

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Yesterday while setting up my new profile on Xanga, I accidentally sent Xanga invites out to every single address of every person to whom I’ve ever sent email or have added to my address book in gmail. Big Oops!!! For some reason, Xanga has invites set up so that everyone in the gmail contact list [...]

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