My friend Linda wants to start a Personal Chef business.  She’s been doing a lot of research about it and thinks that there would be a good market for it where she lives.  She’s always loved to cook, and I have to admit that she’s never cooked a meal that I didn’t like!  I think that’s a great idea for a business for her!  So she’s in the process of getting set up with marketing and planning her service contracts, etc.

She asked me to help her to put up her website.  So I’ve arranged to get her URL for her and am now looking into the right website hosting service for her to use.

I like the webhostinggeeks.com website because they rank and rate a lot of the best hosting services.  I especially like their green webhosting reviews; I want to throw business to any company that is working proactively towards improving our environment!

I like how they explain what green webhosting is, and how it can help protect our environment.  Their list of green hosting companies shows some are wind or solar powered, some are carbon neutral, and some claim to be 300% green.  And I find it very appealing that the rates for these green website hosting companies are very reasonable.

Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Business, Computers / Software, Family, Friends, Green, Internet, Online, Shopping, Technology.
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Music has always been an important part of my family’s history.  My grandfather had his own popular local orchestra, and my father had his very own rock band back in the 60’s and 70’s.  I had to take piano lessons when I was young.  I loved to play the piano; it came easily to me.  I guess it’s in our “blood.”  But having said that I have to admit that learning Piano Chords is not very easy to do!

I remember when I was in seventh grade we had to take music in school.  One of our assignments was to write a song.  I wish I had a copy of it now!  I remember I called it The Dance of the butterflies!”  We had to write it on sheet music and perform it in class.  My teacher could not believe I had written it myself.  She didn’t accuse me of stealing it from someone, but she was very  impressed.  She kept the music.  I wonder if she ever did something with it herself and claimed credit for it!

Posted: September 20th, 2009 under Educational, Entertainment/Fun, Life.
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I really like the Land of Lakes little cheese rectangles that you can snack on.  I think that they are a combination of Colby and Jack cheese.  Very tasty.  The only problem is that the package is so hard to open!  It has a little red zip-strip that is supposed to make it easy to open, but I usually get frustrated with it and end up using a pair of scissors to open it.  And that rather defeats the idea of it being a convenient little snack.  I’d like to be able to just toss it in a lunch box and take it with me when I run errands, but I usually end up taking a mini-bon bell cheese instead because they are easier to open!

Posted: August 14th, 2009 under Food and Beverage, Life.
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The poor guy who was struck in the head by the boat propellor is still in critical condition.  The doctors say that it is a miracle he didn’t die instantly!  A quarter-inch one way or the other would have killed him!  As it is, he now has a metal plate in his head for the rest of his life, and he will have a slow recovery.  They say that the part of his brain that was damaged is not one that is “used” for anything “important” so he should be able to function fine after he recovers.  That is good news for sure!  I bet he never tries something that stupid again!

Posted: August 8th, 2009 under Life.
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We came home from camp early this weekend. The baby was cranky and the weather was rainy, so we decided to pack it up and come home.

It’s a good thing that we came home when we did because when we got home we found that a tree had been struck by lightning and fallen up against the house.  So we needed the time here to clear up that mess.  It would have been awful to come home late Sunday night to find that when we both had to get up early the next morning!  Isn’t it funny how life throws you a curveball sometimes!  Thankfully there wasn’t any serious damage to the house, just cosmetic stuff.

We had no sooner finished cleaning up that mess than we got a phone call from the boss that he wants us to help teach his daughter how to create her own website. So she’ll be coming over tomorrow and I’ll be working with her, showing her the ropes.

I’ll be helping her to get her own domain, and help her to decide which webhosting service to use. I’ll direct her to take a look at the webhostingrating.com website and read a few of their articles about webhosting and their reviews of which webhosting services would best fit her needs. I think that they are a good resource to turn to when looking at getting a new webhost.  They review hundreds of services, not just a few, so it may take a while!

Then I’ll give her a crash course on using Front Page, and creating a blog

Posted: August 2nd, 2009 under Business, Computers / Software, Educational, Internet, Life, Online, Technology.
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