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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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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One of the things that concern parents when they live so far from the big city is whether or not their children can get a good education.  Especially in the areas where so many schools are cutting back on their budgets.  Subjects such as Drama and Music education, along with sports programs often see the big budget cuts in favor of the basic “3 Rs” that are the core curriculum of so many schools.

I think that the children need to have some enrichment added to their lives, some culture, some lessons that go beyond the basics.  So I’m always pleased to learn of other ways that children can learn the things that are so often overlooked, or cut, from the school’s curriculum.  One of the greatest musical performance services that I’ve heard about from my friend Kevin, who is a music teacher in a local high school is the Music Education Resource website that includes services a variety of ways to help the kids to compose music, as well as to play it.

Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Educational, Entertainment/Fun, Internet, Life, Parenting, Technology.
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Have you ever noticed the Peter Principle at work? Of course you have, you probably just did not know what it was when you were observing it! The Peter Principle is simply this: People get promoted in their jobs until they reach a level of incompetency. That is where they remain.

This is why most of the time we find ourselves dealing with incompetent people in our day to day business. The people have risen to their level of incompetence. If by chance we find someone who does their job well, they have not been promoted enough!

Posted: May 30th, 2009 under Business, Educational, Life.
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As the information age matures, there will be more demand for domain names and webhosting.  I think it will be very interesting to see how this develops as time goes on.  I know that more people are turning to the Internet for information, research, social networking, and shopping.  I think it is amazing to learn about products and services that a few years ago I would not have known about at all!  The Internet truly does make the world smaller; making so many more things within easy reach to anyone who has a computer and Internet access!

It seems to me that more and more of my friends and acquaintances are interesting in creating their own websites.  It just seems like a good way to get the word out about whatever you are interested in.  Many of the websites are about sharing interests about things like geneaology, or interests like clubs for a type of classic car, or breed of dog.  What a huge variety is out there!

As the Internet grows, there will be more people needing to learn about there webhosting options.  A great place to learn about those options is the webhostinggeeks.com website.  They review and rank many of the leading webhosting services, making it easier for the consumer to decide which service best fits their needs.

Posted: April 27th, 2009 under Business, Computers / Software, Educational, Internet, Online, Technology.
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