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Status of the Genealogy site.
Have been working on PerryFamilyRoots.com and things are coming along nicely. Have the structure set and navigation well underway. Dreamhost, (Where this site resides,) and a lot of other hosts with WordPress sites got hit by a major cyber hack this week. They identified 90,000 sites around the world that were trying to break into WordPress sites on their servers. Several other sites I was on this week also had the same thing going on. The servers were overloaded and a lot of WordPress sites just couldn’t be reached. Mine included. I was completely unable to get into it except by SFTP. (Don’t worry if you don’t know what that is. Suffice to say I was able to get to the site and download everything.) It lasted all day Monday. As a result … Read entire article »
Filed under: Genealogy
Unbelievable:
Just saw a news report that North Dakota has passed a law that proclaims that life begins at conception. They’re wrong. Eggs are already alive. Sperm are already alive. Everyone agrees that life “began” long ago (whether you believe in evolution or not.) It’s never ended. What they are trying to say is that a new human being comes into existence at conception. I guess they will be issuing “Conception Certificates” instead of “Birth Certificates” now. So all conceptions will have to be reported to the state and recorded. How the date and time of conception is to be determined is a mystery. Couples will have to note the exact time the man ejaculated every time they have sex (especially around midnight) to be able to calculate at what point the sperm entered the … Read entire article »
Genealogy
Updated PerryFamilyRoots.com to match content on Ancestry.com … Read entire article »
Filed under: Genealogy
Changes
I’m playing around with the look of the site so things may change when you least expect it. Nothing major, just tweaking the way things look. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Uncategorized
Thomas Jefferson on intellectual property
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. … Read entire article »
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FTC Blogger Disclosure Rules
“… the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued new guidelines that require bloggers to ‘disclose material connections’ for product or service endorsements. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Links, Tech Stuff
Faulty Logic
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=517442324940849&set=a.133555393329546.18115.133524853332600&type=1&ref=nf Making it illegal to make or sell meth and cocaine hasn’t stopped them from being made and sold. Making prostitution illegal hasn’t eliminated prostitution. Banning child pornography hasn’t stopped kids from being sexually abused. Making it against the law to run red lights hasn’t stopped people from ignoring them. Making driving under the influence a crime hasn’t stopped people from being killed by drunk drivers. So we should just repeal all these laws since the things they outlaw haven’t stopped people from doing them. That’s the logic people who oppose gun control laws are using. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Politics
Budgets
The Republicans keep harping on the fact that Congress hasn’t passed a budget in three years. Does it matter? What is a budget anyway? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
Being “innocent”
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=419893721417661&set=a.378515252222175.85285.378258698914497&type=1&ref=nf Being “innocent” is not sufficient to qualify one to own a gun … or it shouldn’t be. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events
Why Bother?
What we need now is a ban on the sale and possession of weapons that are only good for mass murder. You don’t need a 50 caliber machine gun or a rifle that can fire 100 bullets a minute to hunt ducks or deer. If you do, you should give up hunting. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Religion
Optimism
Perhaps the future is not as bleak as it appears. I started thinking about what happened in this election year and remembering some things that may have been glimpses of reality that went unnoticed. Back during the Republican primaries there was a field of candidates that was so far to the extreme right in their ideas that, truthfully, they were just not taken seriously by most Americans. Literally, most people laughed at them, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Events, Politics
Jefferson on Religion
Jefferson had no use for religious leaders and many times in his letters made it clear religion should be a private affair and and be kept out of politics and that the only way to know a person’s true religious beliefs was by how they lived, not by what they said. … Read entire article »
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