Venomous Animals and Insects May Save Your Life

Venom: Nature’s Killer (PBS.org) You’ll excuse me this week. I’ve had EB take off a week while I hunted down a worthy site of the week. And this site of the week was picked because I’m a big fan of the PBS series entitled “NOVA”. Working with EB has caused me to develop a fascination with venom. She’s… Read More »

So You’re All Worked Up Over Tracking Cookies

I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much to do about nothing as I’ve seen recently over Google’s decision to combine all their separate privacy policies into one. And then there’s the flap over cookies. Cookies can’t identify you personally – no matter what you have read –  it isn’t true. They only way a cookie could be… Read More »

Agonizing Over Freeware

Every week we scour the web for really good, honest freeware. It gets harder and harder each week to find good clean – unbundled software. This week we found a program called GimpShop — and having used Gimp before we were intrigued by this new incarnation of Gimp which promised to be every good as Photoshop — only… Read More »

Thunderstorm

Today is too hot, too humid, too strange, too oppressive. Only the tropical can savor this wet , hot air and be happy. Even the children are languid. The subtle breeze that brought this summer is gone. Misty fields of spring are now overgrown with summer, its lushness of spreading crops, weeds, and strange dusty green things a… Read More »