Category: Digital

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Learning About Plugins

Most of what I need in my blog comes in the basic WordPress download. The only think I worried about was selecting a theme that suited my mood or my personality. I think I did well, with that pick.

But now I realize that there are some good extras you can download and install, called plugins. The best plugin is an anti-spam plugin called Akismet. It does an excellent job of monitoring your post comments for spam and it just deletes them for you. It works like a charm.

I’m about to try another plugin called All In One SEO. I’m not sure it will do any good for getting my blog better traffic and noticed by more people, but it can’t hurt.

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Harder to Find the Oldies But Goodies

Sometimes I really miss the Blockbuster and Hollywood Video stores. They were great for browsing a dozen aisles of old movies when you are bored and want something familiar to spend time with on the couch. There is an old movie that I haven’t seen in several years, but some friends mentioned it last night and now it is on my mind.

The movie starred Billy Bob Thornton – a great actor and a weird man. This movie really showcased his acting abilities because he totally makes you believe he is the character he’s playing. The movie title is “Slingblade.”

Since my buddies were talking about it I decided to try to rent it or watch it again. Ha! Good luck with that! There is no way to watch this movie unless I buy it from WalMart or if I get lucky to find it in a used DVD store. I don’t really want to buy the movie – I just want to watch it one more time. But there’s no way to do it around here.

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Music Downloads

If you’ve shopped for music CDs lately, you might have noticed that they are creeping up in price. I know about 15 years ago the new music CDs were selling for about $16 each in the big stores. If you wanted to listen to the latest songs at home, you had no choice but to buy the CDs and the music business had no incentive to lower the prices.

Now today I can go to Amazon and several other websites and get the one song that I like for just 99 cents. So if there is all this competition now and there are avenues for buying just one song for a buck, why hasn’t the price of CDs come down at all? In fact, just the opposite is true – they are now $18 and $19 dollars for the new releases. That is just crazy. Not only do I object to spending almost $20 on a CD, I object to having to buy 9 or 10 more songs that I don’t even want just to get to hear the one song on that CD that I do like.

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New Camera

Last night my camera got dropped as I was getting out of the car and now it won’t come on. Guess it is time to shop for a new camera and toss this one – but it breaks my heart. I can’t imagine getting a camera repaired for less money than a newer one, with more gadgets and better quality digital. I’m betting I’ll find a better one on sale some where.

I’ve had a Canon, a Sony and a Kodak, but the Nikon commercials have been very persuasive. I think I’ll go camera shopping at the Providence shoppingcenter next weekend and see what’s new and hopefully find a good one on sale.

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Like Listening Online

I have three great stereo systems and w al full of Cs, but I haven’t touched any of them in months I have been listening to Pandora Radio online, and its great. I have a good channel for 5 different kinds of moods. Depending on what genre I want, I just pick the channel when I sign on and I’m good to go for hours with the best mix of old and new tunes.