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Using OpenDNS.com to protect your family

I was a little surprised that someone I talked to last night hadn't heard of this amazing service, and even more surprised that I hadn't blogged about this before. If you have a router at home - and surely most of my audience does - you need to set it to use OpenDNS . Do it today . It's free...

Posted to James Shaw (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
Back to School

Today was a day of firsts. Andy's first day of Kindergarten , Carol's first day as the new broadcast journalism teacher at Frisco Centennial High School, and - two outta three ain't bad - Mitch's first sick day of the year. :( read more

Posted to Jim Gross (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008
Caricatures

As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures . We've had them done for the kids a few times but this time I stepped up for a laugh!...

Posted to James Shaw (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-19-2008
Dealing with Mrs Jobsworth

From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth...

Posted to James Shaw (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-09-2008
Being Grateful - Day 3

As seen in my post, Because I Can , here is what I'm grateful for, today: Today, Day 3, April 26, I am grateful for people to share things with. I grew up with 2 brothers and a sister, all of whom had gone off to college by the time I was 10 (they are 9, 12 and 14 years older than me). I also spent...

Posted to Jay Leask's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-26-2008
Few Google tips

As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you can search for in:spam is:unread . Here's a list...

Posted to James Shaw (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-18-2008
Living in Gworld

Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's tweet this morning about Google Apps for business...

Posted to James Shaw (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-13-2008
Family Pics

The top row is the three faces of Tucker. Second row is Tucker in action. Last row is all three kids: Regan, Tucker and Jared. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! | Dot it! | Seed Newsvine

Posted to Dan Hounshell (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-06-2008
Three Girls

I couple months ago I announced that my wife and I are expecting a new baby Harder in April of 2008. We already have two girls in our household - my seven year old stepdaughter Mackenzie and my 21 month old daughter Jillian. And so as you might have expected, the new baby is also a girl. =) We found...

Posted to Kevin Harder (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-23-2007
U Can Haz Cheezecake

I haven't talked about many of my side projects here, and little by little I'll start showcasing them; but this one is one of the "closer-to-home" ones that I've done, plus someone kindly inspired me to talk about it, so here I am. San Francisco Cheesequake is an artisinal cheesecake...

Posted to Jay Leask's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-07-2007

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