Online Shopping hints, joys, pitfalls

If you are concerned about surfing safety and the creepiness of a web site, SiteAdvisor might be for you. It’s available as a Firefox Extension or for IE.

McAfee has SiteAdvisor now. I have never had much luck with McAfee, and tried it a couple of months ago with the result that it crashed Firefox often and I  uninstalled it.  Now  on  the second try it seems fine.

What does it do?  Continue Here…

This is great human interest and the place to go if you need Catholic Sacramentals. Wendy and Walt have been running this spiritual ministry out of their home for 10 years now and call it The Cukierski Family Apostolate.

Their story is better told by Wendy herself on their site. Give it a look and browse the hundreds of items they sell and give away promoting their faith.

If you don’t do anything else look at the gospel billboard at the bottom of their About Us page.

I saw a piece on Geocaching on the tube a while back and it really looked like good family fun. I registered on the web site and even have my GPS picked out if I could only break free.

For those that have never heard of it here is a brief explanation. I have used GPS since the technology came alive back in the early 90′s. I would put nets in the middle of a lake with no buoys or land marks and find them easily with GPS. It’s perfect treasure hunting technology.

A little about my commercial fishing days is found here. I miss the outdoors but not the hard work.

I don’t want to hear anyone complaining about being too old for online shopping. My Mother is 89 and she still banks and occasionally shops online. She was over 80 when she got her first PC.

If you are a site owner or designer you had better take the aging of America into consideration. Accessibility is already becoming very important and will only grow in importance as more of our population is aging

And to you Mom a salute. You hang in there even though that computer sometimes drives you nuts. Yes Mother you are mighty.

We didn’t know how peaceful our life was until Cancer came along. My wife was found with Lymphoma about three years ago, and while she is now Cancer Free it still runs our lives. The treatments are very demanding on patients and care givers. Of course it’s worse for the patient, but it’s not easy watching someone you love suffer.

Even though she is Cancer Free we have to keep running back and fourth to Shreveport which is 200 miles one way. Now they want to do a bone marrow transplant just for prevention. We tired it a couple of months ago and they couldn’t get enough stem cells from her and had to call it off. Now Monday she will try an experimental drug to aid in the cell harvest, and if that works they will bring her to the edge of death and snatch her back.