From light grey to darker shades of grey, the complements and contrasts speak of my life. Grey is not just grey!
The Beauty of Grey
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Life Online
Not Allowing Social Media to Change my Agenda
Once I check social media, my agenda changes. All good, noble things but it still takes me away from my domain. Have you found scheduling Internet time to be beneficial? Have you found that being online early changes your daily agenda?
Why Am I Online Today?
What is my plan, my purpose for being online today? What am I talking about with others? What is the point I am trying to make in my discussions? Am I majoring on minors or am I pointing to Christ? Am I pointing another way to yet another religion or am I pointing to the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life?
A Needed Pintervention
My weakness is the reason for taking out a Pintervention upon myself. My weakness is consumerism, coveting pretty things and hoarding, along with envy. Aside from being sin, this leads to discontent. And it’s horrible to live with. But I found that it is quite easy to replace my real life with a virtual one, and that includes collecting and drooling over things online – a virtual hoarding of sorts.
Breaking Out Of The Bubble
I used to like Google, I really did. It wasn’t all that long ago when they respected users privacy and the search results were unbiased (not tailored) and impartial but now they seem to care more about competing with facebook and other social media than being the best search engine.
My Love Hate Affair
Facebook cheated on me. I was just another face. The privacy settings of the new Timeline feature are why I left facebook.
Five Tips For Your Privacy with the Facebook Ticker
Are you confused or wary of the Facebook ticker? I will give you five tips to ensure your privacy on Facebook, ticker included.I don’t care for the ticker. It allowed me insights into people’s lives that I didn’t want nor need to know. It’s gossipy. I felt like I was eavesdropping on all my friends. This isn’t part of my online code of ethics. Quite simply, the ticker did not help me in my quest to guard my heart.
Top Ten Stats in 2011
Top Ten Stats in 2011: searches, posts, commenters
The DIY Bible Study
Oh, it’s so exciting… I’ve built a new website and I want you to zip over and visit it. It’s called The DIY Bible Study. I am certainly no expert. But I believe that’s why many people will benefit from what I have to share. I’m a layman – no fancy words or fancy books. I don’t know Greek or Hebrew or any other language for that matter. I simply want to share some useful tips. So this new site is for parents who wish to teach their children straight from the Word or for new believers or for busy mums who don’t have hours each day to pursue Bible study or attend classes. I did not invent or create these techniques, I am simply collating them in a user-friendly way.
Training Children to Use Facebook for God's Glory
Many homeschool families do not have an issue with facebook. Their teens don’t care much for it so there’s no problem. But not all homeschoolers are like this. Some homeschool families are very much into technology and social media. However if, like me, you are going to allow your teens to be involved on facebook, this video gives some very helpful and practical tips for parents.
Help Me Choose An E-Reader
Kindle or Kindle Fire, iPad, Nook or Sony Reader or another type of ebook reader? There are so many to choose from! And even though I am doing my research, I’d like to hear from my friends and blog readers. I want your opinion! Tell me what you have or what you want and why.
Gorgeous Free WordPress Themes
Beauty & Clean is a beautiful, clean theme which has a premium and a free version. The free...
Go get a gravatar!
Have you ever wondered how some people have a cute little picture or a photo of themselves or their business logo next to their name when they leave a comment? It’s called an avatar. Other social networking sites call them by different names but the general name is an avatar. In this post I explain how and where to get one.
Main Course Smorgasboard
Homeschooling, Science Faith and Photography posts of interest
Free facebook security guide
Facebook. Love it or not… it’s here to stay. Facebook has devised a new security guide for parents, teens and educators, or everyone. It’s good to read this guide for yourself but also read it with your children. It has a lot of common sense in it- whether you use FB or not.
The free downloadable guide includes tips on how to protect your fb account, how to avoid scammers, how to use secure security settings and a whole lot more.
Site news: new design, looking forward
It’s nowhere near finished. It currently looks like something that the cat dragged in. But...
Almost 800 pages
732 published posts and 62 published pages? That’s 794 in total. That’s over 6 years worth of writing, quoting and linking. So it stands to reason that there are many links which are broken, outdated or no longer existing. I am s-l-o-w-l-y going through the whole site and trying to correct or delete them. It’s a painful process.
What! No clicking?
There aren’t any icons to click. It’s a chalk board.
HGK on FB
Just a quick post to let you know that kerugma’s post updates are now available via...
Introducing the… iBible
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8wRIcv6esY&feature=player_embedded
Facebook security check
Just a quick note: to all my friends who do use Facebook you’ll know that I often post links...
Baby Photo Used in Scam
I recommend using a free or premium service like photobucket or flickr to host your photo’s as you can control the privacy settings. However, as much as many people don’t like or trust facebook, they can be used to securely (as secure as anything ever is on the Internet) host your flicks. Just remember that there are 22 privacy settings to date so be mindful to go through all your privacy settings.
If using wordpress or blogger you can also upload your photo’s but post them in a password protected post.
It may not be of great concern if your photo’s aren’t direct head shots of your children… it’s up for you to decide. But please, just be careful and deliberate about all that you do on the Internet.
Rubbish!
This week I purchased a new tool for the home. No unfortunately it wasn’t a new printer,...
Top Posts of 2009
Best of 2009 Y’know I never can tell how to best write these sorts of posts. Do I count the...
Costello buys a computer
My sister-in-law sent this to me via email…I immediately thought of my husband and my dad-...
A new year…a new look!
I’ve been at it again…playing around with my site. I just can’t help it. I love...
Reviewing My Online Productivity
I’m reviewing…everything I do online. It’s something I do regularly, more than...
Don't Make These Mistakes
As many of my regular readers will know I develop websites– big ones, small ones, ecommerce...
What To Blog?
A few years ago, I was told that my online persona did not seem to match my real life persona....
Do you tweet?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to other users – known as followers – who have subscribed to them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications.
KeepMeOut of that website!
I don’t need this little app…but maybe someone else needs it?? :X-P: If you just...
Meet… Pearls of Truth
Priceless Pearls has been blogging since November, 2008 but she has a chuckling literary style,...
Let me help you clean
Monday is my housework day so I’ve been in a mad clean all day. Will you let me do some spot...
Growing Your Blog
Regular readers of my blog will know that I don’t do stats– don’t care about...
How To Attract More Traffic To Your Site
I’m going to cheat a little and post something that I originally wrote as a response to a...
Rss feeds are up and running!
New RSS Feed address For those of you who catch up with my blog via RSS feeds, you can see the new...
Another year: another design!
Welcome! You’ve made it to my new site/blog. I’m glad you’re here. I’d been...
What should I blog?
I know I blog primarily for me…but I also like to have a focus, a purpose. This blog started...
Satan's Meeting
In similar vein to the Screwtape Letters, watch this and see if anything applies....
Blogging Addictions? Blogging Balance? (by Robin Sampson)
Today’s post is not my own writing. It is from a dear lady, Robin Sampson. This article was...
Blogging Addiction? Ironic Post
After my last post, I thought I’d do a quick quiz. Guess what? It’s official! I am not...
Downfall of Homeschool Blogging
We’re created to be part of a community…and the blogosphere provides an online community – to an extent. But community forums are where newbies go for help first.
Spring is here – time for a change
Oh can’t you feel it? The colder months are behind us and the sun is starting to peek out...
My new baby… project
I have been wanting to post for ages but I haven’t been able to grab the spare 1/2hr to do...
I've had a facelift!
Tehee, I thought that might get some attention. Okay, so I haven’t had a facelift but my...
Overview of December's Posts
Each month I’m going to write an overview of all my posts for each month. I’ll post...
What's a blog and why are they popular?
Ever wondered what the big craze with blogging is? Or how a blog works? What system lies behind...
Emotionally Absent
The lights are on but nobody’s home. I was physically present but emotionally absent from my home and the lives of those most precious to me.
Reflection Award
The reason for The Blogger Reflection Award is to reflect on five bloggers who have been an...
Cleaning Up My Internet Habits
Moreover, as they go about from house to house, they learn to be idlers, and not only idlers, but...
Cyber flowers for commenters and fellow bloggers!
Cyber flowers for commenters and fellow bloggers! Hmmm while looking over my blog for the last...
General Audience: All Ages Admitted
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: death (3x) pain (1x) Go...
Homeschool Copyright/Plagiarism issues
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool....
Another help for RSS and feeds
I have previously posted about using RSS for feeds where I tried to explain that instead of...
Feed on RSS
“What Is RSS? What do those orange RSS or XML buttons that abound on sites mean? They are...
Thinking Blogger Award
Thank you Belinda, for nominating me for a Thinking Blogger Award. I haven’t been blogging...
When Internet goes wrong
I spent most of yesterday afternoon working on a forum that I run. It was time-consuming,...
Giving thanks for the Internet
This will not come as much of a surprise to some who know me but…I LOVE the Internet!!! Oh...