After more than 20 years, the roof on our house was getting a bit tired – the shingles had lost much of the gravel on them, and for some time there had been a few mysterious leaks that I could never completely find. So we bit the bullet and have had the olde shingles torn…
The deadline is approaching – on 30 June 2012 Apple is closing down the MobileMe service, including any webpages you have published at homepage.mac.com. Below are listed the steps I’ve figured out to allow you to move your whole homepage.mac.com website to another server and have it continue working as it has until now with the…
Today amidst massive hoopla, overly optimistic expectations, and totally unimagined demand, the 1940 US Federal Census was made available online. I’m doing my part towards this by helping out FamilySearch Indexing with getting this indexed. I’ve indexed 1 batch so far, and arbitrated 3 batches – first note: Make sure the “Highlights” are lined up correctly…
24 March 2012 was the West Michigan Science Olympiad at Grand Valley State University. As we had done in previous years (see this post from 2008 for example) Lisa and Roger went with others from the Wyoming General Motors plant to run the bottle rocket competition. Some rules changes from previous years: the rockets could not…
Just in time for RootsTech 2012 and the imminent release of TNG Version 9 I’ve (finally I hope) completed an update to LisaAndRoger.com that includes a new theme – Suffusion – and the incorporation of TNG into the WordPress theme using the tng.php plugin for WordPress. So the kind of dated http://roger.lisaandroger.com/ will be going…
According to a post by Thomas MacEntee the sessions to be streamed live from RootsTech 2012 have been announced. I’ve consolidated them here into a single easy to view list… RootsTech 2012 Streaming Schedule Thursday 2 Feb Friday 3 Feb Saturday 4 Feb 8:30 -10:00 Keynote – Inventing the Future, as a Community – Jay…
will be posted here “soon”…
Thanks to TripAdvisor, I got a coupon for a free book from Shutterfly – who could turn that down!! Here it is here: Click here to view this photo book larger Photo books are the perfect gift for any occasion. and posting this “should” get me $10 off the next one 🙂
Alerted by a post on facebook from Todd Dopkowski that there were northern lights devloping over his place, Lisa and I looked outside around 8 pm, but didn’t see much. Foolishly we didn’t then get all the camera gear setup. By 9pm it was showing, and 30 minutes later it was on. Then the scramble…
From Jill Ball – Geniaus – and Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun we have this tonight… The Ancestors’ Geneameme The list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you have already done or found: bold face type Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional) Things you haven’t done or…