I’m pleased to announce the ”grand opening” of NewTechSpotlight.com, my new website that’s dedicated to bringing you the latest news and opinions (mine!) concerning all things tech.
We’re all extremely lucky to live in a time when the world of technology is moving at the fastest pace in human history, and my goal for NewTechSpotlight.com is to bring you little tips and tidbits about the latest innovations in our exciting digital lifestyle.
I’d love for you to take a few minutes and check it out!
Federal statistics show that in 2007 a whopping 83% of home schooling parents wanted their children to receive religious and/or moral lessons in addition to their regular coursework. And we’re not talking about an insignificant number of children either since 1.5 million kids were taught at home that year.
The curricula and policies in effect in our nation’s public schools in recent decades leave little room for Christian teaching and thinking. Evolution theory is routinely being taught as fact while Creationism is discussed only in negative terms. Almost as bad is the way the concept of individuality has been suppressed in favor of group thinking and adherence which instills within our children a propensity to grow up depending on government to solve all of their problems. Prayer and trust in the Almighty need not be considered.
With the federal government’s radical turn to the left since November 2008, I look for the number of home schooled children to rise higher and higher as more parents begin to look for Godly alternatives to public education, especially since many private Christian schools are attempting to become more “mainstream” in order to increase their enrollments.
The music isn’t exactly my style, but the “chain reaction” that continues throughout this video must have been quite a feat to work out, and it’s my understanding that the entire video was shot in one take! Check it out below…
This morning I stumbled upon an old Newsweek column from 1995 in which the author went into great detail explaining why the Internet would turn out to be a colossal failure. It’s quite an interesting read (especially if you’re in need of a good laugh). How could a seasoned “journalist” make such a bone-headed prediction?
To be fair, the Internet as we know it today was still in its infancy back then, and it would have indeed been hard to predict just how ubiquitous and flexible the medium would eventually become. But still,… Well, you probably need to just click here and read the column yourself.
I guess the moral of this story is be careful what you write and predict, because if you’re wrong it’ll be around to haunt you until the rivers all run dry thanks to the overwhelming success of the Internet. A bit ironic, don’t you think?
The Internet has altered many aspects of our American lives in recent years, and now it appears that big changes are on the horizon at the Post Office because of it. The U.S. Postal Service has just asked Congress for permission to stop delivering mail on Saturdays, and few expect the reduction in the services they provide to stop there.
For decades the post office served as a hub for correspondence and package delivery in virtually every neighborhood in America, and for much of that time they were a de facto monopoly in regards to those services. But the rise of UPS and FedEx in recent years cut drastically into their package delivery business, leaving them more or less relegated to delivering the mail. And then along came the World Wide Web…
The proliferation of email, instant messaging and online bill payment have cut deep into the Postal Service’s core business of “snail mail” delivery, resulting in staggering losses that the American taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill for. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see many of America’s small rural post offices eventually shut down and mail delivery nationwide cut even further (perhaps back to just 3 or 4 days per week). Such a move would potentially allow the Postal Service to continue serving virtually every household in the country while cutting their workforce by a huge margin.
The last couple of decades have brought changes to our American way of life that few of us could have even imagined just 30 years ago. Some of those changes were for the better, but some were not. And I predict that we’re going to see a lot more changes in the decades to come.
Addinga new category in WordPress is easy, but changing the “default” category and removing the ”Uncategorized” category can be a pain if you don’t know how to do it. Well, here is how you do it:
1 – Decide which category you wish to designate as the new “default” category. If the “Uncategorized” category is the only category you have, you’ll have to add at least one new category before proceeding on to the next step.
2 – Choose the “Writing” option on the “Settings” menu.
3 – In the drop-down box labeled “Default Post Category”, select the category that you wish to use as the new default category.
4 – Click “Save Changes” at the bottom of the page.
Now that you have selected a new “default” category, you can completely remove the “Uncategorized” category as follows:
1 – Under the “Posts” menu, click “Categories”.
2 – In the list of categories on the right-hand side of the screen, check the box beside “Uncategorized”.
3 – In the “Bulk Actions” drop-down box, click “Delete”, then click “Apply”.
Note: When you delete the “Uncategorized” category, all posts currently filed under that category will be moved automatically into the new default category.
The hugely popular “Western Swing” group “Riders in the Sky” will take the stage of Marion, Virginia’s Lincoln Theater on Friday, March 12 to headline the taping of the next installment of Song of the Mountains. Riders in the Sky masterfully combine music reminiscent of the “singing cowboys” of yesteryear with a generous helping of comedy. If you have never seen these gentlemen perform, you’re in for a real treat – and the Lincoln is the perfect place to catch one of their shows!
Most Americans used to go to great lengths to protect their privacy, and some of us still do. But even as they maintain unpublished numbers on their landlines and keep their names off their mailboxes, many folks nowadays willingly give up their precious privacy in other ways without even giving it a second thought.
Take a walk through the mall or most any other public place and you’ll see numerous people talking away on their cell phones, often at full volume. What’s more, the topics often discussed would have been carefully confined to a private one-on-one conversation just a few years ago. For example, while walking through Wal-Mart a few days ago I overheard a man telling the person on the other end of the line (as well as me and about 20 other bystanders) that he wouldn’t be coming to work the following day because he had to go to court to face a DUI charge. Like we all needed to know that.
I’m pleased to announce the ”grand opening” of NewTechSpotlight.com, my new website that’s dedicated to bringing you the latest news and opinions (mine!) concerning all things tech.