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A new Web site aims to collect tales of health care troubles due to the Medi-Cal cuts and the budget impasse.
MyCAStory.org features videos, photos and stories from California residents.
According to the site, "Our purpose is to share the stories behind the numbers of everyday Californians...
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Always the giddy follower of the latest and greatest of the Web, The Pulse now has a Twitter page!
To read it go to http://twitter.com/The_Puls...
For those unfamiliar with Twitter, it is like a mini-blog. Users post short bursts of info that are 140 characters or less. These are called...
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I just came across a neat tool.
HealthMap.org plots global disease alerts on a worldwide map. It gets feeds from the World Health Organization, Google News and ProMED, among others, and specifically tracks dozens of diseases, like avian influenza, West Nile virus and HIV/AIDS.
The United...
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Some of you may know it by names such as "Ubuntu", "Red Hat", "Suse", or just "Linux", but whatever name you know it by, GNU/Linux has become more mainstream. More and more people are using it and finding that, not only does it save money, by letting you...
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On February 10 and March 15, my face was everywhere. But if we walked past each other down at the Marketplace, you wouldn't even know me.
I am a masked and peaceful protester against the Church of Scientology -- I am Anonymous.
Prior to January of this year I knew...
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March 17th, St Patrick's Day, and then two days later, the swallows return to Capistrano. Someone I know has a birthday on March 19th, so I incorporated a little of the Capistrano legend and lore into a birthday greeting. Did you know that the swallows fly all the way from Argentina? Legend has...
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Here's the latest, as reported by the Associated Press:
"Apple Inc. updated its iPhone and iPod Touch lineup Tuesday, doubling the memory and setting a new premium price for its high-end models.
The latest iPhone features 16 gigabytes of memory and retails for $499. The previously released...
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I have passed the e-PRO Technology Certification Program. It is a course for Real Estate Professionals that teaches them how to use technology, the Web, and yes, BLOGS!!!!
I knew a lot of the stuff already, and found it pretty easy to just whip through it. You take it all online, and the hardest...
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Recently, my father-in law, who is 77 years old, went in to AT&T with a problem about his cell phone. Someone who he did not know had sent him 16 text messages. He knew that the person sending the messages was charged, but he didn't know he was also charged for the messages....
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Omg! I cant belive its Wed. already! lol well im happy the week is just flying by ha ha ha! I can't wait for the weekend to get here already! Im going to LA to celebrate my cousin's Bday :D yay!! I love dancing!! idk the club we're going to yet but I do know its gonna be a...
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You have an office or home where you might possibly have 1,2 or more computers. You have broadband, and now you need a wireless router to synch everything together. You are sharing personal and sensitive information as files through the file sharing, and printers, fax machines...how can you...
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I receive numerous publications from various education magazines and journals, as well as many newsletters/publications online. I am constantly reading about the different things that schools are doing across the United States in regards to technology. And with each article that I read I...
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Getting your passwords or information stolen can be a frustrating experience for any user of technology. But you ask the question to yourself "How? When? Why?". There are many ways this can happen, and many places that this can happen on. MySpace is the first that comes to mind. Then...
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Earlier this year, I wrote on this blog about a family who started a Web site to keep loved ones informed about a Bakersfield woman's battle with cancer.
What do you think about this method of keeping everyone in the loop? (Read "Web site spreads news of woman's condition" in...
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You have multiple files that you decide you want to get rid of. So, you right-click and select 'Delete' and then it's gone, right? Wrong. This is because files on your computer are accessed through a file allocation table, which tells the operating system where in your disk a file can be found....
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We use computers for our personal needs, sometimes for entertainment and others may use it for business reasons. But there comes a point and time where you will have to have security and privacy. If you are connected to the internet, and you do not have a firewall enabled, you can become infected...
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It's the age old debate, closed ports verses stealthed ports. First, what is a port? A port is the door to your computer, there's different ports for different things. The three-way handshake takes place, and the information is then delivered to your computer to a certain port, and the...
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We all use computers for many activities. Some use it for entertainment purposes or keeping in touch with friends or family, while others may use it as their primary business tool to store their critical information. Whatever the reason may be, your data is very important to you and losing it,...
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Wouldn't it be great if the city had a "hub" or one central place to go on the Internet to communicate to the Internet users (people) in there surrounding areas, the 100,000's of thousands who go on-line everyday within a few miles of you, Instantly!
A Craig's...
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