I wonder if this thing still works?  After the long lay off I started getting a bunch of spam on the Rant blog which got me looking at the blogging software, b2evo, and one thing led to another and I changed some settings to ward off the spammers and the… more »

We decided we needed a smaller computer box to fit into the limited space we have on the trike and so bought one of the e-computers. I've had a couple of issues getting started but so far we like it a lot. There are no cd/dvd drives installed so gettin… more »

Thanks to Digg I found an article recommending some communications tools that I thought I would pass along. The first is a free fax service. There are a lot of those around that allow you to receive faxes by email for free but I had never found one t… more »

My webhost provides several different programs to measure hits on the website and they don't always make sense to me. The blog software itself says the blog was hit 228 times yesterday. We usually get about 30 or 40 per day. I have to assume a lot of… more »

You can see we have decided to change the appearance of the blog. I hope you like this one. Note at the top of the page a tabbed link to Greg's Rants. I have resisted doing much politics or union related stuff here since I suspect most could care less… more »

Of my 58 years I have been an Oregon resident for 52 of them. I lived in California while I went to college and about two years in Washington when I got my first job in insurance. It was a difficult thing to do particularly at this time when I lose a ch… more »

My posts regarding Joe seemed to result in a huge influx in visitors here, we had nearly 700 hits in 5 days. The anecdote about the incident in the hallway with him brought 300 hits that day and many more in the next few days but things are back to norm… more »