Generosity

To cultivate the quality of generosity in your life, do the following:

1. Be grateful for whatever you have.
2. Put people first.
3. Don't allow the desire for possessions to control you.
4. See money as a resource.
5. Develop the habit of giving.

The only way to maintain an attitude of generosity is to make it your habit to give:

• your time
• attention
• money
• resources.

(John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 21 January)

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I'm making good progress on the project to learn how to use my new FreePages account on RootsWeb. Yesterday I modified the HTML that I use at the top and bottom of each webpage to bring it up-to-date and make it work with FreePages URLs.  The next step is to select an old file that I want to share, make the necessary modifications and upload it to my FreePages.  Stay tuned for further progress reports.

Mr. Dickie

21 January 2013

Remember

The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior. (Blaise Pascal in A Calendar Of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 21 November)

When you remember me,

• It means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. 
• It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. 
• It means that if we meet again, you will know me.  
• It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.
• For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost. ...
• If you forget me, one of the ways I remember who I am will be gone.
• If you forget me, part of who I am will be gone.

(Frederick Buechner, Listening To Your Life, 16 January)

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Yesterday I installed the third of three Serif programs I recently purchased, PhotoPlus X4.  This is a photo editor similar to Adobe Photoshop.

I found and downloaded a 21-page PDF titled, Working With Rootsweb FreePages Accounts by Patricia Geary.  I believe this document has all of the information I will need to start setting up my FreePages website on Ancestry.com. The Ancestry help pages leave a lot to be desired. It's very important to understand the folder structure on the host before starting.

Mr. Dickie
16 January 2013

Holistic Health

There are a few [medical practitioners] who are beginning to look seriously at the prospects for behavioral medicine and methods of teaching people to think, feel, and behave in healthy ways, from the very beginning of their lives. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 27) 15 January 2013

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Serif

Yesterday I installed the Serif program, WebPlus X5 on my computer.  I purchased the prior version at a discount from Serif.  This is a WYSIWYG HTML editor used to create and maintain web pages.

RootsWeb/FreePages

I received notification from RootsWeb that my request for FreePages web space has been approved.  My goal is to learn how to use this hosted genealogy space to post some of my genealogy data that was available on AOL prior to the fall of 2008.

Goals

My goals for 2013 are ambitious and the learning curve may be steep.

1. Master the use of the following programs:

• RootsMagic 5
• PhotoPlus X4
• PagePlus X5
• WebPlus X5

    2.  Create a website in the RootsWeb FreePages space.

Mr. Dickie

15 January 2013