Little Free Library

Every human being is a problem in search of a solution.

(Ashley Montague, in Touchstones, 20 August)

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Little Free Library and Bookcrossing

This weekend we discovered two Little Free Library locations within a couple of blocks of each other in downtown Hyattsville, MD.  One is located in Centennial Park and the other in King Memorial Park. On 24 Sep 2012 I returned with four of my Bookcrossing books.

Later in the evening I discovered that there is a third location in Berwyn Heights, MD.  All three Little Free Library locations are about four miles from the house.

It's my own idea to release some of my Bookcrossing books at these locations.  I didn't see any evidence on the Little Free Library website that the two programs should work together.

Mr. Dickie
25 September 2012

Arrow Prayers

People say a lot when they want the job.  (Carly Simon in a song and rap on the album - This Kind Of Love)

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Today I posted to my Arrow Prayers blog for the 2000th time, marking nearly five and a half years of sustained interest in that blogging project that I started when I was still actively using AOL.

Mr. Dickie

30 September 2011

Walk On

There is work to be done, new ideas to be learned, and for that the problems of yesterday and the fears of tomorrow must be put out of the way. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 21 March)

[Think about what needs to be done, do your work, accomplish your tasks and] if there is time left, fill it with walking. It is excellent exercise that is respectful of the body, mindful of the earth below, and well-tolerated by all ages. (Mike Magee, M.D., The Book Of Choices, p. 200)

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. (Thomas Jefferson in The Book Of Choices, by Mike Magee, M.D., p. 202)

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I woke up at 4:00 a.m. this morning. I spent the time trying to catch up on my reading and writing.

Yesterday I did some minor updates to the computer club website. I also installed a Google search box on the homepage. This is a project that I had in mind for some time. On the genealogy homepage that I'm working on I installed and tested the Bing search box. The Google box displays some Google ads. The Bing search box doesn't have any ads. I have no idea which search engine gives the better results. I think I am ready to install the new homepage on the genealogy website. In my opinion this is the most important step in the process of making it easy to maintain the website. The second step is to understand the folder structure and to create the necessary folders to simplify finding the files.

I created a Picasa photo album for the retirement photos I took at The Library of Congress on Thursday. I shared a link to the photos on Facebook.

Melva attended her quilting class. She reported that she had a good time.

Mr. Dickie
26/Mar/2011 6:44

Search Engine

Search Engine

A friend asked me if I know how to install a Search box on a website. When I had my website on AOL I installed the code to search the components of the website. I've forgotten how I did it. I think I used a free routine I got from Microsoft. I decided to do a Google search to see what I could find about free search engine options.

I discovered that Google has a Search gadget that can quickly and easily be installed on the Google blogs. I believe this feature can also be installed on websites

I tested the gadget on one of my four blogs and it worked "like a charm." I decided to install the search box at the top of the sidebar on all four of my Google blogs.

Enter your search terms in the search box and click to search. The results of your search will appear in the display window on the left side of the screen. Notice at the top of the window there is a line with three search options and an "X" in a little box:. The options are:

• This Blog
• Linked From Here
• Links to Other Blogs and Points of Interest
• "X" - (to close the search results window)

Try all three to see how they work. With each "hit" the URL for the blog where the cited item was found is displayed.

I hope the "Search" feature will help you move around in the blogs and make it easy to find anything you want to look at a second time.

Mr. Dickie
28/Feb/2010 8:41

Focused Search

My daily life should be a living demonstration of the principles of [my] ... program. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 29 September)

My health difficulties can strengthen my attitude and my actions. (Sefra Kobrin Pitzele, One More Day, 22 September)

[Often] Without realizing it, we're looking for trouble and are ready to fasten on little things that we could easily pass over if we really wanted our own peace of mind. (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 8 October)

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I've been practicing with a way of entering search terms when I'm using Google search. I also tried it with Lycos. This method focuses the search on a particular website. It's very useful if you are doing genealogy.

For example, you can use this search string to find all of the "Henthorn" occurrences on GenForum. To the left of the word "site:" enter "Henthorn" followed by a space and to the right of "site:" with no space enter the abbreviated (I leave off the http://www) URL of the website you want to search.

Henthorn site:genforum.com

I'll write more about this on my genealogy "News" blog.

Mr. Dickie