I printed my tax forms and filed them away into a bulging file cabinet, where even though stuff was filed in what I thought was a good system, I still sometimes couldn’t find what I was looking for without a frustrating search.

But then I came to realize, after all the stuff was printed, I hardly ever looked at it again. I also found it hard to find an article or that how-to I needed.

So I re-evaluated what I needed to do.  Set up a new file system? My file cabinet was already full and I do mean full!

Eventually I found what I needed to do. I did set up a new file system.  It’s on my computer. I got a program called PaperPort. It has a file system already set up and can access your scanner. So I started scanning every new thing that came by mail or email that I need to keep and filed it into PaperPort. I already get about every financial statement online and I saved them all in PDF format and filed them in PaperPort.

Medical stuff all goes into PaperPort.

I went through that really full file cabinet and scanned what needed to be kept and ran my shredder full blast.

My old printer/copier/scanner was getting a bit, shall we say, long in the tooth (old). It was big and bulky and the only place I had for it was in my bedroom closet.  It still worked, but quite often it had to be re-installed to keep working.  It didn’t help that I had to use a print server to use it that was also getting a bit long in the tooth. If I wanted to scan more than one page into a PDF file, I had to use another utility to join the files into one file.

Then last fall I found the solution to that, I got a new wireless printer/copier/scanner, an HP Envy.  (Thanks to my sister for finding it first!) It is wonderful! I can scan page after page and save all as one file. No reinstalling all the time. It’s quiet and fast.

Now I will have almost every document I will ever need in digital format.) Even manuals for appliances! So easy to find.

I backup the entire file and keep a copy of the backup in the bank box.  So if, heaven for bid, a disaster occurs I still have my stuff.  I also have my precious photos all scanned and backed up as well.

The only down side for all this, if I had got my Envy first, I wouldn’t have needed PaperPort as I could have set up a file system on my own.  But since I have it, I use it.

I seldom need to print anything now. I save a lot of money by not buying printer ink and I can find stuff without digging through the old file cabinet!

Martha

Are they nuts? Who is going to be stupid enough to give anyone on the Internet this kind of documentation?

Not me, no way, ever, never!

Right now it’s supposedly a test only.  But with Facebook’s history of privacy issues, well…….

Martha

We shouldn’t be surprised.  I decided to fight back.  I use Firefox as my default web browser and I installed a free add-on called ‘Do Not Track Plus’.

It worked great, for awhile.

The first symptom of a problem was difficulty logging in to some sites like Barnes and Noble. After I eventually got logged in, then when I clicked the Buy now button for a product, nothing would happen.  Nothing! Even if I changed to another browser!

Today I have been checking my website for valid links. I use a Firefox extension called LinkExtend to check for valid links as I have so many links throughout the site. LinkExtend kept hanging and I had to stop the process.  I then noticed that every time the link checking stopped, it was for a Google site!

So I disabled the ‘Do Not Track Plus’ and everything is working just fine.  It could be just a problem with the add-in causing the proble and it probably is, but this seems pretty odd to me and just maybe Google is fighting back in some way.  Google is pretty sneaky, they even managed to do some nefarious bit with Safari.

So I will get even, Google! I just won’t use your products much any more and those I do use will be while not signed in as I have been told this is when they track folks.

I know other services track me, but Google is just going too far! I guess they are trying to be like Facebook!

Martha

Why do we even have those hard keratin things on our fingers and toes?  Apparently a lot of other folks want to know as there are a lot of pages on the web devoted to nails, both finger and toe, but mostly fingernails.

Just do a web search to see what I mean.

Fingernails I get.  Without them, how would we scratch an itch? How would we be able to pick up that eensy thread or sliver when no tweezers are handy?

But toenails, what good are they?  If someone steps on my toe it still hurts.  If I stub my toes, I can’t see that the toenail helped me even a little bit. And even worse, have you ever had an ingrown toenail or a toenail with a hangnail?

After long and careful thought, I think I have figured it out.

When my toenails get hung on threads when putting on socks, that’s how I know I need new socks!

Martha  Told you I need a life!

In all honesty, I doubt Ms Granger has anything to do with the way this plays out, but I just had to post this.

I received an email from her or so it led me to believe.  Included in the email is a survey indicating what I think is needed to grow the economy. There were a number of things listed.  In order to check the ones I felt were most important, it was necessary to reply.  So I pressed reply, checked the boxes by the things I thought were needed and then I sent it.

Please note, there was an UN-CLICKABLE  line  ‘Submit and join’.

So then I got this message:
“This email address is no longer active. If you wish to send Congresswoman Granger an email, please visit http://kaygranger.house.gov and click on Email Kay Granger. For immediate assistance, please call Congresswoman Granger’s office at 817-338-0909 or 202-225-5071. ”

Excuse me?

So now, if I want to let Ms Granger know what I think is needed, I have to go to the site mentioned, click email Kay Granger, copy everything from the email she sent to me and paste it into a form! After SHE sent me asking me to tell her what I think!

(In all honesty, there WAS a link to take the survey on the web, but paranoid soul that I am, I hardly ever click a link in email. Since I have never contacted Ms Granger or her office, this email seemed a bit ‘spammy’,  and how did they get my brand spanking new email address to which this email was sent?)

I don’t think so.  What would you do?

Just another example of our incompetent Congress, or at least that is how it seems to me. At the very least there should be competent web/email handlers! But perhaps they feel the burden (once again) is on the tax payers to make our thoughts known.  In that case they are right.

But don’t do it this way!

Martha

I didn’t want to say anything before just in case.

And the chief thug is trying to make himself look like a humanitarian.  What a joke!

I just hope that one day the people of Iran will one day be free of the tyrants.

Martha

I recently received an email about a dog leading so many folks to safety during the attack of 9/11. It was very well done, with a picture of the heroic dog included. The Hoax.

It was a stirring story, except it wasn’t true. I usually check to see if stories are really true, but since this wasn’t of the murdering madmen variety or any one of the type I usually get, I didn’t check it out.  When someone brought my attention to the fact that it was a hoax, it burned me up.  There were clues in the original email that if I had checked, I would have known something was not kosher.

The email said the dog led some of those folks from the 112nd floor.  But how many people actually know that each tower had 110 floors? I didn’t!

I should have known that if this story was really true, it would surely have been televised at least once!

Now I wonder if this hoax was based on another story (which may or may not be true) about a guide dog on 9/11. Guide Dog Led Owner Down Stairs on 9/11

The reference to this story (Excerpted from Ventura County Star, April 25, 2003) does not seem to be availble.  At least I didn’t find it.

So maybe, since this article is to ‘persuade people to raise guide puppies’, the elaborate hoax about Daisy may have been done in order to get more people to raise guide puppies.  Unfortunately in this cas the untruth may have had the effect of making folks mad instead of getting the attention the hoaxer wanted.

Of course there is always the possiblility that someone just wants to ‘be funny’ and see how far the hoax will spread.

Martha

Not so for most of those commercials on CNN.

The EXTREMELY annoying one is for some firm showing all the people screaming out their windows, ‘It’s my money and I need it now’.

That one is the worst and I can’t get to the mute button fast enough when that one is showing.

AARP Insurance is another one.  Same old, same old. Over and over again. Another one is the ‘Do you owe the IRS more than $10,000? ‘. There are more, too numerous to name.

I have come to the conclusion these advertisers on CNN seem to be saying:

I need money (don’t we all?), I owe the IRS huge sums of money (I don’t!), I need one of those scammy reverse mortgages, (So I can pay the IRS?) I need a supplement insurance from AARP (it will cost a lot).

I guess they are saving  money by not making new commercials makes sense to them, but not to me! I wouldn’t buy anything from them due to the annoyance factor!

I think I will just quit watching CNN!

Martha

Especially with this guy!

Guess what, members of Congress.  We voted you in and we can vote you out.  Then where will your power trips be?

I just hope the current batch of ‘do nothings’ don’t destroy America before we can oust them!

Martha

Just read the log of Sony’s problems on this site, Sony’s hacking woes mount after PSN breach.

Maybe North Korean students are practicing?  North Korea’s Overseas Cyber Warrior Training.

Wouldn’t want to be a Sony IT person right now.

Martha