Donna Young

Wordpress.org released WordPress 2.5 a couple of days ago. The changes in this new version are numerous, but I want to talk about gravatars. WordPress 2.5 is now gravatar ready as long as your theme is gravatar enabled. I added gravatars to this blog theme and now I have a lot of this in the […]

Border an Image with GIMP

1. Open image and do all work to image first.
Set Border Color
Color #2 will be the border color
Increase canvas size
2. File menu: go to : Image > Canvas Size
3. !Important: Press the button that looks like a chain link to break the ‘link’ between width and height.
4. Increase the width and […]

Next week, October 7-13 is Fire Prevention Week. The theme of this year’s Fire Prevention Week is to make and practice a fire escape plan. Below are a couple of links to get you started.
http://www.stayingalive.ca/
http://www.nfpa.org/
 
Donna

A couple of days ago, my daughter told me that she saw a commercial for the toy, “Barbie Fashion Fever Shopping Boutique Playset.” She found the commercial to be disturbing because in the commercial, the girl or girls (I didn’t see it) say,
“You never run out of money!”

You Are a Yellow Crayon

Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors. You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius.
Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way. While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating […]