OMNIA MEA MECUM PORTO
"I carry with me all my things"
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You may see some strange postings and changes to the design of the Blog today. I’m busily updating and cleaning up the various webs and social media things I work on and post too – and the templates are being updated to the new design.
I got a panicky e-mail from a friend the other day it said in part: Please pass this on! Important police warning. Very scary, now moving east....started in Manitoba, now in Saskatchewan, and moving west.... If you are driving after dark and you see a car without its head-lights on, do not flash your lights, do not blow your horn or make any signals to the driver of the other car. So of course, my BS detector kicked in so I googled the name in the e-mail that was supposed to be from the RCMP and of course - it's a hoax - here's the full story http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp and specific to this particular e-mail http://www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/11377.html The RCMP does not generally circulate e-mail alerts on the Internet to the public - if you check their home page at http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca they offer all of their current bulletins and statements in their news area at http://www.rcmp.ca/news/news_e.htm and there's nothing there about it. There ...
One of the things I’ve been spending too much time on is email. I’m going to be cutting back on it and Social media in general. Being a bit of a night owl - I’m limiting my time to 2 hours a night, and not checking email during the day. I’m only checking email after 10 PM MDT during the week and rarely on the weekend. If your matter is urgent - please text me or call and message on my cellphone - or message through Facebook. Don’t be surprised if I don’t get back to you right away, as I generally don’t like to type long messages on my iPhone.
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And this is the link to that great site - I wish I'd had this back when I was in school - but then again - I didn't even have a PC then. I did have a typewriter and carbon. It's strange how that feels like a century ago, when it's only a generation. (sigh)
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