Monthly Archives: November 2006

Reclaiming My Life: Simplification and Consolidation

I’ve made a big decision. In the first week of December, I’ll be moving WickedMobility.com over to WickedWordCraft.com. I’ll be combining my two separate URLs into a single site. This is step one in a revamping plan for the rest of my work, business and life.

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Bah-Humbug!

Ok, I’m a Scrooge. I’m NOT in the holiday mood. I’m decidedly all out of holiday cheer. When holiday good tidings were being passed out, I must have been working. Or sleeping. Or maybe I was just absent that day. Continue reading

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Sims 2 Pets Plays Flawlessly on Tablet PC!

Ok, I did it. While I was working on another computer, I converted the
Sims 2 Pets expansion pack to a virtual CD (using Virtual Drive 9.0).
Now, I have a great little smooth-running copy of Sims 2 Pets running
on my Tablet PC.

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Parenting an Adult: Is There Any Bigger Challenge?

I think I’ve determined that the hardest thing in the world is parenting adult and/or nearly adult children. When you have tiny babies, you feel that life will be better when you can actually SLEEP again, then it will be better when they are potty trained, then when you send them to school (although you are probably all teary-eyed and sad) — at least you feel that you will have some time to call your own again. Then, you think once the puberty drama is over, life will calm down. Later, you think it will be better when they begin their own lives. You think the stress and the worry will lift.

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Bored? Politically Motivated? Just Like Causing Trouble? Let’s All Hack Into Voting Machines, Shall We?

I got my first glimpse of the new voting machines this year. My son had already seen them (he’s 16 and not old enough to vote, but saw them at school when they were setting up for Election Day). The good people at the polling place gave me a quick tour of the new machines — which are going to be replacing the old “stand up” models I’ve grown to love over the years. Apparently, in this particular arena, I’m pretty old school. If you are interested in learning a bit more about the voting process here in America, you may want to watch this:

I discussed with the poll workers that I was looking forward to being able to vote ONLINE rather than having to get out and run to a polling place. But, they assured me, that it wasn’t safe to do that… then I watched “Hacking Democracy” (part one above) and read this… Continue reading

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