Thanksgiving recipe

I am so thankful for my Laura, Frank, David, Anna, Alyssa, Angela, my mom and dad and my brothers and my sister and the rest of my peeps. I'm also thankful for sugar and all of the food that we take for granted that wasn't on the Pilgrims first Thanksgiving table. Many of the first pilgrims died the first year. It's a good thing my ancestors came on a boat after that one. Wow . . . my ancestors got on a boat to come to a new land. How cool is that ! ?

Todays Thanksgiving has come down to Walmart's black friday deals. Like most of you, I also look for great deals on Black Friday. New products come along and special deals for not only myself, but also the ones on my gift list. Thanks for reading! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Black Friday Web Specials

If you've ever gone to a department store or a mall on Black Friday you know how fun it can be. There are special deals and some new products available that eveyone wants to get their hands on. There are also tons of people!

If you don't want to fight the crowds at the local Wal Mart this year, you can now make some of these same purchases online. Lots of people are finding that it is much easier to get onto their computers and look for that special Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster or the latest model cell phone online. Black Friday has now become a day of specials for the internet as well.

Be sure to check out some websites before you go fighting crowds this year.

Digital Phones & Long Distance Calling

If you already have a digital phone (VOIP) and you make regular calls outside of your area code then you know the value of phones on the internet. I started using VOIP around the turn of the century. DIALPAD.COM was the main player in this new technology.

We have come a long way since the days of DILPAD.COM. Most people didn't have broadband internet connections at that time. If you didn't have headphones there was an "echo" sound that was very disturbing. New VOIP systems have regular phone connections that allow you to plug in a regular home phone. The new VOIP systems are just as if you were on a regular phone.

If you haven't tried the new VOIP phones go to comcaller.com.

Free Internet or Internet for Free

It seems like one of our elected officials that self admittedly proclaimed that he doesn't even know how to email wants to now tell us if government should regulate our internet. Large conglomerates like AT&T and COX, to name just a couple, stand to make mega bucks if allowed to pick and choose the web access that you and I have to websites. The idea is to make certain sites available to paying customers. By doing this, it makes certain information available to paying customers ONLY.

Much like cable T.V. the major players stand to make a lot of money and that results in our loss of freedom to choose programming for its quality. The internet access could become controlled by money thus people that can't afford pricey service will undoubtedly settle for the "economy package" and we all know it will be less information than the high priced services.

Another issue on the table is whether or not the government should put free Wi-Fi internet throughout the entire United States. This could be another way of controlling who gets to see what. It sounds really good at first because it brings back the days of T.V. air telecasting. If you were close enough to a transmitting tower, you could watch T.V. for free.

With the internet quickly becoming an important telecommunications portal, we could stand to benefit a great deal from free Wi-Fi. We could compare it to C.B. radios on major steroids. Now that the internet handles digital phone services and their practically free long distance benefits the future looks good. Let's just keep a lid on things as far as who is trying to control things.

Make your owns website

There are a lot of people that are making their own websites these days. There are simple templates you can use. There are also drag and drop programs to help you if you are a beginner. The programs that are probably the easiest to use are called WYSIWYG pronounced "whizzy - wig". You can find more information at thesitewizard.com .

There are a number of server website companies that offer simple website building tools for free when you host your site with them. My favorite is freeservers.com . There will be a monthly fee to host your site and just about anyone can figure out how to make a website using their web builder tools.

If you need to be more professional you can hire a programmer to build your site or you can take a class at a local school. Some adult education schools offer classes and most Jr. colleges also offer classes. HTML is a language that is widely used for building websites but there are far more sophisticated languages that are also widely used today. If you don't have any programming experience you should start with an introduction class.

An example of a simple website built entirely with HTML click HERE.