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Archive for February, 2006

Boing Boing: Investigative blogger picking at secret “A-Hole” technology!

by @ Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006. Filed under Technology

Look at that! I’m not the only Computer Proctologist. Boing Boing has picked up on another: Kathryn Cramer, an investigative blogger, has begun to publish the results of her research into VEIL. VEIL is a technology that the entertainment industry has proposed to turn into a legal requirement for all devices capable of turning an [...]

Kull (Kuhl) Family Historical Tour

by @ Wednesday, February 15th, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

Bob Snyder has put together a little historical tour that traces some of the places that the Kull family descendants migrated to and through over quite a number of years. You’ll need to download Google Earth in order to do the tour. But that’s relatively painless and certainly worthwhile and life changing! You can download [...]

Memorial for Roger Alan Downs

by @ Friday, February 10th, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

I put together a small photo album as a memorial to my Brother-In-Law, Roger Alan Downs (1943-2006). Send me your photos if you would like them included… Click here to view the album!

Genealogy Education available here…

by @ Thursday, February 9th, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

Bob found some online courses and educational “stuff” on genealogy here… http://genealogy.about.com/od/education/

The Canadian Census Problem

by @ Sunday, February 5th, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

Perhaps this has something to do with the poor quality of the search function at the Canadian Genealogy Centre. The Americans with the $$$ were able to build an index over the 1911 census a little quicker. There was a real danger that it may be impossible for Canadians to ever have access to any [...]

Census – Canadian Genealogy Centre – Library and Archives Canada

by @ Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

Canadian Census records on micro-film. I found the records from Morden showing the whole family! Canadian Genealogy Centre (or Center if you are from America)

Soviet Russia’s Persecution of Latvia, 1918 to the Present

by @ Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

Paper Presented to the Eighth International Revisionist Conference. The focus of this paper is the oppression and persecution which the rulers of the Soviet Union have inflicted on the Baltic nation of Latvia, from its declaration of independence in 1918 to the present day. Soviet Russia’s Persecution of Latvia, 1918 to the Present

Historical Text Archive: E-Books : Europe: Austria-Hungary and Poland

by @ Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Filed under Genealogy

A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, or the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Ger. ?sterreichisch-ungarische Monarchie or ?sterreichisch-ungarisches Reich), is the official name of a country situated in central Europe, bounded E. by Russia and Rumania, S. by Rumania, Servia, Turkey and Montenegro, W. by the Adriatic Sea, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the German empire, and [...]

How Products Are Made

by @ Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Filed under Neat stuff

How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams). How Products Are Made

Freecycle factoids – a new feature on Freecycle.org

by @ Thursday, February 2nd, 2006. Filed under Freecycle, Neat stuff

Freecycle.org has a new feature…? “Freecycle Fun Fact”.? You can see the morphing facts on Freecycle’s home page? I don’t know what the source is or how authoritative these “facts” are, but they are interesting and thought provoking.? Here are a few that have been mentioned. America throws away enough aluminum every three months to [...]

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