Friday, June 30, 2006

Have A Safe Fourth Of July Holiday

May each and everyone of you stay safe and enjoy the "Fourth of July holiday. Any of you that are taking this week for vacation, may you have a wonderful yet very refreshing time away from whatever you are leaving.

Do not drink and drive!!!!!!

Just to mention something worthy of note. Gas has become more scarce again since the big travel time is at hand. These prices have increased about $.10/gallon in the last several weeks. Maybe they can use this extra money like they have in the past for more research and new innovations. Yea Right!

Google is in the news 2 times today.

They have launched their version of Ebay's PayPal. Google Checkout as it is called has been unveiled and is touted as a tool to make online commerce more convenient. Don't know about this.

Google is also supposed to be going to court today to defend it right to index and rank web pages in the manner that they currently do. They are being challenged by a website publisher for causing them to loose a high percentage of their profits by changing their rank or dropping them from the Google search engine.

The results of this one will be very interesting to see.

Personally, I think that Google has done a lot to help keep the internet as fair as it is presently.

Read more about this case and let us know what you think.

JUST MY OPINIONS!

C. Oxford
Getaway Crafts

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

How To Barbecue Southeastern Style

I've been kinda slow posting on this personal blog lately and to be truthful have had a hard time staying focused on the tasks that I have to do. Since my last post about the "picnic for the autistic", I have tried to settle down and finish one project at a time.

I am presently trying to optimize one of my websites and add a meaningful Sitemap to it. The problem being, this is a slow process and I am still working on it. I have at most, stayed on this one project and not veered into another direction as I normally do.

My normal routine is to go in too many directions and get to many "irons in the fire" at one time. (If you in the younger generation don't know what this means, ask your parents or grandparents.)

Since I am getting older, I have also started carrying a small notebook with me and also keep one beside my computer to jot down any intelligent nonsense that I may think of that can be useful for a website niche or blog in the future. This also helps me stay focused by not having to change directions and forget my main objective.

While cooking barbecue for the picnic, it came to mind that when I first started cooking barbecue I had to search for days on the internet to find a workable recipe and cooking procedures that fit my needs.

Part of this was a "learn as you go" process that I have actually been using for about 3 years. I took excerpts from various sites and books.


I don't cook in competition but have used some of the barbecue commercially in a small restaurant and response from the customers was very positive. This information adapts to small portions and can be cooked on a small inexpensive barbecue grill as I have described in the article.

Maybe if you have the desire to try your hand at slow cooking barbecue (not grilling) and have been unable to find the complete procedure and recipe this post could possible be of assistance to you.

Check it out through this Barbecuing link and if you have any questions, please send me an email or write in the comments section of this blog. I will be glad to reply.

These are not the recommendations of any of the manufacturers or retailers named in this article but are only my opinion and what worked for me.

Sincerely,