Making Decisions       Well, it's been some time since my last post - and I have made a decision. I'm going to start my own business. Wow - look at that - one little sentence and my whole life is about to change. Now, this is not a lightly-made decision. I have...

School's out! What a long, strange trip it's been... For over a year now, I have been part of a group, focused on learning, adhering to a schedule (mostly), and with a clearly defined path to follow. Now the program is finished, and I feel like I am lost in the...

   Dreamweaver Disappointment    OK. Have you ever seen that movie, “A Christmas Story”? The one where 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants only one thing for Christmas: “an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock,...

      Black Hat Hacking       Lock up your silver and hide your daughters away... They’re out there – the cyber-outlaws, riding around the net in their virtual black hats, hijacking, impersonating, stealing data, and generally raising hell online. Most normal users...

Secret Decoder Ring OK – Right now we are studying Web Security in the course. This is a subject guaranteed to make the most sanguine person just a little paranoid. Apparently, no data is totally secure.  Public keys, private keys, certificates, hashing, encryption...

     To Post or Not To Post       A friend of mine recently emailed me to complain that too much time had passed since I updated this blog. I hadn’t realized that there were rules about how often one had to post – I had thought it was sufficient to post only when I...

     Coffee Code       OK – back in April,  PHP got me smoking again – I’m fairly certain Javascript will lead me to drink this month – and who knows to what new lows  CGI or AJAX will take me…  My husband says that by the time I finish this program I’ll have so...

I was lucky enough to be able to be a “stay-at-home-Mom” for the first 16 years of my daughter’s life. This is not to say I didn’t work during that time – I just didn’t get paid, or at least not much. Never being one to sit around being bored, I was always working...