The Book of a Google Faces

It’s been a long stretch of Truckin’ with Ron posts, so I thought I’d ramble a bit on the uses and abuses of ye olde Facebook. Recently, a friend of mine (who is an excellent blogger) “quit” Facebook. I say “quit” because, as she pointed out, Facebook saves ALL of your information (contact and “about me”, pictures, [...]
Prolific Output into the Void.

I often wonder about how technology seems to have vastly improved our lives… when it fact it changes almost nothing. Before the internet, a single, unremarkable person with something to say would struggle their entire life to find a way to express themselves – to find an outlet for the voice, the ideas and feelings [...]
The Death of Growing Freedom

Well, it looks like my old blog “Growing Freedom” is dead. Apparently upgrading to the latest version of WordPress without backing things up is a bad idea. By all accounts my content is gone, even if whatever “Internal Server Error” sorts itself out. I suppose I should be upset – I put a good chunk [...]
Website Update – Real Blog Post
Hi Everyone! Welcome to ForcedSimplicity.com version… gosh, 4.0? Something like that. I’m still somewhat in awe of these background flash videos. When I first started making websites in high school, we were coding basic HTML on Notepad, back when animated .gifs were actually considered cool and the < blink > tag worked all too well. [...]
Iowa’s Lost Prairie – Lighting My Dashboard on Fire (Video)
This video used to be the main page greeting. It wasn’t exactly the best sales pitch, but I thought it was fun. Remember: If you’re going to do something stupid, at least make it for a good cause. Get Volume 1 Now!



