• Read Large Excel Files easily and Render Image Fonts

    The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 7.5.0 has been released. This maintenance release contains enhancements and fixes for the issues reported in earlier versions. In this release, we have provided support to fonts in rendering image files when the required font is not found. We also re…
  • Style did the murals

    His son's name is Style Read and he does the murals downtown. The murals tell the history about our town and the parking lot is used for events.
  • Sleepy Read

    Sleepy Read is 92yrs old and he's still going strong in his studio in the old Wright Building downtown. I told him that I would put his picture on my facebook and I'll get a lot of likes;he said," lots of people came to visit me and I didn't know how many liked me until I have a stroke recently and…
  • The Things You're Missing Out On

    I love you guys - you know that! But I can't pay to blog, and I especially can't pay to pay to blog. And if you've been paying attention, I've taken up home on Wordpress. Here is what you've missed since the news that Xanga may be closing, or at the very best will move to Wordpress and start char…
  • Books I've Read (So Far) In 2013

    Yep, I'm starting my book list already! Last year I read a total of 182 books and I'm hoping to beat that number this year. Here are the lists of books I've read from the previous years: Books I've Read (So Far) In 2012 Books I've Read (So Far) In 2011 Books I've Read (so far) In 2010 Books: The Tr…
  • What Are You Reading? #8

    What I'm reading at the moment is The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks. I'm about 30 pages in and I like it so far. It has a fun story, I like the characters and I'm looking forward to reading more of it. What are you reading?
  • 50 Shades of WTF?

    Okay. I finally got around to and finished "50 Shades Of Grey". It's not something I would have picked up on my own, even though I'm a HUGE Twilight Fan (aka dork, I know) and it claimed to be the adult version of a Twilight-like romance... Which in a way, it was, but anyway, I read it. For researc…
  • May Postmortem

    BOOKS READ - MAY 2013 13. Good-bye to All That -- by Robert Graves 14. Storm of Steel -- by Ernst Junger 15. A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis -- By Craig Blomberg and Jennifer Foutz Markley MOVIES WATCHED - MAY 2013 Game of Thrones (TV series) -- Season 1
  • The End, Please Read [EDIT]

    Just got news of all this crazy Xanga madness. And I wanted to let you all know, that I have had a Wordpress account for quite some time, where I post the same blogs that I do here (or at least I did for a while...all the extra run time having both accounts was taking up a lot of time). So, I hope…
  • Groundhogs And Other Stuff

    We have a groundhog living in our backyard again. We haven't had one for a year or two and that's because one of our neighbors shoots them whenever he sees them. I know they dig holes in the yard and all, but I could never kill one. But anyway, there is one living in our backyard and she had babies…