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Perhaps there are millions of people related to Charlemagne, but I am one of them, and my grandmother was an avid genealogist, who spent hours and hours researching these things before we had the internet, so this is both interesting and sentimental for me. Charlemagne Family Tree Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of […]

Just made a couple of small edits (I don’t like broken links or bad formatting). At the time, I was probably using Dreamweaver. June 4th, 2002 – Day 1 of David-DuVal.com. Hosting with PHP and mySQL: I’ve been trying to learn more about building websites that interact with databases. The current hosting package that I am […]

My grandfather told me long ago about the TIGER approach to life, and it is as true today as ever. I hope you will think through this for your own life. T – Tolerance People are different, but you have to be empathetic and try to understand what makes them the way they are I – Integrity […]

Failed ideas are great if you went through the process of trying to make something work, but you learned a lot in the process, and I suppose in this sense, it really isn’t a failure. I’ve made a lot of websites and web apps, and definitely some of them are no longer in existence. So […]

Well the name doesn’t translate very well (Amazon books uses this translation as well), but I just finished reading this book. It the second full length novel I have read in Chinese. The Chinese name is 忧确杂货店, and actually it was written by Keigo Higashino, a Japanese mystery writer, and then it was translated into […]

In internet years, I think a long time time passed during which time there was no suitable alternative to Windows at a good price. Sure, there was Linux, and I tried it, but it just wasn’t easy to use. And of course, there is Mac, but the price is quite high. For someone that is […]

This is something I wrote May 11, 2007, and I’ve “revived” it (hopefully my creative mind too!) 🙂 Part 1 You are looking at the computer monitor right now and reading this article. Now let’s go through a process of looking at things a little different. I will ask some questions. Any answer will do, […]

In 2006, Shelley and I had 3 cats: Captain, Prissy and Eartha. Here they are… 🙂 Prissy is Orange. Captain is White and you can see he lost an eye, and Eartha is the grey tabby.

I wrote this a long time ago, June 3, 2007. Some of my writings were lost, but I wanted to revive this one. I liked what I wrote at the time: In the fifth chapter of Matthew we have:Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ […]

We are about halfway through the Summer, and DSM is going as smooth as ever. Last year (2017), we put a lot of work into improving the stability, and making sure all pages of the app were more user friendly. Rather than just piling on more and more features, we took the time improve what […]