Care Calendar

CareCalendar is a donor-supported scheduler for planning and coordinating support for a person or family in need. Various needs are logged, such as meals, rides and yardwork, and members of a “Help Team” can log in to volunteer for various tasks. A friend shared this link with me, and I have not used this service myself, but the demo looks promising. CareCalendar is a ministry of the Bortel family.

Baby Names

Choosing a name for a new baby can be difficult. Baby name books are readily available, but they contain only a limited number of names and are not always organized the same way. Some try to cover all possible etnicities equally, which reduces even further the suggestions for members of any one group. Online resources are not so constrained. Here are some sources we’ve used in the past.

The Social Security Admministration hosts a Popular Baby Names page that provides several search options, including popularity rankings by State, year, or overall usage.

The Baby Name Wizard has several neat tools. The NameFinder is a unique search engine with very relevant search criteria. The Namipedia includes name definitions and statistics. The NameMapper is a visualization tool to drill down on name information by location.

Compendium of Lost Words

The Compendium of Lost Words, maintained by Stephen Chrisomalis, contains words that meet the following five rules:

1. The word must have a header entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
2. The word may not appear in its proper English context on any readily accessible web page.
3. The word must have been used in Modern English.
4. The word must have been used in a standard English variety rather than simply in a regional dialect.
5. The word must not be a simple variation in spelling of another word.

October 31, 2009: PDF, DNS, TLM

PDF Annotation
Looking for a way to annotate or markup PDFs. Highlighting, shapes, text boxes, etc.

Xournal:
http://www-math.mit.edu/~auroux/software/xournal/manual.html#pdfannotate
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xournal/

Okular:
http://okular.kde.org/

OpenDNS
A globally available free DNS service.
http://www.opendns.com/
http://system.opendns.com/

Traditional Latin Mass
St.Roch’s, West Bangor, PA