Regular readers of this Journal know that I work as a full-time volunteer at a domestic violence center and shelter, and that one of the many things that I do there is setup and configure old, donated PCs for domestic violence survivors to use in their homes.

I’ve also described how I [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’m a domestic violence survivor and I work as a full-time volunteer for a domestic violence center and shelter. If you didn’t know that before now, and you’d like to hear “the rest of the story,” check out my articles, speeches and poems in this site’s DV Information section or click on the red Domestic Violence Journal Topic in the right column of this site’s home page. [more...]

For those of you who live in or near central Florida, I’ve been told that the an ABC affiliate there is airing a special, locally produced program called Taking Action Against Domestic Violence from 8-9 PM tonight.

If you know if and when it will be aired by other ABC affiliates. please write to me, and I’ll post that information here.

Regular readers of this Journal know that I work as a full-time volunteer at a domestic violence center and shelter.

One of the many tasks that I do for that organization is to work as a legal advocate at the county courthouse, helping people file [more...]

I started this web site way back in August, 1998, as a teaching tool for the 12 college computer courses that I was teaching at a local college that semester.

Over time, it grew from its humble beginnings as a few simple static HTML pages that contained only some college course information, to [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I work as a full-time volunteer at a domestic violence center and shelter.

One of the many tasks that I do for that organization is configure old, donated PCs (with monitors, mice, keyboards and printers), to give to [more...]

This Journal post was originally entitled “Helping Victims Become Survivors - Part 5.”

Regular visitors to this site know that I was a victim of domestic violence, but I have become a survivor.

They also know that I work as a full-time volunteer for a local domestic violence center and shelter. I serve as a legal advocate, care for groups of preschool to teenage children during their mothers’ DV support groups, [more...]

Most savvy computer users have known for years that Microsoft consistently and repeatedly uses FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) to try to scare non-savvy computer users away from even considering any of the many excellent, secure, free and open-source alternatives to Windows.

I think that FUD cynically plays upon the natural human psychology that [more...]