ComputerBob – Making Geek-Speak Chic™

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Making Geek-Speak Chic™ More Than 5,989 Times
Flying Under The Radar Of Mass Popularity
Over 24 Million Global Visits Since 1996

Through my share of both good times and challenges, I've learned that life is hard, but God is good — so I've always tried to put my faith into action. This Web site has been my labor of love since 1997. I hope that it and my ministry will bless, inspire, and empower you. I've written about 6,000 posts here, but those that I think are the most important, are marked with the MOST IMPORTANT tag.

Christmas, 2017, I suffered a massive second stroke, that "disconnected" my entire left side from my brain and hospitalized me for a whole month. Through months of hundreds of hours of rehabilitation, I slowly learned how to open my tightly-clenched left fist, turn my head, raise my left hand, sit, walk, add and subtract, etc. Even now, I still suffer many permanent results from my two strokes.

There's a thin line between
being committed
and
being committed

Leonelle

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Yesterday morning, February 28, 2026, 8-pound, 6-ounce, Leonelle (little lion) was born — already sporting a whole headful of long, thick, beautiful hair!

In fact, in a hospital photo of him being cleaned up [more…]

Tags: Friends, Funny, Inspirational, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Mr. Peanut, Personal

Making A Difference (JJ)

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

This post was a huge part of my previous post, It Is Well, but I decided to make it a separate post.

For years, I have maintained my two main websites, OneCandleMinistries.com and ComputerBob.com. The permanent URL of this article is: [more…]

Tags: Addiction, Domestic Violence, Dubious, Education, Ethics, Freedom, Friends, Health, History, Homeless, Inspirational, Law, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Psychology, Rights, Security, Stroke, Survivors, Work

It Is Well

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

It’s been a few months since I’ve been here for more than a few quick seconds.

I’ve been so busy ministering that I haven’t even had time to tell you about what I’ve been doing. I’ve sent several short text messages to some of my closest friends, but [more…]

Tags: Addiction, Domestic Violence, Education, Ethics, Friends, Health, Homeless, Inspirational, Law, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Mr. Peanut, Personal, Psychology, Rights, Security, Survivors, Work

I Thought He Was Dead

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

THE LIFE CYCLE

Age 10: Oh, no! That’s really horrible! He was so young!!! How did it happen??? [more…]

Tags: Education, Friends, Funny, Future, Inspirational, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Psychology

The God Of Running Naked

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Last week, a good friend of mine sent me a hilarious text message.

She said, “I was doing some research, and I looked up your name, ‘Robinson’, to see if it meant anything in Japanese. [more…]

Tags: Dubious, Education, Entertainment, Friends, Funny, Health, Personal, Psychology, Stroke

It Was A Shock To Me

Saturday, July 12, 2025

I first noticed it while driving on a highway, miles from home.

At highway speed, every time the car hit a bump, I would hear a noise.

It sounded like it was coming from the [more…]

Tags: Consumers, Dubious, Education, Engineering, Friends, Funny, Hardware, Inspirational, Personal, Psychology

Grampa Shark

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Everyone who knows me, knows that I love children, and for several decades, I’ve loved to be a fatherly, Christian influence on their young lives.

That’s why, today, I heard from several people, all wishing me a Happy Father’s Day! [more…]

Tags: Education, Friends, Inspirational, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Mr. Peanut, Personal

Perfect

Monday, June 9, 2025

One of the biggest joys of my ministry, is being able to spend time with kids.

Since her birth, a few short years ago, I had known about her, loved her, and had helped her in various ways, from a distance.

But yesterday, [more…]

Tags: Education, Friends, Future, Health, Inspirational, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal

He’s Still My Baby 2

Sunday, June 1, 2025

If you’ve spent much time at all on this site, you know that I love and do everything I can for my three “adopted grandsons,” Mr. Peanut, and his two younger brothers, Ahmari and Braylen.

Mr. Peanut is 7-1/2 years old now, but [more…]

Tags: Education, Friends, Health, Images, Inspirational, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Mr. Peanut, Personal, Psychology

An Award For Me?

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

This afternoon, I was honored to be invited to the elementary school graduation of the smart, sweet, and very responsible daughter of one of my friends.

First, several teachers and administrators announced and gave out awards, scholarships, medals, and certificates [more…]

Tags: Dubious, Education, Entertainment, Friends, Funny, Health, Ministry, Personal, Psychology, Stroke, Work

All In A Day’s Work

Friday, May 23, 2025

I often go to bed at night with NOTHING on my calendar for the next day.

But often, the next day quickly fills up with any number of the following — and other — needs:

An early morning [more…]

Tags: Domestic Violence, Education, Ethics, Freedom, Friends, Future, Health, History, Homeless, Inspirational, Law, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Mr. Peanut, Personal, Psychology, Rights, Survivors, Work

Invisible

Thursday, May 22, 2025

With over 23 million visits since 1997, ComputerBob.com has always been a very popular site.

A few decades ago, I discovered how popular it was, when my web host notified me that my site was going to be shut down, because it [more…]

Tags: Coding, Cybercrime, DIY, Dubious, Education, Ethics, History, Inspirational, Internet, Law, Personal, Rights, Security, Software, Tech Support

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today

Saturday, May 3, 2025

I still remember that, while we were frantically trying to get ready to leave my wife’s parents’ house to go to the church for our wedding, old friends of my wife’s parents suddenly drove up with their teenaged daughters (one of whom had “been in love” with me while I had been wooing my wife). They cluelessly thought that [more…]

Tags: DIY, Dubious, Ethics, Friends, Funny, History, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Stroke, Survivors

Especially

Saturday, April 12, 2025

A few days ago, early the other afternoon, my wife took me to my retina specialist, as she does every 6-8 weeks, to get the shot into my left eye that keeps it from slowly going blind.

She had to drive me, because this was one of my regular [more…]

Tags: Funny, Health, Personal, Psychology

Maliyah

Monday, March 24, 2025

More than a decade ago, my wife and I gave $5,000 of our life’s savings, to an attorney, so that a “very concerned” couple who said that they were “in Christian ministry” could get legal custody of what they told us was their “endangered” newborn (great) granddaughter.

After court, the little baby girl went to [more…]

Tags: Dubious, Education, Ethics, Friends, History, Inspirational, Law, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Psychology, Rights, Work

Comment If You Want To

Friday, February 28, 2025

Today, while studying this website’s traffic logs, I noticed a disturbing pattern: Several people, from several countries had been blocked from this site for the same reason —

They had all tried to post a comment below one of this site’s postings.

None of the blocked visitors [more…]

Tags: Coding, Dubious, Ethics, Internet, Personal, Software, Tech Support, WebDev

Both Ends

Sunday, February 23, 2025

There is an old expression,

“Burning the candle at both ends.”

The expression means [more…]

Tags: DIY, Ethics, Health, Inspirational, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Psychology, Stroke, Work

Hell?

Friday, February 21, 2025

More and more lately, I’ve repeatedly seen evidence that

for many people,

Hell [more…]

Tags: Addiction, Domestic Violence, Education, Ethics, Friends, Future, Health, Inspirational, Law, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Psychology, Rights, Stroke, Survivors, Work

Give Me Some Free Cache

Sunday, January 19, 2025

You may or may not have heard of “cache” (pronounced, “cash”) software. But, during the past few months, I’ve done a lot of research and testing of different cache software plugins for this, my WordPress website.

Normally, when you run a WordPress site, every time someone [more…]

Tags: Coding, DIY, Internet, Personal, Software, Tech Support, WebDev

Prolific

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Anyone who wants to, can see that since the early 1980’s — first on paper and in print; later on this site and on several others, as well as in several other forms and formats — I’ve been a busy little bee. A very prolific writer, quickly approaching 6,000 posts on this site alone (see this page’s footer).

I don’t know the future, but [more…]

Tags: Future, Health, Inspirational, Internet, Ministry, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Stroke, Survivors, Work

Hurricane Milton (updated 10-22-2024)

Monday, October 7, 2024

It’s Category 5 now, and it’s coming here.

Unfortunately, during a whole day of hard work yesterday by myself in a constant drizzle, and due to my two strokes, I could only very slowly install about 10 of our 100 or so metal hurricane shutters.

Today, I have [more…]

Tags: DIY, Ethics, Friends, Hardware, Health, Inspirational, MOST IMPORTANT, Personal, Security, Stroke