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By Way of Explanation... Life has taken over all of my time lately. A water leak in the kitchen has turned me into a full-time floor installer for the last month (800 square feet, including the kitchen, dining area, living room, entry, and hallway). I'm putting down pub-grade solid hickory strips, they require some...

Change in Comment Policy Recently, the generous permissions that Movable Type requires in order to allow instant publishing of comments and entries have caused me to be attacked by phishers. These thieving scum have actually written files to my site and advertised them as places for gullible customers to go to change their bank...

Letting the Forum Slip off into the Sunset The forum was fun for a while, but it has fallen out of use and has become a target of spambots. I'm moving it off of the site for now. Perhaps some day we'll give it another shot. Thanks to all of you real humans who visited and left/read comments....

Announcing a New Website: Gotta-Have Albums Like most of you Boomers, I'm a huge fan of music. I also miss the Rolling Stone Record Guides of the late 70's and early 80's. The Guide would rate albums from a bullet (worthless) to five stars (Indispensable: a record that must be included in any comprehensive collection). They...

Garage Band Time Wasters, Thanks to a Fan Scott Kuz is an IRJFK fan, and, with his permission, I'm posting this lengthy email full of amazing Youtube links for your pleasure and thorough waste of time. Enjoy! And thanks, Scott! I remember, growing up, garage bands were a big thing in our neighborhood....we lived in a neighborhood with...

So You Think Blogging Is Easy? I sure did, back in November of 2007, when I first envisioned I Remember JFK. Fourteen hours of work recently begs to disagree. Issue number one: Upon moving from one dedicated server to a more powerful one at half the price two years ago, a large number of graphics were...

DVR Alert! Tom Brokaw Reports BOOMER$! Set your DVR's for this one, Boomers! Tom Brokaw hosts BOOMER$! tonight on CNBC. The show begins at 9:00 PST, 12:00 midnight EST tonight. Tom Brokaw did an amazing piece on the Summer of Love a couple of years ago, this should be a dandy show as well. Who knows,...

In the Words of Emily Litella, "Never Mind!" I Remember JFK has been honored to receive attention from the media in the past, and I'm quite pleased and excited to announce that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has invited Yours Truly to jump on a plane and fly to New York to be interviewed! The interview will...

Working the Bugs out of Podcasts Podcasts have been back for a couple of weeks, but if you tried to find them through iTunes, you couldn't. That's because I had configuration problems on my end. Well, I'm hoping that those bugs have been squished. So whether you listen to podcasts through iTunes or some other online...

I Remember JFK and Internet Explorer It has come to my attention that when I embed a YouTube video here, and this site is viewed through Internet Explorer, it looks ugly. The video sits on top of the text like a block of styrofoam in the ocean, instead of being smoothly wrapped by text. The reason...

Sweet Inspiration I am currently recovering from the last yard sale I shall ever conduct. Yeah, I say that every time, but I'm 49 years old, and I have seriously gotten too old for this stuff. Anyhow, while digging through our old stuff to sell, I stumbled upon a true find for...

Yes, There Are Ads on My Site One of the things that I have to do when I write an article is obtain graphics. I try to use public domain images whenever possible. But sometimes, an individual will have the PERFECT image on their website. That means asking that particular site owner nicely if I may use...

A Step to the Side: Computer Advice for Boomers Today's column is going to be something different. It's going to be advice for Boomers from one of their own. I'm a professional geek. My specialties are web development, networking, and desktop support. The Fortune 500 business I work for runs 95% Windows XP desktops, 4% Windows 2000, and 1%...

Let's Get Some Traffic Cooking! I have many, many regular readers of I Remember JFK, and I appreciate all of you. Right now, we're getting around 10,000 visits a month. That's a nice figure, to be sure, but I feel like our potential audience is at least ten times higher than that. So, regular readers,...

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been Just a few personal words today about where I Remember JFK has been, and where it's heading. As you know, or perhaps don't, I woke up in the middle of the night last November with an idea for a cool website. Its premise would be if you could remember anything...

A Little Extra I'd like to take a minute and reflect on what has happened since I woke up in the middle of the night last November with the thought "I Remember JFK! Now THAT would be a cool name for a Boomer nostalgia site!" To my delight and surprise, the domain name...

I Remember JFK's Advertising Policy and Terms I Remember JFK's advertising policy and terms:...

Welcome to Our Site! So, what constitutes a Baby Boomer? Opinions vary, but most agree that a Boomer was born between 1946 and the start of the Vietnam War (about 1963). I, however, submit that a real Boomer is defined by the recollection of a world-changing event: JFK's assassination. Now I don't mean to...

Note to those who would use my images
You may use any images you find on my site on your own personal site. COPY the images to your own server, PLEASE. If you link directly, you will likely get a logo encouraging others to visit I Remember JFK instead of the graphic that you expected. In return, I request that you include a link back to I Remember JFK. Fair enough?

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Trading Stamps:
Once upon a time, your mom made the decision about which grocery store to shop at based on a simple factor: what brand of trading stamps did they offer? Mom was a Top Value fan, hence my using them for the illustration rather than the much more popular S&H Green...

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