Greetings!
October
was
another exciting month for LuckyDuck:
New services; New page; New clients; New
friends; New
stories! We hope you enjoy the results!
Please visit our November website
- check out our
new links and this
month's photos
of Peggy's Cove and our new page: LuckyPals!
bstrgrds,
Jodie Turner
LuckyDuck presents LuckyPals!
some of the fine people we meet . . .
Our new LuckyPals page started with a
question: Why
can't
we say "Well Done!" to the people we meet?
As a former newspaper reporter, I know readers love
people stories and people photos.
And most of our website visitors are no different.
Each month we'll applaud someone new.
We'll tell their stories and include contact
information as well.
As a convenience to our readers, our
LuckyPals page will
have a link to a pdf noting the contact information
of all our "Pals" - past and present!
Salt of the Earth
Lucky's salute to Organic Entrepreneurs!
Every month, we'll be saying "Thank-you!" to the
organic
growers who enable us to bring good, healthy food to
our tables. This month's standing ovation goes to Ann
&
Victor Naugler.
Crossroads Farm, just outside Bridgewater, Nova
Scotia, is where this hard working pair
raise and produce fine organic food.
"We've been farming our whole
lives,? she says.
?In 1991, a couple of German families were coming
for milk. They asked if they might buy some
organic produce and it snow balled.?
For the next
few seasons, the Nauglers displayed their fresh
produce on a picnic table. Shoppers put their money
in a bottle. Sadie the Shelty dog did the honours as
the family
greeter . . .
Baywoods celebrates grand opening
Rosmarie Bradley: Helping Nature Heal's magic act
Over the past number of months I've had the pleasure
of multi photo-shoots at Baywoods, the micro Acadian
Forest/outdoor classroom in front of Mahone Bay's
Bayview Community School. Me and my camera were
on
duty for our client Rosmarie Bradley of
Helping
Nature Heal.
She's the heart, soul and sweat behind the
design, creation and completion of this
remarkable project.
On October 23, LuckyDuck once
again
landed at Baywoods. This time to help celebrate the
grand opening . . . nearly one year to the day that
construction began.
There was lots of excitement - students, teachers,
parents, guests - as well as cbc national morning
news crew. Proper thing too! This project
absolutely
deserved that kind of acknowledgement.
The opportunity to be involved in such a
dream-come-true project generated heart-felt
gratitude and Rosmarie was quick to say "Thank-you!"
And now I'm taking advantage of my post at the
keyboard to say "Thank-you Rosmarie for a job
well done - definitely above-and-beyond the
call of duty!
Peggy's Cove & walkers' alert!
The
November edition
of Lucky's website photo collection
offers a more private than usual view of
Peggy's
Cove.
This month's additions to our growing links
calls on walkers and hikers!
There will be four Parks are for People hikes in
November.
For details, click on our green November Links just
below this line and to the right.
An Intelligent Choice with Robert Wagner
Virus and spyware nasties - some antidotes are free!
I'd like to think that every computer linked to the
Internet has an antivirus program installed, but I
know it isn't so.
Most of us have heard about computer viruses, the
malicious software that can appear unexpectedly on
your computer in many different forms. Their effects
range from mildly annoying to downright
destructive.
Norton Antivirus is a good program. It will help
protect your system ? and for greater service,
Norton Internet Security includes a firewall.
But that's not the end of the story. You need to
keep your virus definitions up to date. If you don't
want to schedule yourself a regular check-in with
your antivirus provider for updates, buy an
anti-virus software that automatically updates
daily.
If the problems persist, call your service
technician ? it could be time to get your system
checked.
Spyware solutions
Spyware can track your surfing behavior, then
provide that information to commercial interests
gathering data for marketing and advertising
purposes.
Spyware can result in annoying pop-ups,
aggravatingly slow performance and scary security
threats. Spyware can harvest personal, sensitive
information from your computer, then release it to
people with criminal intentions.
Some free tools to help clean-up/protect your system
from spyware are:
- Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition which can be
downloaded from www.download.com
by using their
search;
-
Spybot - Search & Destroy can also be found at
www.download.com
-
Windows XP users can use Microsoft Windows
Defender. Now out of ?beta? (testing phase)
the final release can be accessed here
Only download programs from web sites you trust! If
you're not sure whether to trust a program:
- ask for help from a knowledgeable friend or
local computer store
-
enter the name of the program into your favourite
search engine, for example, www.google.ca, to
see if anyone has reported that it contains
spyware.
Robert Wagner
A+ Certified Technician
Intelligent Choice Computers
Site maps: Google, Yahoo & html site maps
Site maps: Google site maps, Yahoo url lists and
right-on-the-website html maps . . .
A variety of site maps serve our clients.
Google site maps and Yahoo url lists are
behind-the-scenes helping search
engines properly index websites.
An html site-map page introduces new visitors and
helps new and return visitors quickly access all the
site has to offer.
At LuckyDuck web design, we're pleased to offer
these services to our clients.
Spread the word - Please!
If you look just
below this e-newsletter, you'll
see, on the left hand side,
a small blue invitation to forward email.
We'd
really appreciate it if you took up the invite!
We won't save your recipients' e-addresses or
anything else about them - and that's a promise!
