Resizing digital photos can be extremely tedious, but there is a nifty little utility called iResize that makes quick work of resizing a batch of photographs to fit the image size you want. I had in mind a need for something when I wanted to transfer photo files to my iPod, which has a screen [...]

Doug has been elected to the 2006-07 Board of Directors for the Oregon Chapter of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources. He was selected as the Board member responsibile for the chapter newsletter. IPMA-HR is the leading international association for public sector human relations professionals. Doug also serves on the IPMA-HR Publications Advisory [...]

Manuela and I decided this past week to spend the day southeast of Portland, Oregon at the annual June rose show hosted at Heirloom Roses in St. Paul, just a few minutes west of Interstate 5. Heirloom Roses is owned by John and Louise Clements. This is only the second time for the Rose Days’ [...]

My searchable family tree data base has just been updated. This data base includes details on more than 8,300 individuals and 3,000 plus families. Because the server software-the Next Generation Genealogy-has been updated to version 5.1.3, users should re-register. The old registration data base was deleted. During the upgrading process as it was corrupted in [...]