If you ever have a need to publish photos online, such as on your website or a social media account, you need to be VERY careful to make sure you have the right to do that. Otherwise, it could be a very expensive lesson.   When you need a picture for some project such [...] Read more »

Tracy Cooley lives in Arlington, Virginia. On May 7, 2016 she did the Chopawamsic 100k race as her FIRST 100k ultramarathon. Congratulations Tracy!

Fun fact: Tracy has a blog where she writes about her training and races – you can see it at highmileagemama.wordpress.com

 

For many people that use Outlook as their email program, it’s very frustrating when you get an email that’s supposed to have pictures in it, but Outlook doesn’t display those pictures – it only shows a red “X”.   And in all of Microsoft’s wisdom, they didn’t create a clear or intuitive way to [...] Read more »

Matt Sanders lives in Independence, Missouri. On April 30, 2016 he finished the Heartland 50 mile ultramarathon as his first 50 mile race. Congratulations Matt!

Fun fact: Matt travels extensively for work, so most of his training runs were done away from home.

Photos courtesy of T&J Studios:

http://www.tjstudios.com/heartland50

 

After last week’s post about a big reason WHY you should use an ad blocker when you visit websites, I got several inquiries asking, “What ad blocker should I use? Where do I find it? How do I get it on my computer?”. So this week we’ll talk about a couple of the popular ones, [...] Read more »

Kim Matthews lives in Bangkok, Thailand. On May 1, 2015 she did the Suanpreuk 99 10-hour race and completed 98.7 km. Congratulations Kim!

Fun fact: This race saw 600 solo runners and several relay teams competing – all on a 1.25 mile loop course!

I’ve used ad blockers for years. If you’re not familiar with that, what this means is that when I visit a website that has advertising, I don’t see the ads. I just see the website content.   As you might know, ad blocking software has generated a controversy. Website visitors like the blockers because websites are [...] Read more »

Tim Chaten lives in Milford, New Hampshire. On April 30, 2016 he finished the Indiana Trail 50 miler as his first ultramarathon. Congratulations Tim!

Fun fact: Tim is a host of his own podcast called Club Nintendo, where he and some friends discuss anything related to Nintendo gaming. More info at http://www.thenintendoclubpodcast.com/

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Mostly, Word works well. I’ve used it for many years and been pretty happy with it. But ever since I first started using it, there has been this one thing that has driven me nuts until I learned how to fix it.   What happens is this. I’ll be typing along in MS Word, [...] Read more »

Raelynn Zappulla lives in Philadelphia, PA. On April 9, 2016 she finished the North Face Endurance Challenge ultramarathon as her first 50 mile race. Congratulations Raelynn!

Fun fact: Raelynn actually trained to run the 50k race, but decided at the last minute to do the 50 miler instead.

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