{"id":1293,"date":"2014-01-14T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:54:49","slug":"new-year-changes-for-the-better-or-even-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/14\/new-year-changes-for-the-better-or-even-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Changes for the Better&#8230;or even the Worst&#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-boot.\u00a0 De-frag.\u00a0 UN-do.\u00a0 Re-fresh.\u00a0 Take inventory.\u00a0 The first weeks of the New Year are often allocated to assessment&#8211;and making changes for the better.\u00a0 Or what appears to be the better.<\/p>\n<p>Computer services, browsers, security systems&#8211;they have all updated and even dramatically changed the way we do business on the internet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, because they have added elements that do not interface well with what we already have.\u00a0 So not everything functions better&#8211;it may not function at all.<\/li>\n<li>Second, each program may have to be reset to match.<\/li>\n<li>Third, not all error messages are equal.\u00a0 Some identify the problem better than others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, please be patient with minor mal-functions on my blogs&#8211;and recall that I take computer lessons, hands-on lessons, every week for two hours.\u00a0 Who could possibly predict that even 2-hours may not be enough time to learn and re-learn all that I need to know.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I have learned a ton of stuff this past year.\u00a0 And I can even add illustrations and actual documents to Word-Processing.\u00a0 Imagine!\u00a0 Who would have thought that I could make such educational progress?\u00a0 Stay tuned&#8211;I think the best is yet to come in 2014.\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist of choice, Arlene Eakle\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n<p>PS\u00a0 I am really excited about what is coming in 2014&#8211;a new blog on researching the <strong>British Isles before 1700 [1650-1750]&#8211;launching 25 Mar 2014<\/strong>; a new format and curriculum for genealogy workshops and conferences&#8211;check my current speaking schedule <a title=\"Arlene's Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/arleneeakle.com\">http:\/\/arleneeakle.com <\/a>; new websites for online databases and pedigrees prepared by me from my extensive library holdings; newly available research sources and resources.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t want to miss any thing, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-boot.\u00a0 De-frag.\u00a0 UN-do.\u00a0 Re-fresh.\u00a0 Take inventory.\u00a0 The first weeks of the New Year are often allocated to assessment&#8211;and making changes for the better.\u00a0 Or what appears to be the better. Computer services, browsers, security systems&#8211;they have all updated and even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/14\/new-year-changes-for-the-better-or-even-the-worst\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}