Watching your State Government

In this, "How to Keep an Eye on Legislators and Legislation," State Representative Paul Baumbach reviewed how Delaware residents (or anyone) can monitor legislators and legislation, committee hearings, testimony, etc. He  also offered tips on effective advocacy. 

Here's some links of note:
Who's your representative?  https://ivote.de.gov/voterlogin.aspx

US Elected Officials' websites:
   http://www.carper.senate.gov/public/
   http://www.coons.senate.gov/
   http://johncarney.house.gov/

Who to contact in State government: http://governor.delaware.gov/staff.shtml
Website to track State lawmaking:  http://www.legis.delaware.gov/
New Castle County:  http://nccde.org/
City of Newark:  http://www.cityofnewarkde.us/index.aspx

P.s.  Legislators hate the term "Politicians" - they are "Elected Officials"  :-)

Bob's Bytes

Mostly Q&A today, but a good discussion on the Apple vs. The FBI case.

A Summary:

• News – Apple vs. the FBI
• Lab Software - VLC
• Backup methods
• 4 eMail questions: The infamous red ‘X’, Why emails fail, Junk emails, & Disappearing emails
• How to pick “Free Apps?”
• What’s the “Cloud?”
• Do you need AV on Andriod devices?
• What is the difference between Copy, Burn and Rip?
• Can you do a comparison of affordable laptops on {the} market? (Short answer: No.)
• And a techie question on IP addresses.

Windows Accessories

Helen Browne and Bob Bloom (sorta) collaborated on:

• WordPad and Notepad
• Calculator
• Snipping Tool
• Disk Cleaner / Ccleaner / Cleanup!
• Disk Defrag / Auslogics Defrag