Terry Leigh Britton

Category: Thought-Bubble

  • Anticipation vs. Reflection

    I’ve nearly died now four times. Once when age 26 from a liver collapse that came out of nowhere (I grew a new liver that time), the second time (diagnosed at age 41) from Hepatitis-C, contracted, it is thought, from a gamma-globulin shot in the days before the blood supply was screened (which might have…

  • Repetitive stress injury cured by Dragon NaturallySpeaking

    The result of too much computer work and too much music performance has been a repetitive stress injury in my wrist, causing my thumb, back of hand, and lower forearm to become inflamed with painful muscle spasms. As much as I read on the Internet, even using the wonderful scroll wheel on my Kensington trackball…

  • The Willot Papers

    By Terry Leigh Britton "Ahh, back in the days when a kretna was a kretna, unless you changed it, and that wasn’t very often."

  • 3 Things ExpressionEngine can do that WordPress simply cannot

    I’m a programmer who uses the ExpressionEngine CMS to run some pretty data-intensive websites. Data intensive! WordPress is a great platform, don’t get me wrong. (This page and most of my other personal pages are all WordPress sites.) But if you’ve got data, you want something like ExpressionEngine. Here’s why. If/Then statements. Anywhere on any…

  • My first tape recorders

    I got into recording at a very early age – 10 years old, to be exact! My mom bought my brother and me a “shared” present from the Sears catalog – a reel-to-reel tape deck! Here is a picture of the catalog entry from the 1962 Sears Christmas Catalog of that item, the “Electronic Tape…

  • S.I.M.P.L.E.R. – Success Is Marketing, Planning, Leveraging, Economy and Resources

    Recently, a friend in Elizabeth City, NC and I had several conversations surrounding what could be done to help people struggling to either get a business started or people already in business who were encountering hard times. I was fiddling around with finding an acronym for a “S.C.O.R.E. On Steroids”* kind of organization (my acronym…

  • The Color Rhyme

    With Lewis Carroll being in my mind, as well as Dr. Seuss, several years ago in 2003, I wrote my little “Color Rhyme” below hoping to assist my students. I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to share it! (This is the latest version.) The Color Rhyme (Starring Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Red, Green and…

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