In a very real sense, even with all the responsibilities that we tackle everyday, our lives are blessed. But it’s no secret, though, that every now and then the entire process can be overwhelming. It seems that when one aspect of our lives starts to unravel everything else does as well. It’s like that thread in your favorite suit. Before you know it there’s not much of the suit left!

That’s when it’s time to take a giant step back and s-l-o-w d-o-w-n! Actually it’s time to give yourself the best gift of all: the present moment! Here are seven presents to yourself to keep yourself firmly planted in the present moment – and enjoying it – for as long as possible.

1. Let go of a long-standing grudge. Don’t ruin your “right here” good feelings by reliving an incident that didn’t turn out the way you would have liked it. Sit yourself down and write a letter to the person explaining that you’re no longer holding a grudge. Tell her the past is the past! Now, if you don’t want to send it, don’t. Merely tuck it away someone. Just letting go of those feelings make a tremendous difference in your attitude.
2. Take a walk in nature today. Go ahead, enjoy the sun, the wind, even a light shower if you’d like. If it has just recently rain, don’t forget to jump into every puddle you find along your way. Revel not only in nature, but in the thought of being as free as a child in your delight of everything around you. When you return to work or home, notice how much more light hearted you are!
3. Make a list of your strengths. Do it right now, yes. After all there’s no time like the present! Every time you feel as if you’re not living up to your potential or you feel as if nothing is going right in your life, study your list. Don’t tell me you can’t think of any strengths to list. If you hit a roadblock listing them, consult a close, trusted friend. She’ll let you know what your strengths are. Then list hers for her. Have your friend perform this activity as well.
4. Tell yourself – and actually believe it! – that you can when a new project deadline is dropped on your lap. That is the first – and most important step – to success: believing in your own talents and abilities. The next step? Actually using them! Yeah, it really is that simply!
5. Believe that dreams come true! Because they really do. And when we reach our 40s that’s when many of our old dreams resurface. Don’t let them die the second time around. In fact, right now, right this instant, name one dream you’ve always had but never acted on. It doesn’t even have to be a big dream. Now believe you can accomplish this dream. And begin to take steps today to make it happen. Don’t stop visualizing it and working toward it until it really does materialize for you.
6. Cross one item off your to-do list today! Give yourself a short break!
7. Buy pizza tonight or supper, serve it on paper plates and then spend the time you have spent cooking and doing dishes in the bathtub luxuriating in a long, hot glorious bath.

After all there’s no better present than the present! At 40-something, every one of us deserves it!
http://www.i40club.com

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(sung to the William Tell Overture)
by Anita Renfroe

What a mom says in 24 hours, condensed into 2 minutes and 55 seconds!

“The Mom Song”

Get up now
Get up now
Get up out of bed
Wash your face
Brush your teeth
Comb your sleepyhead
Here’s your clothes and your shoes
Hear the words I said
Get up now! Get up and make your bed
Are you hot? Are you cold?
Are you wearing that?
Where’s your books and your lunch and your homework at?
Grab your coat and gloves and your scarf and hat
Don’t forget! You gotta feed the cat
Eat your breakfast, the experts tell us it’s the most important meal of all
Take your vitamins so you will grow up one day to be big and tall
Please remember the orthodontist will be seeing you at 3 today
Don’t forget your piano lesson is this afternoon so you must play
Don’t shovel
Chew slowly
But hurry
The bus is here
Be careful
Come back here
Did you wash behind your ears?
Play outside, don’t play rough, will you just play fair?
Be polite, make a friend, don’t forget to share
Work it out, wait your turn, never take a dare
Get along! Don’t make me come down there
Clean your room, fold your clothes, put your stuff away
Make your bed, do it now, do we have all day?
Were you born in a barn? Would you like some hay?
Can you even hear a word I say?
Answer the phone! Get off the phone!
Don’t sit so close, turn it down, no texting at the table
No more computer time tonight!
Your iPod’s my iPod if you don’t listen up
Where are you going and with whom and what time do you think you’re coming home?
Saying thank you, please, excuse me makes you welcome everywhere you roam
You’ll appreciate my wisdom someday when you’re older and you’re grown
Can’t wait till you have a couple little children of your own
You’ll thank me for the counsel I gave you so willingly
But right now I thank you not to roll your eyes at me
Close your mouth when you chew, would appreciate
Take a bite maybe two of the stuff you hate
Use your fork, do not burp or I’ll set you straight
Eat the food I put upon your plate
Get an A, get the door, don’t get smart with me
Get a grip, get in here, I’ll count to three
Get a job, get a life, get a PHD
Get a dose of,
“I don’t care who started it!
You’re grounded until you’re 36″
Get your story straight and tell the truth for once, for heaven’s sake
And if all your friends jumped off a cliff would you jump, too?
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said at least a thousand times before
That you’re too old to act this way
It must be your father’s DNA
Look at me when I am talking
Stand up straighter when you walk
A place for everything and everything must be in place
Stop crying or I’ll give you something real to cry about
Oh!
Brush your teeth, wash your face, put your PJs on
Get in bed, get a hug, say a prayer with mom
Don’t forget, I love you
And tomorrow we will do this all again because a mom’s work never ends
You don’t need the reason why
Because, because, because, because
I said so, I said so, I said so, I said so
I’m the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom!!
Ta da!!!

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More Options Than 404

You know what happens when your browser asks a server for
a page that isn’t there. The server sends a status code to
the browser telling it “404 Not Found” — and your browser
gives you a message related to that.

Some browsers simply repeat what the server sent, with
maybe a line or two about which page wasn’t found. The
IE browser, if “friendly” error messages are specified in
preferences, might give you a page of whys and wherefores
and options and links and such which, if you’re so inclined,
you can wade through and come to the conclusion that the
page the browser tried to get doesn’t exist.

But the message doesn’t have to be “404 Not Found”. Several
other common messages are addressed in this article.

But first, let’s clarify how the browser and server talk to
each other — behind the scenes, so to speak. Stuff goes on
that you don’t see.

How Browser and Server Talk To Each Other

The browser asks for a web page file (or an image file or
a flash file or whatever). It’s a straight-forward “I want
this” with the URL of the file the browser wants. Sometimes
information in addition to the URL is sent to the server,
like the data of a form submission.

When the server responds, it first sends information just
for the browser. This header is one or more lines of plain
text.

When the server sends a blank line, the browser knows the
header information is done and anything that follows is to
be displayed in the browser window.

The information in the header varies. Some of the
information that can be in the header are cookies, an
indication of how much content follows the header, the
date the file was last updated, whether or not it is okay
to queue the page, and encrypted passwords.

Included in the header information is a status code.

More Than Just 404 Can Be Used

When the browser asks for a web page and the server is able
to find it and send it to the browser, a “200 Okay” status
code is sent in the header.

Search engine robots appear to servers as if they were
browsers. And search engine robots pay attention to the
status codes that servers send in the header.

When the server can’t find the requested page, the status
code is “404 Not Found” — usually. Several of the other
status codes the server might send to the browser when a
page isn’t available are

• 301 Moved Permanently
• 307 Temporary Redirect
• 410 Gone

Each of those are addressed below.

301 Moved Permanently

This indicates the file at the URL was moved, permanently,
and the server can send the new URL to the browser.

Some browsers might display a “301 Moved Permanently” to
the user. Other browsers automatically redirect the user
to the new URL.

Search engine robots can make a note of the URL for
immediate or later indexing. They will probably remove
the old URL from the index.

When a file at a URL is moved, from
http://example.com/contact/index.shtml to
http://example.com/contact.html for example, this status
code can be sent to browsers and robots to let the software
know the status of the page, including its new location.

When people repeatedly ask for a non-existent URL, like
when another web site misspells the file name in a link, for
example, this status code can be used. Browser users and
robots can be sent to where they really wanted to go.

307 Temporary Redirect

The file at the URL has moved, temporarily, and the server
can send the temporary alternate URL to the browser.

Some browsers might display a “307 Temporary Redirect” to
the user, with or without additional information. Other
browsers automatically redirect the user to the temporary
alternate URL.

Search engine robots can make a note of the alternate URL.
They might or might not do an immediate or later indexing
of it.

When a URL is temporarily unavailable, browsers and robots
can be redirected to an alternate URL. For example, a URL
to a script that’s down for maintenance or modification can
be redirected to a page explaining the situation.

Suppose a webmaster has published a special page with a
sale or urgent news. The page will remain on the web site
only a few days. Lots of traffic to that page is desired.
In such or similar situations, several or many other URLs
of the web site can be set up to temporarily redirect all
their traffic to the special page.

410 Gone

The file at the URL is no longer available and the server
knows it is permanently gone.

This tells browsers and robots that the file at the URL is
intentionally unavailable and that remote links to the file
should be removed.

This status can be used for files that had been available
for a limited time, such as the special web page mentioned
in the previous section.

(If the server doesn’t know or can’t determine whether or
not the file is permanently gone, “404 Not Found” should
be used instead.)

Telling the Server What To Say

Two methods exist to tell the server what to say to
browsers, with the .htaccess file and with software.

Using .htaccess To Tell the Server What To Say

In the .htaccess file, type this line:

Redirect  ___A___  ___B___  ___C___

Replace the A, B, and C underscore sections with:

___A___
This is replaced with the status code number the server
shall send to the browser.

___B___
This is the URL-path of the missing file, the part of
the URL that’s left after the http:// and domain name
are removed. For example, the URL-path of
http://example.com/rover/index.html is /rover/index.html

___C___
This is the complete http://… new or alternate URL.
(Status code 410 would not have a URL here.)

Here are examples:

Redirect 301 /rover/index.html http://example.com/books.html
Redirect 307 /rover/index.html http://example.com/books.html
Redirect 410 /rover/index.html

The first example tells browsers and robots that
/rover/index.html has been permanently moved to new URL
http://example.com/books.html

The second example states that it’s a temporary redirect.

The third example says /rover/index.html is permanently
gone.

Entire directories can be redirected at once. Thus,

Redirect 301 /rover http://example.com/other

tells browsers and robots that every file in the “/rover”
directory is moved permanently to http://example.com/other
with corresponding file names.

Use a plain text word processor like NotePad or BBEdit when
typing the “Redirect…” lines into the .htaccess file. And
have the FTP program up/download the file as plain text
instead of binary.

Using Software To Tell the Server What To Say

Master 404-Terminator™ can be used to do things the
easy way.

This software lists all unhandled 404 URLs that browsers
and robots have attempted. You then specify how to handle
the request should it happen again.

Any of the 301, 307, 410 status codes can be specified. In
addition, a “403 Forbidden” status code is available to be
sent to browsers and robots — which in this case pretends
the file at the requested URL actually does exist but that
a password or other permission is required for access.

Master 404-Terminator™ accepts wild cards. This means
you can redirect entire directories or file name patterns
with the status code of your choice.

The manual contains instructions., but here is an example.

If you decide to use SSI on your web site and change all
your web page file names from .html to .shtml, these
form fields (everything is done in a control panel)

will catch all 404 URLs with .html file names and redirect
the browser/robot with status “301 Moved Permanently” to
the corresponding URL with file name extension .shtml

Easy. Quick. Painless setup.

Master 404-Terminator™ also has the option of replacing
a file instead of redirecting to a new file. This comes in
very handy for image, JavaScript, CSS, and other files that
pages require for proper display.
Use the same method as the redirect, except use the
“replace” radio button instead.

It can eliminate broken images and such on web pages.

Click here to read about Master 404-Terminator™

Will Bontrager, Programmer
© 2005, 2006 Bontrager Connection LLC

Master Series CGI programs

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