It seems nearly impossible to fathom that someone as brilliant and funny as Robin Williams could be so tortured emotionally that he takes himself out of the human race. Yet, last week, one by one, each of us across the whole globe, fixed our attention on the sad news of this beloved actor’s suicide. Sometimes, a blip of news in the vast sea of information we are bombarded with daily, seems to slap us so hard in the face that we can almost hear the collective groan rippling through space and time. Then we all try our best to reckon with reality. And what a devastating reality Robin Williams’ death reveals - that someone who, by his very nature, brought
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There's still time to sign up for the Kids Programming Class in June. Your child, age 8 through 11, will learn how to program your computer with the language called Scratch, developed by MIT. Kids can program games like this one developed and designed by Jack Becker:
May 24,You've got a long three day weekend, plenty of time to kick back, bar-b-que & enjoy family time. But this Memorial Day Weekend, you should at least spend one day just getting dirty, wet & muddy. Brick's Off Road Park is open this Saturday, Sunday & Monday for a great time. Great trails and plenty of mud and lots of new friends await you at Brick's, the premier off road park in Southeast Missouri. And, even if you don't have an ATV or 4x4 vehicle, you can still enjoy watching these people do crazy things on motorized toys!
May 21,Surely you've heard the latest Sprint commercial about the "Now Network." It is a yellow-color schemed advertisement that discusses statistics related to what is happening right now on their network. Sure, we all have wondered whether our information providers are monitoring our messages, but this advertisement blatantly says "WE ARE READING YOUR TEXT MESSAGES!!!"
May 19,The office of semo.net will be closed Monday, May 25th in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, May 26th.
May 18,There's a new piece of malware (defined in Wikipedia as a portmanteau from the words malicious and software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent.) out there that poses as a friendly site, but in reality, it will attack your PC. It creates an entry in the registry and prevents you from updating your antivirus programs. It also prevents you from making changes in the registry itself, and can even redirect you to more bad sites on the internet. Semo.net's repair team can fix this for you, and make sure your PC leaves protected and updated with the latest security fixes.
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