Just after Memorial Day, a story brewed that didn't seem to get much airplay. A woman had a 3x5 foot flag hanging behind her desk in her office, an office she shared with three other supervisors. She came to work one day and was told the flag had been taken down because it was offensive to several employees. For the entire story go to: Fox News

The city will be using a maintenance window from 5:30 to 6:30am on Wednesday morning to reboot some equipment and all Cable Internet customers will experience between 10 and 30 minutes of down time.

After every technical problem a customer has with our company, our system automatically sends out a survey to the customer asking for their feedback. We can count on one negative comment each week, but the amazing thing is that people go out of their way to express their appreciation to our Support Agents. Here is a sample of the comments we received this week: SUPPORT AGENT: Bridgett (received an Excellent rating) "The "tech" I talked to was very helpful. She talked me through hooking up my dial-up internet, adding a desktop icon, and gave me an estimated timeline for when my DSL might be up and running again."

If you enjoy a good baseball game, then I strongly suggest you contact your local parks department and find out when games are played in your local area (in Poplar Bluff games are played at McLane Park from 5:30-9:30 Monday-Friday). For the baseball fan, watching the 8 - 14 year old youth play the game with such enthusiasm is inspiring. You will see a wonderful display of baseball talent and future stars. You will see the joy of victory, the sadness of defeat and the amazing revelation that snacks after a game unifies all the participants. So even if you don't have a child or grandchild in the baseball program, I strongly urge you to come out and enjoy America's

Microsoft's Project Natal Project Natal is a new controller for the XBox 360 that uses a 3d camera, depth motion sensors and voice recognition to control your games. This takes interaction to a whole new level. Microsoft Windows 7 Release Date Set For Oct 22 MS will release W7 just in time for the holdiay shoppers. Though there are rumors about MS considering a discounted price for Vista users who "need" to upgrade to a viable operating system, MS has not given any details about the plans. Kids Programming Class Ben (10) & Jack (8) Becker will be teaching a kids programming class starting next Tuesday (June 8) using the Scratch programming language developed by MIT. New Image Search Engine

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: