Vogt Family Documents
My grandmother maintains many records about our family, which I believe my mother has now, but here follows a little bit of what I have: Images
Something Interesting
How Vietnamese nail salons got their start in America
I never realized that there is an actress named Tippi Hedren who was in the movie The Birds, and who was an inspiration to Vietnamese people who then went on to create their nail salon businesses and beauty schools. When she helped some refugees who came over around the time of the fall of Saigon …
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I’m related to Charlemagne
Perhaps there are millions of people related to Charlemagne, but I am one of them, and my grandmother was an avid genealogist, who spent hours and hours researching these things before we had the internet, so this is both interesting and sentimental for me. Charlemagne Family Tree Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of …
My First Post in 2002
Just made a couple of small edits (I don’t like broken links or bad formatting). At the time, I was probably using Dreamweaver. June 4th, 2002 – Day 1 of David-DuVal.com. Hosting with PHP and mySQL: I’ve been trying to learn more about building websites that interact with databases. The current hosting package that I am …
The TIGER Approach to Life
My grandfather told me long ago about the TIGER approach to life, and it is as true today as ever. I hope you will think through this for your own life. T – Tolerance People are different, but you have to be empathetic and try to understand what makes them the way they are I – Integrity …
Failed Ideas
Failed ideas are great if you went through the process of trying to make something work, but you learned a lot in the process, and I suppose in this sense, it really isn’t a failure. I’ve made a lot of websites and web apps, and definitely some of them are no longer in existence. So …
Enjoying my New Chromebook
In internet years, I think a long time time passed during which time there was no suitable alternative to Windows at a good price. Sure, there was Linux, and I tried it, but it just wasn’t easy to use. And of course, there is Mac, but the price is quite high. For someone that is …
Activating your Creative Mind
This is something I wrote May 11, 2007, and I’ve “revived” it (hopefully my creative mind too!) 🙂 Part 1 You are looking at the computer monitor right now and reading this article. Now let’s go through a process of looking at things a little different. I will ask some questions. Any answer will do, …
My Cats in 2006
In 2006, Shelley and I had 3 cats: Captain, Prissy and Eartha. Here they are… 🙂 Prissy is Orange. Captain is White and you can see he lost an eye, and Eartha is the grey tabby.
Do you love your enemy?
I wrote this a long time ago, June 3, 2007. Some of my writings were lost, but I wanted to revive this one. I liked what I wrote at the time: In the fifth chapter of Matthew we have:Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ …