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I don't think we have any Cherokee on that side of the family, but you never know. These pictures were taken in Carnegie, Okla. The family has an interesting "family secret" story actually. It's like something straight out of a Lifetime movie or something. lol I just found out about it about 5 years ago. My actual biological Grandmother (who I grew up knowing as my Greant Aunt) is the lady in the first picture who is standing up and kind of leaning in... she has a white dot on her shoulder (a button maybe?) The woman I grew up knowing as "Grandmomma" is the woman sitting directly to her right. She's also the oldest woman in the 2nd photo. Her husband, my "Granddaddy", is the man whose lap my mom is sitting on in the first photo. My mom's biological father is apparently still living somewhere in Texas, but no one has seen him since probably right around the time that the first photo was taken. My Grandmomma and Granddaddy's only biological child is the boy sitting toward the middle of the first photo... in a short sleeved t-shirt. The old woman to his right is my Great Grandmother and the boy sitting on her knee is my mom's cousin. His wife is the young lady in the 2nd photo... the one who passed away just recently. Funniest part? No one seems to remember who the other young man is in the first photo. He's not family, but he must have been important enough to someone to have over for Christmas dinner. I wonder who he is?

Maybee, yes you are absolutely right. Making the image look smaller does nothing to reduce the underlying file size. However I got the impression in this case that Esteban was just looking to make them small either to show without side scrolling or to get more text into a given size. The link Esteban provided to reduce file sizes is alright unless at some point down the road you wish to print or start reworking the photo. In which case it would be easier to simply reduce the file size in the camera settings before taking photos giving you much more capacity but lesser quality. My camera takes 3 meg photos and I never reduce my originals. If any require emailing I add a number or letter to the end of the photo then reduce that copy for sending. Photos can be reduced with no loss of quality but increasing the resolution degrades a photo.

when you go to the windows update site choose custom and let it scan your pc, then do ONLY the ones it lists as critical updates, those that are not critical are optional and can be left alone. but you do want to do any critical updates. However as zep said if you have IE6 on your pc and you do not want to upgrade to IE7 then do not choose that one. BUT if you see critical updates that are for IE you do need to get those because whether you use IE or not if there is a security vulnerability that they put a patch out for if you do not patch that then just having the vulnerability on your pc could put you at risk. Anytime you have programs on your pc that you see security updates for you need to get those even if you never use the program, as long as it is on your pc and has a hole in it then there are those out there that can use that hole to get to you, many times from visiting a compromised website where a script was written to find and use that hole. The flash is a perfect example, that clickjacking which I had posted about a while ago uses a vulnerability in the older flash to install malware on your pc, so keeping the flash updated is pretty critical right now. And with flash you have to do the update to all browsers so if you use firefox and IE you must go get the specific updates for each one and install them. Secunia is a very beneficial tool.