Ken Hood

Theis Family: Dan received his PhD in Physical Chemistry this fall and is now at his first post-doc position at Iowa State University in Ames. They have moved to nearby Boone. Jennifer is expecting a baby in March and Daniel is a very active 2 yr. old that loves trains and all toy vehicles that make noise.

Bjokne Family: Ryan is working as facilities manager for a large church and is in the process of finishing the basement of their house. Jessica has 5 full-time children in her daycare. Their British Lab, Nellie, has been learning to hunt. This year they enjoyed trips to S. Dakota, Colorado, and North Dakota.

Stump Family: Emily Jo graduated from MN Teen Challenge in July. In Sept. she married Jeffery who is also a graduate of Teen Challenge. After a honeymoon in the Allegheny Mts. they are living in Brooklyn Center, MN, and are studying to be in Christian ministry.

Ken Hood Jr Family: moved to a new apartment in Roseville, MN. Ken Jr works as a web developer at Duralogic. Caroline gave us our first granddaughter, Serenity Laura, in April. Kenny, 2, loves to Skype, makes calls on the phone when his mom isn't looking, knows his ABCs, and entertains all with his singing.

Melissa: spent her 4th summer as a nanny for family in CA. She's in her 4th year as a Music Ed major at MN State University Mankato, where she sings in the Chamber and Concert Choirs and plays the flute in the orchestra. She works at a campus bookstore and in the Music Library.

Amanda: Senior at Black Hills St. Univ., Rapid City, SD campus. After 8 mos. interning at a Christian charity she now works at a local sub shop. She is sharing an apartment with a friend whose husband is overseas. She met her boyfriend, Michael, through Intervarsity Fellowship at the School of Mines where he is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

Cat: dropped out of high school after her junior year, got her GED. Spent her summer as an intern at Prairie River Camp, got her driver's license and started college, full-time at MN State University Mankato, majoring in Alcohol and Drug Studies. Never goes anywhere without her ukulele.

Jeremy: 12th grade, interned at camp this summer, got his license and is now working at Dairy Queen.

Mary: took the train to Chicago this summer to visit friends and family and spent some time this fall in Rapid City with family there.

Ken Sr: 8th year of operating a web hosting business. Spent the summer in a small Bible study group processing through the "stuff" of life we all carry. It was life changing and he is enjoying peace he had wanted for a long time!

“The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord” Psalm 33:5

The Hoods

Here are new Insurance Agent Websites that I have built in WordPress. They are "search engine friendly" and they display nicely on an iPhone, iPad, Android Phone or tablet, as well as every popular browser.

WordPress has become the "standard" website building software, and is the platform used by more high-end developers than any other. It is amazingly adaptable, and thousands of designers and developers are creating more and more "plugins" that enhance its functionalities.

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Independent Agents

• Greg Truslow
• Jeff Burnette
• Dan Skaggs
• Lisa Fuller
• Jessica Voges

Farmers Agents

• Perfeto Esquibel
• Warren Spiwak
• David Sandoz
• Pat Henderson

IN DEVELOPMENT

• Joe Baselice, Sr.
• Jim Plemons
• Benny Bendit
• Bob Herzog
• Jarrod Ramer
• Bob Shanahan

Everything is changing in the Facebook Bug world. The famous (and frustrating) Bugzilla is finally being retired. Here's the NEW WAY to report, browse and follow bugs:
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/559/ 

If you want to keep current on "all things Facebook" then you need trusted resources. You will not go wrong trusting what you read on these sites. They are on my daily reading list. They should be on yours too.

I recommend these websites and Facebook Pages to my clients all the time. I finally decided that it might be helpful to post these links to save some time.

Social Media Examiner - Social Media Examiner Facebook Page

Mari Smith Website - Mari Smith Facebook Page

HyperArts Blog - HyperArts Facebook Page

Inside Facebook Website

AllFacebook Website

UPDATE on EMAIL ISSUES: Based upon an email sent to us as distributors, Everyone.net is now in "direct communication with SpamCop" and hopes to have "things under control very soon." I can assume, reading between the lines, that this means executives are now talking to executives at the peace conference table in Geneva (or something like that).

http://everyone.net/main/scripts/status.cgi 

I keep seeing these bar codes pop up everywhere- now a client is asking me to check it out. Cool.

http://kimtag.com/s/getting_started

To all of my clients with email service. We provide your email through a 3rd party, Everyone.net. We have outsourced this to them for over 7 years. They are having an ongoing problem with their IP addresses being blacklisted by SpamCop, one of the major players in the "spam lists" industry. If some of your emails are being bounced back... this is most likely why.

You can follow the status of Everyone.net trying to get this resolved by checking in from time to time on their Service Status page:

http://everyone.net/main/scripts/status.cgi

Developers are reporting that Facebook iframe app autoresize is not working. We've seen this bug before, and eventually it was corrected. If your custom app is not resizing (gets scroll bars or cut off at the bottom), please be patient. Facebook has acknowledged the bug and has assigned it as bug 17577. However, I just tested several apps on client pages and I don't see the resizing issue. It's possible that's because I found a javascript tweek the last time we saw this bug (yep- second time around on this bug). So fingers crossed that the "fix" doesn't break something else. Happy coding.

Yes we can! (thanks to a certain famous campaign for the phrase). Ever wonder how, in Facebook, to link to another person or page without copy/pasting a long link? Here's how:

• First, you must be a friend or a fan of the person/page.
• Then all you do is start typing their name. Yep... it's a new feature of Facebook. In the "good ol' days" you used to preface their name with the "@" symbol. Now... just start typing their name. Facebook will pop-up their name for you. Then select the name.

There are a couple of weird things to be aware of:

• If you are doing this in a "post" it works fine. But if you are doing it in a "comment" underneath a post, it doesn't always work correctly. I've noticed that "pages" won't be found by just typing. You still have to type the old "@" symbol to get the popup.
• In a "comment" (not a "post"), if you are typing a person's name and are looking for the popup, you must capitalize the first letter of their name. Otherwise, you gotta use the "@" sign first.
• On "names" (not "pages"), after you select the name from the drop down menu,  you can now backspace out part of their name (like the last name) in order to shorten it. Cool.

Have fun kids... what a great playground is this world called Facebook!

If you have a Posterous site that uses a custom A record, like I do here at kennethhood.com, please take a minute to update the A record per their blog post at http://help.posterous.com/setting-up-a-domain-with-a-third-party-regist

If you are a monthly retained client of mine, I will take care of this for you automatically.