Refresh, Refresh

A few weeks ago on Maundy Thursday the parish sang a hymn, "Put on the Apron of Humility," also know as the "Footwashing Song." The last line is the inspiration for this blog, "... that you may walk in the way of the Lord, refreshed, refreshed." No, it's not a homiletic-blog; today it's a computer-tip-blog.

Sometimes we'll go to a web site and it will seem as if it has been unchanged, but check again with your "refresh" button on the top bar of you web browser (it is in between the "home" and "stop" in IE, and between "forward" and "stop" in Firefox: the button you're looking for is the two arrows wrapped around each other).

What happens is your browser caches the information on your hard drive every time you visit a web site. When you revisit that site it seems more often than not to assume all is the same. Now sometimes your browser will automatically refresh, sometimes not. Here is where my ignorance comes in... some websites tell your browser to refresh often, other sites will not. I am just beginning to learn how this process works.

It's better to hit "refresh" whenever you think you may be missing some information.

With this site... hit "refresh" as changes will undoubtedly appear.