Anyone else see a problem with this?
Anyone taking guesses on how long it will take for PETA to complain about the unethical treatment of innocent birds caused by launching the space shuttle?
I mean come on folks, this bird was just innocently flying to/from home for the winter when all of a sudden WHAM!!!
Kind of reminds me of a joke, what was the last thing that went through the bird’s mind before it died? His rear-end!
I’ve been very happy with my Gmail account and been using it for quite sometime now, ever since I got an invite from my good friend Ryan, thanks Ryan!
There’s UNLIMITED storage space and they do an excellent job of eliminating SPAM from my Inbox. The unique structure of Gmail eliminates the standard organizing component of folders. Instead, messages are “tagged” with topics. All messages all remain in one of 3 places: 1.) Inbox, 2.) Archive, or 3.) Trash. With the unlimited storage space none of these ever HAVE to be deleted, but I do just to keep things tidy. If you know something is trash, why keep it?
The standard feature of setting up rules is available for systematically tagging and moving messages. Even forwarding and automatically archiving items.
You can also setup Gmail to work with your preferred email client via POP accessibility.
Another nice feature is that since you don’t have delete messages, it keeps threads of messages together for later reference for additional messages in the thread. Although this would be similar to just including the contents of a message in any replies. Gmail eliminates the need to do this as all the messages in the thread are tiled for quick access chronologically to review the history of the thread.
And of course, given that the service is provided by Google, the ability to quickly search all of your e-mail or the web is easily, and efficiently done.
I currently have 7 email addresses that I manage: 2 POP3, Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, AIM, and Juno. For all the features, Gmail is my preferred e-mail address, but I still maintain each of them for different purposes.
If you’d like to have a Gmail account of your own, just leave comments to this post with your e-mail address and I’ll send you an invite.
I’m a huge Michael Crichton fan, still need to get started on “State of Fear”.
This movie was actually a pretty good representation of the original book. Normally this doesn’t occur, i.e. “Sphere”.
It’s been quite awhile since I read Timeline, but I believe the movie followed the storyline pretty well. It’s always interesting to see a movie after reading the book, especially when the images on the screen match the mental set you constructed yourself in your imagination when reading the book.
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Oh, what I wouldn’t give for some Google stock, well, I guess I could make it easy and just give someone $300 and I could have some. Point is I don’t have $300, so when I say “what I wouldn’t give” I mean, I wonder what I could give that I actually have that would get me some Google stock.
Anyway, saw today that Google has updated their “Personalized Homepage” feature with the ability to add content via RSS feeds. This is an excellent update, but what I’m wishing they would do is not just give me the headlines, but also the entire feed. Until that happens, I’ll be sticking with Bloglines.
[Stepping on Soapbox] For all of you blog publishers, don’t just let me grab a “clip” of your posting via your RSS feed. Having to click to visit your site to read the rest of the story is still one of my #1 pet peeves!
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Let’s try this out for myself:
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Celebrated my 31st birthday this weekend. Nothing major on the event calendar for the day. Stayed up into the wee hours of the morning (actually saw a little daylight before I went to bed) playing Halo 2. Slept for a little while and then spent a few hours helping a family in our small group who’s house was struck by lightening and caught fire. Everyone is safe thankfully, but major work will need to be done on the house. Amazing story of the events of that night, but one of the interesting things that happened is that the firemen who responded to the call took the time while fighting the fire to put tarps over their living room furniture and entertainment center. Took the time to take the kid’s toys and put them on the bed as well away from the walls closet to the fire. I thought that was pretty impressive.
Birthday dinner Saturday evening at P.F. Chang’s which was enjoyable. Actually had the left-overs for today’s lunch, so it was good two times around.
Big thanks to Jason & Kim and their Escape Adulthood website. Just downloaded their 2nd podcast and listened to it and they actually mentioned little old me! What a coincidence again that they released their 2nd podcast and mentioned me on my birthday even! What a present!!! Some interesting coincidences between the two of us. Both are married to “Kims”, both trying to escape adulthood, both have an interest in comics (I just read them, but he draws them) and other personal interests and likes as well. So, thanks again for the mention on the podcast. Be sure and visit their website or my main page for the latest comic!
Rarely do I find items forwarded to me in e-mail worthy of “spreading”. However, with the recent things occuring in our world and the likelihood of something unplanned happening at some point, I thought this was at least worthy of posting on my blog.
In Case of Emergency
A campaign encouraging people to enter an emergency contact number in their mobile phone’s memory under the heading ICE (In Case of Emergency), has rapidly spread throughout the world as a particular consequence of last week’s terrorist attacks in London.
Originally established as a nation-wide campaign in the UK, ICE allows paramedics or police to be able to contact a designated relative/next-of-kin in an emergency situation.
The idea is the brainchild of East Anglian Ambulance Service paramedic Bob Brotchie and was launched in May this year. Bob, 41, who has been a paramedic for 13 years, said: “I was reflecting on some of the calls I’ve attended at the roadside where I had to look through the mobile phone contacts struggling for information on a shocked or injured person. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone now, and with ICE we’d know immediately who to contact and what number to ring. The person may even know of their medical history.”
By adopting the ICE advice, your mobile will help the rescue services quickly contact a friend or relative – which could be vital in a life or death situation. It only takes a few seconds to do, and it could easily help save
your life. Why not put ICE in your phone now? Simply select your person to contact in case of emergency, enter them under the word ‘ICE’ and the telephone number of the person you wish to be contacted.For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3, etc.
So, a very simple step we all can take to help ourselves out when we’re unable to do it ourselves.
You absolutely must read this post by a fellow blogger friend from his website, Jeffreaux’s World.
I’ve included the full-text below as well, because if you’re like me you hate having to click through to another site to get the full-story, and although I love Paul Harvey, I don’t want to have wait or go somewhere else for “…the rest of the story”!
The Deferred Success of a Crossbar Proximity Malfunction
July 20th, 2005
The PC police are at it again. This time they?re fighting failure. Not their own failure. They?re fighting the word failure. Or more specifically the word ?fail.? It seems that the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) feels that ?fail? is bad. Bad enough, they?ve decided, that it should be banned from the classroom. In place of fail, they would like teachers to start using the more cuddly term, ?deferred success.?You didn?t fail you exam Johnny. You?ve only experienced deferred success. The good news is that if you continue experiencing deferred success, we?re going to defer the 5th grade so that you can continue experiencing deferred success in the 4th grade. During your extended stay in the 4th grade, you?ll experience increasing likelihood that your career path will be filled with many deferred promotions as you facilitate the dinner objectives of citizens who?s agenda requires them to visit the drive-through or ?alternative food reception? window.
How bad is the PC movement? A couple of years ago my friends had their furnace stolen from a new house they were building. Did the police report call it a theft or burglary? No they called it ?an unscheduled removal.?
Being sports minded and generally sarcastic to a fault, I?ve decided to preempt the PC police and try to bring ?sensitivity? to the playing field. With that in mind here is my new PC sports glossary:
In order to protect the feelings of pitchers, a ?ball? will be an ?unrealized strike,? a walk-off home run will be ?participating in a dramatic ending,? and a blown save will be ?active participation in a lead change.?
To protect the hitters, a strike out will be a ?hit-free plate appearance,? getting caught stealing a base will become ?a base advancement postponement,? and hitting into a double-play will become a ?bone headed waste of an?? oops sorry, that was the insensitive me coming out. The PC term will be ?Multiple returns to dugout event.?
Baseball isn?t the only sport needing a little PC?n up. In football, a dropped pass will be a ?deferred reception.? A missed field goal will become a ?crossbar proximity malfunction.? A missed tackle will be an ?unplanned contact result,? and a fumble will become a ?possession release.?
Basketball will see the ?foul? turn into a ?referee?s subjective but not absolute, because heaven forbid we acknowledge even the slight possibility that there are absolutes even though sane people absolutely believe 2+2 equals 4, interpretation of the rulebook.? A player ejection will become an ?extended invitation to visit the locker room.? A missed shot will be a ?trajectory miscalculation.?
In order to promote a tolerance from the fans, all uniforms of all sports teams will be the same color. Terms such as ?offense? and ?defense? will be replaced with ?ball possessing participants? and ?non-ball possessing participants.? And finally, all sporting events will henceforth end in a tie and the planting of a tree.
Carry on Citizens!
My brother is on a quest to simplify his life. I’m on that quest too actually, although we’re both on the same quest, I believe mine has come more from a financial necessity than maybe his is at the current status.
Had this little tip included in an email newsletter today :
Time-Saving Tip: Shutting Down Your PC
If you spend 10 seconds every day going into the Start menu to shut down your computer, then you?re losing up to 45 minutes per year! Here?s how to create a time-saving desktop shortcut…
1 – Right-click on the desktop.
2 – Select New > Shortcut.
3 – Cut & Paste the correct code into the Command Line box:Windows 98 C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows
Windows XP C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe ?s4 – Select Next.
5 – Name the new shortcut “Shut Down Computer”
6 – Finish.If you go to the new “Shut Down Computer” icon on your desktop, your computer will shutdown without having to go through the Start Menu.
Now, I’m all for saving time and doing things for efficiently, but if this is the best way he can think of to share with me how to save 10 seconds of my day, I’m not that impressed. Guess it’s just part of that disposable diaper, microwave popcorn, and instant messaging lifestyle we’re in. Maybe at some point, we can stop actually wasting the time to ask questions and people will intuitively just start giving us answers to questions we didn’t ask. Wait, some already do that.
This little website gives you a toll-free number you can call and input an ISBN# from a book or CD and get an Amazon price comparison for the item.
Just found this website from a link in a newsletter I belong to WXPNews. Very interesting stuff, wish I had this much time. Guess it’s right up there with yo-yo’ing, which I used to be fairly decent. In fact, kind of started a trend at my highschool growing up. The particular page I’m linking to is of videos of some of the tricks.
