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Google blog comments area
2007-12-13 19:36:00 What’s going on? Every Google blog I go on doesn’t allow me to put my name & website in the comments area. I now only have options to put my Google username/ password, to put a Nickname and to post Anonymously (see pic below). There used to be an area for external websites too. Did ... More About: Blog , Comments , Area , Google Blog
8 random facts about me
2007-12-13 18:23:00 I haven’t done a meme before and decided to do one after being tagged by Dizzy Dee. Rules Each player lists 8 random facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts ... More About: Facts , Random
Bloggy Award
2007-12-13 08:25:00 Not sure how I missed this one but I just found out that my blog received the Bloggy Silver Award exactly a month ago. w00t! Here is what they said: ?A blog about life, technology, sport, and just about everything else.? That is how The Foo describes his blog, The Foo Logs. I suppose we can classify ...
Happy Birthday to me
2007-12-04 05:01:00 Happy Birthday !… Eid milaad saeed! (Arabic) qu ni sheng er kuai le (Mandarin) Sun Yat Fai Lok! (Cantonese) Tillykke med fodselsdagen! (Danish) Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! (Dutch) Joyeux Anniversaire! (French) Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! (German) Chronia Pola! (Greek) Hau`oli la hanau! (Hawaiian) Yom Huledet Same’ach! (Hebrew) Selamat Hari Jadi (Malaysian) Buon Compleanno! (Italian) Saeng il chuk ha ham ni da! (Korean) Feliz Aniversario! (Portuguese) Feliz Cumplea?os! (Spanish) Suk San Wan Keut! (Thai) Penblwydd Hapus ... More About: Happy , Happy Birthday
Don?t eat too much on Turkey day!
2007-11-20 06:23:00 Thanksgiving is rapidly closing in and I would like to wish everyone a Happy Turk ey day. As a national day symbolizing the Pilgrim celebration of harvest, food and feasting, let us remember that it is also a time for thanks and praise to God for the food that he has given us. Also hoping that ... More About: Turkey day
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
2007-11-16 21:28:00 I laughed myself silly when I saw this on College Humor. It’s a spoof off the TV series 24 and is what it would have been like if they made the series 10 years ago. Windows 3.1, AOL dialup, Prodigy (remember them?), floopy disks etc. … ahhh, the memories. Link: College Humor Share This More About: Pilot
Bad cat behavior
2007-11-15 16:33:00 Miles has a new (bad) habit. In the past week, he has been putting his paws in his water bowl and overturning it. We’ve been moping the floor multiple times a day and it’s starting to get really old. Not sure where he learnt this from or why the sudden change in behavior after 3 ... More About: Behavior
Top 10 adventures to experience in my lifetime
2007-11-14 05:27:00 What happens if you have only a certain amount of time to live? Would you want to take a trip of a lifetime or just sit at home counting down the days? For me, I would want to experience some exciting adventures and do some things that I’ll never forget. Here is my top 10 ... More About: Experience , Lifetime , Adventures , Ventures
Facebook mania
2007-11-10 00:16:00 A little late in the game but I joined Facebook last week. I wanted to see what the buzz was all about… now I wish I had joined it sooner! Was just amazed to find so many of my childhood and high school friends. In less than a week, I’ve found 20 friends that I’ve ... More About: Mania
Learning from Andre
2007-11-08 21:46:00 Scanning the TV for something to watch yesterday, I was lucky enough to catch a good documentary about Andre Agassi called Between The Lines. It talked about how Andre Agassi changed from being the “image is everything” brat (who took everything for granted) to the respected ambassador of tennis that gave everything back to the ... More About: Learning , Earning
Burnt out or just busy?
2007-11-02 05:36:00 Seems like a number of the blogs I read everyday haven’t been updated in a while. They are probably burnt out with blogging or are pretty busy this time of the year. Lately, I’ve kind of been sporadic with my blogging as I try to catch up with my MBA coursework. Being on jaiku and ... More About: Busy , Burn
Be Frank
2007-10-31 18:51:00 This is my shirt of choice today. I bought it over the weekend at a Life is Good shop. The double meaning that it comes with is direct, yet subtle and expressive. Share This More About: Frank
Wordless Wednesday: Halloween Pumpkins
2007-10-31 03:07:00 Happy Halloween ! Last year it was a Hershey Kiss. This year, these are my pumpkin carvings: Lebron James (Cleveland Cavaliers NBA player) and a Spider. Took me 4 hours to carve Lebron, my favorite basketball player. wordless wednesday Share This More About: Wednesday , Pumpkins , Allo
The pursuit of goodness
2007-10-30 07:32:00 “A person?s pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness leads to ruin. Pursue goodness and you will achieve great things.” – John E. Kramer Vice president of communications, Institute of Justice. Share This More About: Goodness , Suit
This is what I go through every morning
2007-10-29 17:15:00 You’ve got to be a cat person to appreciate this one. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I saw it on Janet’s site. What makes it so funny is how accurately the animator has portrayed a cat. Miles does exactly this down to the scratching, pawing on the face and nudging. If he ... More About: Morning
All children need ?
2007-10-27 09:28:00 On my Starbucks cup, The Way I See It #273: “All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles ? someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a ... More About: Children
3D Mailbox: Bringing your email to life
2007-10-26 23:40:00 Those liking the Sims will like this one — 3D Mailbox. It’s a software that brings your email system to life by converting it into an interactive environment. You can interact and explore the surroundings while reading and writing emails. It even has an integrated IM chat system that lets you talk with your friends ... More About: Life , Email
Random ramblings
2007-10-25 23:37:00 Sad but true Posting my Lifestream, confirms what I already know but didn’t want to hear - that I spend WAY too much time on the web and my computer (even though it’s part of my daily work routine). Sad but true. Facebook buzz The buzz yesterday was Microsoft buying a piece of Facebook - a $240 ... More About: Random
Lifestreaming: Organizing your web activities and social networking apps
2007-10-22 22:08:00 I have decided to create a Lifestream for myself as I think it’s a great idea and lifehack. This post may help explain what exactly it is and what purpose it serves. Many thanks to Emily Chang for telling me about it and the Lifestream blog for providing great info. What is a Lifestream? It’s a single ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Activities , Workin
Spam email of the day
2007-10-22 09:57:00 You can smell a scam with this one. It just cracks me up how badly written and unprofessional most of the email scams are. The stupidity of these scammers are just unbelievable. Not condoning it in anyway but if you want to scam, do it cleverly. I guess you are so busy wanting to scam ... More About: Spam , Email
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
2007-10-21 11:13:00 I’ve always been fascinated by the 4th dimension and beyond, especially being a big fan of Michio Kaku and his books. So you can imagine my excitement when I came across Rob Bryanton’s book called Imagining the Tent h Dime nsion : A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space. This video (from Rob’s website) simplifies the ... More About: The Ten , Mens
Eating flies for breakfast
2007-10-20 19:10:00 Gotta love Kermit! Share This More About: Breakfast , Flies , Eating , Brea
Smile Today. Life is not a rehearsal
2007-10-19 08:42:00 J received a unique birthday present from my sister yesterday… a sunflower mug drawn and personalized by celebrity actors Sir Michael and Lady Shakira Caine. It’s actually part of donated artwork from Whatever It Takes, a unique charity project by 21st Century Leaders. Their concept is simple, they “gather artworks from leaders in all fields; ... More About: Life , Today , Smile
Ridiculous baseball salary stats
2007-10-18 19:33:00 Total team salaries: Cleveland Indians = approx. $61 Million NY Yankees = approx. $195 Million Boston Red Sox = approx. $143 Million The combined cost of paying NYY’s Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez for one year could pay for the WHOLE team of Florida, Washington, Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay. The combined salary of NYY’s Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and ... More About: Baseball , Stats , Salary , Ridiculous
Why
2007-10-18 16:17:00 … are people getting cancer at a younger age? This past year alone, I’ve heard of several people diagnosed with cancer including two that I know personally (a twenty something year old and the other in her late 30s). Then there is young Charlotte O’Shea, one of many cancer diagnosed kids between 2-5 years of ...
The Dickwad Theory
2007-10-18 07:57:00 Funny and so true. via www.penny-arcade.com Share This More About: Theory , Theo
Happy Birthday J!
2007-10-18 06:01:00 Happy birthday to J, my lovely wife and best friend! Share This More About: Happy , Birthday , Happy Birthday
Mrs. Elana ?I am suing my florist for $400k? Elbogen
2007-10-17 17:55:00 So there was the judge that sued his dry cleaner for ruining his pants, now there’s the lawyer that’s suing her florist for $400k. The reason … the flowers at her wedding were not arranged properly, the wrong color and it caused “extreme disappointment, distress and embarrassment.” By the way, those flowers she ordered cost her ... More About: Florist
Wordless Wednesday: Garden Spider
2007-10-17 05:19:00 Biggest one I’ve seen in the garden! wordless wednesday Share This More About: Garden , Spider , Wednesday , Arden , Garde
5 websites I can?t go without (actually 10 sites to be exact)
More articles from this author:2007-10-16 16:33:00 Via Shoemoney and SEOmoz, thought I might also try to list 5 websites that I can’t do without. It was near impossible to narrow it down to five, so I did ten sites instead. Here’s my top 10 favorite sites and daily reads (in no particular order): 1. Techcrunch Daily (and latest) news of tech businesses and Web ... More About: Websites , Sites , Ally 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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