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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)
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
Custom made wooden computer accessories
2007-10-16 13:22:00 If there’s one thing computers don’t do well, it’s matching your home decor. Wood Contour may change all that. These beauties are made from one piece of wood, and you get to choose from 29 wood varieties - Mahogany, Beech , Oak, Ash , Birch and others. Hand crafted and custom made, the company ... More About: Computer , Accessories , Made , Custom , Wooden
What goes around, comes around
2007-10-13 13:58:00 Do you believe in Karma? I do. This story tells it perfectly. I have always said it myself, “what goes around, comes around”. His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby ... More About: Goes , What Goes Around
Color Swashes
2007-10-12 09:59:00 Trying to find a good HTML color reference page is really tough, I haven?t found one that is useful to me. There are always missing elements to it, no color codes, I can’t copy and paste the code, there are colors but no reference codes etc. Therefore, I went ahead and made a simple chart ... More About: Color
Never give up
2007-10-11 23:19:00 Abraham Lincoln was a failed businessman, deemed too temperamental to be a lawyer, was defeated in his run to be a congressman, commissioner of the General Land Office, Senator (twice) and vice president. He ended up becoming one of the most important Presidents in the history of United States. Winston Churchill didn’t even pass sixth ... More About: Give , Give up
Checkout my Tumblelog
2007-10-11 03:19:00 Check out my new Tumblelog , a compilation of bits and pieces around the blogosphere. It is my online scrapbook of interesting links, photos, quotes and more. I figured it’ll be good to use it as a place to put online links without the frills, lengthy text and comments i.e. just keeping it simple and sweet. ...
Bad day in Ohio
2007-10-10 22:43:00 Train derails (not far from where we live) causing a huge fire and couple of schools closing. There was supposedly hazardous materials on the train. 14 year old gets suspended for fighting, comes back to school with two guns, starts shooting and then kills himself. Four shot and wounded. Just unbelievable! I hate the fact ... More About: Ohio
Useful Tweak: Freeing up memory when using Firefox
2007-10-09 23:56:00 My Firefox 2.0.0.7 browser has been a very slow and unstable lately. It has also been a memory hog, consuming about 130K of memory with around 20 or so tabs open. My friend AG recommended I look at this Firefox tweak from Solo Technology. This tweak allows memory to be freed up everytime you minimize ... More About: Memory , Tweak
Baseball mascot mania
2007-10-09 21:46:00 It’s down to 4 teams - Cleveland, Boston, Colorado and Arizona for the right to call themselves 2007 Major League Baseball World Champions. Thought I might profile the 4 team mascots… The Cleveland Indians mascot is a pink heffalump called Slider. Birthdate is July 29, 1990. Origins unknown, he lives between homeplate and the teams dugout. ... More About: Mania , Asco
Mancar vs. Womancar
2007-10-09 04:05:00 J gets a kick out of me pointing out a “mancar” and a “womancar” while driving on the road. Sounds like caveman talk, doesn’t it? Me drive “mancar”, you drive “womancar”. Don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not in anyway being sexist. I’m just thinking in terms of how one perceives a driver and the ...
Not a total geek
2007-10-09 03:22:00 Looks like I am a geek but not a total geek. Take the geek test here. 71% Geek Share This More About: Total
Smelling like beer
2007-10-06 18:15:00 For $5, you can get two bars of Guinness Stout soap. Just be reminded that you can’t eat it or you’ll get a soapy stomach ache. I don’t think that smelling like Guinness would be very appealing but that may be just me. This may another reason your husband or wife can’t yell at you ... More About: Beer
Go Tribe!
2007-10-06 05:57:00 Indians 2 - Yankees 0 As a Cleveland Indians fan, shame on me to watch a movie instead during the game. We watched Ben Stiller’s The Heartbreak Kid instead. Didn’t realize it was rated R until J told me as I was surprised at the nudity and crudeness. Overall a funny movie, Jerry Stiller was his ... More About: Tribe
Life is short, make it count
2007-10-05 18:56:00 How would you react if someone wrote you an apologetic email for something they did 5 or 10 years ago? Derek Powazek paints a gracious picture, “if I wronged you this year, I’m sorry. If you wronged me, I forgive you.” Reading his post, it made me reflect on my life… how have I been in ... More About: Life , Make , Count , Short
Former Australian & English Soap Opera stars making it big
2007-10-05 04:18:00 Amazing how many Australian / English Soap Opera stars are coming to America to make their name. I know this because I used to watch a couple of the soaps (namely Neighbors and Home & Away) when I was schooling in England. They are doing pretty well for themselves… 1. Michelle Ryan She was Zoe from the English ... More About: Stars
How NOT to make a Powerpoint presentation
More articles from this author:2007-10-03 20:50:00 This is hilarious but true. When I go to conferences and meetings, I cringe at some of the Powerpoint s people make. I’ve probably seen them all… too colorful, too much information, too boring, too confusing, silly graphics, unnecessary animations etc. This video pretty much sums up how NOT make a Powerpoint presentation. It was done ... More About: Make , Presentation , Resent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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