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Apple's Rebounding?

Apple was down to the 70s last week and today it's up to the 100s - we be happy! I wish I could use an iPhone......

I'm always at the edge of everything. My birthday is on the very cusp of Cancer/Leo, I was born at the very end of the Boomers, very beginning of GenX, I always see both sides of issues making it difficult to make decisions, my profession where portal design is concerned didn't exist even after I was out of college. 

Why does Penzoil have a wireless network?

Flickr

slideshow

Add to my blog

templates

Different elements to add to blogger, like slide shows and xml templates.

Senator Birkholz

Here's the YouTube link to Senator Birkholz's video.

Experimenting with a Podcast

This is Wayne Kuipers. From here he will hopefully make the leap to iTunes....via some code and time.

Trying Sound and Exported Keynote Together

Michigan Works Radio Spot - online

I wanted to see if I could host my radio spots on one site, then have them linked/streamed in another. This is a kludgy workaround, posted to Hypster.com.

Click here for more information about the songs
Click here to create your own MySpace Playlist

Information detrius: scraps of paper on my desk that need to somehow be filed, either in my brain or electronically. Like the email address of a contact in business - but I don't have his name, just his email, and I don't want to lose it. Or the post-it of a list of people I want to send a batch-email to, and the sheet of paper that has a bunch of stuff on it crossed off...except for a few things that I don't want to forget. Desk detrius, information detrius; the flotsam of Keep-Track stuff we all have.

Set Up Your Blog!

You may already know how to do this. In fact you do it already, in other ways; you use Facebook and there's not a world of difference between Facebook and creating a blog. Creating a blog is easier and requires fewer steps.

Your blog serves the purpose of you communicating to a group of people, and allowing them to make comments. This is what you seemed to be suggesting when you wanted to set up a 'family blog' for you to upload pictures and tell people what you will be up to when you're overseas.

You can use this program: Blogger - or there's a more elegant site called WordPress. If I were to do it again, I'd use WordPress.

Just set up a new blog by going through the Signup process. Give your blog a name - 'meoverseas' or...you get the idea. I like "Evenartichokesvolunteeroverseas" but that's just me.

You can find a theme that works for you, then finish off the process and post your first comment! Publish the url on your Facebook account...and write it down for your parents! They will be able to read your posts and make comments in return.

You can also set up your own free Google Web Site - it's a new service of theirs. I tried playing with it, but I think it would be a pain in the neck to maintain - it's like creating a real web site, and it sounded like you just wanted to have a place to post comments quickly.

The one drawback to a blog is that you can't upload a zillion images the way you can with Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, etc. Well, you can, but it's one at a time and it becomes a long 'list' of images. This is an example from an existing blogger who uses WordPress. You can still upload images to those other places then provide the link on your blog .... like this: check out Black River Grad Photos on my Flickr account....

This is a nice example of a blogger who uses a WordPress template.

I hope this helps!

Movies I Want - Or Need To Re-buy

Buckaroo Banzai - $10.00 Barnes N Noble
Liquid Sky
1 Million Years B.C. - $10.00 Barnes N Noble
Snatch
12 Monkeys
Big Trouble
O'Brother Where Art Thou
Usual Suspects

• Also don't forget to show Erin how to start a blog (Wordpress) or Blogger.
  

Wicked cool big touch screen!

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Parks and Recreation Commission Latest Meetings and Agendas

The problem is that this link will take you to a page where the .pdf that opens links to a Health and Human Services meeting minutes document. Hardly the page-turner you thought the Parks and Recreation minutes were going to be!

View the next meeting agendas.The next meeting will be held 05 March 2008.

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Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music

Cassidy's ePortfolio

Hulu is Cool

No Delegates From Michigan

A commentator from a local business journal in Michigan wrote a column called "O Hunter, where art thou?"

His idea was: where was Hunter Thompson's outrage upon the decision that because Michigan held its primary ahead of its previous date in years past, it was punished by having its delegates taken away from the convention. Florida suffered the same punishment because it moved the date ahead on its primary, too.

In answer: I was outraged! Our state needs all the help it can get to retain whatever dignity is has left. Our economy sucks. We have the second highest unemployment rate in the nation. The second highest rate of foreclosed homes in the nation. And then there's Detroit - in general, and even on a good day. The city is a blight on the national landscape being led by a mayor who is being brought down by text messages. Forget about it.

So what's the answer? In Primary season I'm sure it seemed like a good idea to push ahead the date on our primary, get us a little publicity - after all, we're a heavily unionized state; what a great opportunity for the Democratic contenders to come and shake some hands - raise the "Michigan awareness" in the eyes of the nation.

So what happens? The Democratic National Committee spanks our state and takes away our delegates. Why? I mean, really - why? Who was it hurting to hold our primary ahead of our regular schedule?

Because we suddenly had no delegates representing the Democratic party in Michigan our primary became all but pointless. In order to vote for Hillary one had to vote for "undeclared." How stupid is that?

And, like a couple of whining children who took their ball home, the two main candidates (at the time) couldn't dignify Michigan with a token visit somewhere - anywhere in the state just to say they'd been there.

In my opinion that said it all for me: The two front-runners acted like a couple of children who did not make the least effort to find a connection with those who would eventually vote for them in the Presidential election. Additionally it showed me the DNC's true colors. They're whining infants who can't see the big picture.

I lost respect for both Hillary and Obama, and I'm a registered Democrat. Besides I don't want either of them anyway: He speaks eloquently about swimming but has never been in the water, and I don't trust Hillory. She leaves that acidic, coppery taste in my mouth and get this bad feeling that she and Bill would leave Washington in an eventual state of perpetual litigation and personal scandal.

I'm voting for McCain. Let's not forget Huckabee is from Arkansas and he has a history with the Clintons - it's Arkansas after all. I know McCain's "From Washington" but enough of his own party hate him to make what he has to offer attractive to me.

Plus, McCain came to Michigan when he didn't have to.

Michigan needs all the help it can get. Taking away our delegates, and thus the purpose of our primary was not only a stab in the back to a tried-and-true Blue state but it was embarrassing as a voter - why was I - were we all - making the democratic effort to vote when it wouldn't count anyway? Because we wanted to exercise our right to vote, dammit!

I'm outraged that the DNC took away my vote. Took away our primary. Is barring our delegates from the convention. What can I do? I can vote for McCain this time.

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