Because you can observe a lot just by watching.
We have been extracting the last of our data from SignUsUp.com today, but their site is still announcing that it is alive and well. I am attaching a PDF printout from the email we received last week.
My guess is that it is a “Last person out turrn off the lights and shut off the server.” It will be interesting to see what we have going on tomorrow.
UPDATE: SignUsUp.com is now a GoDaddy.com parking page
I am sure there is a lot of this in every country except where the Internet is almost mandatory for dealing with the government.
Many Americans see little point to Web: survey
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| Park(s) Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months. |
Offline Americans see Internet of Little Value
44% – Not interested in anything on the Internet
22% – Say they cannot afford a computer or internet access.
17% – Say they don’t understand or know how to use the Internet.
14% – Do all their e-commerce and surfing from work.
03% – Said the internet does not reach their homes.
My notes:
US broadband use reached 52% in 2006, up from 42% in 2005.
29% – No Internet
52% – Broadband
19% – Dial-up?
This is more realistic if you have ever spent an inordinate amount of time explaining the forward and back buttons in a web browser.
UPDATE: The original linked video was removed by the person who posted it, I have found another copy.
I am posting a link to http://picnik.com in order to remind myself of it later.
It is an online photoediting site that will be useful if away from a good editing program or for people who don’t want to buy/learn an editing program.
Now this is coincidence.
Exactly 1 year ago today I was dealing with some memory card issues and did some research (Memory Card Corruption Tips).
On Friday I was handed a camera that had been dropped and had images missing. I did what I could to get it back together, but we still could not access the images. Tonight I pulled the card out of the camera (I couldn’t find the proper USB cable for it) and plugged it into my personal digital camera, but I still could not find anything.
Then, after digging up the page linked above, I found PhotoRescue and did the trial run. It found lots of images so I paid the $29 registration fee. The result?
Unfortunately the images I needed were not accessible. They were the 5 duds mentioned above and one of the thumbnails was a junk image to begin with. These duds may have resulted from a test image being taken that may have overwritten some of the data.
This leaves 89 old images found. Some of them were many months old (I recognized the event). Some could have possibly been several years old, but there is a chance that someone just set the date wrong on the camera before those images were taken. This is a useful tool, but remember to be careful what images you take even if you plan to delete.
I did get a shock from the site though, The girl in the pictures here looks just like my daughter. Even my wife was shocked when she saw them.
This is only a test, had this been a real podcast I would have used something other than a linked sermon.
Sometimes I wonder if people like Madonna do things with great fanfare because it is impossible for them to do otherwise, or because they need attention. I have never doubted the attention hog tendencies of Madonna, so I find the former option to be unlikely in my opinion.
The sad story behind the child she is adopting brought me to an article that actually caught me by surprise for another reason. Yohane Banda, the father of the Malawain child being adopted, said he had planned to one day bring his son back home when he would be able to properly take care of him again. He decided to let Ms. Ciccone adopt the child becausehe was told that his son could be raised and educated so that he could come back to help his native people. He had not known that the person adopting would be the world famous pop star (it seems odd that it is highly likely that he knew who Madonna was). He had been told that his child would be adopted by a “nice Christian lady.”
I took a bit of offense to that, I’m not interested in having Madonna positively connected to Christianity, especially since she is a Kabbalist and notably opposed to Christianity. She is openly hostile and denigrating to the faith and those who believe in it.
We have enough immoral people claiming to be Christians that we don’t need the help of a non-Christian like Madonna to skew the general moral-meter.
But then, in some parts of the the world, to be white is to be identified as a Christian as a general ethnic group. Again, we have had enough bad people identifying themselves and their goals as Christian that we don’t need yet another muddying the water any more.
This might be Mark Schultz, but I’m not sure. I’m here doing security rather than for the concert itself. However I do have a more live picture here than they do on the official site (until they update their site). It’s low quality, I edited it and zoomed a bit using the graphics editors little secret MSPaint. They keep it a secret in hopes nobody ever uses it.
I’m sitting at the security desk watching security cameras and listening to a looping video of a violinist (perhaps more like a Celtic Fiddler?). I’m not sure how the person at that booth stands listening to it loop for hours on end. She must hear it in her sleep (note: This is not a judgment on the instrument, the player, or the music).
The Worship Center is pretty full. 1800 people, maybe? They all get to exit through a few doors, but the signature tables are in the way of a hasty exit.
We finished with Intermission alittle while ago. I am surprised at the number of people who asked about where the concession stand is, and the number who were surprised that a church wouldn’t have one. I don’t think we could keep up with the clean-up caused by a concession stand at a concert in our main worship center.
Anyway, I need to go lock some doors. In addition to the concert at one end of the building we have a volleyball tournament at the other and they just finished up. That means its time to secure some more areas and turn out lights.
Poor Pluto, They’ve given you a number, taken ‘way your name.
It is a sad piece of news to hear. It is the final sentencing of Pluto.
Then I went and made it worse with this:
How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger from WikiHow
Of course, writing a blog for a month without telling anyone about it would help too. After a month consider whether you would be interested in having someone read it or if you want to just abandon it.