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11:32 AM Oct. 7, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] As has been reported this morning
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/07/news/economy/fed_commercial_paper/?postversion=2008100711
Is it just me or is the Federal Reserve trying to pull the "come on in, the water's lovely!" to ensnare investors into parting with their cash? Oh I'm sorry, how was it phrased:
Federal Reserve officials say they hope that the Fed's entry into the market will give money markets and other investors confidence to reenter the market because they know they will be able to sell that paper to the Fed as a backstop.
Right now given the mess the market's in, I'd not be sure of "knowing" anything, I'd bet the Lehman Brothers shareholders assumed their investments were sound too. I certainly wouldn't be backing up small business lending in any shape or form when enormous institutions like Lehman can go under. Seeing the Fed dip their toes in the commercial paper pond doesn't mean there aren't sharks circling in the depths ready to take a bite out of your savings.
Under the mattress is looking more and more like the safest place to keep your money these days. Just my opinion.
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8:50 AM Oct. 7, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] You know, it would be nice to remember wise words when you actually need them. For example, this week I've been laid up with the flu. I got back up on day four even though I still was a bit yucky but at least my temperature had regulated again, When you do, you're expected to go from 0-60 and get right back into everything. House, work, etc.
My mother warned me years ago when I was first married about this. She said that if I was ever unwell, not to put a toe on the floor until I was completely better because if you show the slightest sign of being on the mend, any help you've been getting disappears. It's true! But it still bugs me.
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8:50 AM Sep. 20, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] You know, I'm a bit concerned at how much we all spend sitting at the computer and our general wellbeing. Judging by recent conversations, we're all barely lifting our heads from dawn till dusk from the monitor. My concern doesn't stretch as far as actually expecting any one of us will be going outside and exercising though, ha!
I sought out some at the desk exercises we can do if the mood strikes. Some sound like fun, believe it or not. I'm shadow boxing as we speak, so stand clear! I might even start logging my achievements on this thread if I ever get up the motivation to do some. Feel free to join in too! Exercise At Your Desk from WebMD
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7:40 AM Sep. 20, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] I don't know how other people do it. I write about whatever my brain happens to be toying with on a particular day mostly, but when I want to eat I take on jobs like the rest of the world. The thing is, some pieces I can rattle off no problem in the blink of an eye and they're spot on even if I do say so myself. These are the ones I consider fun.
Others I wrestle with to find that one phrase or wording that flows better than the other for hours, even days sometimes. Occasionally they get scrapped completely when I'm frustrated and I begin from scratch. These are the work ones. So I can have two articles to write, both on the same topic and the same amount of research needed but one I do for fun and one because I'm paid to. The one I've labeled work in my head is always more perspiration than inspiration.
I think it's all psychological. I have this thing about control and don't like feeling cornered or pressured into doing things. Richard Bach once said " Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Just thought I'd mention that. I can be my own worst enemy at times and I know it.
Now logically, I know that work is a choice. I could always choose not to and have less of the things in life I want, like food, shelter and clothes plus a few luxuries. I take work on that I select myself from various clients, so it's not a case of having to write articles on something I'm just told to do. Many of them give me free rein to write about whatever I feel like because they like my style of writing and just give a very broad based one word guideline on the subject matter like "emotions" for example.
So it's very irrational of me to find the ones that fall under the "work" category more of a task than anything else I'd do just because I felt like writing about it and can tuck it away for use another day maybe.
But it doesn't feel like creativity either when I'm writing the work one...does that sound pompous? It's not intended that way. I know in the end the work turns out fine as I've never had any complaints about it...but I don't get the same good feeling about it when it's done. Nuts eh.
What can I say..I am woman, hear me roar. I'm pretty sure that made no sense at all and I have no earth shattering conclusions to draw from all that. Just pondering on how to feel more positive about the work ones because I think I have this expectation of it being arduous and more time consuming, so it is. Know what I mean? A self-fulfilling prophecy. I'd just like to find a little joy in my work, I guess.
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2:01 PM Sep. 8, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] You know what they say, first signs of getting old is when summers fly past. I was looking at the calendar and saw the autumnal equinox is only a few weeks away! What happened? I missed a whole season because my eyes have barely left my monitor for months. I've not even got a hint of a tan. Hope you all had a more relaxing one.
When I was a kid, summer days were long and filled with being busy doing nothing. Buckets were brimming with sand or a few inches of water with some unfortunate crustacean that happened to venture out from under a rock at the wrong moment.
I wonder if crab parents warn their kids about ours this time of year. " Okay, I know you think you're big enough to look out for yourself but watch out for the No-Claws when the sun's high in the sky. They'll sweep you away to live in the inverted green castle and you'll never be seen again, ever! Don't go out there unless all is silent. If they get you, you'll never get past the moat. Well, unless there's a big wave or a mean No-Claws around..."
"You want to be a prisoner all your life? No? Then listen to your momma. And stop walking that weird straight way, the starfish will think you're making fun of them. Why do you always have to try be different? Can't you just fit in? You'll be the death of me. "
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10:55 PM May. 10, 2008 -
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I was just wondering because my husband and I are in totally opposite camps on this. I love all the extra stuff, especially the "Making of..." or "The Story Behind..." type features and cast interviews. Deleted scenes are about the only thing I don't really bother watching but anything that's a mini show, I'll watch. Some of them are better than the movies and some are just disappointing filler because they're expected to be on it in some shape or form.
I take great delight in settling down to watch them. My husband on the other hand never wants to see them. When he's seen the movie, he's done with it and the DVD goes back in the box. Then he wonders why I know all this other stuff about the movies when we're chatting to friends about what we've seen!
I'm old enough to remember DVD's coming out. Heck, I'm old enough to remember Beta video recorders with big silver push down buttons on the front but who's counting. The idea of having all this added value was seen as a huge plus of the DVD format compared to VHS when they were hitting the market as the next big thing, but does anyone care for it much really?
Would you miss the DVD Special Features if they stopped adding them and only had the movie on the DVD? I know I would but I might be the only one.
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4:49 AM May. 9, 2008 -
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Ask people to sum up what happiness is in a few words and you'll get a variety of answers plus a few furrowed brows. It's a subjective topic with parameters that are only defined within ourselves. Which is why I say that happiness is the loneliest of mysteries - we each have to find the answers alone that are meaningful to us.
Let me give you an example here. When I was wee, my family went to a marine park. We settled down that afternoon to watch the dolphin show. I was thrilled watching them leap through hoops, stand on their tails and more at the command of the instructor. It just took my breath away how beautiful and smart they were.
The instructor asked if any of the children in the audience would like to come down, kneel at the side of the pool and get a surprise. I was up like a shot, only to feel my mum tugging on the back of my shirt, saying not to. She knew what was going to happen and I didn't!
Mum said something along the lines of how I'd be soaking wet by the end of it and would need to walk about in wet clothes all day. Did I care? Not a bit! I just wanted to see what the surprise was.
I could see the other kids lined up along the edge of the pool and heard the instructor asking if there was anyone else. My pleading increased in urgency. I realized I was going to miss my chance here of whatever the fabulous surprise was. My dad said " Oh, let her do it," (probably tired of listening to me asking by now) so Mum relented, smiling and shaking her head resignedly. Yippee! I ran excitedly down to the poolside before they changed their minds.
All us kids knelt down at the edge of the poolside, concentrating on looking into the water as directed, leaning as close as we could dare without falling in. I could see the dolphins swimming under the water, faster and faster streaking towards us then just as they reached where all the kids were ...Whoosh!!!! They leaped into the air in a graceful arc over the high bar and landed right beside us.
The splashdown created flying water everywhere, and of course because we kids all so close and so near water level, we got drenched with it. Talk about being absolutely soaked through!! The audience laughed, gasped, applauded and screeched (most of the screeching emanating from mums thinking of pneumonia, I reckon.)
Shocked by the cold water but gasping through my delighted laughter, I ran the whole way back to my seat, dripping water from my clothes, my hair, everywhere, shivering but thrilled to bits. Even my mum was laughing at my obvious delight despite her initial disapproval.
When I eventually settled down, I was surprised to see that other kids that had just done the same thing as me a few rows down were bawling their eyes out and obviously distressed. How could they not have liked that !?!? Strange indeed. It was great! How could they possibly not have had fun?
So what for me had been a glorious experience, for some had been scary and upsetting. I was happy but they definitely weren't. Unbeknown to little old me, I learned a life lesson that day.
Many times, what makes people happy or unhappy is just not what we expect. We assume that they are just like us, as I did that day at the marine park. Of course they are not, as we are all unique. That doesn't mean they are wrong or that we are because their path to happiness is not like ours -we are just taking different routes. It can cause confusion when we have different standards though that haven't been voiced.
Maybe that explains why happiness seems to be such an elusive quality to many of us. If we can't even agree on a definition of happiness, then seeking a commonality of sorts is nigh impossible. Again, this is why it's a search that is personal and individual that you alone can do.
The bad news is that no one can hand you happiness on a platter. The good news is that happiness is what you choose it to be! When you find it within yourself, it radiates from you. When you share that radiance, or another shares it with you, it's wonderful. The best advice on seeking it out? I'd say listen to your heart. It knows the way. You may even solve that mystery once and for all.
I leave you with the wise words of Benjamin Franklin. Why not choose to make your day a happy one!
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. --Benjamin Franklin
(P.S. This is an original piece by me. Please don't steal it - it's not good karma. Feel free to quote a small section then link to it here instead. Thanks! - Scribbler. )
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6:38 PM May. 8, 2008 -
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I'm about to settle down and watch I am Legend, hurrah! Here's hoping it's good. I've looking forward to seeing it since I first saw the trailers. I never thought I'd say this but I'm getting to be quite a fan of Will Smith. Stay tuned for a review later, guys and gals!
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9:39 AM May. 3, 2008 -
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(Continued from Part 1 of The Fear of Goal Setting and How to Overcome it)
Let's say you play guitar and would love to be in a band, but you're not very good at the moment and are on the verge of dismissing that thought as a possible career. Hold on a moment!
Why not set yourself a detailed mini-goal of improving your guitar playing in the next six months instead? Decide how you'll achieve that. Do you need lessons or more practice time? New strings before you start?
Ask yourself what you need to do to make these things happen and do them. Book the lessons. Schedule yourself a set amount of practice time every day. Go buy the strings.
Simple steps but all actions that'll improve your chances of attaining your new mini-goal. Seeing your smaller goals within larger ones come to fruition is a great motivator.
You also need to be able to measure your success in achieving your goals. We'll stick with our guitar hero example here.
How exactly will you know when you're improved enough? Only you can decide that. Include it in your mini-goal statement. Does playing Cavatina like John Williams count for you? Then that'll do fine.
Your mini goal now says " By October 2008, I'll be able to play Cavatina as well as John Williams - or better!". It does no harm to aim just that little bit further than you think you can achieve.
Keep your goal to the forefront of your mind as best you can. There's lots of ways to do this. Read it every day. Repeat it to yourself silently. Put a sticky note on your fridge. Add it in scrolling text to your screen saver. Shave it into your leg hair.
Okay, maybe not the last one. Just do whatever you need to remind you of it with a gentle nudge on a regular basis.
One thing that's worth keeping in mind regarding goal setting is this. Circumstances change and sometimes we need to reassess and review our goals. Often it's when some big life event happens like a breakup of a long term relationship or redundancy. Our goals should be just as malleable as our thoughts are, so don't just give them up in a moment of perceived crisis. Take advantage of the opportunity to cast a fresh eye over them and reset them if necessary once the dust settles.
With any goal, large or small, these things are key :
- Visualize it with clarity
- Set a time frame
- Keep them realistic
- Find some way to track progress
- Think about them regularly and
- Be open to change if needed
You'll be surprised how the small ones suddenly set the wheels turning towards attaining the larger ones. You'll also feel better about yourself for taking action instead of just accepting your lot in life with a sigh.
When you're finally in that spotlight, you'll barely remember what life was like before goal setting and why you procrastinated so long. Before you know it, you'll be setting yourself a new one and even enjoying the process. Whatever your goals are, I wish you the best of luck with them. The biggest step you can take towards achieving them is simply to begin.
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end. -Claude M. Bristol
(P.S. This is an original piece by me. Please don't steal it - it's not good karma. Feel free to quote a small section then link to each part here instead. Thanks! - Scribbler. )
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9:35 AM May. 3, 2008 -
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Abraham Lincoln once said that "a goal properly set is halfway reached."
It's sad that for most of us, goal setting seems to come somewhere between taking the dog to get his nails clipped and having an annual physical on our to-do list. It's something we know we really should do, but somehow we just never seem to quite get around to it.
Why is that? The main reason is probably because the idea of goal setting seems such an enormously daunting task. If the thought of setting goals intimidates you, why not try looking a little deeper to see why.
Maybe it's because once you put pen to paper and actually list your goal, you feel more committed to achieving it. That's a good thing though! The whole point of goal setting is to create a vision in your mind of where you want to be in the future and how you'll achieve it.
The good news for those that feel a bit nervous about the process is goals don't need to be huge. In fact, huge ones that seem totally unrealistic can even make you feel discouraged if that's all you have.
Instead, try seeing it as a journey towards a destination. Set yourself one main goal then a series of smaller goals that will be stepping stones towards the large one. Once you can see progress being made on the smaller ones, it whets your appetite to continue.
For example, let's say your main goal is "I want to be happy". Whoa there! Isn't that a bit of a broad statement?
The more precise your goal, the easier it is to achieve. The clearer you can imagine it, the simpler it is to see how to get there. This is no time for day dreamy half-baked thoughts! Allow yourself plenty of distraction free time to do this. Goal setting needs clear thinking.
Narrow your goal down more and set a time frame. Remember, there's no reason not to set more than one goal at a time but you might want to address one area of your life then another.
For example, if you're stuck in a job you hate and think changing that situation will go a long way towards helping you be happy, then tackle that first. Create a goal within your overall "I want to be happy" goal.
Something like " By April 2009, I'll be happy in my work because I'll be doing something I love." Now that'd be a step in the right direction but you still need to fine tune this goal a little more. Be more specific.
What do you love? Think about it and don't rush this part. If there were no barriers, what career would have you leaping out of bed full of the joys in the morning? Mull it over a while to yourself before answering.
(to be cont'd - see Part II of The Fear of Goal Setting and How to Overcome it )
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10:08 AM Apr. 30, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] I know I'm not alone in this but maybe will be the only one to confess in public that I have no plans to be one of the crowd. Spring cleaning frenzy season is upon us and I'm not falling for it!
As women (and some men, let's not be stereotypical here!) across the nation twirl feather dusters like batons with dazzling dexterity into every corner of the room and vacuum the drapes with the proper attachments, I'll be hunched over my keyboard pretending the reason I can't see sunlight streaming through my windows is it's overcast out there. No sir, nothing to do with the dirty panes. Perish the thought.
You know, grime isn't a crime. At least, not last time I checked the law books. Unless of course you're knee deep in filth, which I'm not. I'm just not someone who enjoys spring cleaning much. I hate the whole concept. There, I said it. I clean enough the rest of the year to really not want to do any more than I can get away with. Too many hours of my life could be spent doing something I love instead.
Can you imagine if it was though? The ominous rap of knuckles on the door reveals none other than The Grime Prevention Unit who enter barking " Spot Check!" in unison. Clipboard Man comes armed with triangle men (you know the kind I mean - big muscled shoulders, skinny waists), who immediately head for the sofa against the wall.
" I...I was going to move it this weekend and vacuum under it...", you mutter weakly while trying to kick your abandoned shoes behind the TV stand before they see them.
A squeak escapes you that Mickey Mouse would have been proud of when their eyes turn towards the freezer. "It's...uh...err...there's too much food in there for me to defrost that just now!" you shriek, knowing full well that its main content is enough ice to sink the Titanic. You hope they don't ask what's in the obligatory mystery aluminum foil wrapped parcel that every freezer owner has.
Clipboard Man turns to you, his scowl deepening behind thick lenses as he sniffs the smoke tinged air.
"Any Febreze in the house?"
"Well, uh, it's on my shopping list and..."
"That's a no then." A large red cross is checked against the Fresh as a daisy box.
"Any window cleaner? Though I doubt it." Triangle men laugh on cue while elbow deep down the back of the sofa. One of them retrieves with a flourish the vacuum attachment that's been MIA since three days after you bought the contraption.
"YES!! YES I DO!!!!...Oh no wait, there's not enough." With your moment of triumph ripped asunder by the measly few tablespoons of azure blue liquid lurking under the sink, you resort to babbling in fear.
"You know how it starts to run out and there's still some in the bottom of the bottle but the trigger gun thingy can't quite reach it so when you squeeze it all you get is foamy bubbles and a wheezing sound, I hate that I really do, why do they make them like that, you pay for all of it and can't use all of it and I think it's daylight robbery and..."
"SILENCE!!" He wipes a finger disdainfully along your window ledge, sending dust motes dancing merrily. "I've seen enough. Lock her up, boys."
Thankfully, grime isn't a crime. If it were, I'd be karate chopping those cobwebs more with the best of them. But for today, I'll just scribble and give thanks no one will ever inspect my culinary skills either. Maybe someday I'll share the crunchy eggs story.
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." -Erma Bombeck
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9:41 AM Apr. 30, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] I love this quote from the Dalai Lama. The sentiment makes me sad though. There is so much truth in it that it can be quite painful to muse on for long.
"We have bigger houses but smaller families:
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgments;
more experts but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness.
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbor.
We build more computers
to hold more information,
to produce more copies than ever,
but we have less communication.
We have become long on quantity
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion;
tall man, but short character;
steep profits, but shallow relationships.
It is time when there is much in the window
but nothing in the room."
-Dalai Lama
Did simpler times indeed make for simpler lives? Have we really advanced when with our new found societal pressures we have to be superbeings, perfect in every way and juggling everything in life? Are we too busy being busy to actually gain some kind of sense of who we are and why we're here?
Maybe that's our intention. Because with time on our hands, we might really have to think about the deeper meaning of life and try figure it out. Perhaps that's just too scary. Instead we'll just keep ourselves busy until it's time to sleep and do it all over again the next day.
Or shall we?
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9:15 AM Apr. 30, 2008 -
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I find it difficult to read something if there's a lot of incorrect words used in it. Simple things, like using "its" when it should be "it's", or "theyre" instead of "they're" or even "there" or "their" set my teeth on edge. I lose focus on what the writer's trying to convey while I get an ulcer over the state of the English language.
My son calls me a grammar Nazi. My husband says it shouldn't matter as long as the article or whatever is coherent and you can tell what they were meaning anyway. They both roll their eyes when I point it out on their own work and give me the "shut up!" look. 
I can't help it. I'm of the opinion that it looks unprofessional. If I visited someone's website with the intention of buying a product or service from them, it would make me think twice if I saw that. To my mind, if they don't even take the time to proofread their site for grammar or spelling errors, then what does that tell me about their attention to detail? 
It dismays me to see it on writer's websites especially. I know it's easy to overlook your own mistakes when you've been working on something for a while, but why not ask someone to cast an eye over it for you when it's finished?
I don't know. Maybe it's just a sign of the times. Am I being too anal about the whole thing and should loosen up a bit or do you agree with me?
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." -Peter De Vries
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2:03 PM Apr. 27, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] I just read a shocking story coming out of a man in Austria who allegedly not only kept his daughter hidden in a cellar for 24 years but had seven children with her. Three of them were kept in the cellar with her. It all came to light when one had to be hospitalized.
How can a person hide someone for that length of time? Not just one, in fact four. And why did he allow three others to be brought up within the family as grandchildren? What made him decided some were cellar material and some weren't? (One of the babies born died and he burnt it, according to the reports.)
From reading the story, his wife didn't even know they were there. All this time it had been assumed the daughter had ran away when the family got a letter from her saying not to look for her.
The hospital appealed for the missing mother to come forward because they needed medical history to help the sick child. The father then released them and told his wife she'd come back.
Read the full story here
This made me cry when I read that the two boys that came out with her were seeing daylight for the first time in their lives and how psychologically disturbed she is now, the poor soul. Her life that could have been was robbed of her by this man. I can't imagine the horrors she must have endured while in there.
Are we so lacking in community spirit and concern for our fellow man these days, so afraid to "get involved" with anything or anyone in case it turns out badly or there are reprisals that we choose to turn a blind eye or deaf ear to what might be happening under our noses? I can't believe that no one heard anything or saw anything suspicious. It's on a street with buildings all around it, not an isolated barn in the middle of nowhere where the cry of a child would go unheard.
And for almost a quarter of a century, it continued unchallenged.
How many times did that girl heard footsteps on the sidewalk or voices close by and think they were coming to rescue her.
How long does it take for the hope to fade away and your spirit to be crushed as you make the transition from child to womanhood alone.
How could this happen?
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." -Samuel Johnson
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3:36 PM Apr. 26, 2008 -
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If you could wake up tomorrow and someone handed you the job of your dreams on a plate, what would it be? Where would it be? What would it entail? Why would you choose that?
Oh , I know, that was four questions but that's my writers block smasher for today. No restrictions, no if's or but's, dream as high as you like! Let's hear those career aspirations. :)
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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12:25 PM Apr. 25, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] Yes folks, in this week's " You've got to be kidding me" category, the prize goes to Miley Cyrus for announcing she's going to be writing her memoirs.
She's fifteen. What can we look forward to, I wonder? How much life can you fit into fifteen years, no matter how famous you are? Got up. Ate. Went to studio. Came home. Saw friends. Went to bed.
Honestly, that boggles my brain. I'd rather read memoirs from a hundred year old that actually might have something interesting to share. But then since she's allegedly get a million dollars for it, who can blame her?
Expect it to be in a bargain bucket near you within three months of publication after all the initial press hype there will be. I see she's flashing her bra already in pics leaked on the internet. Wow, that'd make me want to rush out and buy it in case there's anything scandalous in it...yawn. Coincidence? I think not.
Our only saving grace is that it's not due out until 2009 so maybe she'll change her mind in between. You know what her earnings for this year will be? 1 BILLION dollars. There's something far wrong with the world when a fifteen year old can earn that.
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10:51 PM Apr. 18, 2008 -
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Do what you can do to keep life interesting and fruitful-
that's all I want to say. Carpe diem!
Apart from mentioning this is something I made, so no laughing, I was just playing around.
It's the sentiment that counts! 
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10:03 PM Apr. 18, 2008 -
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Got an older browser you like to hang on to instead of upgrading to those pesky new releases? The choice may not be yours for much longer if you still want to use PayPal. They're bringing to their investor's attention the idea of blocking what is in their judgment "unsafe" browsers from their site.
Their intentions are good as it's a preventative step to try clamp down on phishing, but can they or should they really be able to dictate what you're to use and what not to? To me that's what it boils down it. It's the old " my way or the highway" choice.
The preference expressed to shareholders in a document released today is for IE7 (I haven't heard a good word said about IE7 since it came out) and the not yet released FireFox3 as both will incorporate Extended Verification SSL certificates. However as this CNET article highlights, neither Apple Safari nor Opera have these. What are their users supposed to do?
PayPal article
We'll see how the shareholders react soon no doubt but personally I think it's a bit presumptuous to think the ordinary PayPal user would give this notion the thumbs up if they have a fondness for a particular browser version. My feeling is PayPal may well shoot themselves in the foot here. If their customers start seeking out new ways to handle their online transactions rather than change their preferred browser choice for one site, it'll be too late to rethink it.
All about perception, I suppose.
Of course I could be way off the mark. And after all, it is for security. I guess I just don't like feeling that I'm being told what to do. Opinions, thoughts please?
"Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it." -Roger Starr
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9:37 PM Apr. 17, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] Today's question is about fear and how we face it (or not as the case may be). Ask yourself what you're scared of today and if you were scared of the same things five or even ten years ago.
If not, what changed? Did you replace one fear with another, pile it on top of an existing one or did you overcome an old fear completely? Maybe you're fearless. I'm not.
If you're still scared of the same things today you were a decade ago, why is that? Perhaps you've just never wanted to face your fear or look at it closely enough to see what the real crux of it is.
Think about it. What use is there in hanging on to a fear for a decade? If there's any way to be rid of it, would you want to be? (Some people don't). Can you even voice it?
Fear can be a brilliant topic to write about. You may even find out something about yourself along the way. 
 Don't make me look at my fears...
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. - Marilyn Ferguson
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10:23 PM Apr. 16, 2008 -
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- [ post comment ] At last, at least one country is trying to put the brakes on what's considered acceptable usage of extreme thinness for promotional purposes. While the jury's out on whether the images of skinny models have a direct link with anorexia, you can't help but applaud this action in my book. If it saves one girl from going through that, it was worth it.
Ironically it's the country we associate with high fashion that made the move, France. Their parliament took the first steps by introducing a bill on Tuesday making it against the law "to publicly incite extreme thinness". Have we seen the last of the Parisienne catwalks being paraded by models that look like a good breeze could blow over? Not if the French Federation of Couture have their way. How this plays out will be interesting.
The news in full.
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