05 May 10 Sanford On Mountain Quest
The State newspaper reports today that Gov. Mark Sanford has traveled to Washington, D.C., today to try to convince officials to reverse a decision not to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada.
Now, come on. Did Mr. Sanford really go to D.C? Last time he was connected with mountains, he’d legged it in the opposite direction.
Read more at The State
Tags: last time, mark sanford, mountain quest, mountains, newspaper reports, nuclear waste facility, washington d c, yucca mountain, yucca mountain nuclear waste
20 Nov 08 Do You Use This Free Phone Service?
Do you use the AIM Free phone line service? I tried it out for a while some time back, and it worked quite well if you didn’t mind running AIM on your desktop all the time.
AIM Free Phoneline is
I haven’t used it since I moved my business lines to Skype, which gives me much more portability, and the ability to use my cellphone as well via their service. AIM free phone line tied you to your desk. Still it was, well, free, and it was useful before I had GrandCentral to separate my personal and business calls for me.
Anyway, it’s another service that AOL are closing down. From January 13, 2009, it will be no more. They seem to be taking stuff down bit by bit. The AOL journals went recently too.
I don’t use AOL myself these days, and I only dabbled with it out of curiosity in the past, but they seem to be slowing fading away. They’ve attempted to become more and more part of the ‘mainstream’ internet in recent times, but I wonder if they’ve left it too late. Perhaps they could have been one of the leaders of Social Media Networking if they’d followed a different strategy. After all like ‘em or loathe ‘em they were one of the leaders at one time in online connectivity, with millions of customers. It was where the majority of the newbies went, and it was part of the crapware installed on many many store-bought home PCs.
Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time I had one of those AOL CDs appear in my mailbox…
Tags: aim, aol cds, bit by bit, business calls, business lines, cellphone, connectivity, crapware, curiousity, desk, free phone line, home pcs, journals, last time, mainstream internet, newbies, skype
19 Nov 08 That Toyota Ad
I’ve not seen it myself. Nope. Then again, the last time I watched TV was to see McCain and Obama give their speeches on election night.
One of the reasons I don’t watch network TV is the annoying number of ads, rather than the number of annoying ads. I fully realize that it’s the advertising the generates the revenue for the networks, but unlike online advertising, which you can usually ignore, and which in any case, tends to be contextual, rather than, as in the case of television advertising, completely irrelevant to the content.
I’m good at skim reading and I’m pretty good in general at skimming past anything that doesn’t interest me, and that I don’t need to know. On the occasions that I do watch television, I find I simply don’t remember advertisments. I do get annoyed that the program I am trying to watch is interrupted every 6-7 minutes with a multitude of junk food ads or about pills you should take after a lifetime of eating the aforementioned junk food, but I can’t remember for the most part what the actual products are, as I don’t take pills unless I really have to, and almost never eat junk food as I don’t like it.
Still, what I don’t understand is how some folks get so animated about a 30 second ad, when much of the programming itself leaves a lot to be desired!
Tags: annoying ads, election night, junk food ads, last time, lifetime, mccain, multitude, network tv, occasions, pills, speeches, television advertising, watch network
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