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Leprechaun Webcam!

That’s all for me today I’m off to do a little St. Paddy’s Day celebrating! I hope each and every one of you enjoy St. Patrick’s Day and don’t forget to Kiss the Blarney Stone, catch a Leprechaun And Find Your pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow, but more than that, I hope to see you all back here again soon for some more good old fashioned!!!

I recently downloaded and installed the new improved WordPress 2.7 and in 3 little words:

I Love It!

The Dashboard is to die for, everything is handy where it is easily accessible with a choice of grey or blue skin.

I like the fact that now you can make a quick post if you’re running short on time and don’t want to go all the way to the normal editor and that you have the freedom to customize the dashboard any way that suits your needs.

All of the modules have the drag and drop option so you can move the modules around any way that suits you and some also have an open and close option so that you can see everything on offer or collapse them up for a cleaner more minimal look.

You can change the settings from the main dashboard and display what is important to you or hide them if they’re not important to you at the time.

You can adjust the size of your editor, there are also keyboard shortcuts for comments moderation and if you double click on a comment in the Comments view it opens up in the editor.

From the dashboard you can see if you have any drafts that you’ve made and maybe forgotten, any incoming links, all of your posts from this week, last week and a while ago and what’s hot on WordPress.

Having said all of this with all of it’s great new features I do have One Tiny complaint. (Well, not so tiny to me)!!

If you have a blog that is hosted by WordPress.com then on your dashboard already included in the 2.7 is all of your stats from all of your blogs but not if you are hosting your own blog, and this was so important to me…in fact it was one of the main reasons that I upgraded from 2.6. To be able to see my stats when I logged in and see who was reading what.

For those of you that know me know I am definitely no computer genius and I have a way of always messing things up on my computer so I only upgrade when it is really something that I want terribly!

I knew about the stats because I have another blog hosted by WordPress and of course the day the upgrade came out I was using it on that blog but it seems that no matter how hard I tried I can not get the stats plugin here on JabberWocky! to work.

So to WordPress 2.7, I give it an 8…would have definitely been a 10 if I had been able to get the stats plugin to work!

By the way…if anyone out there knows possibly what I’m doing wrong or does know how to get the stats plugin to work then please leave me a comment and tell me…I would truly appreciate it!

Well, that’s it for me today and this week, I hope you have a great week-end and hope to see you back here again soon for some more…

On Tuesday Microsoft said it is changing its strategy for offering PC antivirus software, with plans to discontinue its subscription-based consumer security suite Windows Live OneCare and instead offer individuals free software to protect their PCs. This protection is due to be available in the second half of 2009.

“Customers around the world have told us that they need comprehensive, ongoing protection from new and existing threats, and we take that concern seriously.” “This new, no-cost offering will give us the ability to protect an even greater number of consumers, especially in markets where the growth of new PC purchases is outpaced only by the growth of malware.”
Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product management for the Online Services and Windows Division at Microsoft.

For more information go to:

Microsoft to Offer Free Securtiy

Personally I think this is great news. With everything so expensive these days it’s nice to get a “Freebie” once in a while!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again soon for some more…

about the Oklahoma woman who traveled to Louisiana to join the Ku Klux Klan and was shot to death by the leader of the group’s Bogalusa chapter Sunday after she tried to back out of initiation rites at a remote, sandbar camp in northeastern St. Tammany Parish?

It seems as though this woman had heard about this group called the Sons of Dixie and applied to join over the Internet so that she could recruit others in Oklahoma, she even requested that the organization waive its typical membership fee.

The woman traveled to Louisiana by bus on Friday to begin her initiation into the group, and after several rites, including a head-shaving, she was taken to a camp on a sandbar, accessible only by boat. The initiation continued at the campsite, with rituals that consisted mainly of lighting torches and “running around in the woods. Then on Sunday night she decided she wanted to leave the camp which in turn sparked an argument with the groups leader that soon turned violent. The leader then pushed the woman down and, as the argument continued, he shot her with a .40-caliber handgun. He then immediately moved to cover up the crime. He quickly flipped the woman’s body over and tried to dig out the bullet with a knife before ordering his followers to destroy evidence.

I don’t know about you but if it were me and I was about to do the same thing as the woman from Oklahoma I think I would begin to re-evaluate my choices about the people that I want to associate with!

What floors me even more about this story is some of the statements made by law enforcement.

St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain said that he couldn’t “imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk from these kooks”, and that his Sheriff’s Office would not allow it. He then went on to say “we’re not going to tolerate this in St. Tammany”.

NOT FEEL ENDANGERED OR AT RISK FROM THESE “KOOKS”????

The man Shot and Killed the woman with a .40 caliber handgun in cold blood!!!! And tried to cover it up!! What do you mean can’t imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk??

Another Sheriff Office Chief, Shannon Lyons, from Washington Parish stated, “I just think they’re wannabes, simple-minded people”.

Well, wannabes, simple-minded or whatever other types of people they are, they are Still Very Dangerous people if you ask me!

If you want to read more of this story it can be found at;

…KKK group tied to killing…

That’s all for me today, hope you have a good one and as always hope to see you back again soon at…

In the future it will probably read something like:

Democrat Barack Obama won the 2008 U.S. presidential election to become the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American to hold the highest office in the nation.

Making his running mate, Joe Biden, the 44th Vice President of the United States of course.

This piece of history was over 200 years in the making and they said it could never be done but president-elect Obama and millions upon millions of voters disagreeded and said “Yes We Can”…and of course they did.

Senator McCain conceded defeat after receiving only 156 electoral votes to president-elect Obama’s 338, (270 being the magic number to win).

I just finished listening to his first address to the nation as president-elect where he congratulated Senator McCain for a very well run race and in which he told Americans, (in short), that “change has come to America” and that the road will be long and steep but if we put aside our differences and all pull together that there is nothing we can not do and we can overcome any hardship…”Yes We Can”.

‘All things are possible’ address to the nation

In closing I would just like to say congratulations to president-elect Obama, his new Vice President Joe Biden and wish you Godspeed.

That’s all for me today and hope to see you back here again soon at…

In 1842: Abraham Lincoln married Lexington-born Mary Todd.

In 1918: Austria surrendered to the Allies.

In 1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Luxor, Egypt.

In 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president of the United States.

In 1979: Student followers of Ruhollah Khomeini stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking hostages.

In 1995: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin wass assassinated and…

William III, (King of England 1650), Will Rogers, (1879), Walter Cronkite, (1916) and Robert Mapplethorpe, (1946) were born.

And then comes today.

November 4, 2008, Election Day…as of tomorrow, will be yet another one for the history books. And what a day it will be.

Personally I think in years and even centuries to come today will be remembered by many as the day that a very special history was made.

It doesn’t matter who you vote for, nor who wins, (of course we all want our favorite candidate to win), the White House will see something that it has never seen before and I dare say, in the past, it was thought could never happen!

Yes, the White House will either see a Black American President or a White American Woman Vice President walking down it’s hallowed halls regularly…who would have thought???!!! Certainly no one or not many a short century ago!

This is going to be a very special election in America’s history and I hope that each and every one of you make a special effort to be a Part of this day and not just a bystander!

I was sitting in my home a couple of days ago listening to the news and heard that over 20 million American’s had voted already. That alone tells you that people are very interested in this election, (as should be every election).

So go on, grab your coat and walk, run, bicycle, unicycle, bus, train, tram, sidecar, metro, kayak, drive or any other transportation you can think of and get to those polls before they close tonight!

I’m sure you’ll be glad you did because no matter what they say…YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT!!

I would like to thank MSN encarta for all of the helpful historical facts used in this post.

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back here again soon at…

In just 4 short days, on March 29th between 8:00-9:00 p.m., Earth Hour, the global movement to shut off the lights for one hour in order to make a statement about climate change, will be here.

The momentum is really beginning to build as more and more individuals, businesses, and even cities are planning to participate.

Together, people around the globe are going to deliver a powerful message to the citizens and leaders of the world about the need for action on climate change, Now, as it is the greatest threat our planet has ever faced.

Earth Hour is going to give everyone the opportunity to take action and influence others to begin a change that will alter te course of climate change forever.

By turning off the lights during Earth Hour each and every one of us will signify the beginning of what just one person can do to help make a big impact on climate change.

To find out more about Earth Hour, sign up free for Earth Hour and be counted by committing to turn off your lights, create your own Earth Hour event, reduce your impact, know your footprint and more go to:

Earth Hour

I urge all of you to get involved for all of our sakes…after all, an hour in the dark on a Saturday night can’t be all that hard to fill!

That’s all for me today, see you back again tomorrow for more…

This seems to becoming a habit for me, sharing my private e-mails, and I don’t know why, except for the fact that when I receive an e-mail that is very special and I think you would enjoy it as much as I do, then I just have to share it with you.

This e-mail was sent to me by a cousin of mine…he always seems to come up with the most unusual things! So here is the portion of the e-mail that I think you will enjoy!

A picture began circulating. It should be ‘The Picture of the Year,’ or perhaps, ‘Picture of the Decade.’ It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never see it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner.

The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb.

Little Samuel’s mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner’s remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon’s finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, ‘Hand of Hope.’ The text explaining the picture begins, ‘The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother’s uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life.’

Little Samuel’s mother said they ‘wept for days’ when they saw the picture. She said, ‘The photo reminds us pregnancy isn’t about disability or an illness, it’s about a little person. ‘Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation was 100 percent successful.

Now see the actual picture, it is awesome, incredible, and hey, pass it on. The world needs to see this one!

Samuel’s Hand of Hope

While I realize that this is not a new photo, it is still a wonderful, miraculous story to take us into the week-end! Thanks Tommy for sharing this with me and as you can see I have indeed shared it with the world!

Since posting this blog entry a couple of hours ago I have been able to find the elusive photojournalist that took this amazing photo, he calls it, “Fetal Hand Grasp”, his name is Michael Clancy, and he is quoted as saying about this photo: “The experience of taking this photograph has had a profound effect on me”.

That’s it for me this week! Have a great one and see you back again Monday for more…

Henry could be a blue blood with three hearts for all I know, and if he is, then that would really make him quite common and never a one of a kind sort of guy!

Henry is a lovely little thing for a very different reason. He was discovered a couple of weeks ago in a lobster pot of all places!

I suppose he’s Welsh, since he was discovered in Whales, but I don’t really know for sure about that either!

In fact I don’t really know very much about Henry except that he is suppose to be a one of a kind hexapus!

I suppose there could be a joke made about him like:

When is an octopus not an octopus?

Of course the answer would be…

When he’s a hexapus!

British marine experts claim that he is the worlds first six legged “octopus”!!

After carefully checking him out, the experts believe that he has six legs as a result of a birth defect rather than an accident.

I wonder if Henry realizes he’s missing a couple of things? I also wonder if he was considered to be an Ugly Duckling in the circles that he hung around??

Henry is so unusual that he is to go on display at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre later this month if you care to make the trip over to northwest England and catch an eye full!

You know what I wonder? Since he is the first hexapus ever discovered, did they already have the name hexapus for him in the annals of science or is it a word that they just made up on the spot??

That’s all for me today! Hope to see you back again tomorrow for more…