Remember those old Etch A Sketch we use to have as kids? One thing I know for sure is that my pictures never looked like this!
See M.J. as you’ve Never seen him before!
Well, that’s all for me this week! I hope to see you back again on Monday for some more…
Yesterday I was at Douglas T and saw that he had done a post about Safari now being available for Windows, at which he said, it was about time. When I told him I had considered doing a post about Safari for Windows also he told me that he would be interested in hearing what I had to say, so Douglas T, here goes!
For those of you that don’t know Safari has been around for quite a while for Mac OS and is the Apple Browser. Safari 3.0 for Windows beta came out last week and roughly a week after it’s release it released an updated version, 3.02 beta that patches up some of the issues that the 3.0 had. That is available for download now at:
It is available for Windows XP and Vista and there is also a version of Safari + QuickTime that you can download, if you so choose.
The updated version has the latest security updates, improved stability and fixes for text display, non-English systems, and start-up times.
It boasts of being the worlds best and fastest web browser on any platform and I do have to agree, I have found it to be very fast. The browser I normally use has been running very slow recently so I do tend to notice how I did not have time to take a nap going from one site to the next!
Safari remarks that it has Easy Bookmarks, and that you can organize your bookmarks just like you organize music in iTunes. Well, I would not know about that since I don’t bookmark my music in iTunes because I don’t have any! But! The bookmarks really did have me stumped! I had to read how to add and organize them in the help section and on the Safari Forum.
Normally I either right click or go to the top of a bookmark section and click on “add to bookmarks” or something similar, but Safari does not have the right click option. Instead there is a little + sign near the top left hand side next to the forward and back button; when the + button is click on a little pop up window comes up and you make and place your bookmark that way or from the drop down menu from the bookmarks option.
Once I finally figured out how to do that then I had to figure out how to use the bookmarks!! There is no handy drop down window showing all of your bookmarks, instead when you click on bookmarks a small drop down window appears and you have a few options, one of which is: Show all bookmarks. When that is clicked on an entire opens up with all of your bookmarks. When you find the bookmark that you want you must right click on it and choose the option of where you want it to open or to edit it. You can though import and export your bookmarks from IE & Mozilla so that is a definite plus.
The bookmark page is ok, I suppose, but I personally am not crazy about it because I find it takes a lot more time than the old way that I am use to, a bit confusing and it seems to take the “fastest browser” theory and just slow it down with all of the extra work you have.
Safari has of course the regular goodies that are being offered these days such as Pop-Up Blocking, Tabbed Browsing, Autofill Forms, Buit in RSS, Private Browsing, a good Security System and various plug-ins for Windows that you may want to install.
I did find a few other goodies that I like, the Inline Find Search allows you to search any text on any website with the integrated Find banner, Snap Back lets you instantly snap back to search results or the top level of a website and with Re sizable Text Fields you can resize text fields on any website by simply grabbing the corner and dragging.
Next to the refresh and + button there is a sign I have since found out is suppose to be a “bug” and by clicking that button you get yet another pop up that you are able to fill out if you are on a page and want to report a “bug” or if you just want to give feedback to the Safari team.
With Safari you can also install Bonjour, which I must admit I do not know very much about, but it seems like it could be a good bit of extra fluff, it claims to be “Networking simplified.” and it is suppose to let you create an instant network of computers and smart devices just by getting them connected to each other.
There are a few things that I definitely do not like but hopefully those will be fixed as time goes on, after all Safari for Windows has just come out and there has already been an update.
On the preferences, you are suppose to be able to set your browser to warn you before closing all tabs, so far this does not work, unless you go to the trouble of going to File>Exit, but in my opinion, if I go to all of that trouble I already know I am leaving the browser, so it does not do me much good then! So be careful if you have a few tabs open, because accidentally hitting that X on the top right will definitely shut the browser down!
Another thing that really annoys me is the plug-in for the VCL Media player. When you wish to play music, or anything else I would imagine, you click on your choice of music, video etc., a small download menu pops up and shows the VCL download, hover over the magnifying glass and you see “show containing folder”, click on the magnifying glass and it takes you all the way over to the C area of the computer where you see a play list, right click on “play” and finally the VCL player opens and you have music etc.! Personally, I was out of the mood to listen to music by the time I was done! If anyone out there knows of a quicker way to get the VCL to play music please let me know & I will let everyone else know!
As far as looks go, it states that it has a clean look that lets you focus on the Web and not your browser, well I have to agree with them there. I find the slate grey color a bit boring myself, but then again, if I don’t have to wait very long between site changes then I don’t have much time to focus on the “interior decoration” either do I? But I am hoping that soon, in the not so distant future, there will be a button that would give you at least an option of 4 or 5 other equally dull colors that you could choose from!
But there is that “bug” button that I can use to give the Apple Engineers a bit of feedback on this; maybe I can plant a little “bug” in their ear about adding a few more colors, what do you think?
That’s all for me today! Hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
I was visiting High Desert Wanderer yesterday and saw that he had done a post about the same thing that I planned on doing today, I told him then, “Our Brains Must be Connected, people are going to start thinking we are twins!” because there are many times we post about the same things and a lot of times even on the same day! Of course if I were you I would read his coverage on the story also as he has an entirely different source than I do!
Some of you may remember that on May 8th, I wrote a post entitled WHO JUDGES THE JUDGE?
It was about a law suit that Judge Roy L. Pearson brought against a dry cleaners for $54 million in damages for loosing his favorite pair of suit pants, (it was $65 million dollars at the time of my other post), but the dry cleaner owners claimed that the pants were merely misplaced for a short while and tried to return them, but Judge Pearson claimed that those pants were not the same pair he had brought in!
WHEW!!!!
Well, Monday, my question of WHO JUDGES THE JUDGE? was answered! D. C. Judge Judith, (another Judge Judy)? Bartnoff judged the Judge and she found him to be Unresonable!
Judge Bartnoff, upon hearing the case, ruled that Judge Pearson did not interpret the sign that read: “Satisfaction Guaranteed” in a Reasonable fashion.
“A reasonable consumer would not interpret ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ to mean that a merchant is required to satisfy a customer’s unreasonable demands,” D.C. Judge Judith Bartnoff wrote.
Judge Bartnoff ruled that Pearson must also pay the defendants’ court costs and other miscellaneous costs for the trial. The defendants, Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung, a Korean family, has been seriously considering returning to Korea because this law suit has so disillusioned them about the “American Dream”, have also ask Judge Bartnoff to award them attorney fees, estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars which will be considered at a later date.
Judge Pearson, the suing judge, said during the trial that if he won, he would keep $2.5 million for himself and use the remainder of the award to encourage others to file similar lawsuits!! Don’t ask me, I don’t get that part!
When ask if the Chungs were going to put the “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign back up on the wall of their dry cleaners their attorney said:
In order to avoid vexatious and frivolous lawsuits going forward, I think that sign is going to rest in peace!
I am so glad that this suit is over because it was getting so confusing!
Well, I Think it is over, I wonder if Judge Pearson is going to sue Judge Bartnoff for filing fees, court and other miscellaneous court fees because she did not give him… “Satisfaction Guaranteed”, but then again, she did not have a sign on the wall of her court room stating she would either!!
(It is expected that Judge Pearson will appeal the decision).
That’s if for me today! Hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
disappeared on 12 March.
A video appeared on the internet on 1 June showing the first pictures of Alan Johnston since his abduction. It is said to have been posted by the Army of Islam, the group that says it is holding the reporter.
There has been a worldwide response to the online Free Alan Johnston Petition which was opened on Monday, 2 April and coincided with a full page appeal in the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
Yesterday Alan Johnston appeared in a video, wearing a “bomb vest”, posted on an Islamic militant website. Below is the transcript of what he says:
First of all my captors have treated me very well. They’ve fed me well. There’s been no violence towards me at all, and I’m in good health.
More of Alan Johnston Statement
More than 170,000 signatures worldwide have signed the Free Alan Johnston Petition and regular updates will be added to the petition page.
The petition is calling on anyone who has any influence on the situation to increase their efforts to secure Alan’s immediate release.
The petition states in full:
“We, the undersigned, demand the immediate release of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston. We ask that everyone with influence on this situation increase their efforts to ensure that Alan is freed quickly and unharmed.”
Free Alan Johnston Petition
While signing the Petition for Alan Johnston to hopefully help in his release, is of uppermost importance, there is another bit of news that has been going on for the last three weeks that has finally come to an end shortly after midnight this very morning!
Paris Hilton walked out of jail after midnight on Tuesday to an enormous crowd of camera and reporters after a bizarre, three-week stay in which the hotel heiress was briefly released to her Hollywood Hills home, then sent screaming and crying back to a county lockup. See details here: Paris Hilton released from L.A. Jail
That’s all for me today, join me tomorrow for some more…
My Daddy is coming to visit me for a few weeks this summer and he will be here in a few days. We will, of course be going out and about and making a few little side trips and I needed a new cell phone, just in case we get lost, which I already know we will!
I went out over the week-end and bought a new one, it is just a tiny little thing and that started me thinking of how much bigger my first cell phone was, not so very long ago. Of course that got me thinking about how much bigger they were when cell phones really started to get noticed, so I came home and started looking around on the Internet for the history of cell phones and as the saying goes:
“You’ve come a long way baby”!!
In 1973, Motorola showed off a prototype of the world’s first portable cellular telephone. It was more than a foot long, weighed almost 2 pounds, and cost $3995.00, it became available commercially in 1983. Its battery could provide 1 hour of talk time, and its memory could store 30 phone numbers. It was not until 1984 though that cellular phones were first mass produced for the general public.
People were of course amazed that they could reach into their pockets or purse and call anyone, anywhere in the world.
Of course they was bulky and expensive and most people thought it was going to be just another toy for the “rich and famous”! No one ever thought the the average “Joe” was going to be able to afford one.
Of course no one ever dreamed that their would ever be a potential risk of cancer, brain tumors or any other sort of health problems from such a futuristic gadget either!
Cell phones today are suppose to meet certain radiation safety standard limits set by the Government. But tests recently conducted found that some of the most popular phones can far exceed the government’s radiation standards, depending upon how they are held.
Reports show that government testing guidelines are so vague that a phone can pass the Federal Communications Commission’s requirements when tested in one position and exceed those maximum levels when held in a slightly different position!
In most cases the bone of an adult skull can block most of the radiation that is created from other devices. The problem encountered with cell phones is that we hold them directly next to one of the areas of the head which have the least amount of protection, the ear canal / ear drum. Information On The History Of Cell Phones
But! All that aside, we do not seem to mind the dangers our cell phones can possibly cause us, we only mind when the battery goes down and we can not use them to call, then they pose an even more dangerous health risk…anxiety attack!!
If you would like to see some of the cell phones of the not so distant past you can go to:
In Pictures: A History of Cell Phones
That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
T.G.I.F.! Boy I am really looking forward to the week-end this time, it’s been a very looong week!
I was reading about a woman in Iowa this week and it seems that she was arrested and charged with stealing 3 rolls of two-ply toilet paper from an Iowa courthouse.
She was caught last week after an employee saw her taking the two-ply tissue from a storage closet. It was not quite clear why she was at the courthouse, but it was said that she did not work there.
Workers at the courthouse had been keeping a closer eye on the toilet paper because they noticed that the rolls were disappearing much faster than usual.
When caught she swore that it was the first time that she had ever taken toilet paper from the courthouse, but, she is facing potentially three years of incarceration for stealing the three rolls of two-ply toilet paper because she has prior theft convictions therefore she is considered a habitual offender.
Oh, and the name of the woman accused of stealing the three rolls of two-ply toilet paper from the courthouse?
Well…Butts of course! Her last name is Butts!!
That’s it for me this week! Have a good week-end and hope to see you back here again Monday for some more…
Under an agreement with Google, Microsoft Corp. has agreed to modify its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint that its computer search function put Google Inc. and other potential rivals at a disadvantage.
Under the agreement Microsoft will build into Vista an option to let users select a default desktop search program on personal computers running Windows.
The function, known as “Instant Search,” allows Windows users to enter a search query and get a list of results from their hard drive that contain the search term.
The changes will be introduced in a service pack, or updated version of Windows Vista software. Microsoft Corp. expects to be able to put out a test version of the Vista Service Pack 1 by the end of this year.
Microsoft also promised to provide additional technical information to third-party developers, such as Google, in order to optimize the performance of their desktop search service on Vista.
More information is available at:
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint
Hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
Brisbane Water in Australia is one of the worlds largest habitats for breeding oysters in fact the area produces almost 10 million oysters every year. It seems that an entrepreneurial farmer there has come up with a new way to spice up his business.
He has decided that since oysters are the world’s ultimate natural aphrodisiac and Viagra the ultimate man-made aphrodisiac, the 2 ingredients should be combined to make them the worlds Ultimate, Ultimate aphrodisiac! He feels with this winning combination and the aphrodisiac of laughter added along with it you just can not miss!
He ultimately wants to grow the oysters to ultra full size and ultimately export them to Asia where they are considered to be a strong aphrodisiac and you can ultimately sell them for the best money. (that is a Lot of Ultimatelys’, isn’t it)?
This works by pulverizing the Viagra tablets and sprinkling it in the water where the oysters absorb the active ingredient.
The inventor, by the way, decided not to take the word of scientists that the “Love Cocktail” would work though, instead, he tested it on himself, and according to him the Viagra Oysters Love Cocktail did in fact work just fine! I think it is wonderful the lengths that this man was willing to go to, all in the name of science…don’t you??
Not everyone is as happy as the farmer though, Pfhiser, the creators of Viagra, is taking legal action against him and the Australian Food Authority is looking very closely at the oyster to see if it is safe.
They are a bit pricey though, they cost $20.00 for 500 grams; but price does not seem to matter to the masses, because he received 150 million hits on his Website about them in just one week!! But then what do you expect? With names such as “Sydney Rock Hard ! Oysters”, (If Erection Persists See Your Doctor), or Sex in a Can, how can you miss??
Well, how ’bout it boys, do you think you would be Up to trying them?
Well, I think I have gotten myself into enough trouble, so that’s all for me today! I hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
Michael Moore has really had problems since he made the now very famous documentary, “Sicko”, which chronicles ordinary Americans and their struggles with health care and health care bureaucracy.
First he was “harassed”, by the U.S. Treasury Department because he made an unauthorized trip to Cuba.
While filming the documentary, he ended up accompanying a group of 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba, who had become ill, where the film describes them as getting better care and cheaper drugs than at home.
When he found out that he was being investigated he “stashed” a copy of “Sicko” in Canada “just in case” the federal government decided to impound it.
Then of course it made it’s way to The Cannes Film Festival where Many were able to view it without any problems.
The Cannes Film Festival seems like the way that Michael Moore always has to get his movies through to the American public, just look at “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Now, rumor has it, that he has recently hired Al Gore’s attorney, David Boies, who has said that he believes Mr. Moore is being unfairly harassed by the U.S. Treasury Department over his trip to Cuba because he’d criticized the current administration in his documentary, “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Now, for the latest news, which I am sure everyone has heard already, “Sicko”, is due to be released on June 29th, but it appears to have been “released” already!
The 2 hour version was being seen on YouTube before it was removed from there, and, it is rumored to have been pirated, and is now widely available for free download on many peer-to-peer content sites. I will not name them, but suffice to say, if I can find it, then anyone can!
If all of these problems keep up, Mr. Moore might very well become a “Sicko”, and if so, I wonder where he will be going to get his medical care…as it seems with this one, he might have just burned yet a few more bridges!
That’s all for me today! Hope to see you back tomorrow for some more…
I hope all of you had a nice week-end, I know I did! Over the week-end I had a wonderful experience, I got to see a very good friend of mine for the first time on Webcam! Now I know that for many of you this is not such a big deal, but for anyone that knows me and knows what a “sheltered” life I have led, (as far as computers go)!!, knows that this was a Very Big deal for me!! Anyway, the reason I brought this up is…I added yet another site to our blogroll this week-end and it has to do with a Webcam! Mr. Lee’s Webcam to be more precise! What is so special about Mr. Lee? And his Webcam? Well, why don’t you go to our blogroll and click on Mr. Lee’s Webcam and find out!!!
And now…on with today’s post!
As we probably all know there where were 7 Wonders of the Ancient World and now 2,200 years later there is a People’s Choice vote going on to choose the New 7 Wonders of the World! All structures built or discovered before the year 2000 are eligible!
Voting has been going on since August 2006, 50 million people have already voted and now at midnight, GMT on July 6th, 2007, the voting will be completed and the New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced the next day, 07/07/07, during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisabon Portugal. This of course, coincides with the Live Earth Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, which starts in 18 days and 22 hours at the time of this post, that are going to be held on all 7 Continents also that day.
You must be a member to vote and membership is free. Voting can be done online or via phone. The entire voting process is available in 12 languages. And if you would like a memento of this momentous occasion, you can, for a nominal fee of $2.00, receive a New7Wonders Certificate confirming that you have voted for your ONE favorite candidate. It contains your name, as you have written it, with the name of the candidate.
Some of the famous sites that people have been voting for are…The Taj Mahal, The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá, Statues of Easter Island, The Acropolis, Eiffel Tower and Stonehenge just to name a few!
If you want to be a part of history in the making, you only have 18 days & 23 hours left to vote, at the time of this post! I went to New 7 Wonders of the World yesterday and voted, I got such a kick out of being a part of history in the making and knowing that for many generations to come people will be looking at the “New” 7 Wonders of the World that I helped pick!! I would strongly suggest you do the same, Before it is too late!
That’s it for me today, hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
