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From Tim Russert to “Sunny” von Bulow, a look at the stories, newsmakers and top sports figures who died in 2008:

Farewell 2008

That’s all for me today and this year in fact so I hope that each and every one of you and your families have a wonderful, healthy and prosperous 2009 & I’ll see all of you back next year for some more good old fashioned…

It is certainly lonely and quiet around here with Uni away for the holidays visiting family and friends…it’s amazing how much work I can get done when He’s not around!! But I miss Him terribly and am looking forward to him coming home after the New Year!

And speaking of the New Year, the mandate of the TechRepublic Microsoft Windows blog is to provide information regarding both Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the plans Microsoft has for their operating systems.

According to them these are the top five Windows blog posts of 2008.

• Adjust these performance options to speed up Windows XP
• Change the product key on Windows XP
• How do I…Use BootVis to improve XP boot performance
• Creating a Windows Vista Recovery CD
• Reset lost Windows passwords with Offline Registry Editor

That’s about all for me today but I’ll see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

Do you know where Santa is at this very moment?

Well if not you can track him here:

Where’s Santa Now?

That’s all for me today, I’m off to do a bit more tracking!

Happy Holidays from Uni and Sage & see you back again soon for some more…

I get nosy about the computer a lot and when I find myself bored with what I am doing I try to spend a little time trying find answers to some burning question that I have about the computer.

Over the week-end I found myself in just that situation, bored with what I was doing and I had a question that had plagued me for a while. I have been wondering how to change the welcome screen on my computer.

As it comes to find out it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, I thought if I could find where the file is located I could just type something besides Welcome and that would be that.

Well as it turns out I come across an answer that said I had to hack into the file using a hackers program and change it that way.

I came across a video that I was able to look at Before downloading this program which is good as I wanted to see just how involved it would be Before starting my little project.

1st of all I decided that I would not be trying it as I am VERY WELL KNOWN for having computer disasters!!! That plus the fact I could not stay awake long enough to finish the video!

I know very well that being a star and making videos is not for everyone but this man had to be the most boring man I have ever heard in my life!!

I kept falling asleep and falling off of my computer desk while trying to view the video!

DO NOT GET ME WRONG! I am very sure that the man is a complete computer genius…something that I definitely am not, but making videos is not his forte at all!

In the beginning he wasn’t even sure what the name of the product he was trying to instruct about was and things only went down hill from there.

But if you are interested in learning how to change your Welcome screen and you can stay awake for the entire 4 minutes and 53 looooog seconds then this Computer Geek can help you out I a am sure!

Changing Your Welcome Screen Video

And to the Computer Geek…I apologize for being so hard on you and your video acting skills but I have no doubt that you are an absolute genius when it comes to the computer…something I am definitely not!

That’s all for me today and hope to see you back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

As you can tell Uni & I have not been around much the last couple of weeks but we’ve been going slightly crazy running around and trying to get everything ready for Christmas!

It’s been especially hard this year because as many of you know we moved not too long ago and a lot of our stuff is still packed and stored in the attic so something as simple as trying to get the Christmas tree ornaments proved to be a real challenge to say the least!

And Uni is leaving today to  spend the  Christmas holidays with his family and friends so a lot of shopping was called for too, after all, he couldn’t show up empty handed and if you thought finding the Christmas ornaments was a challenge…just wait until you have to go out and buy gifts for a bunch of Unicorns! Let me tell you, they’re not easy to buy for, especially the little ones and of course they want all of the latest Christmas gadgets that Unicorns love, so it has been a difficult last few weeks!

But when Uni leaves today he’ll be gone for the holidays and I’ll be home alone so maybe I’ll have a bit of time to rest and get my second wind!

Anyway! As you probably know, or maybe you don’t, Unicorns love Christmas and all of the fun it has to offer, and Uni, going home to be with family and friends, didn’t want to appear too dumb when it comes to the facts about Christmas so a while back he enrolled in the University of Christmas and became a full fledged Christmasologist! Diploma and all!

In fact I went to the graduation ceremony last night and I couldn’t have been more proud of Uni. He was standing so proud when the Master of Ceremonies shook his horn and presented him with his diploma! He’s is not only proud of the fact that he graduated and received a diploma but that he is also the first Unicorn to go to University in his family! I guess you could say that Uni graduated Uni!!

So as soon as we got home last night he made sure that his diploma was safely packed away in his luggage for his trip!

If you would like to receive a diploma as a Christmasologist then you too can go to the University of Christmas and take the exams, and if you pass, you too will be rewarded with a degree in Christmasology!

Interested? If so go to:

Are You The Brightest Bulb On The Tree? University of Christmas

Well, that’s all for me today, I’m off to get Uni ready for his trip, and if you happen to attend the University of Christmas I wish you very good luck in your studies and see you 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 December 7, 1941 tthe Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

These photos are now housed at:

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLFDR), 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538-1999 PHONE: 845-486-7770, FAX: 845-486-1147, EMAIL: roosevelt.library@nara.gov Production Date: 12/07/1941

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii , 12/07/1941

The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , 12/07/1941

Isn’t he just the Cutest Thing?

People never cease to amaze me with the really dumb things that they can find to occupy themselves…I often find myself saying, “they are easily amused aren’t they”?

And one thing for sure, no matter how different we all are, there is one tradition common to all cultures, the gathering in large groups to participate in utterly pointless and often mind-bogglingly dangerous sports. and 9 times out of 10 all it takes is a lot of bored people and, more often than not, alcohol!

I was checking out this years 8 most baffling “sports” and couldn’t believe some of them…although I hate to admit it, I have heard of some of them which leads me to believe that I must be “easily amused” also!

And the 8 Lucky Winners that they came up with this year are:

• #8: Shin Kicking; Invented in England hundreds of years ago!!! And is pretty self explanatory; a contest between two fighters as to who can knock the other down by the simple, honest method of kicking the heck out of each others shins!
• #7: Bossaball (AKA Trampoline Volleyball); Invented in Belgium. It’s played on an inflatable volleyball court, and in front of the net on each side is a round trampoline so players can get some serious height when spiking!
• #6: Free Style Walking (aka Skateboarding Without a Skateboard); played anywhere jaw-dropping stupidity can be found. They go jumping off rails and fences using only their feet and get this, you can even buy special shoes for this sport!
• #5: Ferret Legging (aka Stuffing a Ferret Down Your Pants); Unfortunately I have heard of this goodie for many years! “Played” in Yorkshire England. Pretty simple, tie the bottom of your pant legs so the ferrets can’t escape then drop a couple down your pants and tighten your belt then stand there like a complete idiot for as long as you can while the upset ferrets try to get out! When you can’t take it anymore then drop your pants and release the ferrets! (The world record is held by a Yorkshireman called Reg Mellor, who kept two ferrets down his trousers for five hours and twenty six minutes back in 1981)!
• #4: Dwile Flonking (aka Beer Rag Tossing); Unfortunately I have heard of this one too!!!! Sussex, Kent. Two teams play the game. One member of a team, the flonker, stands with a beer-soaked rag on a stick whilst the other team links arms and dances around him, the flonker in the middle spins around in the opposite direction to the others and has to fling the rag at them. The girters have to dodge the rag. Points are scored if the rag hits someone, but if the rag misses, the flonker has to drink a chamber-pot’s worth of beer. The game is over when four rounds are finished, or when everyone is so drunk that any movement might cause them to vomit noisily or urinate uncontrollably. Points are deducted if anyone is sober enough to remember their gender at the end of the game!
• #3: Hornussen (aka Spastic Placard Flailing); Switzerland. Played by teams of up to eighteen on a very long, straight field. A launcher, a curved metal ramp, is at one end, by which a player stands. He smacks a small rubber projectile, the hornuss, from the launcher with a long, bendy stick that looked like a fishing rod. The members of the other team, are standing on the field waving placards and wearing helmets, the point is to “biff” the hornuss out the air by hitting it with a placard. But because of the hornuss’ small size and quick velocity, it’s very hard to spot so needless to say many members get hit by this “hornuss”!
• #2: Skibobbing (aka Suicide Ski Biking); Basically played in the Alps but has spread to the U.S.. Competitors go down very steep snowy hills on a bike on skis. So it’s like skiing, but oddly enough the bike doesn’t appear to have any way of stopping! Obviously it’s a simple sport for simple minds!
• And the winner is…#1: Camel Wrestling from Turkey. Camels are specially bred for the competition, and decked out with bells and colorful ornamentation. They’re then sent into the ring with another camel to do battle over a hot camel-babe in heat. Camels can win by either making their opponent fall, scream or gallop away in a leg-flapping manner!

Personally I don’t see why Camel Wrestling was voted #1…it seems pretty “normal” to me after reading the other choices but who am I to argue with the judges??

I don’t know why or how these sports were invented except for the fact that “people can be easily amused” but they were and I think it’s great that people can be such total morons risking life and limb for a little amusement!

I really shouldn’t talk though…I have participated in a few games of Naailen, (a very old Dutch game), in my lifetime, much to my chagrin. I won’t bore you with the details now…maybe one day, but suffice to say it did not involve risking life and limb…just a few hundred year old tree trunk!

Oh! By the way, if you want more details about these most “interesting” sports it can be found at:

This Years Most Baffling Sports!

And I do have a special message to all of my Dutch friends that has nothing to do with today’s subject…I hope you all have a wonderful 1st Christmas, Feast of Sinterklaas, today and get lots of presents!

Well! That’s all for me today, hope you have a great week-end and hope to see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

Thank Goodness!!!

I am proud to announce that Uni and & didn’t make this list, not yet at least…I don’t know, give it a while and we just may!

Top 11 Lamest Blogs

Just a shortie today but hope to see you back again soon for some more…