Saturday, December 31, 2011
Facebook timeline of Christmas quotes
Just in time for Christmas quotes, the Facebook timeline has been launched. I actually find using the Facebook timeline much easier to find things in. In other words quite a bit better organisation. The weird thing I find with the timeline is that it doesn't seem to include some of my previous posts.
On searching Facebook timeline I find there is a bit of a debate going on amongst the users.
Some even seem to be under the delusion Facebook timeline looks like or is going to make Facebook like MySpace. It looks nothing like MySpace really and it is the way people choose to use or abuse the social networks that make or break them. As I scrolled through the various comments on three of the authority links in the first result I saw some comments that were just plain silly, and some that if there is truth to them then just don't hit the like button.
Therms of use for Facebook have some similar clauses to that of playing the lotteries and certain raffles, so if you see your mug come up in an ad don't blame Facebook timeline, you agreed to the Facebook terms when you sign up. By the way, I think it a good idea to let you know at this point the posts I have been checking out are on The Facebook information pages at Facebook.
During my searches through the new and the improved features Facebook timeline presents us with, I noticed they have some pretty neat Facebook timeline covers which include quotes. You can even submit or suggest covers. Being it would take too long to go through them all I don't know if there is any Christmas quotes or quotes for Christmas for those who like to keep a seasonal look to their profile.
Nor can I say whether or not they have quotes about Christmas for those who keep a Christmassy feel to their whole life where they can. Personally though I like the Facebook cover photo idea I have also used that feature. Seeing the quotes category in Facebook timeline covers made me think about a few of the quotes we grew up with. On such quote being,
It's not the gift, but the thought that counts. And was interested to find that even though we use it all year round it is actually a Christmas quote from Henry Van Dyke. Another I grew up hearing was from Charles Schulz, Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. But then there are probably thousands of quotes about Christmas that are not just quotes for Christmas, that if we all at least used them a little more and maybe even practiced some of them.
Specially in places like Facebook, the doom and gloomers against Facebook timeline may see it will be what we make of it. Who knows there may be some new,waiting to be discovered, quotes for Christmas and other occasions from Facebook timeline users that will endure the ages as those we grew up with. They'll be the ones, if submitted to Facebook timeline covers, that will become as synonymous with future generations as those already with our generation and those before us.
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daylight savings in daylight savings time HUH
I'm not sure why but I always get confused about daylight savings time. At least here in Australia we only have like 5 time zone changes to get confused with. The thing I end up with the most problems with is trying to convert to the different times in America when we are in daylight savings time in Australia. The real confusion with the time conversion is that more often than not the American end of things will suggest a number of hours difference for AEST that is actually based on AEDT aka AEDST. Which means the poor person who is trying to be helpful is getting Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time, NSW,& Vic run on in summer, and Australian Eastern Time, which in summer only Queensland runs on.
And there is the most modern argument for Queensland to take up on partaking in daylight savings. With the advent of Internet conferencing for educational purposes even more so. It is hard enough being in Oz and trying to calculate the time change for these without accounting for time zone change within Oz as well as America. One such instance caused my partner and I to have to get up at 2.30 am for a training seminar, instead of signing up for the later one.
But when we have to calculate the time for scheduling even a Internet call to America it can get very confusing. If it is daylight savings time abroad we need to figure out not only the basic time change, but which time zone change and account for daylight savings. As I read about the history of daylight savings time I find more and more reason to be great full for apps such as Google date time. The Piece I was reading on the history of daylight savings time and the fact that the daylight savings origin is a topic of debate tripped my intelligence switch to simple logics.
Being I am no historian I cannot tell you the most probable daylight savings origin, but I believe I can stear you in the right direction. If the Romans with their water clocks were the first to both have mechanized time keeping devices, mechanized clocks, and practice a similar process to daylight savings practices, then they are your origin . What I mean is the daylight savings origin is the first civilization to do and have both mechanized clocks and practice a similar process. See there was not even a need for the concept of daylight savings before mechanised clocks, mechanised time keeping as the sun produced the time keeping action on sundials of the various kinds and before them the daylight energy was what told people it was time to get up and when to do this or that.
The people against daylight savings who have no real reason other than they don't want to have to change their clocks twice a year like to use, The sun will still be up when we're trying to get to sleep!, as their argument. But if they took a break from modern reality, and let nature take control, they would find that daylight energy will wake them when it's time to get up and not keep them awake if they are tired. How do they think the Mexican sleeps during siesta, or how grandma, grandpa and children take successful sleep filled naps in the day time? Personally I was one of those people for a bit but the fact that when pay tv stopped adjusting their screening of programs and just advised the different state veiwers to calculate the showing time in accordance to Sydney time, I found a modern
Iifestyle reason to be a pro daylight savings person.
That along with the fact that even though I have had at least one alarm clock of one sort or another since I was in school, the alarm clock has only ever been used as a backup device. See my partner and I tend to wake up naturally and in time to have breakfast and get ready without rushing, even if it is at a special or earlier time to our normal schedule. And in twenty years it has been the alarm waking us only twice, as we normally wake at least 2 minutes before the alarm triggers. That's daylight energy for you.
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And there is the most modern argument for Queensland to take up on partaking in daylight savings. With the advent of Internet conferencing for educational purposes even more so. It is hard enough being in Oz and trying to calculate the time change for these without accounting for time zone change within Oz as well as America. One such instance caused my partner and I to have to get up at 2.30 am for a training seminar, instead of signing up for the later one.
But when we have to calculate the time for scheduling even a Internet call to America it can get very confusing. If it is daylight savings time abroad we need to figure out not only the basic time change, but which time zone change and account for daylight savings. As I read about the history of daylight savings time I find more and more reason to be great full for apps such as Google date time. The Piece I was reading on the history of daylight savings time and the fact that the daylight savings origin is a topic of debate tripped my intelligence switch to simple logics.
Being I am no historian I cannot tell you the most probable daylight savings origin, but I believe I can stear you in the right direction. If the Romans with their water clocks were the first to both have mechanized time keeping devices, mechanized clocks, and practice a similar process to daylight savings practices, then they are your origin . What I mean is the daylight savings origin is the first civilization to do and have both mechanized clocks and practice a similar process. See there was not even a need for the concept of daylight savings before mechanised clocks, mechanised time keeping as the sun produced the time keeping action on sundials of the various kinds and before them the daylight energy was what told people it was time to get up and when to do this or that.
The people against daylight savings who have no real reason other than they don't want to have to change their clocks twice a year like to use, The sun will still be up when we're trying to get to sleep!, as their argument. But if they took a break from modern reality, and let nature take control, they would find that daylight energy will wake them when it's time to get up and not keep them awake if they are tired. How do they think the Mexican sleeps during siesta, or how grandma, grandpa and children take successful sleep filled naps in the day time? Personally I was one of those people for a bit but the fact that when pay tv stopped adjusting their screening of programs and just advised the different state veiwers to calculate the showing time in accordance to Sydney time, I found a modern
Iifestyle reason to be a pro daylight savings person.
That along with the fact that even though I have had at least one alarm clock of one sort or another since I was in school, the alarm clock has only ever been used as a backup device. See my partner and I tend to wake up naturally and in time to have breakfast and get ready without rushing, even if it is at a special or earlier time to our normal schedule. And in twenty years it has been the alarm waking us only twice, as we normally wake at least 2 minutes before the alarm triggers. That's daylight energy for you.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
college book renter not a class a moron
I initially thought if you were going to rent an apartment or home to a college book renter you would have to be a class a moron. Then I paused and I thought about it for a bit. Not necessarily would the person default or skip out on their responsibilities.
Actually they would possibly be a better tenant to have as for starters they already have a rental record of valuable assets. Then there is the fact that they have been in the position of being responsible for the care and keep of another's valuables for their mutual gains.
Then there is an actual business in the US of the name College Book Renter. I have checked out the site and am glad to see that though at present they only deliver to the US, they appear to intend to service other countries in the future.
Actually I wish the option to rent textbooks was readily available when I was still in school, this would have actually made it far less expensive for my parents as they not only had to buy my high school text books but also one of my siblings college text books.
The other siblings went into jobs that paid them to do work while they did the studies that enabled them to become professionals in their chosen fields and generally the texts they required were supplied. But when you want to become a biologist that option does not exist.
So the existence of college book renter and book rental businesses is a wonderful idea come to life. The person who first took the step into the college book rental business definitely was not a class a moron though, at the time, there was probably plenty who thought he or she was.
Speaking of class a moron, I see there is a song performed by Crupp named Class A moron. I checked out the Lyrics on lyricsfreak and it looks like the person who wrote them knew at least one of the people I know. They open their mouth to speak and class a moron drivel comes flowing out, I am yet to hear the song play, but it will be worth it I'm hoping
college book renter, class a moron
Then there is an actual business in the US of the name College Book Renter. I have checked out the site and am glad to see that though at present they only deliver to the US, they appear to intend to service other countries in the future.
Actually I wish the option to rent textbooks was readily available when I was still in school, this would have actually made it far less expensive for my parents as they not only had to buy my high school text books but also one of my siblings college text books.
So the existence of college book renter and book rental businesses is a wonderful idea come to life. The person who first took the step into the college book rental business definitely was not a class a moron though, at the time, there was probably plenty who thought he or she was.Speaking of class a moron, I see there is a song performed by Crupp named Class A moron. I checked out the Lyrics on lyricsfreak and it looks like the person who wrote them knew at least one of the people I know. They open their mouth to speak and class a moron drivel comes flowing out, I am yet to hear the song play, but it will be worth it I'm hoping
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Aussie Real Estate apartments and Homes advice
Americans don't always know how good they actually have it when it comes to certain things like renting their place of residence. Low income apartments in the private sector is a reality, with laws, enforceable laws, that protect the tenant from unscrupulous landlords who don't do or keep up with even the basic maintenance requirements before they become emergencies. And when a really unscrupulous landlord does let things get that bad and complaints are made to the appropriate governing authority they are penalized and made to do the repairs required.
Well at least that is my understanding from various sources, not just tv and movies. Yet the situation here in Oz and many other countries is not so good. The authorities that are supposed to enforce the laws and bilaws of the residential rental private sector are toothless when it comes to pulling a landlord into line yet can and do punish if not enable ready punishment of a tenant who defaults even to the least manner. And no real low income housing outside the government supplied apartments and homes.
There is no guidelines even to stop a landlord or agent from putting a medium or high income earner in a low cost property over a low income person who can ill afford the next price bracket up. Actually to buy an apartment here can be as expensive if not more expensive than buying a house. The Australian government has introduced a scheme to try and combat the low income housing problem but for some the answer is too little too late as they cannot get the savings together to move from where they are currently renting as the rent takes too great a percentage of their low income to enable any real savings to occur outside of to cover bills.
Homes for sale under the rent to own scheme are often a reasonable option provided the seller is realistic in his pricing and payment options for the buyer.
Unlike one fellow I have been watching the ads for in our local free community paper for the past few months. First few weeks his weekly payments advertised were top of the market for the suburb he listed it as being in. Then as the weeks have gone by he has raised the weekly payment listing to that of which one would expect for a property I the nearest much more expensive suburb. This could be his trying to cover his costs for a very easy to rectify mistake he has made each week he runs his rent to own ad. He does not give any details apart from the suburb the house is in, the weekly amount, and his mobile.How can he fix this, well for starters in any paper if you look in the homes for sale section you see the details his has missed. Most rent to own homes listed in this section tell you a bit more than he has. Things like if a deposit is required, the overall price or term of payoff, the sizing of the homes as in how many bed rooms, bathrooms, fenced or not, and more often a better idea of its location. But one thing that has always fascinated me is no matter how well or badly advertised, I am yet to see a rent to own property advertised by a real estate agent as opposed to the private seller and actually be a rent to own, not a rental with option to buy at lease end.
Another thing I'd like to see is low income apartments and houses offered with moving assistance to those who need it most, that is the ones who need to move into low income housing but can't afford the move, which is easy enough to prove through government assistance and income records and expense records ie bank statements. The past rental records of the low income earner are looked into anyway so they, the real estate people, have about one quarter to one third of the picture there. An interview with the applicant or potential future occupant would be able to be used to gather the rest.
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Limitless Real Estate possibilities
Here on the Gold coast in Australia there is always seeming to be an almost limitless supply of Real Estate. Almost anywhere you turn there are always usually real estate listings, in the papers newsletters on bus stops, taxis and more. And yet strangely enough the prices keep going up, Usually the more people offering the less the price, that is the law of Supply and demand.
Take carpet cleaning for example it was in 1992 when there were 50 cleaners $25 a room, by the year 2002 there were 150 cleaners and the price dropped to $15 a room. And now with the past economic problems and growing living costs there are less individuals out there competing so the price is back up to around $30 to $40 per room.
Yet somehow that fact seems to make growth in real estate a seemingly limitless action, maybe people think if they stay renting one place longer they can avoid that growing expense more often. So those who want to buy or move into a place are on the look out for that seemingly limitless supply of real estate listings that ironically appears to exist.
I believe Trulia real estate, is much like our Australian version domain.com.au where you can find homes for sale plus heaps of other info. Trulia real estate, offers also Quoted recently sold properties, local school information and much more. Trulia is a free unbiased real estate search. This type of Internet based real estate site gives you a fairly limitless access to what is available in real estate, both to the buyer and the seller. For iPad users, Trulia real estate is neatly presented and easily workable site.
The real estate listings for American properties on Trulia real estate are easy to see with a pleasant sampling of properties, pictures and listings right there on the home page, adding appeal to the site. It's truley a pitty that Trulia real estate has not set up integration marketing with sites of like from other countries such as domain.com.au, sharing their most agreeable site setup with them, to enable people to search real estate outside the country of their residence more easily and more enjoyably.
Imagine if you are in the U.S. and you only know of Trulia real estate as a comprehensive real estate information and real estate listings site but you want to look for an investment property here in Oz, you can't use Trulia, not now at least. I know I have tried it.
I also did a search on Australian real estate and domain.com.au is the only one in the first 10 listings in google that is even as remotely user, real estate searcher friendly as the Trulia real estate site. I even checked out by searching by country other sites, none truley compare to the quality of the Trulia real estate site, though there seems an almost limitless number of real estate listing sites.
Some of them do not seem to accommodate for the fact looking for real estate listings should be as quick and easy as possible for every one, including the impaired, and on every Internet capable device without having to get plugins for things like flash, which I hear Apple is not very accepting of, and understandably so, many specially designed computers, say for the visually impaired or the illiterate, have a conniption when a site contains flash or other content as the reader program cannot read out to the impaired user the content they can't see themselves.
Heck, forget the flash content, my Android phone probably would not open some of the real estate sites simply because they have not accommodated for all internet capable mobiles. Nor can every one figure out to click the state on the map or type the state in a particular place if there is nothing guiding them to do so.
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Take carpet cleaning for example it was in 1992 when there were 50 cleaners $25 a room, by the year 2002 there were 150 cleaners and the price dropped to $15 a room. And now with the past economic problems and growing living costs there are less individuals out there competing so the price is back up to around $30 to $40 per room.
Yet somehow that fact seems to make growth in real estate a seemingly limitless action, maybe people think if they stay renting one place longer they can avoid that growing expense more often. So those who want to buy or move into a place are on the look out for that seemingly limitless supply of real estate listings that ironically appears to exist.
I believe Trulia real estate, is much like our Australian version domain.com.au where you can find homes for sale plus heaps of other info. Trulia real estate, offers also Quoted recently sold properties, local school information and much more. Trulia is a free unbiased real estate search. This type of Internet based real estate site gives you a fairly limitless access to what is available in real estate, both to the buyer and the seller. For iPad users, Trulia real estate is neatly presented and easily workable site.
The real estate listings for American properties on Trulia real estate are easy to see with a pleasant sampling of properties, pictures and listings right there on the home page, adding appeal to the site. It's truley a pitty that Trulia real estate has not set up integration marketing with sites of like from other countries such as domain.com.au, sharing their most agreeable site setup with them, to enable people to search real estate outside the country of their residence more easily and more enjoyably.
Imagine if you are in the U.S. and you only know of Trulia real estate as a comprehensive real estate information and real estate listings site but you want to look for an investment property here in Oz, you can't use Trulia, not now at least. I know I have tried it.
I also did a search on Australian real estate and domain.com.au is the only one in the first 10 listings in google that is even as remotely user, real estate searcher friendly as the Trulia real estate site. I even checked out by searching by country other sites, none truley compare to the quality of the Trulia real estate site, though there seems an almost limitless number of real estate listing sites.
Some of them do not seem to accommodate for the fact looking for real estate listings should be as quick and easy as possible for every one, including the impaired, and on every Internet capable device without having to get plugins for things like flash, which I hear Apple is not very accepting of, and understandably so, many specially designed computers, say for the visually impaired or the illiterate, have a conniption when a site contains flash or other content as the reader program cannot read out to the impaired user the content they can't see themselves.
Heck, forget the flash content, my Android phone probably would not open some of the real estate sites simply because they have not accommodated for all internet capable mobiles. Nor can every one figure out to click the state on the map or type the state in a particular place if there is nothing guiding them to do so.
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GOT Google get Googled properly got it
How do I know if I've been Googled enough?
First before I get into telling you how to tell if you've been Googled enough. This is not a plug for Google I am just sharing what I have done or used and trying to be creative. ALSO I am in no way affiliated with Google or Google Earth OK now take me to your Google I mean leader Sergey.
All hail the mighty she god Google 8)
I've been using all sorts of Google products now for what seems an eternity since 2003 or 04 I think it was when I first tried using Google YouTube and Google blogger then google zeitgeist Google earth Google translate in 2005 plus Google talk Google Alerts Google Docs Google toolbar Google news Google video Google products Google groups Google maps Google wiki Google Picasa Google trends Google code Google sketch up Google gears Google Panoramio Google Adwords Google Adsense and Google Orkut Social networking and discussion site operated by Google
AND I'm using Google mail or Gmail and Google chrome right now to see to type this post. Oh and I only just found out about or remembered about Google wave this Christmas
Do you remember all the hoo ha when Google earth maps, brought out streetview? I think I even wrote an article about it. But the people were going crackers about privacy in a public street.
What's that about 25 Google products? I lost count & gave up counting around 25.
There are only a couple of things I haven't figured out about some Google products, So you may say I'm Googled enough officially.
After doing all that it reminds me of an old nursery rhyme before I lose it and go completely Googly
Old Macdonald had a Search engine
And on that Search engine he had a Google
Here a Google
There a Google
Everywhere a Google Google
Old Macdonald had a Google
With a Google Google here
And a Google Google there
Old Macdonald had a Google
Google girl image courtesy of
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| I'd like to Google that |
All hail the mighty she god Google 8)
I've been using all sorts of Google products now for what seems an eternity since 2003 or 04 I think it was when I first tried using Google YouTube and Google blogger then google zeitgeist Google earth Google translate in 2005 plus Google talk Google Alerts Google Docs Google toolbar Google news Google video Google products Google groups Google maps Google wiki Google Picasa Google trends Google code Google sketch up Google gears Google Panoramio Google Adwords Google Adsense and Google Orkut Social networking and discussion site operated by Google
AND I'm using Google mail or Gmail and Google chrome right now to see to type this post. Oh and I only just found out about or remembered about Google wave this Christmas
Do you remember all the hoo ha when Google earth maps, brought out streetview? I think I even wrote an article about it. But the people were going crackers about privacy in a public street.
What's that about 25 Google products? I lost count & gave up counting around 25.
There are only a couple of things I haven't figured out about some Google products, So you may say I'm Googled enough officially.
After doing all that it reminds me of an old nursery rhyme before I lose it and go completely Googly
Old Macdonald had a Search engine
And on that Search engine he had a Google
Here a Google
There a Google
Everywhere a Google Google
Old Macdonald had a Google
With a Google Google here
And a Google Google there
Old Macdonald had a Google
Speaking of hearts did you see googles heart or do a barrel roll in search or the latest Let it snow or just head over to do a basic search in Chrome and get a Christmas song played by Google once you click the little boxes http://www.google.com.
I know some of these don't work because the fact Google changed after many years the I'm feeling lucky button and layout.
Some other Google tricks I found do these searches & watch what happens
search for askew
search for "google gravity"
and the same for
epic
weenie
I know some of these don't work because the fact Google changed after many years the I'm feeling lucky button and layout.
Some other Google tricks I found do these searches & watch what happens
search for askew
search for "google gravity"
and the same for
epic
weenie
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| Google Christmas |
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Anyway with all that said here is the link to get more Google products
Old Macdonald had a Google
Oops
Google girl image courtesy of
http://scm-l3.technorati.com/11/06/28/46397/google-girl.jpg?t=20110628000707
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Ugliest dog breed cutest puppies
Ugliest dog breed cutest puppies
I can't quite figure it out which of the dog breeds has the ugliest dog. This is even though I've seen quite a few ugly dogs. I used to think it was the Chihuahua but then saw some cute ones like bandit on the Dog whisperer.
The worst or ugliest dog I saw so far was on the internet. Then on the flip side you have the cute dogs to balance it all out. I think the cutest dogs are husky puppies,
These are some of our Basset puppies for sale back when we were breeding them. I find Bassets are the most unique character and loyal dog breed as a whole next would be the Neapolitan.
The other thing is that while a Basset may look small it really is just a Neapolitan of a different colour for strength and weight.
I f you love a laugh, you have to check out some funny animals pics
check out the Chihuahua with the red eyes the link is to http://www.tecacentre.net/funpics/index.html
This is a tribute to Daina our 2nd Neapolitan.
Whether it was at work, rest or play Daina was a true character. Daina always loved being the centre of attention. Though she bit me one day by accident and is now gone she lives in memories like these.
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I can't quite figure it out which of the dog breeds has the ugliest dog. This is even though I've seen quite a few ugly dogs. I used to think it was the Chihuahua but then saw some cute ones like bandit on the Dog whisperer.
The worst or ugliest dog I saw so far was on the internet. Then on the flip side you have the cute dogs to balance it all out. I think the cutest dogs are husky puppies,
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| Basset puppies for sale |
These are some of our Basset puppies for sale back when we were breeding them. I find Bassets are the most unique character and loyal dog breed as a whole next would be the Neapolitan.
The other thing is that while a Basset may look small it really is just a Neapolitan of a different colour for strength and weight.
I f you love a laugh, you have to check out some funny animals pics
check out the Chihuahua with the red eyes the link is to http://www.tecacentre.net/funpics/index.html
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| Basset hound character |
This is a tribute to Daina our 2nd Neapolitan.
Whether it was at work, rest or play Daina was a true character. Daina always loved being the centre of attention. Though she bit me one day by accident and is now gone she lives in memories like these.
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