Here is a PIC of Wes and his friends (Corey and Austin) on the Ocoee River this past weekend. Corey is on the front. He looks like he is riding a bull. Austin is the last blue helmet with his oar in the air.
USER BEWARE!
Look folks, enjoy Facebook. Just don’t trust it, or any other social media, with your confidential information. If you want your FB information to not go public then the ONLY option is for you to not use them at all. Please do not be credulous and believe that placing your confidential information is going to be safe. FB was started by a bunch of college kids who promised your privacy is important to them. Then break that trust by allowing the latest torrent of leaks known to social networking. You must have known this could happen when a few hundred million is dangled in front of them! They’ll sell you out.
I agree with J. Brad Hicks when he wrote, “I’ve known that Facebook is the high-crime neighborhood of the Internet. I handle myself there the way I handle myself in any high-crime neighborhood: politely, but circumspectly.”
Here is a very good interview with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner.
Most of you have probably never heard the name Valentino Balboni. Valentino Balboni is the former chief test driver of Lamborghini. He retired in 2009 due to Italian government work regulations, after having served the company for 40 years. He started working for Lamborghini on April 21, 1968 at the age of 19 as a mechanic apprentice in the company. Eventually he was personally asked by the founder of the company, Ferruccio Lamborghini, to test-drive the newly built cars. Together with Bob Wallace, they became the test-driving team of Lamborghini. Valentino Balboni has reportedly driven about 80% of all Lamborghinis ever built; among the marque aficionados, Balboni has risen to cult status.
In 2008 Balboni was still active for the company as the chief test-driver and ambassador: he often appeared at different Lamborghini-related events, like the unveiling of new models. In July 2009 Lamborghini announced a special edition run of 250 Gallardo LP550-2 “Valentino Balboni edition” supercars; the company stated that the new car was to be rear-wheel driven in accordance with Balboni’s preference for the thrill of cornering a rear-wheel driven vehicle. Balboni, even though officially retired as chief test driver, has signed a two year contract with Lamborghini as a consultant through 2010 that can be renewed multiple times, and probably will.
Very interesting article on CNN.com this morning. I was there and remember the first website. Surfed to it via dial-up thought AOL was the neatest thing. Anyone else remember the banner links on AOLs main page that took you to all sort of things? I do. I remember being awe struck.
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FROM CNN.com - POSTED: By Ed Payne, CNN March 15, 2010 7:09 a.m. EDT Dot-com marks 25th anniversary (CNN) -- These days, when everyone seems to have a Facebook friend, is LinkedIn or can Google themselves, it's hard to remember the old days, before the dot-com revolution. It was 25 years ago -- March 15, 1985 -- that the first dot-com domain name -- Symbolics.com -- appeared on the Internet, ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web. Having a domain name made it simpler for the average person to access a Web site. Instead of having to remember a long series of numbers and dots, you could type in ATT.com, IBM.com or CNN.com. Development was slow, at first. It took more than two years for the first 100 sites to go online and by 1995, the number had grown to 18,000. But from those humble beginnings the Internet has grown to more than 80 million dot-com domain names, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Crunching the numbers, 99.9 percent of all Internet growth has occurred over the past 15 years. "The global diffusion of the commercial Internet has occurred with astounding speed," says the ITIF report "The Internet Economy 25 Years After .Com." "Every country on Earth, developed and developing alike, has adopted the Internet." The impact on the U.S. economy of the Internet sector is estimated at $300 billion or about 2 percent of the total, according to a report issued by Hamilton Consultants and the Harvard Business school last year. The expansion of the Internet hasn't been without its growing pains. The dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, taking billions of investor dollars with it, and fraud has been growing, tripling over the past five years, according to Internet Crime Complaint Center. In 2005, losses attributable to Internet fraud were estimated at $183 million based on more than 230,000 complaints. By 2009, the number was nearly $560 million on 337,000 complaints. "The figures contained in this report indicate that criminals are continuing to take full advantage of the anonymity afforded them by the Internet," said Donald Brackman of the National White Collar Crime Center. "They are also developing increasingly sophisticated means of defrauding unsuspecting consumers. Internet crime is evolving in ways we couldn't have imagined just five years ago." The scams range from the ubiquitous e-mail scheme where someone needs help getting money out of countries such as Nigeria to nondelivery of online purchases. But despite the downside, the ITIF sees a bright future for the Web. Not only for conducting business, but for the sharing of information, provided online security is maintained and the Internet is expanded throughout the globe. "So to the commercial Internet, congratulations on hitting your 25th birthday; you're just starting to enter the prime of your working years," the ITIF said. |
I love this one of outtakes.
Now believe it or not I am not the most perfect Husband in this world! I know it is hard to believe but I’m big enough to admit it. (Literally!) Yet still in this world there is a woman that has been with me through all the triumphs, tragedies and mistakes over the past 22 years. She has loved me sometimes more than I’ve loved myself. A few things I’ve learned that helps me keep it together is to understand the basics and trust in God that he will take care of us.
1. Marriage Takes Teamwork.
If you could imagine, the person you married as a gift from God, then the things you do would begin to work towards building up the gift you have been blessed with, instead of doing things that would tear down your relationship.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Genesis 2:22-24
2. Marriage Takes Commitment
When you stood at the altar, making promises and stating your vows to the person you love, that was the starting point for your commitment to stay married for life! How well you keep those promises and vows shows your level of commitment to the marriage. Commitment is not difficult to achieve when you make marriage an important aspect of your life.
God’s intention for marriage is a commitment for life. At the beginning of the world God created the union of marriage between a man and a woman to be permanent until death. Treat your gift with the commitment it deserves.
3. Marriage Takes Respect
Respect is submission, humility and appreciation all rolled into one. The flawed view of the world is that these things should be earned. Building up points in your marriage simply to be treated with respect is wrong. This is what conditional love is all about. God’s design for marriage is based upon unconditional love for each other. Submission is voluntarily cooperating with your spouse out of love and respect for them.
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10
It seems someone has nominated me for this years Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon Executive Lock-Up taking place Wednesday September 30th.
I’m proud to tell you that I’m being locked up…that’s right, I’m going behind bars to help Jerry’s Kids© and MDA. To be released on good behavior I have to raise bail and I need your help!
All you have to do is click below to make a secure, online donation before 09/30/09. Your donation will help families living in our community and help guarantee me an early release.
I’m counting on you, click below to donate.
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I have heard medical terms/words that my parents and grandparents would use when I was a child and I didn’t know what they meant or could offer sympathy or appreciation. As an adult I hear these terms and while understanding them you never really appreciate the agony/pain they cause until it happens to you. I’ve heard the term Diverticulitis before but never really understood what it was.
Yesterday I heard the term Diverticulosis from my doctor. I went in with a pain in my lower left side after suffering with it a day. I was prescribed anti-biotics and told it should clear up. While talking to the doctor, who by the way was not my regular doctor, she wanted to get to know more about me. In our talk we discussed my eating habits, excercise regimen (yeah right), etc. She asked me if anyone in my family had ever had Diverticulitis. I honestly could not remember but the more she spoke on the subject more details came to mind.
I remember my grandmother talking about suffering with it at times. My grandmother would tell all about it and what foods would cause it to “flare-up” as she called it. Cipro is an anti-biotic she took and also one that the doctor prescribed for me. I’ve taken my second dose to date and I feel like an old man.
It’s painful to take full breathes and to cough or laugh. I usually sit at my desk sitting up straight or leaned forward but this issue is causing me to lay back which I hate. It makes you look like your not working and just goofing off.
It seems I’m just going to have to break-down and change my diet. I’m not so old I can’t excercise or change. Reference post about “Who Moved My Cheese?” Change will occur and if you don’t change with it you will wither and die!
