<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:06:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Jared's Bloggerin'</title><description></description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>171</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4444442448096848846</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-23T10:46:19.952-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>social network</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>phishing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>scams</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>word processor</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>facebook</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>spam</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>security</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Stuff that sucks</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Education</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ford pinto</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>myspace</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>stealing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>fanbox</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>emails</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>SMS.ac</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>fanbox spam</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rants</category><title>MMMM SPAM!!!</title><description>&lt;div class="itemtext"&gt;      &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today I received another question from a “member” on Fanbox (which I now refer to as SPAMbox). So, I search Google for: fanbox spam. At the time of this writing, one of my blogs is #4 on the list, but what cracks me up is the obvious seeding that SPAMbox has done on the web.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For example, take the posting they’ve done on the &lt;a href="http://www.officetweaks.com/fanbox-desktop-word-processor/"&gt;Office Tweaks blog&lt;/a&gt;. There is a comment there by a guy named “&lt;a href="http://www.officetweaks.com/fanbox-desktop-word-processor/#comment-35834"&gt;TJ Brown&lt;/a&gt;” that is an obvious seed for Fanbox.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="entry"&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;I love FanBox! They have so many cool applications and features on their desktop! Their social network aspect rivals even MySpace and Facebook! I looked up the old stuff on SMS.ac, and who cares? It wasn’t even a big deal and they have since discontinued offering sms service. So stop crying and give the site a chance.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;- TJ&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="left"&gt;Give me a friggin break! Sounds like he’s trying to sell me a used &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658498_1657866,00.html"&gt;Pinto&lt;/a&gt;. Fanbox is SPAM, plain and simple. No other company out there sends me emails with “questions” from people I don’t know and “questions/invites” from people I do know. Fanbox will phish your password, SPAM your friends, and phish their passwords.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spamhuntress.com/2007/12/15/smsac-turns-into-fanbox/"&gt;Fanbox&lt;/a&gt; is a scam. Every message I receive, I mark it as SPAM and post another blog to help spread the word. Judging by the number of posts I have about Fanbox, you can see that I’ve been SPAMMED a lot lately. Keep the emails coming, I’ll keep posting.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4444442448096848846?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2008/03/mmmm-spam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-660985954214354315</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-06-07T13:22:36.305-07:00</atom:updated><title>The talKing Show Liz Lira Teaches Some Salsa</title><description>&lt;center&gt;															&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=261398&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv&amp;player_width=&amp;player_height="&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div id="blip_movie_content_261398"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowLizLiraTeachesSomeSalsa557.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_261398(); return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowLizLiraTeachesSomeSalsa557.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowLizLiraTeachesSomeSalsa557.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_261398(); return false;"&gt;Click to Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;										&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blip_description"&gt;Four time World Mayan Salsa Dance Champion &lt;a href="http://www.lizlira.com"&gt;Liz Lira&lt;/a&gt; talks about &lt;a href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancingwiththestars/index"&gt;Dancing with the Stars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.shoetechnology.com"&gt;Gravity Defyer Shoes&lt;/a&gt;, and salsa dancing. She even teaches host, Christine Eads some salsa basics. Watch as funny man &lt;a href="http://www.adamhunter.com"&gt;Adam Hunter&lt;/a&gt; tries to learn some Salsa w/o looking ridiculous. Some of the crew even join in the dancing. But the real question is whether the &lt;a href="http://thetalkingshow.com/content/view/32/33/"&gt;Orbitor Listening Device&lt;/a&gt; can hear a pin drop from the top of a seven story building.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="formats_available" style="margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Formats available&lt;/b&gt;:	&lt;a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowLizLiraTeachesSomeSalsa557.mov"&gt;Quicktime (.mov)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" class="blip_tags"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/dance"&gt;dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/salsa"&gt;salsa&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/christine"&gt;christine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/christine eads"&gt;christine eads&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/dancing"&gt;dancing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/dancing with the stars"&gt;dancing with the stars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/liz lira"&gt;liz lira&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/gravity defyer shoes"&gt;gravity defyer shoes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/salsa dancing"&gt;salsa dancing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/adam hunter"&gt;adam hunter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/comedian"&gt;comedian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/listening device"&gt;listening device&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/spy equipment"&gt;spy equipment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/mr security"&gt;mr security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-660985954214354315?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/06/talking-show-liz-lira-teaches-some.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-1910135894959956181</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-05-30T23:09:33.151-07:00</atom:updated><title>The talKing Show Mr. Security Hears a Pin Drop from a 7 Story Building</title><description>&lt;center&gt;															&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=252688&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv&amp;player_width=&amp;player_height="&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div id="blip_movie_content_252688"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowMrSecurityHearsAPinDropFromA7StoryBui282.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_252688(); return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowMrSecurityHearsAPinDropFromA7StoryBui282.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowMrSecurityHearsAPinDropFromA7StoryBui282.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_252688(); return false;"&gt;Click to Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;										&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blip_description"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where did they find Mr. Security? This guys is so top secret that when you try to check his background all you will find are questions, and a whole lot of stealthy spy equipment. The talKing Show host, &lt;a href="http://thetalkingshow.com/content/view/13/34/"&gt;Christine Eads&lt;/a&gt;, preps us for one of the best listening devices you'll ever see: The &lt;a href="http://thetalkingshow.com/content/view/32/33/"&gt;TM341 Orbitor Listening Device&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just what can you use the Orbitor Listening Device for? Mr. Security gives us some ideas while he's on remote. He'll attempt to hear a pin drop from the top of a seven story building. What would you use the Orbitor for?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="formats_available" style="margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Formats available&lt;/b&gt;:	&lt;a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowMrSecurityHearsAPinDropFromA7StoryBui282.mov"&gt;Quicktime (.mov)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" class="blip_tags"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/talkshow"&gt;talkshow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/television"&gt;television&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/christine"&gt;christine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/comedy"&gt;comedy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/orbitor"&gt;orbitor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/listening device"&gt;listening device&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/electronics"&gt;electronics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/spy"&gt;spy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/spy equipment"&gt;spy equipment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/security"&gt;security&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/background check"&gt;background check&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://blip.tv/topics/view/host"&gt;host&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-1910135894959956181?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/05/talking-show-mr-security-hears-pin-drop.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-6147079926146877879</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 06:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-05-29T23:54:37.203-07:00</atom:updated><title>Heat Fozzy</title><description>&lt;center&gt;															&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=219243&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv&amp;player_width=&amp;player_height="&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div id="blip_movie_content_219243"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Galacticast-HeatFozzy370.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_219243(); return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/Galacticast-HeatFozzy370.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Galacticast-HeatFozzy370.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_219243(); return false;"&gt;Click to Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;										&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blip_description"&gt;www.galacticast.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-6147079926146877879?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/05/heat-fozzy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-3341841750406787502</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-05-28T22:27:02.930-07:00</atom:updated><title>The talKing Show: Director Deborah Reed</title><description>&lt;center&gt;															&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=249998&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv&amp;player_width=&amp;player_height="&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div id="blip_movie_content_249998"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowDirectorDeborahReed699.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_249998(); return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowDirectorDeborahReed699.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowDirectorDeborahReed699.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_249998(); return false;"&gt;Click to Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;										&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blip_description"&gt;talKing host &lt;a href="http://thetalkingshow.com/content/blogcategory/13/26/"&gt;Christine Eads&lt;/a&gt; meets up with long time friend and now director Deborah Reed. But first, Mr. Security gives us a demonstration of the high end spy device: the &lt;a href="http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=102115599&amp;#38;c=5441&amp;#38;v=50116608&amp;#38;vendorDirect=true" target="_blank"&gt;TG286L de-FIB-ulator&lt;/a&gt;. Well, at least he tries :-P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-3341841750406787502?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/05/talking-show-director-deborah-reed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4513111082254560961</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-05-28T11:58:53.045-07:00</atom:updated><title>The talKing Show Christine Monologue with beatboxing</title><description>&lt;center&gt;															&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=249127&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv&amp;player_width=&amp;player_height="&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div id="blip_movie_content_249127"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowChristineMonologueWithBeatboxing969.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_249127(); return false;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowChristineMonologueWithBeatboxing969.mov.jpg" border="0" title="Click to Play" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jaredude-TheTalKingShowChristineMonologueWithBeatboxing969.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_249127(); return false;"&gt;Click to Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;										&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blip_description"&gt;Christine Eads is the host of a new variety television talkshow: &lt;a href="http://www.thetalkingshow.com"&gt;The talKing Show&lt;/a&gt;. In this clip, she talks with the show's DJ D.J. about &lt;a href="http://www.americanidol.com"&gt;American Idol&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season6/blake_lewis"&gt;Blake Lewis&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatboxing"&gt;beatboxing&lt;/a&gt;. She even tries out some beatboxing herself. She should stick to her day job with hosting her &lt;a href="http://www.xmradio.com"&gt;XM Radio&lt;/a&gt; show &lt;a href="http://www.broadmindedonline.com"&gt;Broadminded&lt;/a&gt; and The talKing Show. I don't think we'll be seeing her on American Idol any time soon :-P&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4513111082254560961?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/05/talking-show-christine-monologue-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-8685872877968853628</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:36:25.914-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>video</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>shocking</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>expose</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>travel</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>candyland</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>new zealand</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>candy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>youtube</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>food</category><title>Riveting Expose (Inside Candyland)</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 19, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/traveling/" title="View all posts in Traveling" rel="category tag"&gt;Traveling&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/videos/" title="View all posts in videos" rel="category tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/fun/" title="View all posts in fun" rel="category tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/blogging/" title="View all posts in blogging" rel="category tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                           &lt;p&gt;It is scandalous! A place in New Zealand where there is nothing but CANDY! Everywhere you turn. Candy to the left of me. Candy to the right of me. I got gumballs all around me &lt;img src="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /&gt; I’ll take you inside the secret world of Candyland!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QM45llmT7ms"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QM45llmT7ms" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vf5wU4lOt7o"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vf5wU4lOt7o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf5wU4lOt7o"&gt;YouTube - Inside Candyland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/candy"&gt;candy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/candyland"&gt;candyland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/new%20zealand"&gt;new zealand&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/food"&gt;food&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/fun"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/expose"&gt;expose&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/travel"&gt;travel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/video"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/youtube"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/shocking"&gt;shocking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-8685872877968853628?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/riveting-expose-inside-candyland.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4471012813527753415</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:34:02.744-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>lindy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Moorpark College</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>teachers</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Dance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>school</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Entertainment</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Education</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>youtube</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swing dance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>west coast</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>college</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Relationships</category><title>One of my Favorite Swing Dance Pieces</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Jan 15, 2007 in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/videos/" title="View all posts in videos" rel="category tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/friends/" title="View all posts in friends" rel="category tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/education/" title="View all posts in Education" rel="category tag"&gt;Education&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/dance/" title="View all posts in Dance" rel="category tag"&gt;Dance&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/swing-dance/" title="View all posts in swing dance" rel="category tag"&gt;swing dance&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/entertainment/" title="View all posts in Entertainment" rel="category tag"&gt;Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/school/" title="View all posts in School" rel="category tag"&gt;School&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/life/" title="View all posts in life" rel="category tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/art/" title="View all posts in art" rel="category tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/relationships/" title="View all posts in Relationships" rel="category tag"&gt;Relationships&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/fun/" title="View all posts in fun" rel="category tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/blogging/" title="View all posts in blogging" rel="category tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;I’m a lover of Swing Dance. My first love was Lindy, but West Coast has really stolen my heart. However, I will never forget some of the great memories I’ve had with Lindy. My first dance teacher, &lt;a href="http://denisegibson.com/" title="Denise Gibson" target="_blank"&gt;Denise Gibson&lt;/a&gt;, has gotten hip with the times. She’s posting videos of some of the dances she’s put together over the year on youtube.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;About 9 months prior to the release of &lt;a href="http://www.pinkpanther.com/" title="Pink Panther" target="_blank"&gt;The Pink Panter&lt;/a&gt; starring Steve Martin, the Moorpark College Swing Dance Club performed a routine to the Pink Panther Theme. Denise and I choreographed the piece together, and it is one of my favorite pieces I ever did with the MCSDC.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1MD1M_jXjbQ"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1MD1M_jXjbQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MD1M_jXjbQ"&gt;YouTube - Pink Panther&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/swing%20dance" rel="tag"&gt;swing dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/moorpark%20college" rel="tag"&gt;moorpark college&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/lindy" rel="tag"&gt;lindy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/west%20coast" rel="tag"&gt;west coast&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/teachers" rel="tag"&gt;teachers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" rel="tag"&gt;education&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/college" rel="tag"&gt;college&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fun" rel="tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/entertainment" rel="tag"&gt;entertainment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/school" rel="tag"&gt;school&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friends" rel="tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/relationships" rel="tag"&gt;relationships&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/videos" rel="tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/youtube" rel="tag"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dance" rel="tag"&gt;dance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4471012813527753415?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/one-of-my-favorite-swing-dance-pieces.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-7161913128798462986</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:32:09.353-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>video</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cool stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>eat</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>travel</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Weird Stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>eels</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>youtube</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>food</category><title>Feed an eel!</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 14, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/weird-stuff/" title="View all posts in Weird Stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;Weird Stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/traveling/" title="View all posts in Traveling" rel="category tag"&gt;Traveling&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/videos/" title="View all posts in videos" rel="category tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/life/" title="View all posts in life" rel="category tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/fun/" title="View all posts in fun" rel="category tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/blogging/" title="View all posts in blogging" rel="category tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;Pet the eels. Feed the eels!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dt3bWwdVnpE"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dt3bWwdVnpE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt3bWwdVnpE"&gt;YouTube - Feeding eels in New Zealand&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/eels" rel="tag"&gt;eels&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/video" rel="tag"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/youtube" rel="tag"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/travel" rel="tag"&gt;travel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fun" rel="tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/food" rel="tag"&gt;food&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/eat" rel="tag"&gt;eat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/weird%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;weird stuff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cool%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-7161913128798462986?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/feed-eel.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-7771898379478939271</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:30:05.733-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Consumer Electronics Show</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>electronics</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>spy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Gadgets</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>CES</category><title>Parabolic Listening Device for Spying</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 14, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/gadgets/" title="View all posts in Gadgets" rel="category tag"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/technology/" title="View all posts in technology" rel="category tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;I bought one of these from &lt;a href="http://www.gadgetuniverse.com/"&gt;Gagdet Universe&lt;/a&gt; last Christmas for my dad. I pointed it at my neighbor’s house, and I could hear her walking across her kitchen floor. You could easily listen in on conversations from a distance away.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wANEX3q0YTw"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wANEX3q0YTw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gadgets" rel="tag"&gt;gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/CES" rel="tag"&gt;CES&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Consumer%20Electronics%20Show" rel="tag"&gt;Consumer Electronics Show&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/electronics" rel="tag"&gt;electronics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/spy" rel="tag"&gt;spy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags end --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-7771898379478939271?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/parabolic-listening-device-for-spying.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4549516991138879355</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:28:08.579-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cool stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>technology</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>global</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>gadget</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wireless</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>phone</category><title>Answering your home phone from 80 miles away</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 4, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/gadgets/" title="View all posts in Gadgets" rel="category tag"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/technology/" title="View all posts in technology" rel="category tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;This is not just impressive because you can call someone from 128km away (79.5 miles). It’s impressive because a company in Hong Kong is going to market and sell this item to you directly. Checkout their guarantee and shipping near the bottom of the page. They are claiming to guarantee the item for 10 days from the date you receive it. The most important part is the part about the shipping. They will ship this anywhere in the world. Heed their &lt;span&gt;warning&lt;/span&gt; though. Is this thing legal in The States?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.long-range-cordless-phone.com/sn-668/base-handset.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="citation"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.long-range-cordless-phone.com/sn-668.htm"&gt;Long Range Cordless Phone - &lt;span&gt;Senao&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" rel="tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/phone" rel="tag"&gt;phone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wireless" rel="tag"&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/global" rel="tag"&gt;global&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/marketing" rel="tag"&gt;marketing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cool%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gadget" rel="tag"&gt;gadget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags end --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4549516991138879355?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/answering-your-home-phone-from-80-miles.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-6640064541309435086</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:23:52.631-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>contribution</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>partnership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Dance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>community</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>collaboration</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>software</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>dance studio</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ballroom</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>myspace</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>open source</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cool stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>college</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>technology</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Relationships</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photos</category><title>The Future of the Web</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Feb 3, 2007 in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/culture/" title="View all posts in culture" rel="category tag"&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/friends/" title="View all posts in friends" rel="category tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/thoughts/" title="View all posts in thoughts" rel="category tag"&gt;thoughts&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/videos/" title="View all posts in videos" rel="category tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/myspace/" title="View all posts in myspace" rel="category tag"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/swing-dance/" title="View all posts in swing dance" rel="category tag"&gt;swing dance&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/dance/" title="View all posts in Dance" rel="category tag"&gt;Dance&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/entertainment/" title="View all posts in Entertainment" rel="category tag"&gt;Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/work/" title="View all posts in Work" rel="category tag"&gt;Work&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/life/" title="View all posts in life" rel="category tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/blogging/" title="View all posts in blogging" rel="category tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/art/" title="View all posts in art" rel="category tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/relationships/" title="View all posts in Relationships" rel="category tag"&gt;Relationships&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/photos/" title="View all posts in photos" rel="category tag"&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/fun/" title="View all posts in fun" rel="category tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/technology/" title="View all posts in technology" rel="category tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;I love &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source"&gt;open source&lt;/a&gt;. I love the idea. I love the practice.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The concept of open source software is pretty simple. The community freely, openly develops software, each individual collaborating and contributing to others in the community. The result… It’s the future on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;My former swing dance partner (&lt;a href="http://denisegibson.com/"&gt;Denise Gibson&lt;/a&gt;) wanted to create a website for &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/swingheads"&gt;her students&lt;/a&gt;. She teach swing dance, ballroom, swing dance, and other styles of dance at local colleges and studios. She wanted to provide them with a web experience where they could bond as a community, communicate with each other, meet new people, and enjoy a multimedia arrangement of dance information.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I wasn’t sure where to start. It’s been a while since I was out of the IT game. Of course, it never &lt;span&gt;occurred&lt;/span&gt; to me to develop a website for her based on ASP.net or any &lt;span&gt;Windoze&lt;/span&gt; platform for that matter. So, I played around with the applications available through my &lt;a href="http://www.godaddy.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;godaddy&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt; hosting service.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;WOW! What a selection!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I stumbled across an application called &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joomla.org/"&gt;Joomla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Mind you, by this time, I had evaluated &lt;span&gt;Xoops&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Geeklog&lt;/span&gt;, Serendipity, and a slew of others. Something about &lt;span&gt;Joomla&lt;/span&gt; just really kept me interested. Sure, it has one ridiculous flaw in the fact that an article can only be placed into a single section+category. Hell, they should have talked to me about my infamous name/value pair class I developed back in the days of the psychic chat network. Those were the good &lt;span&gt;ol&lt;/span&gt;‘ days, but I digress.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Joomla&lt;/span&gt; is as extensible as you can get. &lt;a href="http://www.joomlapolis.com/"&gt;Build a community&lt;/a&gt;, host discussion boards, member managed blogging, &lt;a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,884/Itemid,35/"&gt;private messaging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,964/Itemid,35/"&gt;newsletters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,43/Itemid,35/"&gt;AJAX &lt;span&gt;shout boxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,414/Itemid,35/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;eCards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, contact management… The list goes on forever, &lt;span&gt;literally&lt;/span&gt;. People in the Open Source community are &lt;a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/"&gt;developing tons of projects for &lt;span&gt;Joomla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; every week.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In a matter of weeks, I developed a community website that had many of the same features as &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/jaredtracy"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt; (minus the abundance of bugs). Granted, &lt;a href="http://denisegibson.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;denisegibson&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt; does not have 11 million members, but that’s besides the point. I encourage anyone to test out Denise’s website. Even if you don’t know anything about dance, take a look and see what is possible in just a matter of days with open source software. Who knows… You might just find yourself picking up a pair of dance shoes after all! &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Folks, this is where the web is going: community building websites with multimedia entertainment, newsletters, cool features. And it’s all going to be free!!! &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://denisegibson.com/"&gt;www.denisegibson.com - &lt;span&gt;DeniseGibson&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dance" rel="tag"&gt;dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/swing%20dance" rel="tag"&gt;swing dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/college" rel="tag"&gt;college&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dance%20partner" rel="tag"&gt;dance partner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fun" rel="tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/art" rel="tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/life" rel="tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/culture" rel="tag"&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/thoughts" rel="tag"&gt;thoughts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friends" rel="tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/relationships" rel="tag"&gt;relationships&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/partnership" rel="tag"&gt;partnership&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/entertainment" rel="tag"&gt;entertainment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/work" rel="tag"&gt;work&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" rel="tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/videos" rel="tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/myspace" rel="tag"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/photos" rel="tag"&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/discussion%20boards" rel="tag"&gt;discussion boards&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a 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rel="tag"&gt;contribution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-6640064541309435086?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/future-of-web.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4699505775773078490</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:19:11.633-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>verbal</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>culture</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>constitution</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>community</category><category 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domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>team</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>writing</category><title>Email is an Ineffective Method of Communication</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Feb 2, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/culture/" title="View all posts in culture" rel="category tag"&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/quotes/" title="View all posts in quotes" rel="category tag"&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/myspace/" title="View all posts in myspace" rel="category tag"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/landmark/" title="View all posts in landmark" rel="category tag"&gt;landmark&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/team-management-leadership/" title="View all posts in Team Management &amp; Leadership" rel="category tag"&gt;Team Management &amp;amp; Leadership&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/friends/" title="View all posts in friends" rel="category tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/writing/" title="View all posts in writing" rel="category tag"&gt;writing&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/blogging/" title="View all posts in blogging" rel="category tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/life/" title="View all posts in life" rel="category tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/relationships/" title="View all posts in Relationships" rel="category tag"&gt;Relationships&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/technology/" title="View all posts in technology" rel="category tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;I love the conversations that people have about Internet communication. I’m in a team management leadership program right now. The entire program is based upon being in communication with others and creating a listening of others that empowers them. What I find interesting about the course is that participants have created a listening of Internet communication as ineffective. That is to say that in the realm of communication, most participants view communication via the web and email as ineffective. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve had a number of conversations with people in the course and other people in my life about how they relate to Internet communication. One of my favorite quotes is, “If you really want to communicate with someone, verbal communication is the best way to go”.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There are a couple of errors in this statement. First, verbal communication essentially means communication with words. Modern definitions of verbal have twisted it into meaning oral communication as opposed to written communication. However, the true meaning of verbal is “of or pertaining to words”. Nothing in the original definition implies oral vs written.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The second problem with this statement is that it implies that one must speak with another person in order to be in communication. Now, what I find interesting about this is that written communication was invented specifically to make communication available to more people.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Written word has the ability to become timeless. Written word has the ability to make us and our communication live on forever. Where would we be is &lt;span&gt;Shakespeare&lt;/span&gt; was only communicated through oral communication? Where would we be if the US Constitution was never written down but just communicated in oral conversation?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The moral of the story is that the web, being part of written communication, is a very powerful method of communication. You can gain &lt;span&gt;interest&lt;/span&gt; from people in whatever you are up to through oral or written communication. The web and community websites (more about this later) are very effective methods of communication. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/landmark" rel="tag"&gt;landmark&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/community" rel="tag"&gt;community&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/myspace" rel="tag"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/communication" rel="tag"&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/discussion" rel="tag"&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/verbal" rel="tag"&gt;verbal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/oral" rel="tag"&gt;oral&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/team" rel="tag"&gt;team&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/management" rel="tag"&gt;management&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/leadership" rel="tag"&gt;leadership&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/writing" rel="tag"&gt;writing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/books" rel="tag"&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/relationships" rel="tag"&gt;relationships&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/culture" rel="tag"&gt;culture&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friends" rel="tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/life" rel="tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/shakespeare" rel="tag"&gt;shakespeare&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/constitution" rel="tag"&gt;constitution&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/history" rel="tag"&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4699505775773078490?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/email-is-ineffective-method-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-6130173231298634586</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:16:02.692-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Gadgets</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Weird Stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cell phone</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>phone</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>products</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Stuff that sucks</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>junk</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>technology</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ridiculous</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>innovations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>lame</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rants</category><title>Retro Cell Phone or More Useless junk for your garage?</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 30, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/gadgets/" title="View all posts in Gadgets" rel="category tag"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/weird-stuff/" title="View all posts in Weird Stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;Weird Stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/stuff-that-sucks/" title="View all posts in Stuff that sucks" rel="category tag"&gt;Stuff that sucks&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/humor/" title="View all posts in humor" rel="category tag"&gt;humor&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/photos/" title="View all posts in photos" rel="category tag"&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/rants/" title="View all posts in rants" rel="category tag"&gt;rants&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/blogging/" title="View all posts in blogging" rel="category tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/technology/" title="View all posts in technology" rel="category tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;Let me start off by saying that I love gadgets. I’ve been shopping at &lt;a href="http://www.sharperimage.com/"&gt;Sharper Image&lt;/a&gt; since… Well, since before they had their stores (which I’m sure they will be shutting down a few of later this year, but I digress). I’ve long been a fan of &lt;a href="http://www.brookstone.com/"&gt;Brookstone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.hammacher.com/"&gt;Hammacher&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.gadgetuniverse.com/"&gt;Gadget Universe&lt;/a&gt;. Then there is &lt;a href="http://www.firststreetonline.com/"&gt;FirstStreet&lt;/a&gt; aka TechnoBrands.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I can’t really say that I’m a fan of FirstStreet. Most of their products are… I’ll let the picture do the talking here &lt;img src="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt=":-P" class="wp-smiley" /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.firststreetonline.com/images/products/60241_400.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="citation"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.firststreetonline.com/expanded.jsp?image=60241"&gt;Larger Image View - firstSTREETonline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cell%20phone" rel="tag"&gt;cell phone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/phone" rel="tag"&gt;phone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/ridiculous" rel="tag"&gt;ridiculous&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gadgets" rel="tag"&gt;gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/junk" rel="tag"&gt;junk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/lame" rel="tag"&gt;lame&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/rants" rel="tag"&gt;rants&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/stuff%20that%20sucks" rel="tag"&gt;stuff that sucks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/photos" rel="tag"&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/products" rel="tag"&gt;products&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/innovations" rel="tag"&gt;innovations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/weird%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;weird stuff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" rel="tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags end --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-6130173231298634586?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/retro-cell-phone-or-more-useless-junk.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-5639572469819748450</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:10:54.416-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cool stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>just for fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bathroom</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Traveling</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>technology</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>random</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>new zealand</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Weird Stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>waterless</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>urinal</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Funny</category><title>Look MA! No hands</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 26, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/videos/" title="View all posts in videos" rel="category tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/weird-stuff/" title="View all posts in Weird Stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;Weird Stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/traveling/" title="View all posts in Traveling" rel="category tag"&gt;Traveling&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/funny/" title="View all posts in Funny" rel="category tag"&gt;Funny&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/random/" title="View all posts in random" rel="category tag"&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/just-for-fun/" title="View all posts in just for fun" rel="category tag"&gt;just for fun&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/technology/" title="View all posts in technology" rel="category tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;I’ll just let the video explain itself…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5uFZVVX8D3o"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5uFZVVX8D3o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/waterless" rel="tag"&gt;waterless&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/urinal" rel="tag"&gt;urinal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/new%20zealand" rel="tag"&gt;new zealand&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/random" rel="tag"&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/just%20for%20fun" rel="tag"&gt;just for fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/traveling" rel="tag"&gt;traveling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/weird%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;weird stuff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cool%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" rel="tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/funny" rel="tag"&gt;funny&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/videos" rel="tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bathroom" rel="tag"&gt;bathroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-5639572469819748450?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/look-ma-no-hands.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-7503269867975009051</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:06:24.259-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Moorpark College</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Dance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>school</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Entertainment</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Education</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>youtube</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swing dance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>performance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>art</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>stage</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>college</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>West Coast Swing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Relationships</category><title>My First (and only) West Coast Swing Dance Choreography</title><description>&lt;p class="metadata"&gt;Originally posted Jan 26, 2007 on &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;my Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/videos/" title="View all posts in videos" rel="category tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/friends/" title="View all posts in friends" rel="category tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/education/" title="View all posts in Education" rel="category tag"&gt;Education&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/dance/" title="View all posts in Dance" rel="category tag"&gt;Dance&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/swing-dance/" title="View all posts in swing dance" rel="category tag"&gt;swing dance&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/entertainment/" title="View all posts in Entertainment" rel="category tag"&gt;Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/cool-stuff/" title="View all posts in cool stuff" rel="category tag"&gt;cool stuff&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/school/" title="View all posts in School" rel="category tag"&gt;School&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/art/" title="View all posts in art" rel="category tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/relationships/" title="View all posts in Relationships" rel="category tag"&gt;Relationships&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/fun/" title="View all posts in fun" rel="category tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/life/" title="View all posts in life" rel="category tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                         &lt;p&gt;It is Fall 2005. I’ve been teaching swing dance with &lt;a href="http://denisegibson.com/"&gt;Denise Gibson&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.moorparkcollege.edu/"&gt;Moorpark College&lt;/a&gt; for a couple of semester. We both love West Coast Swing. We’ve been taking lessons from the world famous &lt;a href="http://www.streetswing.com/"&gt;Sonny Watson&lt;/a&gt;, and we’d both love to bring it more exposure in the college community.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We start teaching beginning West Coast Swing to a beginning ballroom class. Now, for those of you who know anything about West Coast Swing, it is not as easy or simple as some of the other forms of swing. When it is done right, West Coast Swing is the coolest looking dance on the planet. Period.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;West Coast Swing, however, is not an easy dance to learn. Nor is it an easy dance to teach, let alone to beginners. Denise and I are doing our best to prepare the students at Moorpark for a 6 week master class in West Coast Swing with Sonny Watson. When Sonny arrives, the students are excited! They are doing a great job. They are struggling but making excellent progress!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Next thing you know, the six weeks are over, Sonny is finished, and the beginning dancers now have 8 weeks to prepare for the dance concert at the end of the semester! Here is the result:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9AyR_vRsiMg"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9AyR_vRsiMg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Remember! These are all beginning dancers. Some of these people have never danced a day in their life before this class. Some, this is their very first partnered dance class. For all but a handful, this is the first time they ever heard of West Coast Swing Dance. One semester! Look how clean they are. I’m so proud of how well they all did &lt;img src="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/west%20coast%20swing" rel="tag"&gt;west coast swing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/swing%20dance" rel="tag"&gt;swing dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/life" rel="tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fun" rel="tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/school" rel="tag"&gt;school&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Moorpark%20College" rel="tag"&gt;Moorpark College&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friends" rel="tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/art" rel="tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" rel="tag"&gt;education&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/relationships" rel="tag"&gt;relationships&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/videos" rel="tag"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/youtube" rel="tag"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dance" rel="tag"&gt;dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/college" rel="tag"&gt;college&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/stage" rel="tag"&gt;stage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/performance" rel="tag"&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/entertainment" rel="tag"&gt;entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags end --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-7503269867975009051?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-first-and-only-west-coast-swing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-2479935930106834965</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:04:06.535-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>video</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>lol</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wheel</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>random</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>hamster</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>humor</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>youtube</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Funny</category><title>Hamster Pedometer</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;LOL&lt;/span&gt; &lt;img src="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /&gt; This is just about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen plenty of hamster do the crazy wheel thing. In fact, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to get spun around like that. I’m pretty sure I’d have fun, so I’d venture to guess that they are having fun too!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This video is great. I love how the one hamster tries to get in on the action and gets thrown from the wheel. Then I lose track of which is which. Is the original hamster the one that gets to go for a ride or the other one?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Check these guys out&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXRH50fvHWA"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YXRH50fvHWA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXRH50fvHWA&amp;eurl="&gt;YouTube - My hamster in his high speed wheel ! It can not slow down !&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/hamster" rel="tag"&gt;hamster&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/youtube" rel="tag"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/video" rel="tag"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wheel" rel="tag"&gt;wheel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/funny" rel="tag"&gt;funny&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/random" rel="tag"&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/humor" rel="tag"&gt;humor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/lol" rel="tag"&gt;lol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags end --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-2479935930106834965?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/hamster-pedometer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4218036314311520105</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T11:02:27.163-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nemo</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>restaurant</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>chinese</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>fish</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>coworkers</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>friends</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>youtube</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>food</category><title>Finding Nemo</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure why I felt the need to film Nemo at the Chinese restaurant the other day. We went there for a coworker’s birthday. Enjoy…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; display: block;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MBa59TRN52g"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MBa59TRN52g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/youtube" rel="tag"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/life" rel="tag"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/friends" rel="tag"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/coworkers" rel="tag"&gt;coworkers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/food" rel="tag"&gt;food&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/restaurant" rel="tag"&gt;restaurant&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/chinese" rel="tag"&gt;chinese&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fish" rel="tag"&gt;fish&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/nemo" rel="tag"&gt;nemo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4218036314311520105?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/finding-nemo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-588212445755740606</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T10:56:23.821-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>neighbors</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>telescope</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>zoom</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>peeping tom</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>humor</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Gadgets</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Weird Stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cell phone</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wtf</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Funny</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>random</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>technology</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photos</category><title>Products from the Peeping Tom Convention</title><description>&lt;a href="http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/jareddtracy/?action=view&amp;current=remoteImage-2.jpg" title="remoteImage-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/jareddtracy/th_remoteImage-2.jpg" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Originally posted on my &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com"&gt;Wordpress blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The folks at the annual Peeping Tom Convention in Las Vegas have announced the most extraordinary innovation in cell phone technology since the &lt;span&gt;iPhone&lt;/span&gt;. The first ever Peeping Tom Cell Camera Telescope Adapter! Peeping just got a whole lot safer AND easier. Peep from the convenience of your own home. &lt;p&gt;No longer do you need to crawl around in the neighbor’s plant box to get a sneak preview of her goodies. Simply attach this device to your cell phone’s camera and view those hi-res 1.3 &lt;span&gt;megapixel&lt;/span&gt; images from the comfort of your computer desktop. Of course, if your friends are peeping Toms like you, you can easily forward the images via pix messages to their cell phone in just seconds.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="remoteImage-3.jpg" href="http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/jareddtracy/?action=view&amp;amp;current=remoteImage-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/jareddtracy/th_remoteImage-3.jpg" align="left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Folks, I don’t know where people come up with these ideas, but someone does come up with them. Where do you find a product like this? I don’t know. Try a &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cell+phone+camera+telescope&amp;start=0&amp;amp;start=0"&gt;Google Search&lt;/a&gt;. One of the product managers was asking whether I thought this would be a good item for one of the various print and online marketing channels we run. The image of the white truck is an actual picture I took with the device attached to my phone. I must admit that it took me about 10 minutes to align the telescope to my camera’s lens because I have a Pocket PC instead of the 1998 &lt;span&gt;Nokia&lt;/span&gt; cell phone the attachment device was designed for.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In case you don’t have your regular digital camera with you, be sure to capture the 1.3 &lt;span&gt;megapixel&lt;/span&gt; moment with the Peeping Tom Cell Camera Telescope. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: right;"&gt;technorati tags:&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/telescope" rel="tag"&gt;telescope&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cell%20phone" rel="tag"&gt;cell phone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fun" rel="tag"&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/zoom" rel="tag"&gt;zoom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/random" rel="tag"&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/humor" rel="tag"&gt;humor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wtf" rel="tag"&gt;wtf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/funny" rel="tag"&gt;funny&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/peeping%20tom" rel="tag"&gt;peeping tom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gadgets" rel="tag"&gt;gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/weird%20stuff" rel="tag"&gt;weird stuff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/photos" rel="tag"&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" rel="tag"&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/neighbors" rel="tag"&gt;neighbors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-588212445755740606?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/products-from-peeping-tom-convention.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-1740261103658244637</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-13T10:51:18.036-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>allergies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>maid</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>dirt</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>dogs</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>marriage</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>house</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wedding</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>roomba</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>floors</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cleaning</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vacuum</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>love</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>girlfriend</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>garage</category><title>The Wedding is OFF!!!</title><description>&lt;div class="itemtext"&gt;      &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p class="post"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgetpanel.com/2007/03/05/the-wedding-is-off/" title="Gadget Panel"&gt;Original post on the Gadget Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="storycontent"&gt;We were planning to get married this summer! She was the best thing to ever happen to me. She never complained about anything. She always made sure my floors were spotless. She never missed a spot. And if it was a really bad spot, she’d spend extra time to ensure that every bit of dirt was picked up.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, you can imagine my disappointment when I come home and she’s passed out in the middle of my kitchen floor. I was a little worried at first. What happened? Did she just not make it back in time to feed herself? Was it too cold in the house? I mean, I’ve been turning off the heater when I leave, but I didn’t think it gets that cold in Southern California. No! It’s much worse than all of that. And I’ve come to know that I can’t fix her on my own.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://gadgetpanel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/roomba_main.jpg" alt="iRobot Roomba" align="left" /&gt;My Roomba vacuum stopped working the other day. Now, this might not seem like too big of a deal to most people, but it is a HUGE deal for me. My Roomba did a great job at keeping the floors clean, yet now my Roomba is sitting in my garage. Why? Isn’t a Roomba expensive? Yes!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Where the heck do you get a Roomba serviced? You have to send it back to iRobot, the manufacturer. It’s not like I can just take it to the vacuum guy and have him fix it. I’m past the warranty period. So, essentially, I have a very expensive (yet cool looking) ex-girlfriend sitting in my garage. Maybe I should send &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/800-flowerscom-continued/"&gt;the flowers that 800flowers.com owes me&lt;/a&gt; to her to help her get better &lt;img src="http://gadgetpanel.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt="-P" class="wp-smiley" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This really is a big deal for me. See, I have two dogs, so keeping my floors free from hair is a major concern. Most of my house is either hardwood or tile, so a vacuum like the Roomba is PERFECT for my house. It is just unfortunate that the service needs to be done through the iRobot factory. If I had a Hoover, I’d just take it to Sears or the vacuum guy. Of course, if I just had a Hoover, I would also have to do all the vacuuming myself. Which is what is going to happen. God help my house guests who have dog allergies! I’ll post more about this as it unfolds &lt;img src="http://gadgetpanel.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt="-)" class="wp-smiley" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="feedback"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technorati: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gadgets" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for Gadgets"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/convenience" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for convenience"&gt;convenience&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/irobot" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for irobot"&gt;irobot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/roomba" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for roomba"&gt;roomba&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/iRobot+Roomba+Discovery+Vacuuming+Robot" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for iRobot Roomba Discovery Vacuuming Robot"&gt;iRobot Roomba Discovery Vacuuming Robot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/4210" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for 4210"&gt;4210&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/vacuum" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for vacuum"&gt;vacuum&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cleaning" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for cleaning"&gt;cleaning&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/girlfriend" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for girlfriend"&gt;girlfriend&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wedding" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for wedding"&gt;wedding&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dogs" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for dogs"&gt;dogs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/marriage" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for marriage"&gt;marriage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/garage" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for garage"&gt;garage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/gadget" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for gadget"&gt;gadget&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/floors" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for floors"&gt;floors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dirt" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for dirt"&gt;dirt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/maid" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for maid"&gt;maid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/love" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for love"&gt;love&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/house" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for house"&gt;house&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/allergies" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for allergies"&gt;allergies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/hoover" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for hoover"&gt;hoover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/sears" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for sears"&gt;sears&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/service" rel="tag" title="Technorati tag page for service"&gt;service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-1740261103658244637?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/04/wedding-is-off.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-7718343110709801919</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-25T18:34:35.114-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Copywriting</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>advertising</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Email</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>writing</category><title>Most Important Copywriting Tip!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/most-important-copywriting-tip/"&gt;Original Post on Jared's Bloggin'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Buying and selling real estate depends on three things:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Writing&lt;/span&gt; copy also depends on three things:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benefits&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benefits&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benefits&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p&gt;What’s a benefit? I’ll tell you what a benefit is not. If it has anything to do with the product, it is NOT a benefit. WHAT? &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here is where it gets really tricky. When I say ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE PRODUCT, I mean ANYTHING. Keep reading, you’ll be able to sell better than ever by the end of this article. For example: Let’s say you are writing about a ladder. Here are examples of what you could say about the ladder:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ladder extends to 12 feet, making clearing the rain &lt;span&gt;gutters&lt;/span&gt; easier than ever &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clearing your rain &lt;span&gt;gutters&lt;/span&gt; will be so much easier than ever with this new ladder &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Every time my wife would ask me to change a &lt;span&gt;light bulb&lt;/span&gt; or clean the &lt;span&gt;gutters&lt;/span&gt;, I would always make some excuse not to because it is such a chore. Until I got this ladder&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p&gt;Each of the above make it clear that your life will be easier than before because of the ladder. At first glance, these might even seem like you are talking about a benefit. After all, isn’t having an easier life a benefit we are &lt;strong&gt;all &lt;/strong&gt;after?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ll go back to my definition of what a benefit is &lt;strong&gt;*not*&lt;/strong&gt;: If it has anything to do with the product, it is NOT a benefit. All of the above examples have something to do with the product. So, how can you write about the benefits of the product without writing about the product itself?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Going back to the ladder example:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Become a virtual Superman!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can be the star of your own do-it-yourself television show&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be the neighborhood handyman you’ve always wanted to be&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sound like &lt;span&gt;tall tales&lt;/span&gt;? Well, you aren’t selling someone a 12′ ladder. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of choices of 12′ ladders. You are selling him the excitement, the thrill of becoming a virtual Superman who can save cats stuck in a tree. You are selling him on being the guy that everyone goes to in order to find out how to clear rain gutters. You are selling him on being such a great handyman around the house that his wife is going to brag (NOT nag) about him to all the neighbors.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE: I want to clarify that I am not saying to NEVER write anything about the product. You MUST write about product features. However, features are what people look for AFTER they are sold on the item, not before.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;After you’ve hooked him with the virtual Superman line, you can give him all the features of the item. Now, when you describe the features of the product, it should be &lt;span&gt;in line&lt;/span&gt; with the virtual Superman theme.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For example &lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leap into action when your cat is stuck in a tree with a sturdy 12′ reach&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;instead of…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can help save your cat when she gets stuck in a tree. The extra 12′ reach you will have with this ladder will turn into a virtual Superman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Even though the second example utilizes the virtual Superman idea, it doesn’t hold true to the idea of Superman. Remember, superman is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. He’s faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. When you tie your copy to that powerful of an image, you need to make sure that the rest of your copy is not a bunch of &lt;span&gt;Kryptonite&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE: In this example, I used a male subject. Same thing applies to women. Obviously, becoming a virtual Superman might not appeal to a woman, but becoming a virtual Oprah or having a virtual Superman husband might.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, let’s hope this helps the guy I’m coaching on writing copy for his email marketing campaigns &lt;img src="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-7718343110709801919?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/02/most-important-copywriting-tip.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-7084264813137417700</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-25T18:29:12.292-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>transformers</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>movies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>hasbro</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bumblebee</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>optimus prime</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>decepticons</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>autobots</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>previews</category><title>The ultimate Gadget: Autobots</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/" mce_href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/bumblebee_robot_close.jpg" alt="Transformers - Bumblebee" mce_src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/bumblebee_robot_close.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="292" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I was browsing the &lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com"&gt;Autoblog &lt;/a&gt;and suddenly!!!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/13/transformers-update-hasbro-gives-best-looks-yet-at-optimus-prim/" mce_href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/13/transformers-update-hasbro-gives-best-looks-yet-at-optimus-prim/"&gt;Transformers Update: Hasbro gives best looks yet at Optimus Prime and Bumblebee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bumblebee looks pretty cool, eh? Although, I’m not sure if I agree with him no longer being a Volkswagen Beetle. That was part of the charm of Bumblebee. He was this dinky little VW beetle. Oh well, he still looks pretty cool, if you ask me, since he's a Camaro now (my first car).&lt;br /&gt;Now, checkout the new Optimus!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/158706/" mce_href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/158706/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/transformerstoys_hi_02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Transformers -  Optimus Prime" mce_src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/transformerstoys_hi_02_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/158705/" mce_href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/158705/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/transformerstoys_hi_01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Transformers -  Optimus Prime" mce_src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/transformerstoys_hi_01_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/158707/" mce_href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/transformers-optimus-prime-and-bumblebee-by-hasbro/158707/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/transformerstoys_hi_03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Transformers -  Optimus Prime" mce_src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/transformerstoys_hi_03_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Let’s see how things turn out in the movie! From what I've seen in &lt;a href="http://www.transformersmovie.com/main.html" target="_blank" title="Transformers the Movie" mce_href="http://www.transformersmovie.com/main.html"&gt;the previews&lt;/a&gt;, the Autobots look really cool but the Decepticons don't look much like the classic 80s cartoon. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-7084264813137417700?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/02/ultimate-gadget-autobots.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4570119807068728799</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-25T17:41:11.593-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>soft drink</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>movies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>humor</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>life</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Work</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>meetings</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>balls</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>energy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Entertainment</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Funny</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cool stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>production</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Business</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>product</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>drink</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>product placement</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bawls</category><title>Get Some Bawls</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://bawls.com/guarana.jpg" align="left" height="500" width="175" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/get-some-bawls/"&gt;Original post on my Wordpress Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I visited a company today that does product placement in television, radio, and movies. It was great. I showed them a bunch of products, and they were excited about them. One of the people from an upcoming film came by their office looking for more new product placements.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Before this &lt;span&gt;happened&lt;/span&gt; though, I was sitting in the office and they asked me if I wanted something to drink. I told them that water would be fine. Then they asked me, “Would you like some balls?”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“That’s rather forward,” I thought to myself. I just had to clarify, “Did you say balls?”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“Yes. Do you like energy drinks?”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“Well, kinda. Wait, you &lt;span&gt;realize&lt;/span&gt; that you said balls, right?” I just had to be extra certain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“Alexis will bring you some balls.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, I waited for about 20 seconds while Alexis went and got my balls. She comes walking back into the office with my balls in her hand. Oh, wait! Bawls. As in the energy drink.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I start drinking my Bawls. It tastes great! I was expecting that nasty Red Bull taste. You know, that cough syrup taste that we’ve all come to know and dread? Here I am a few hours later… I’m still buzzing on this thing. Can you call this a gadget? Not really, but Bawls is an extremely tasty energy drink that gives you a kick… Well, not in the balls.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bawls.com/"&gt;BAWLS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4570119807068728799?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/02/get-some-bawls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-4288016067184203856</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-25T17:38:28.857-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>humor</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pictures</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Work</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>comfort</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Funny</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>goofy</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>lol</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>back</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>just for fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>lumbar</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>chair</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Office</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>spine</category><title>That’s some wicked lumbar support!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Someone from work put a Coreflx on their chair! That’s some wicked lumbar support!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/jareddtracy/remoteImage-4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- technorati tags begin --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-4288016067184203856?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/02/thats-some-wicked-lumbar-support.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907063.post-6948411322838852026</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-25T17:29:55.685-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>windoze</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>laptop</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>technology</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>network</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>XP</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>software</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>internet</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>windows</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>operating system</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Stuff that sucks</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>microsoft</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>rants</category><title>More windDOZE Follies</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Apparently, the last &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows"&gt;Windoze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; update has a time bomb in it. After a certain period of time, certain features no longer continue to function. The most noticeable is gaining a network connection after my laptop has been on hibernate. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a huge Microsoft fan (&lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/windows-is-a-piece-of-work/"&gt;Windows is a Piece of Work&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/cursed-windoze/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Cursed &lt;span&gt;Windoze&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2006/11/18/a-depressing-day-in-blogging/" rel="bookmark"&gt;A Depressing Day in &lt;span&gt;Blogging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2006/11/19/ive-sold-my-soul-to-the-devil/" rel="bookmark"&gt;I’&lt;span&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; sold my soul to the devil&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/windows-mobile-or-pc-therapy/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Windows Mobile or PC Therapy?&lt;/a&gt;). The only real benefit to Microsoft products is that it gives me something blog about &lt;img src="http://jaredude.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" class="wp-smiley" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It used to be that I could just &lt;span&gt;hibernate&lt;/span&gt; my laptop by closing the lid, come back later, open the laptop, and it would connect right to my &lt;span&gt;wireless&lt;/span&gt; (or wired) network automatically. This was a useful feature of &lt;span&gt;Windoze&lt;/span&gt;, you know… working! Well, the latest updates have apparently give me some new features &lt;span&gt;such&lt;/span&gt; are not connecting to ANY network after hibernate, not being able to shutdown, and even slower performance for all &lt;span&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt; related &lt;span&gt;apps&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I suppose that I could spend time on the phone with MS support to figure out what’s going on. Or I could spend hours searching for solutions on the KB… Wait!!! Another update! &lt;span&gt;Mayhaps&lt;/span&gt; that will fix the problem!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36907063-6948411322838852026?l=jaredude.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://jaredude.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-winddoze-follies.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jaredude)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>