I was out for a semi-regular walk today. On my way back, I saw a boy 12 maybe 13 washing the car and doing a good job. I said “hi” and “Wow, just like the commercial. You take good care of that car because it may be yours one day”.
He smiled back and said a slow “yeah”, like he had already though of that.
Smart Kid!
Some photos from my wanderings
This is a good tool for Firefox see what any Google search results look like in outer countries, cities and zip codes.
The local search part is very exciting.
This is pretty cool stuff. You can now encrypt your Android phone calls and text messages to prevent any kind of wiretapping.
Sunday I visited Brenckles mostly just to look at the flowers.
I did pick up a couple types of mint (chocolate and pineapple) and a scented geranium strawberry.
Thought you might enjoy the pictures
I read today on Mashable that Wendy’s is going to try some social media promotions for it’s Frosty product. I think that this is a really good idea and even if it doesn’t work as well as they hope it should give them a valuable road map for future promotions.
I’ve always believed that the best of these kind of things are not intentionally produced, but that doesn’t mean they don’t work at all. If Wendy’s will let this one go where it’s fans want to take it they may find out this kind of promotion can really help them.
Update 5-27 Wendy’s found me and Is following me on Twitter pretty good start.
Eyeflow pointed me to this post by toprankblog.com
It’s great advice for promoting your website. I’m recommending that everyone read it.
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)
Back in September I wrote about using the Internet to watch TV and cut cable.
Since then I bought a 25′ hdmi cable for $12.00 on Ebay.
It goes from my computer to my TV and works really well.
I can now watch anything on my TV, much of it in HD.
It works so well that I am thinking of buying a dedicated machine for just TV.
All it would take would be a refurbished netbook and remote.
It would also be a DVR and if I got a laptop instead of a netbook it could be a DVD/Blueray player/recorder as well.
It looks like there may be some very significant problems with GoDaddy website hosting. If you are using them you may want to read this.
The more I read and hear about open source the more great uses I discover. My wife and I are heavy users of the medical system and I have often wondered, while looking at my bills, how to not only lower costs, but improve service.
I saw an article on Techdirt a while back that talked about how researchers in India had come up with some great discoveries from mapping the TB gene and are now are not only refusing to patent them, but allowing their work to be used and shared for free.
I believe that copyright and IP have gotten completely out of control in this country (and others) and have come to believe that the way to control medical costs it to open research to all and to require those that use this information in their work to allow free access to that as well. Much like the GPL.
There are those who say that without these artificial protections there would be no innovation in the medical (or any other) industry. I believe that is simply not true. Opening up medical research to all would eliminate a huge amount of duplication and allow others to easily concentrate on improving existing innovations instead of reinventing the wheel over and over. There would still be plenty of money to go around, it would just not be concentrated in the hands of a few huge companies.
Much has been said about health care reform lately, but I really don’t expect the government to help with this idea without a huge amount of public pressure. They are far too indebted to the big pharmaceutical companies who will fight tooth and nail to stop an idea like this. These big companies are making much too much by hoarding their ideas and stopping anyone else from even thinking about using them. It’s creating a poor system that’s fast becoming unaffordable for everyone.
These things usually start small, like Linux and grow slowly at first, but then the really good ideas become unstoppable. The Indian research is the first that I’ve heard of this, but lets hope it not the last and is an idea who’s time has come.
It’s been a lovely spring here in Pittsburgh.
Here are some pics from my semi-regular walks in Highland Park. It’s been a bumper year for flowers so far this year (poison ivy, too)
