11.30.2006

Thought of the Day

This is a fwd I received awhile back that I really enjoyed:

"Thought for the Day:
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!

God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow,
sun without rain,

but He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears,
and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."

11.29.2006

How To Save Flash Videos From YouTube

Okay so I thought I re-posted this article awhile back but when I looked through the blog archives I couldn't find it... so I'm posting it now.

The easiest way to save videos out of YouTube is by using the site KeepVid. It allows you to just plunk in the URL of of the video you are trying to acquire and then save it as a .flv file. You will need a .flv player to play it though:
KeepVid
http://keepvid.com/

FLV Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The article:
"Every video posted in YouTube has its own video identification code.

The eleven digits of both upper and lower cased alpha-numeric video identification code is used to watch videos via YouTube’s website or embed them into other websites.

To download the videos via KeepVid or similar sites, the eleven digit video identification code is still useful, but in case of KeepVid crashes, user has to “kick it old school style” by reading YouTube video’s page source.

Using the F-16 Crash video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=b4Knsa7kBPE) as an example, here is how to save videos from YouTube “old school style”.

In Firefox browser, open “View Page Source” and do a text search for

player2.swf?video_id=

For this example video, its public video identification code is b4Knsa7kBPE, but the internal prolonged video identification code is

b4Knsa7kBPE&l=48&t=OEgsToPDskI3D6CVWsTxEa4Bzc
THKXc7&s=E04B5F8107785BA4:8A51374783A7BCE6

Keep in mind that the code between “&t=” and “&s=” may be session-sensitive and changed every time the video is accessed.

To save the video, the URL path format is

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?
video_id=prolonged_video_identification_code

By paste the above URL into browser would not download the video. The best way is to paste it into an email and send it to oneself.

The default file extension assigned by email clients (Gmail, Thunderbird, Outlook) when saving the video is html (hypertext markup language), change it to flv (flash video).

Media players like VLC can play flv files stand alone. To convert flv video to other formats like Audio Video Interlaced (.avi), Quicktime (.mov) or Windows Media (.wmv), use CinemaForge.

Update1: Keepvid.com can direct download videos from Google Video, YouTube, IFilm, Putfile and various other sites.

Update2: How to save videos from Comedy Central's website.

Update3: April 30, 2006 - Javi Moya has created an extension called VideoDownloader 1.0 for Firefox which would download embedded videos and media files directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, and other 60+ video sites. (more)"
http://www.tian.cc/2005/11/how-to-save-flash-videos-from-youtube.html

11.28.2006

Quotes of the Day

"True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be and will not be." - Annon

"Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank." - Annon

"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have." - Annon

11.27.2006

Furball

Furball is my cat who lives in Ontario with my parents, I got him for my 10th birthday.

He died today of cancer. :(

It's for the better though, he wasn't himself for awhile now, the cancer really took it's toll on him.

He was fourteen, he had grey fur and was very masculine, if he were a person I think he would have been a football player, he had broad shoulders and didn't like to be cuddled but loved being petted as long as it was on his terms, which usually meant he would wind in and out of your legs while you were sitting so you had to bend over to keep up and pet him, he didn't usually like being picked up. He was a little bit crazy and was known on occasion to run in circles or crash into walls or chase imaginary "bugs" for no apparent reason.

He had a small, light circle of black around his tail (which is why I named him Furball after the Tiny Toons characters with a band-aid 'round it's tail.) He was in a car accident one summer when I was at camp and he had to have his one eye removed and it was sewn up, because of this a few of my friends referred to him as "Pirate Cat". We called him Furs or Fursies. When I first got him mum thought I should have named him Starpie to go with Mooncake (our other cat).

<3 <3 I'll miss you Furs <3 <3


I don't think I ever mentioned my other cat, Mooncake, so I will do so now. Mooncake passed away two winters ago, around this time actually. I had her since I was five or six so she was about seventeen when she died. She was a fat cat! Weighed in at 22lbs at one point.

Her fur was black & white, the back and tail were black and her tummy and half her face were white. She was very prone to purring and loved to have her tummy and under her chin or just behind her ears scratched.

If she were a person she would have been the queen. She was very prim and proper and had to have things just so, she liked being cuddled and was a real lap cat.

She basically died of old age, she lost a lot of weight and was kind of in and out of it for a few months before her passing.

We called her Moonytunes & Moons. I named her after a dessert I saw on a television show for children that taught about other cultures I had seen when I was about four.

<3<3 I miss Mooncake too! <3 <3

Cyber Monday

Urban Word of the Day:

November 27, 2006: cyber monday

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cyber+monday&defid=1530539Cyber

Monday is the Monday after [Black Friday], when online retailers will belooking for their biggest sales from those who checked out products over thethanksgiving weekend, and will now be ordering them Monday at work.

Forget those long black Friday lines, I'm going to order on Cyber Monday!


I suppose us Canadians with credit cards could potentially partake of Cyber Monday


"The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, "Cyber Monday" symbolizes a busy day for online retailers, and one in which online stores offer low prices and promotions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday

Song of the Week

"If I had a Million Dollars" - Barenaked Ladies

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car
(A nice Reliant automobile)
If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love

If I had a million dollars
I'd build a tree fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny fridge in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already be laid out foods for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things

They have pre-wrapped sausages but they don't have pre-wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame 'em
Uh, yeah

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a fur coat
(But not a real fur coat that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(Ooh, all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ke... dijon ketchups!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you some art
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a monkey
(Haven't you always wanted a monkey)

If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your love

If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd be rich

11.26.2006

Le Male: Make-up for men

Jean Paul Gaultier has created a line of make-up & bath products for men.

The bath products coined "Le Male Tout Propre" are based off the Gaultier scent "Le Male" and icludes perfume, gentle face & body soap, showergel & aftershave.



The make-up line "Le Male Tout Beau" includes powder, lipstick/balm, eyeliner, concealer, and faux tan powser.


The make-up is concealed in dark black cubes, tubes resembling fountain pens, and containers reseembling zippo lighters.

"The Tout Beau line is created to enhance male beauty."
"Gaultier is convinced these products have outgrown the gay scene and can now be used by all men. “Virile or what?” he says"

http://www.gay-news.com/article04.php?sid=573


11.25.2006

BrainBats

BrainBats... those things where the shape and configuration of the words and letters denotes a phrase or word... yeah they amuse me so here are a few gooders: (The answers are posted underneath the link next to the corresponding number.)

1.
one all all all all
all one one one one

2.
CLOUD
TH

3.
S E S A M E

4.
ha ir

5.
ecabt

6.
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another

7
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Never Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday

8.
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDWESTDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

9.
NOMMAG

10.
William March
William June
William September
William January


All (and more) can be found here:
http://www.brainbashers.com/showpuzzles.asp?formpost=Y&page=1&field=cb&puzzletext=BrainBats%26trade%3B





ANSWERS:
1. One for all, all for one.
2. Thundercloud
3. Open Sesame
4. Hair cut
5. Cabinet
6. Six of one and a half dozen of another
7. Never in a month of Sundays
8. West Indies
9. Backgammon
10. Monthly bills

11.24.2006

Black Friday

"Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, although retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks before-hand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season for decades, the term has been traced back only to the 1970s and did not achieve widespread popularity until about 2002."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping

I must admit I find the fascinating as we do not have a "black Friday" in Canada

Urban Dictionary:
The day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. It's traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year (and sometimes considered to be the beginning of the Christmas season). A.K.A.: Green Friday

"I'm holding out on buying my Christmas gifts this year until black friday rolls around, so I can get the best deals."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=black+friday

11.23.2006

Quote of the Day

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did"- Newt Gingrich

11.22.2006

Comcast Part Seven

I swear I am going to lose it on the next person who calls in with a problem with their internet and begins the conversation with some statement ending in and my computer says "Or contact the person that manages your network and that's you (or "and that's comcast")".

1. I AM NOT the person who manages your NETWORK. If you have a router you manage YOUR OWN network, talk to Linksys, not me!

2. Second we manage the internet, we make sure it works, we have very little control over it but we try, I do not going around "breaking your network" and thus can hardly be held personally responsible when it break.

3. Usually this message is remedied by running the inetwiz, which means the whole problem was with YOUR computer or YOUR copy of Windows or YOUR browser's proxy settings and had NOTHING to do with comcast!

11.21.2006

Google Hits

If you've ever hit the link on my blog to my homepage you'll find yourself at Drelwin.com. Drelwin is my nick that I have been using since high school...

Anyways I decided to google the word "drelwin".

Google finds 44 significant hits, of them 29 are for sites related to me!

7 out of the 10 first hits link to pages of mine or that make reference to my username in the context of me.

I feel very special... :)

11.20.2006

Song of the Week

"Killer Queen" - Queen

She keeps moet et chandon
In her pretty cabinet
let them eat cake she says
Just like marie antoinette
A built-in remedy
For kruschev and kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You cant decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

Chorus
Shes a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?

To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from china
Went down to geisha minah
Then again incidentally
If youre that way inclined

Perfume came naturally from paris
For cars she couldnt care less
Fastidious and precise

Chorus

Drop of a hat shes as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
Shes all out to get you

Chorus

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try...

11.18.2006

Andy Dick

Have you guys seen Jessica Simpson's new music video "A Public Affair"?

Well it has Andy Dick in it and oh my word that man is creepy!! (He's the creepy guy behind the skate counter.)

Jessica Simpson-A Public Affair



Y'all know Andy Dick right? The guy from... well all right the only things that come to mind was that he was the voice of Mr. Sheepman in Clone High oh and um... he played the other EMH on Star Trek Voyager for like one episode... He' sapparently done a ton of bit parts though accodring to IMDB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Dick

11.17.2006

Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen

Okay I seriously want one of these!! How awesome would this be? and how fun?!?

11.16.2006

Quote of the Day

"The desire of love is to give whilst the desire of lust is to get." - unknown

11.15.2006

Hamsters Part 17

Vole got got cannibalized... I'm not sure why. I've taken to counting the hamster every night before bed and he was un-accounted for tonight. I searched the cage, no remains. *SIGH* This whole thing is quite depressing. :(

11.14.2006

M & M Duel

This is just bizzare....

"M&M Duels

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.

Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.

I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.

Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.

When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes."

This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.

There can be only one."

http://bl.net/forwards/mnms.html

11.13.2006

Song of the Week

"Fancy" - Reba McEntire


I remember it all very well lookin back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of new orleans
We didnt have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin dress

Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
Dancin dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standin back from the lookin glass
There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood

She said heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down

Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
Then I saw the tears wellin up in her troubled eyes
When she started to speak
She looked at a pitiful shack
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
She said your pas run off and Im real sick
And the babys gonna starve to death

She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
To thine own self be true
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
The tow of my high heel shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin
Askin mama what do I do
She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy
And theyll be nice to you

She said heres your chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
Well its up to you
Now dont let me down you better start movin uptown

Well, that was the last time I saw my ma
The night I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I aint been back

But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
And it wasnt very long til I knew exactly
What my mamas been talkin about

I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
That is gonna be a lady someday
Though I dont know when or how
I couldnt see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame you know
I might have been born just plain white trash
But fancy was my name

Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down

It wasnt very long after a benevolent man
Took me off the street
And one week later I was pourin his tea
In a five room hotel suite

I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a georgia mansion
In an elegant new york townhouse flat
And I aint done bad

Now in this world theres a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
That would call me bad
And criticize mama for turning me out
No matter how little we had

But though I aint had to worry bout nothin
For nigh on fifteen years
I can still hear the desperation in my poor
Mamas voice ringin in my ear

She said, heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Lord, forgive me for what I do
But if you want out well its up to you
Now dont let me down
Your mamas gonna help you uptown

I guess she did

11.12.2006

That's Comcastic!

(sorry for so many videos this week... I'm going through a phase I think :p)

This is a video of a guy trying to rile up a comcast agent... I wish I'd gotten this sub SO BAD!!

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7077943881599722611&q=comcast&pr=goog-sl

11.11.2006

Remembrance Day



This is a video my mum sent me last year and I wanted to share it with y'all this year.

11.10.2006

Pot as Art

This is an msn news video about a woman who is growing a marijuanna pot plant as a piece of art. It is growing in an art gallery in San Francisco:

http://video.sympatico.msn.com/v/en-ca/v.htm?f=37%2f81&i=93bcfaca-441c-4a2a-9b8f-86f71ad35848

11.09.2006

Word of the Day

Urban Word of the Day:
November 08, 2006: October Surprise

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=October+Surprise&defid=818164

When, in a last minute effort to become re-elected, a political figure happensupon a bit of "lucky coincidence."

News from October 31: We found Osama!...
although we really had his ass in a cell under the Pentagon the last threeyears.

11.08.2006

100 Person Village

There was a kids show on TreeHouse the other day that was teaching what the world looked like if it was made up of 100 people. I thought it was quite interesting, so I looked up some of the facts on the internet. Now bear in mind this is an average as the reports were not all as up-to-date as I would have liked them to be, the show seemed more accurate and in-depth.

If the world were a 100 person village this is what it would look like:

49 people are female 51 people are male
50 people are over age 26
50 people are under 26
30 people are age 0-14
63 people are age 15-6
47 people are 65 and over

34 people are Christians
22 people are Muslim
15 people are Hindu
14 people are non-religious
6 people are Buddhist
4 people practice Chinese traditional religion
5 people practice other faiths

14 people speak Mandarin
6 speak Hindi
6 speak Spanish
6 speak English
3 speak Bengali
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
2 speak Japanese
2 speak German the remaining
55 people speak 200 other languages

18 people are overweight
16 people are underfed
66 people are at a healthy weight
3 of the underfed children suffer from stunted growth
3 of the overweight people have diabetes

83 people have safe drinking water
17 people don’t

60 people have modern sanitation facilities
40 people don’t

1 person will die this year
2 women will give birth, one to a boy, and one to a girl

1 person has HIV
3 people have diabetes

16 women and girls have been beaten or sexually abused in their lives
33 haven’t been

Between them the 100 people each year consume:90,000 cigarettes
20 people smoke tobacco (averaging 4,500 cigarettes per year each!)
80 people are non-smokers
12 kids are secondhand smokers

2 people smoke pot
1 person uses some other illegal drug

1 person has a college education
14 adults are illiterate
56 adults are literate
12 school age kids are in school
2 school kids aren’t in school, one boy and one girl

50 people are not members of the paid workforce
33 members of the workforce have steady jobs
17 members of the workforce are unemployed or underemployed
2 children under age 15 work full time, one doing farm work and the other in industry
2 children work part time, both doing farm work
1 woman is a teacher
0.5 men are soldiers
1 men are incarcerated

Between them the 100 people have:
2 Internet hosts
8 personal computers
9 newspaper subscriptions
17 phones lines
25 television sets
43 radios
of the 17 phone lines:10 of them belong to just 15 people 7 are shared by the other 85 people

Between them the 100 people keep over 400 farm animals:
240 chickens
15 ducks
4 geese
4 turkeys
18 sheep
15 pigs
12 goats
22 head of cattle
3 buffalo
78 rabbits

73 people live in homes that have electricity
27 people don't geography

47 people live in the city
53 people live in the country
99 people live at home1 person is a refugee

55 people live in electoral democracies
45 people don't continents

12 people live in Europe
13 people live in Africa
14 people live in North and South America
60 people live in Asia1 person lives in Oceania

Between them the 100 people have:
9 cars
3 trucks and busses
30 bicycles

Between them the 100 people have:
8 guns


Sources:
http://www.gumption.org/2002/village/village.htm
http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/coup-de-coeur_en.html
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/villageof1000.html

The book the TV show was based on is available here:
"If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People" - David Smith
http://www.amazon.ca/If-World-Were-Village-Worlds/dp/1550747797

11.07.2006

11.06.2006

Song of the Week

"Sugar We're Going Down" - Fall Out Boy

Am I more than you bargained for yet
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(A notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)

Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
[x2]

Is this more than you bargained for yet
Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(Notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)

Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
[x2]

Down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down (down, down)
Down, down (down, down)
We're going down, down (down, down)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it



This is a funny parody video, it's quite awesome.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1651997757427874922&pr=goog-sl

and anothe parody (hehe parodies rock my socks.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6795692564703061333

11.05.2006

Hamster Part 16

I cleaned the hamsters cages today and as I was cleaning the boys' cage a funny thing happened... I put the boys in the empty cage while I cleaned their cage, I dumped out their slumber house and there was a tiny hamaster in it, still moving around all fuzzy and furry!! Apparently ALL the hamsters in the past litter were girls!

So now GP & Chipmunk have had a baby. I named it Vole. It's awfully cute, I honestly have no idea if it's a boy or a girl, but it's probably two weeks old by now, problem was they had it in the hosue the whole time so I didn't even know it was there 'til I dumped the house out.

I don't know what I'm going to do about preventing more baby hamster though! I can't have this many cages!! LOL

11.04.2006

Glade Mood Light

Glade came out with these cool mood lights, they are the Glade plugins with scented oil but they are ambient mood lights as well. What a neat idea! LOL

"Brighten up your teen’s room and freshen the air at the same time! The Glade® PlugIns® Scented Oil MoodLight casts a colourful light show on the wall while releasing fun scents that inspire creativity! "
http://www.glademoodlight.com/

News Article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060808/cgtu019.html?.v=58

11.03.2006

GoodTree

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are apparently contributing their technology to a new search engine website called GoodTree that gives money to charity when you use it.

http://www.goodtree.com/

"Search for Good: GoodTree and GoodSearch
October 25, 2006 10:36 AM - Celine Ruben-Salama, New York, NY

James Currier had a vision to create an online service that would harness the Internet to benefit charity. GoodTree, which originally launched summer of 2005, went offline in November 2005, and re-launched in July 2006 was the result. The search engine which combines results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AskJeeves is free, has no banners or pop-ups, will never ask you for money, and will never send you spam yet raises “a lot of money for charity.”

Too good to be true? Not at all. All the leading search engines contribute to the results so you will find what you’re looking for using it. Clicking around the Internet you generate money for brand-named vendors who pay to have potential customers visit their websites. These pennies add up to total of billions of dollars in aggregate for whole search sector. By using the GoodTree search engine, 50% of their gross revenues go directly to the many charities individual users select.

Top-rated and among the most proven and effective in their categories the charites listed are impressive. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can suggest a category. The environmental category contains Earth Island Institute, Earth Justice, Conservation Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club Foundation. Users can select as many charities in as many categories as they want.

Start using GoodTree and keep an eye on your “charity tree” on the top right hand side of the homepage to track of the amount you have money you have generated. The service is only marketed by word-of-mouth, so be sure to tell your friends. It is a great example of a small, individual contribution that you can make, without making major changes to your day-to-day life.

GoodSearch, powered by Yahoo!, works similarly to GoodTree. Happy searching!"

- http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/search_for_good.php

11.02.2006

Time Keeps on Slipping....

You enter your bithday day and the time and it caculates how old you are up to the miliseconds and then it runs as you watch it and you essentially watch time slip away!! EEEP!

http://www.time-for-time.com/howold.htm

11.01.2006

Lethbridge Radio Stations

Literally a listing of Lethbridge radio stations, courtesy of wiki. :P

FM 88.3: CKXU (University of Lethbridge)
FM 91.7: CBBC (CBC Radio Two)
FM 93.3: CJBZ "B 93" (classic hits)
FM 95.5: CHLB "Country 95.5" (country)
FM 97.1: CJTS "Spirit FM" (Contemporary Christian music)
FM 99.3: CKUA-FM-2 (variety)
FM 100.1: CBRL (CBC Radio One)
FM 104.3: CHFA-FM-1 (La Première Chaîne)
FM 106.7: CJRX "Rock 106" (rock)
FM 107.7: CFRV "The River" (Adult contemporary)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Alberta#Lethbridge