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I agree that political correctness gets out of control at times, but there is something I have to say.
Yes, it's Christmas. It is also a lot of other things. December brings a lot of different celebrations across the world, and yes, even in the US, there are other holidays being celebrated besides just Christmas. Many of them existed long before Christmas did.
Now, I'm not saying that because of this, everyone needs to walk on eggshells and use generic holiday greetings so as not to offend anyone. No one should take offense to well wishes just because a person expresses them in his/her own language, so to speak. If you want to say "Merry Christmas," there's nothing wrong with that. That's what I say, even to those of my friends I know celebrate something else, and they have no problem with that. But STOP attacking those who do choose to express their wishes in a more all-inclusive way. It is their right to word their greeting however they wish. Every time I hear someone say, "Stop calling it 'The Holidays' - it's CHRISTMAS!" I want to slap that person across the face. It's 2010! It's time to acknowledge that this world is filled with many more belief systems, cultures and customs than your own. How dare you think that yours is the only one that counts!
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TGIF. That universally recognized acronym chanted by full time workers everywhere to signal that the weekend starts in just a few hours. To us, the 40-hour slaves, the weekend is what the entire week is all about. We work for five days just to earn enough money to finance those two days at the end when we get to actually live our lives. That, and to keep a roof over our heads despite barely spending any time there, and to eat to fuel our bodies for more work. Even though you're only paid for eight hours, really the entire work day is consumed by work. You probably get a half hour to an hour lunch break, somewhere in the middle of the day, that is off the clock but still isn't really yours. All you have time for is to eat, to fill your body with energy that is just going to be burned up back at work. And when you go home, you cook, eat, clean, probably do some laundry so you'll have something clean to wear to work the next day, and then you pass out from exhaustion and spend the next eight to ten hours sleeping... so you can function at work the next day. So the weekend is the only time that is truly yours, the only reward you get for those five days of work.
It doesn't seem right, does it? I mean, I don't believe our purpose here in this world is to work. I believe it's to live, to spend what little time we have here doing what we enjoy and what truly makes us happy. Whatever that is - spending time with loved ones, traveling, extreme sports, relaxing by the pool with a frozen margarita in your hand - is different for everyone. But I don't think it's right that we have to spend five days out of the week working for someone else, just so we can afford those two days of doing what we want to do. Oh, sure, there are a few people who are lucky enough to actually be able to earn a living doing what they truly enjoy. But they are the exception, not the rule.
I think it should be the other way around, don't you? Imagine being able to work two days a week, and earn enough to support yourself and whatever lifestyle you want for the other five days. Hell, I would even be okay with a twelve-hour work day if it was only two days a week. I know, it would never work in our current economic system. And I'm not any kind of expert on economics, so I couldn't even begin to envision what it would take to make something like that work. So, I guess I'll just keep dreaming... and keep "working for the weekend".
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For quite some time now it has been my plan to replace my three year old original iPhone model when this year's model comes out. For the past few months Chris and I have been in an ongoing debate, as he has somehow convinced himself that Apple is not releasing a new model this year. I'm not saying I know for a fact that they are, just that there's no way he can know for sure that they're not - especially since it has been their consistent pattern for the past three years to introduce an updated iPhone model every June. It's only April, and Apple has given no indication that they plan to break that pattern this year.
But there's another reason why I think he's wrong. As shown by their continued advertising efforts, Apple would still like to convert more consumers into iPhone users. But someone who is looking to purchase a new phone this year is not going to buy an iPhone 3GS that is already a year old, when there are other newer smartphones out there... like the Motorola Droid and the HTC Hero. Apple would be stupid not to entice those people with a brand new model of iPhone that surpasses these phones in performance.
Either way, once we know for sure one way or the other, I intend to upgrade my phone to the newest iPhone model available, whether it's the 3GS or a brand new 2010 model.
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Ever since YouTube started offering higher quality and high definition versions of some of its videos, I have had a really hard time getting through to them that I always want to see the highest quality version available. As long as you were logged in to your personal YouTube account, you were supposed to be able to go into your account settings and set a preference. There were three choices: 1) always play the low quality version, for those with slow connections, 2) automatically detect the connection speed and play the best quality for the detected speed, or 3) always play the highest quality version, for those who know their connection can handle it. Since their automatic detection was always wrong, always playing low quality videos when I had more than enough bandwidth for the higher quality ones, I kept mine set to the third choice.
Now, it was bad enough that YouTube would "forget" my preference every couple of weeks, switching me back to choice #2 and its erroneous speed detection. But today, when I noticed it was again defaulting me to the low quality versions, I went in to reselect option #3 only to find that they removed it! Now I only have the choice to always see low quality videos, or to always have it mis-detect my connection speed and show me the low quality anyway.
Thanks a lot, YouTube.
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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.
You all know that I am a die hard iPhone lover. I love its touch screen and on screen keyboard, and the fact that it responds to the lightest touch and I don't have to apply any pressure makes it so much easier for me to use. For some others, though, that's exactly what they hate about it. Some people like having a phone with a physical keyboard and buttons that they can feel and press down on. And some don't like signing the two year AT&T contract that comes with the iPhone. For those people, here's a new alternative.
It's the SANYO Incognito (model number SCP6760), a new smart phone offered by Boost Mobile. The Incognito flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard with actual buttons, and features a 2MP camera with VGA video recording, a music and video player, and enhanced web browsing powered by EVDO 3G broadband technology. It also supports MMS (multimedia messaging), stereo Bluetooth, and is GPS enabled. Boost Mobile offers a $50 monthly unlimited talk, text, and data plan for the Incognito with no contract required. This phone is only $129.99 plus applicable taxes, with free shipping, when purchased through the link in this post.
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Since we got FiOS we've been very happy with both the TV and internet service, but the change must have awoken some dormant problem with my computer, because my connection to our wireless network gradually degraded until I just could not get online at all anymore (even though I was supposedly still connected with excellent signal). Other computers and networked devices in the house were working perfectly, so I knew it was a problem with my computer and not the FiOS service. The more I tried to fix it, the worse it got, so I finally got pissed off enough to pull the trigger on something I'd been contemplating for a while anyway.
I installed Windows 7.
My disgust with the situation did cloud my judgment, and I probably pulled the trigger a bit prematurely. My first mistake was that I did not run the hardware compatibility scanner provided by Microsoft. I was going to, but then decided to skip it, assuming all of my hardware would be supported. That did not turn out to be true. First I was unable to install a driver for my wireless card. Now, since this is what was acting up in the first place, it's entirely possible that the card was just dead. Either way, I have a new one on order. I also realized that my sound card was far too old to have a Windows 7 driver available, but this was not a huge problem since my motherboard has a built in sound card which works just fine. I also forgot to look to see which files and folders I was backing up with my online backup service, so that I could reconfigure it to back up the same data. Fortunately I was able to find this information by browsing the backup through their web site.
So, my haste didn't cause any problems that I wasn't able to fix, at least not so far! My system is up and running, and running very well at that. I'm using a USB wireless adapter until my new card gets here, and I also have some more RAM coming to make it run even better. I'm installing the software I need as I need it, and so far haven't had any problems with that. I am however anticipating needing to find a new graphic editor. I have been very set in my ways, running a quite old version of Paint Shop Pro which I don't expect to be compatible with this version of Windows (not to mention I can't find the install disc). My scalable copy of the confoozled.com logo is saved in PSP format, so I either need something which can read that format or I'll need to convert it to something else using my work computer. (I've already tried the GIMP; though it does read PSP format, it fails attempts to open my logo file.) But I'm not stressing too much about it; if I can't find anything that will open it, it will be a good excuse to design a new logo!
I am, so far, very happy with Windows 7 and its performance even without the extra RAM. I do feel like a fish out of water making the move to this from Windows XP, but I am getting the hang of it. Things work very differently, but I think I like most of the changes they've made.
Hooray for total frustration driving one to do what should have been done a long time ago!
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Okay, so I'll weigh in on the iPad. I wasn't one of those people who went into the announcement with my mind already made up to hate it and to hurl insults at those who don't, but in the end I was less than impressed. In terms of functionality it isn't much better than an iPhone or iPod Touch, except for the bigger screen size. However, I feel you can get that screen size along with much better functionality, for about half the price, with a netbook. The iPad seems to me more like an iPod/Kindle hybrid than a "tablet" - when I hear "tablet" I expect it to behave more like a computer, but this thing doesn't even multitask. If you don't already have an iPod Touch (or iPhone) and/or a Kindle and have been thinking about getting one, this may be the product for you. But it's not for me.
That said, here are some of the tech products I am lusting after these days.
Netbook
I like being able to surf the web and get a little work done from the comfort of the couch. My iPhone makes this possible some of the time, but its small screen and lack of Flash support makes viewing certain web sites impossible. Not to mention that no multitasking means a lot of waiting for apps to launch, close, and relaunch. My initial interest in the iPad was as a solution to this, but since they chose not to address the multitasking issue, and it still might not support Flash (the answer to this question being unclear right now), and given the price tag, a netbook still seems to be the right option for me. Here are a few models I'm interested in.
Digital Photo Frame
I live far away from my family, and have several siblings, not to mention nieces and nephews who are growing and changing every day. I have a few picture frames on my desk at work, but there's not enough room for everyone, and the pictures I have in them are really out of date. A digital frame would solve all of my problems. One frame to cycle through photos of everyone I want to keep close, and easy to keep up to date as my family members send me new photos, even when they are too low resolution to print - not to mention not having to struggle with opening and closing stubborn frames. I'm currently looking at these two models.
RAM Upgrade
I want to upgrade my desktop PC to Windows 7, and in order for it to run well I need more RAM. Need I say more?
LCD HDTV + TiVo HD
I'm getting tired of the dinosaur TV set we have in the bedroom, not to mention the creaking sounds I hear sometimes make me think it's going to one day fall through the top of my dresser! We use the old Series 2 TiVo in the bedroom as an overflow for when we have three shows to record at the same time, but we've definitely become spoiled by HD and hate watching those recordings in boring old standard definition. We don't have the money right now, but an HD upgrade for the bedroom is definitely on the wish list.
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A Plinky writing prompt from earlier this week: "Share how you treat a headache."
As you can tell from numerous posts here, I get a lot of headaches, for all different reasons. If it has the potential to cause a headache, you can bet that for me, it will. Allergies, stress, fluorescent lights, heat, cold, loud dogs barking, eye strain, sudden weather changes, thinking about time travel, hunger, thirst, sleeping in too late... you name it. How I treat them often depends on what's causing them in the first place. Sometimes it's obvious, other times not so much, and other times I just instinctively know what's going to make me feel better.
My first line of defense is a dose of painkillers, and my drug of choice is Excedrin. Excedrin is a combination of aspirin and acetaminophen with a bit of caffeine to boost its speed and effectiveness, and it's the only thing that seems to work for me. Either of these drugs alone has very little effect, and I have an intolerance to ibuprofen (i.e. it makes me vomit). Naproxen (Aleve) also has no effect on my headaches, though I do use it for joint and muscle pain.
Sometimes, though, drugs alone are not enough. And sometimes I get a lot of headaches in a short period, and I dislike taking the painkillers several days in a row. So I keep a few other tricks up my sleeve.
Cold Therapy: I keep a soft freezer pack frozen at all times at home, and I carry one-time use instant cold packs in my purse (activated by squeezing to pop the water pouch inside, setting off a chemical reaction). Sometimes I apply the cold compress directly where it hurts, sometimes to the opposite side of my head, sometimes the back of my neck. It all depends on what feels like it's helping. Most of the time just a few minutes of this will numb the pain enough to let the drugs do the rest.
Vapor Therapy: Often I can tell that a headache is caused by sinus congestion. This happens in one of two ways: either excessive pressure in my sinuses causes pain directly, or reduced airflow causes a sort of oxygen deprivation headache. Either way, menthol and eucalyptus vapors can help a lot. At both home and work I have a small waterless vaporizer which works by heating up a replaceable pad soaked with these oils.
Food: Sometimes I get hunger or low blood sugar headaches. The obvious cure for these is to eat! Sugary snacks, especially chocolate, usually help the most, but sometimes I'll crave something specific. I just listen to whatever my body is telling me, and it's usually right.
Drink: Headaches caused by dehydration are usually helped by downing a couple of glasses of water in a short period of time. Not too much too fast, though; I don't want to end up with water intoxication. Vascular headaches, those caused by expanded blood vessels supplying too much blood to the brain, sometimes need a little more caffeine than what's in the Excedrin, so I'll drink a Coke Zero. This depends on the time of day and how much caffeine I've already had, though, as my heart does not tolerate high amounts of it as well as it used to.
Sensory Deprivation: When all of the above fails, there's nothing left to do but lock myself in the darkest, quietest room I can find, and wait it out. If I can relax enough to fall asleep, most of the time I'll be good as new when I wake up again.
Again, I don't have any scientific method of identifying what type of headache I have; it's just something I know. And I don't necessarily get it right 100% of the time.
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I'm sick of hearing about the Leno vs. Conan thing.
I'm supposedly in the minority, but I love Jay Leno. He's the only late night host I've ever watched with any degree of regularity. Still, I have nothing against Conan O'Brien, other than the fact that he doesn't do anything for me personally and I find him more annoying than funny. But just because someone doesn't appeal to me, doesn't mean I wish them off the airwaves.
There's no need to pit them against each other. They appeal to different audiences and there is plenty of room in this world for both of them. This is NBC's mess, not either of theirs.
I would be incredibly sad if Jay Leno were no longer on the air. I can't imagine not getting my weekly fix of "Headlines". And, even though I don't care for him, I think it would be a shame if Conan was no longer around as well, all because NBC screwed up.
I hope they both continue to host late night television shows. Clearly NBC cannot accommodate both of them, but that's the beauty of modern television: there are other channels. I don't really care which one stays on NBC and which one moves to another network, or even if they both move... as long as they both stay on TV somewhere so their respective audiences can still enjoy them. And, I'm certainly not going to boycott NBC entirely for making the "wrong" choice. That would be stupid. NBC isn't going to miss me, but there are a lot of shows on their network that I would miss. So who does a boycott really hurt?
So, no, I'm not "Team Leno" or "Team Conan". I'm "Team Let's Grow Up and Stop Making Everything Into a War When It Doesn't Need to Be One".
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Tomorrow is Christmas. Merry Christmas! If you actually celebrate something different, you should not be offended when I say "Merry Christmas" to you - all it means is that I want you to enjoy your holiday, whatever it is that you celebrate. Or, that I want you to have a happy Friday, since whether you celebrate it or not, tomorrow is Christmas.
Lately I've been seeing more intolerance in the other direction. People saying, "I'm sick of this 'Happy Holidays' crap - it's Christmas!" Well yes, it is, but there are also a lot of other holidays celebrated this time of year. If you choose to say "Merry Christmas", that's great and people should not be offended, but at the same time, if someone else chooses to say "Happy Holidays" or anything else, you should not be offended either. The only appropriate response to any holiday greeting is, "Why, thank you, and the same to you."
Also...
Abbreviating "Christmas" as "Xmas" does not "take Christ out of Christmas". In Greek, X means Christ.
"Santa" is not an anagram for "Satan". It means "saint", as in "Saint Nicholas".
So, lighten up, unbunch your panties, and Happy Hanuramakwanzmas! 
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You might know that the one main thing I am wishing for this Christmas is a new digital camera that will be easy for me to use and shoot good, quality video with clear sound (the feature that is most lacking in my current compact camera). After all, I've got to work on that winning entry to America's Funniest Home Videos! 
Well, maybe I can win a new camera! For the Love of 2 Cents is hosting a giveaway, sponsored by Samsung Imaging, of one of Samsung's new dual touchscreen cameras. Though the shutter button is still a physical button on top of the camera, all of the other controls have been moved to a highly responsive touchscreen like the one on the iPhone. Getting rid of all of those tiny buttons would sure make my life easier. The second screen on the front of the camera helps frame self portraits, displays a countdown for timer shots, and can even display colorful images designed to hold a small child's attention so you can catch them looking at the camera. That's helpful to just about anyone. And the camera shoots high definition video at 720p resolution and 30 frames per second.
I'm generating as many entries into this drawing as I can - wish me luck!
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Cyber Monday is the online extension of Black Friday. While Black Friday is the busiest retail shopping day of the year, the following Monday, Cyber Monday, is the busiest online shopping day of the year. Here are some Cyber Monday deals I've found. Some of them may already be active, and some don't start until Monday.
Like the Black Friday links yesterday, these are affiliate links and will earn me a commission when you shop through them.
Keep reading...
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Happy Thanksgiving! While you're digesting your turkey, I thought I would share some of the Black Friday sales I've found that you may not have known about. These are affiliate links, so I will earn a commission if you purchase through them.
Keep reading...
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As someone who appreciates when a friend or even a stranger throws me a bone, I like to do the same for others when I can. I know many bloggers like myself struggle to earn enough income from their blogs just to pay their hosting bills, let alone actually get something in return for the hard work they put into their sites. If I had the money, I would donate regularly to every blog I read. But since I can't do that, the least I can do is try to make sure that a portion of the money I have to spend anyway ends up in a fellow web site owner's pocket. So whenever I am making a purchase online at a merchant that has an affiliate program, I try to find someone who is an affiliate to whom I can credit my purchase. Well, this has proven to be a lot harder than it sounds. I don't know if bloggers and other webmasters are just really bad at publicizing their affiliate links, or if it's a matter of search engines unfairly burying them, but it's next to impossible to find an affiliate of a given merchant by searching for one. If you're an affiliate, put the word "affiliate" somewhere on the pages that contain your affiliate links. It's not going to turn people off; if anything it will attract more people like me who want to give you a commission.
Anyway, today I'm inviting you to spam me with your affiliate links. Well okay, it's not really spamming since I asked for it, is it? Use my e-mail form to send me as many of your affiliate links as you want, and I will add them to my affiliate mall not only for my own future reference, but to help others find you, too. Be sure to tell me the name of the store, and give a link to a page on your site that contains your affiliate creative (not a direct link to the merchant). The only requirement is that your web site is free for visitors to use/read (since if you charge for access, you're already being paid for your efforts). I would also hope that you would use my mall (either my own links, or someone else's) to do your own shopping, but since there's no way for me to enforce that I'll just have to trust you to do the right thing.
So bring it on, and let's hope this helps us all earn a little bit more!
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A couple of years ago I discovered what just might be the most useful "gimplement" (that's a tool, or implement, that makes life easier for gimpy people like me - otherwise known as a daily living aid) I have ever owned. It's actually a pair of tools: two different styles of Telestik portable reachers.
Standard reachers have always been useless to me, as they require the user to squeeze a trigger in order to grip an object, and hand strength is not something I was blessed with. Telestik reachers use alternate methods of grasping objects, and require very little hand strength. Between the two models, there are three different ways to grab onto an object. The MA4000 model features a powerful magnet capable of lifting metal objects up to one pound. It is also hook shaped, allowing one to snag objects which may not be attracted to the magnet. The other model, AD3000, has a strong, yet clean adhesive, also capable of lifting up to one pound. Despite its strength, the adhesive doesn't leave behind any sticky residue and won't tear paper. It can be easily cleaned with soap and water if it begins to lose its stickiness, and the adhesive discs can be replaced. It also has a cap to protect it when not in use. While this model does also have a small hook on the back, I find that most attempts to use it cause the cap to fall off.
I use my MA4000 every single day, for all sorts of things. If I need to pick up a stack of papers from the floor, I'll drop a metal clip, clip it on the pages with my feet and then snag it with the magnet. I can pick up a toilet paper roll from low storage spaces by wedging the hook inside. I even use it to tuck hair behind my ears and to pull my glasses off of my face.
I use the AD3000 less often than the magnetic model, but it is still handy for those times when I need to retrieve an object that is neither magnetic nor able to be caught by the hook on the MA4000. Among other things, I have used it to pick up a piece of paper that fell behind my desk, a TV remote dropped between the couches, and even to lower food packages from the kitchen cupboard.
One of the best things about both Telestik models is that they are telescopic, and collapse down to about seven inches long. This makes them extremely portable compared to those bulky squeeze trigger reachers, as they can easily fit into a purse or backpack to go everywhere with you.
I can no longer imagine life without my Telestik reachers. In fact, I'm going to add a second pair to my Christmas list, so that I can have a pair both at work and at home. (Even though they're super portable, digging around in my purse all the time gets to be a hassle, and often in the haste of leaving either location, something gets left behind.)
Disclosure: The links in this post are affiliate links, and I will be paid a commission for sales generated through them. The opinions, however, are 100% honest and mine alone.
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This sponsored post has been removed due to the advertiser's refusal to uphold its end of the sponsorship agreement. Should the advertiser decide to pay what is owed to me, the post will be restored.
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She builds a URL shortening engine, of course.
It's not something that I really needed to do. I just wanted to. It's what I've been doing to relax during my free time for the past week or so. Writing HTML, CSS and PHP code, and learning all sorts of web server tricks to make things work the way I want them to, is my way of zoning out.
And hey, now I don't need to worry about my shortened and encrypted links disappearing when other URL shorteners experience database failure or go out of business. As long as I have any web sites online, I'll have foozUs. It only cost me a couple of bucks for the domain name, and my existing web hosting account allows for up to ten additional domains at no extra charge.
Ahh. That was fun.
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When I was in high school I had an English teacher, Mr. Paige, who was probably my favorite teacher of all time. He was unconventional and made his classes fun and engaging, getting kids interested in literature who otherwise wouldn't have been... something for which he unfortunately had narrow-minded school administrators constantly breathing down his neck. True story: We often read on the floor, by the light of candles and flashlights, in forts built with overturned classroom tables - sometimes taking turns reading aloud from the assigned novel, and sometimes just listening to Mr. Paige read to us, voicing each character distinctly, with REM music playing in the background. On more than one occasion, he had to warn us that the next time our class met, we would have a member of the administration observing the class, so the lights would be on, music off, and forts temporarily dismantled.
Despite how much I loved Mr. Paige's class, I struggled. Try as I might, I could not grasp "proper" essay writing, and that was how one's comprehension and progress in a literature class were gauged. My grade in the class slipped to below passing in the second semester of my senior year - and if I did not pass that class, I would not graduate. Recognizing that the class was about the literature and not about the essay, and not wanting it to be the one and only thing to keep me from graduating, Mr. Paige agreed to raise my grade to passing if I would spend a couple of lunch periods a week with him, verbally discussing the material we were reading in class. I was able to show him that I was reading and comprehending the literature; I just was not effective at conveying that in written form. He gave me a B, if I remember correctly, and I graduated with the rest of my class because this teacher rejected the district curriculum's standard, inaccurate way of testing grasp of the subject he taught.
Oh, and how many times in the real world have I needed to know proper essay form and failed at something important because I was never able to learn it? A big fat zero.
Mr. Paige moved to another school district right after I graduated, and I lost all contact with him. I actually did find him online, after all these years, just a few months ago. But I thought I would use his name to test out MyLife, a web site which calls itself "America's #1 People Search". I'm sorry to have to say this, but I think they're going to have to drop the tagline.
He did turn up on my search on MyLife, but I was able to see absolutely nothing about him - because MyLife wanted money from me the minute I clicked on his name. Now, I already know quite a bit about how Mr. Paige's life turned out just from searching his name on Google. And I suspect that if I were to pay MyLife for access to the information they have on him, it would not be anything more than what I already found for free. After all, where do you think a site like that gets its information?
Especially in this day of social networking, 99% of which is free, I don't understand why paid people search sites like this keep popping up and thinking they can actually make money. Even though Mr. Paige would probably not call himself a heavy social media user, do you know where I was finally able to make contact with him? On Flickr, a photo sharing site. Nearly everyone who can be found via the internet has at least one social networking profile out there somewhere.
I'm sorry, MyLife, but as long as there is Google, Facebook, MySpace, and the thousands of other free search engines and social networking sites that are out there, you won't ever see me pay a dime to search for someone.
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As I'm sure you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Think breast cancer is something only older women need to worry about? Think again. In recent years, more and more women in their twenties and thirties have been diagnosed. And this year, eleven year old Hannah Powell-Auslam became the youngest known survivor of breast cancer in the US. And yes, men can get breast cancer, too.
This past Saturday, WaterFire Providence held their fourth annual Flames of Hope celebration to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research and support. I've not yet been able to go to one of these, but I want to. My friends Crystal and Eddie went this year, and even ran in the inaugural Gloria Gemma 5K earlier that day. Crystal got a beautiful photo of the Rhode Island State House all lit up in pink for the event.
If you can - and I understand some of us can't - make a donation to a breast cancer related charity this month. There's Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Rhode Island based Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation, and the American Cancer Society. Visit The Breast Cancer Site daily and click the big pink button to help fund free mammograms. And here's a list of online stores I've found which are donating a portion of their proceeds to help fight breast cancer.
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As you begin your online holiday shopping, I hope you'll remember to support your favorite bloggers and purchase through their affiliate links whenever possible. For confoozled.com, you can shop my affiliate mall. There are not a lot of stores listed yet, but if you're looking for a specific store you can always let me know and I will find and apply for their affiliate program. You can also sign up to receive e-mail when I add new stores, and optionally, when stores I'm affiliated with have special deals and coupons available.
And speaking of coupons, here are a couple of codes for AccessoryGeeks, which is a great place to get stocking stuffers for the gadget freak in your family. Enter coupon code AGEEK1010 at checkout to get 10% off your order of $10, or use AGEEK1050 to get $10 off of $50. Hurry, these coupons are only good through October 31!
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