Immediate goods:

Easiest thing to use ever.
Battery lasts forever.
Mobility Mobility Mobility

Zoho Chat seems to be an “ok” option to manage all of my IM clients in one – it’s Trilium/Adium style via the Chrome store – still unsure if I need to keep a browser page dedicated to it all the time, I think so?  :)

OH Sh*t moments:
Printing – wtf? So for 99 bucks I bought an HP ePrinter for the Cloud, should arrive next week – BOOM done.
Downloading files from the web? Well, it goes to a place called File Shelf/External Storage – super whacky and it really doesn’t know what files are when they go there, but then you can move them to Googdocs and I guess that’s the 3 step shuffle to circumvent having a desktop/drive.
The track pad was on medium and took me a while to find the adjustment, I went from hate/throw this out the window to love again!

The plates are moving on a molten ocean of lava. Someday California will be up near Alaska, the Mediterranean will disappear, Africa is being torn in half at the Great Rift. They can plot what the land masses of the Earth will look like 1, 2, or 3 million years from now. For all I know all the Earth’s land masses could be one again known as Pangea (spell).The caldura (spelling) at Yellowstone could erupt in a Super Volcano which could affect 3/4 of the United States. There is an island off of either Africa or Portugal that they think will someday rip in half & send waves towards Miami & New York high enough to cover the Empire State Bldg.
Let’s not even think of the next Ice Age. The last one covered 1/2 of the U.S. We better be nicer to Mexico,

Central America & S. America, we might be asking if they wouldn’t mind us moving in for a couple of thousand years. And if we’re not talking about the Ice Age, then I won’t mention objects crashing into us from outer space.

They know the Earth is changing & someday the gasses on Earth will change too. The Earth will not be able to support life as we know it, other forms,yes.
I hope the last guy left remembers to turn off the lights, I hate to run up a high electric bill.
Love, Sherry

1. Blue Monday – New Order
2. Don’t lose my Number – Phil Collins
3. Easy Lover – Phil Collins
4. Heat is on – Glenn Fry
5. Hold The Line – Toto
6. John Parr – Naughty, Naughty
7. John Parr – St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)
8. Johnny Hates Jazz – Shattered Dreams
9. Life’s Been Good – Joe Walsh
10. Linda Ronstadt – Don’t Know Much
11. Naked Eyes – Promises Promises
12. Maggie May – Rod Stewart
13. Michael Sembello – Maniac
14. Mr. Mister – Kyrie
15. Out of Touch – Hall and Oats
16. Rosanna – Toto
17. Rush – Tom Sawyer
18. Take me Home Tonight – Eddie Money
19. Break my Stride – Matthew Wilder
20. Foreigner – Waiting for a girl like you

“These thrust Tibetans into such depths of suffering and hardship that they literally experienced hell on earth,” the Dalai Lama said. “The immediate result of these (CHINESE) campaigns was the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tibetans.”

NY TIMES

And like the Lama, I’m not a big fan of Chinese products; Auqua Fresh with asbestos whitening crystals and these other recalls -

1. Portable baby swings that entrap youngsters, resulting in 60 reports of cuts, bruises and abrasions;
2. Swimming pool ladders that break, resulting in 127 reports of injuries, including leg lacerations requiring up to 21 stitches, five reports of bone fractures, two back injuries, two reports of torn ligaments and eight sprained ankles;
3. Faulty baby carriers that result in babies falling out and getting bruised, getting skulls cracked and hospitalizations;
4. Easy-Bake Ovens that trap children’s fingers in openings, resulting in burns;
5. Oscillating tower fans whose faulty wiring results in fires, burns and smoke inhalation injuries;
6. Exploding air pumps that have resulted in 13 lacerations including six facial injuries and one to the eye;
7. Bargain-priced oil-filled electric heaters, selling for less than $50, that burn down homes;
8. Notebook computer batteries that burn up computers, cause other property damage and burn users;
9. Circular saws with faulty blade guards that result in cutting users, not wood.

I am ALL FOR making sure any US solider has a freakin Kevlar body suit and a Tony Stark / Iron Man type set up to preserve life, when we MUST go kill bad people, but the F-22 raptor reminds me of the old “New Deal” saying -

“Let’s employ Americans to dig a hole, and when they are done, let’s pay them to fill it back up”

That’s genius!!!!

The F-22 Raptor is the most expensive fighter jet ever built. It was designed to fight advanced Soviet planes, but President Obama has said he wants to cut “cold war weapons systems.” Cutting the F-22 would save lots of money, but it would cost thousands of jobs. The Air Force is expected to ask the White House to sign off on 60 more planes over the next three years.

NPR Sounds/Article

However…Dear GM of the Dodgers, Mr. Ned Colletti – SIGN HIM ASAP!

Whatever it takes, it would stimulate the economy more to have a bunch of happy Dodger fans loving life and motivated to find a job with Manny swinging the lumber and high-fiving fans mid-catch – it’s a small price to pay in the big picture

LA Times Article

I don’t know about anyone else, but I totally missed the speech, not on purpose, but I was busy stimulating the economy with my own work ethic and making that dollar. Was my missing the speach more important then the speach itself?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022401832.html?hpid=topnews

I know that our government is really “busy” right now, but isn’t air transportation safety sort of a priority with regard to an immediate threat to our human life?  Forget about modifying your home loan, how about modifying the GPS system BEFORE your next flight so you don’t crash into a mountain.

Article snips –

A person born on July 17, 1996, the day that T.W.A. Flight 800 exploded off Long Island, will be old enough to earn a pilot’s license — and maybe even to work for an airline — before the hardware ordered after that crash is installed on all airplanes, in about 2016.

The safety board says there currently are 429 outstanding recommendations, of which 146 are more than five years old.

Sometimes the process is so slow that the F.A.A. persuades the airlines to solve problems outside the regulatory process. After a DC-9 operated by ValuJet crashed in the Everglades in May 1996 because of a fire in the cargo area, the F.A.A. doubted that the obvious fix — the installation of fire detection and suppression equipment — would pass muster with the White House because the cost might exceed the benefit. But following a public outcry, the airlines agreed to install the systems.

When the crew of an American Airlines plane made a navigation error on a flight from Miami to Cali, Colombia, in December 1995 and hit a mountain, the airlines agreed to equip cockpits with a GPS unit to compare the plane’s location with a database of mountains. That happened much faster than if it had been mandated by the government.

PR Advise -
Marion, oh maid Marion…was this from an interview and if so, you have to see a draft of the article so you can be perceived as giving a darn.  If this is just a non-context mad lib by the author, shame on you!

“The F.A.A. generally does not simply decide what to do and issue orders, according to Marion C. Blakey, whom President George W. Bush appointed as chairwoman of the safety board and later as leader of the F.A.A. Rather, the agency plays a role that Ms. Blakey described as “honest broker,” seeking the expertise of manufacturers, airlines and academics.”

Full article –

NY Times

www.wikiHow.com (Angel Funded Start-up)

DiamondPR’s efforts elevated this “How-To” wiki website to become the 2nd largest public wiki to Wikipedia.org, significantly increasing the site’s list of contributors and doubled website traffic to 700,000 unique visitors per month. Wiki, which means quick, is a style of website that allows users to create and edit content, as a community, everyone can edit just about everything. This story needed a guerrilla PR effort to get the word out about how helpful and fun wikis are and how special wikiHow was from a user-standpoint. The wiki community is also very particular, not as open to interviews etc., so that also posed a greater challenge to put users in touch with media, however, as you can see, we overcame that and the results were amazing.

Broadcast

• ABC 7 LA – http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=consumer&id=3762793
• Boston Channel & Denver Channel – http://www.thebostonchannel.com/theclick/5063028/detail.html

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/technology/5085878/detail.html

• CBS Minnesota – http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_028113845.html
• CBS 3 Philly – http://kyw.com/consumer/local_story_012103757.html

Metro Trends / Consumer Tech / Lifestyles

• Boston Herald
• Contra Costa Times http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/13334088.htm
• Corante – http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/7/04/wikihow_responds_to_criticism_goes_creative_commons.php
• Corante – http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/07/04/wikihow_to_open_content.php
• Detroit Free Press – http://www.mikesejournal.com/htt071905.html
• Memphis Online – http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/home/article/0,1426,MCA_435_2355861,00.html

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/lifestyle/article/0,1426,MCA_521_3952406,00.html

• ON Computers
• Philly Inquirer – http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/12042581.htm
• St. Petersburg Times – http://www.tbt.com/tech/article15031.ece
• Tampa Tribune – http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935235&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835171438&path=!health!healthology
• The Salt Lake Tribune – http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3142570
• USA Today
• Wired http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67765,00.html

TrueDater, Inc.

www.TrueDater.com (Angel Funded Start-up)

DiamondPR launched this online dating site increasing traffic from zero to 400,000 unique visitors per month in 10 months. (TrueDater performs no advertising). This story has an interesting human-interest component which needed to come to the forefront – “why do people misrepresent themselves in online dating?” There were many visual and statistical components to provide to media, geographically dispersed TrueDater users, dating survey statistics; all the while making sure that TrueDater is seen in the right light, as a beacon of truth and honesty, a grass roots community movement to make all of online dating better.

Broadcast

• ABC – Good Morning America – http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1608836&page=1
• CBS Chicago – http://cbs2chicago.com/consumer/local_story_256094911.html

• CBS NY – http://wcbstv.com/video/?cid=849
• CBS WCCO Minnesota – http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_268085419.html
• Contra Costa Times
• Fox 5 Atlanta

• Fox 5 Good Day NY
• MSNBC – The Ethical EDGE
• NBC Today Show – Weekend
• Phoenix KTVK 3 – http://www.azfamily.com/3tv/3tvbios/index.html

Metro Trends / Consumer Tech / Lifestyles

• Arizona Daily Star – http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/allheadlines/90501.php
• Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/auto/epaper/editions/wednesday/living_24ddea83
• Boston Globe
• Boston Herald – http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/onlineLiving/
• Esquire – http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/060907_mfe_October_06_Rise_of_Shame.html
• Hartford Courant –
• http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-truedater.artsep29,0,6259757.story?coll=hc-headlines-custom2
• Marie Claire
• Glamour
• Newsweek
• New Jersey Star Ledger
• New York Post
• New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/fashion/thursdaystyles/16WEB.html?ex=1297746000&en=547248d252e7e2d2&ei=5090
• OC Register – http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/homepage/article_690016.php
• Salon.com – http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/06/25/rating_sites/index_np.html
• SF Chronicle – http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/14/LVG0HE3OBH1.DTL&hw=truedater&sn=001&sc=1000
• SJ Mercury News and www.siliconbeat.com
• Stanford Magazine
• Time Magazine
• Washington Post (Front page) – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052901071.html
• Wired http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67083,00.html