James’ Blog

A while back I got an invite to Google Voice and set it up although at the time I didn’t get the Google number to go with it.  Recently I finally broke down at got myself a good number when I started realizing it was very hard for people to get hold of me in the sense for Doctor appointments and other things that I wouldn’t give out my cell phone number.  After finding out that you can also use this number to block and screen calls.

Google Voice

A while back I posted that I was starting to use Live Writer to make posts.  Well shortly after that I have tried several different programs that really basically did the same thing but now of those had the only thing that Live Writer has, plug-ins!  Well because of that and now with the release of the new Windows Live Writer Beta.  I had already been thinking about coming back just because of the plug-ins but when I saw the screen shot and saw that they were going to be using the Microsoft Ribbon for the menus.  It is going to take a lot for me to switch again.

So after a little bit of thought I think I am going to give Google Buzz a try.   It is kind of a Twitter alternative.  I am not going to be posting stuff that I am having dinner at a certain restaurant or announce to everyone that I am about to take a crap.  It does make it a easier place for me to post a something real quick that doesn’t isn’t really enough to make a full Blog post about.  Also it a lot easier to share stories from my Google Reader.

I may post things on both my blog on my Buzz feed depending on how much I think should be said about the topic.  I am looking for a way to show my Buzz feed on the blog as well but I haven’t quite gotten there yet.

If you would like to follow me on Google Buzz go look at my Google Profile.

If you have a Facebook account you should really check out the site quitfacebookday.com.  There have been a lot of talk in the media lately about are constantly changing the privacy policy.  There have been many stories coming out about how this changes have been leaking out a lot of info that people thought would be private.  What also doesn’t help is stories coming out about what a great guy the founder Mark Zuckerberg is.

I was actually very much on the fence about finally getting my own Facebook account to see if I could catch up with some people that I have lost touch with over the years.  That was until I finally got around to watching last weeks Twit where they talked about all of these things.  I will be waiting for an alterative to come a long and maybe catch the next big fad.

This would almost be enough for me to get a TomTom if I didn’t already have one.

After a Facebook campaign to have Betty White host Saturday Night Live, she had this to say about Facebook during her monolog.  Being someone that just things Facebook is one of the dumbest things on the Internet right next to Twitter I just had to post this..

When I saw this video show up on Youtube I just had to post it. It is always cool to watch a building implode. May have been better if the Dallas Cowboys football team was still inside it, but I guess you can’t always have everything.

North Dakota to Dump Fighting Sioux nickname

This has been something that has been going on for while. This to date is the only one that I know of that a university has actually caved in and decided to change their name. The problem is that this ow starts a president for other groups to try and start sew some of these schools to get paycheck. Soon down the road PETA will start trying to start trying to sew all the school or even professional teams with animal mascots to change their name. Then if that works some Irish person will get the idea to be up set that Notre Dame’s Mascot is a Fighting Irish Man. Then it would be Notre Dame home of that Cupcakes, but then that would only work until the people that go to the football games figure out they are fat because they eat too much since they were encouraged to eat more because they are known as the Cupcakes.