Top of the list!

Just had share with all ya'll that I made the top of the list! The number one local blog/local news site/ aggregator chose my blog/post as the top of the list this morning. I just thought I'd share. Click here to view.

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They're into it... are you?

Have you ever gotten in to something for a friend? I mean you actually learned about something, researched it, and studied it; because someone close to you was interested in it? Have you been the person whose friend was such a good friend they wanted to share an experience with you that they learned about what YOU liked? I have been in both of these situations. 

Got in to it! When I was in high school I had a friend who I really liked spending time with and this friend liked country music. In my house we did not listen to country music, not one bit. The closest music that even sounded like country would have been my Dad’s Kingston Trio LPs… not country at all. Well during my junior and senior years in high school I started to listen to some country music. There were some artists and songs that were a little too twangy for me. But when Alan Jackson, Diamond Rio, or Garth Brooks came on the radio I would have to turn it up. I have some country on my iPod thanks to this time in my life. Later on I made another friend that also liked certain country music artists and because of the first friend I was ready to listen and share this not immediately belittle it. Made for a much better experience with the second friend and our friendship was better because of it (I even went to a Shania Twain Concert with this friend). 

They got in to it! I like LOST (You can probably tell that by some of the posts here). My wife really never has. For the past few years she would suffer through me watching each episode. She never complained, she just watched the episodes with me and when I offered commentary she listened. Even though she didn’t care about LOST or my opinion on the episode I was watching. The final season of LOST recently started and around the same time I was talking to my wife on IM and she mentions to me that she is going to watch an episode of LOST online. She watched the pilot episode. Why did she do that… because she wants to take interest in something that interests me. What a great wife I have. She is willing to take an interest in something that I like in order spend more time with me. She must really love me.

Good thing I love her too!

Fact-check Friday!

It's been a little while but they're back. The Annenberg Public Policy Center has returned with another installment of "Just the Facts". As a non-partisan group they do a great job of presenting the truth in a sea of fiction from all parties. 


Enjoy!

What old emails say...

Have you ever come upon old emails and tried to remember what you were thinking at the time. Or what was going on in your life? Sometimes you might find one and wish that yo hadn't sent it. Or maybe your opinions have changed since you wrote the email. It happens to the best of us. 


I came upon an article in All Things Digital (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com) that outlined a situation where this occurred... to Bill Gates. Yes sir, the king of all geekdom has an email that he may have wished he'd not saved. You can read about it below. 

Source:http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100211/bill-gates-on-itunes/

I also heard on the radio the other day about the lack of privacy that exists in the digital world. The right of privacy is not the same as it is with physical communication. I guess someone forgot to tell Microsoft.