I put in a support ticket this morning for a website installation on my domain and got a response with a resolution in less than 15 minutes-- at 6:15AM!! Plus they dropped the price on hosting accounts by $1. Anybody looking for a webhost?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/12/help-victims-devastating-earthquake-t...

Since my last post was pretty harsh, I wanted to make sure I followed up with some evidence that there are some good things happening out there in the media.

Going through my news feed today, I was floored by how many articles there were criticizing someone about Japan's current crises situation. Articles about their government, the Red Cross, our government, our utility companies-- the list is endless! For God's sake, the situation is still unfolding and people still desperately need help! It's not the appropriate time to critique anyone for anything; it's time to deal with the immediate need. If the energy that went into standing on a podium (like I am, ironically, doing now) and shaking your fist was put towards getting blankets to people huddled in schools with no heat and no electricity, I would list you among my personal heroes. Seriously, our media needs to grow up. If you can't do anything to help the situation, show some humanitarian respect by not turning the worst thing that will ever happen to them and their families into a cheap mud-slinging circus. How can you, really, look at the faces of the teriffied children with nothing left and still churn out this absolute crap? ...rant over...thanks for listening.

Verizon iPhones Fell Back an Hour Instead of Springing Ahead - http://pulsene.ws/157DX

I never thought that daylight savings was a particularly great idea. Maybe i should have bought an iPhone. Looks like, while most of us will wake up groggy and miserable tomorrow for having lost an hour of sleep, Verizon's iPhone users will wake up feeling refreshed, albeit late for work.

How Game Mechanics Will Solve Global Warming - http://pulsene.ws/15d1T

This is an awesome article about what the next 10 years will (possibly/probably?) be like. Playing games revolves around solving problems. By creating a social layer (like Facebook is a social layer) around games, we enable players to solve larger and larger problems by engaging larger and larger audiences.

GADDAFI UNLEASHES AIR ASSAULT - http://pulsene.ws/14jQj

It's so sad that the relatively peaceful transition of power ocurring in many places in the mideast is marred so terribly by this man's willingness to turn on his own people.

Seriously, plastic is some scary sh*t. That plastic bottle on the sidewalk you just stepped over will be around after we're all extinct. So, why in the hell is it a good idea to take a banana and sell it individually wrapped in plastic? In fewer words, that's dumb!

Del Monte Gives Middle Finger to Nature with Plastic-Bagged Bananas (Updated) [Crap] - http://pulsene.ws/13IM0

We were just talking about how the first Cities97 Sampler CDs were given away as promos and now you have to line up to get one. I'm hoping this Patagonia project takes off the same way.

Patagonia Music Launches on March 1 With Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt, Philip Glass, Jack Johnson and More - http://pulsene.ws/13Jwx

jmsardo:
RT @shabablibya: BREAKING: Confirmed eye witness phone call, 1000s on streets of Benghazi at the moment chanting for Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
http://twitter.com/jmsardo/status/40423341097484288

MahmoudAbouEita:
RT @AlArabiya_Eng: There are around 10 thousand killed people in Libya, a member of the ICC tells Alarabiya #alarabiya #Libya #feb17 #Feb17 @gaddafi #gaddafi
http://twitter.com/MahmoudAbouEita/status/40423330628640769

hana_elhattab:
RT @ShababLibya: Libyan newspaper confirms the aircrew who defected to Malta where ordered to bomb benghazi but refused #Libya #Feb17
http://twitter.com/hana_elhattab/status/40423285703450624

ThatsBoB:
Report: Tripoli deserted; opposition seizes major city: Anti-government protesters say they've seized control of... http://bit.ly/hKDXP4
http://twitter.com/ThatsBoB/status/40746197039714304

lemlibya:
RT @lisang: News #Libya: People of Zawiya, about 100 km from Tripoli, pushed back Qaddafi loyalists today. They are armed. http://tinyurl.com/4asccs6
http://twitter.com/lemlibya/status/40746190513381377

Abu_Xales:
AP: One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's closest aides, Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam defects to Egypt http://apne.ws/gOrW8Z #Libya
http://twitter.com/Abu_Xales/status/40746173476118528

iyad_elbaghdadi:
Eyewitness from Azzawiya on live Aljazeera: 30,000 protesters now chanting Victory or martyrdom , face attacks with sticks & stones #Libya
http://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/40746135496695808

Spent the morning shredding old paperwork. I have a love hate relationship with our shredder. I would love to see the motor go out so I can get a new one. Every time I use it I laugh at the safety icons plastered across the top. One of them is a picture of a necktie with an X through it. The caption states: 'No tie.' Really?? What I find disturbing is that they probably wouldn't have put it there unless, at some point, people trying to shred their neckties enough for it to become a problem. I can't think of a necktie I've owned that was ugly enough for me to attempt to dispose of it in my shredder.