Work today was very very busy.. Things going on.. All very crazy!
Well at least today's done with and since I came in I've been relaxing with YouTube..
Came across this Indian dancing music video and for some reason it kept me entranced... Just wish I had that energy!
I recently set myself up on Twitter
It's where I update "My Twitterings" (in the right sidebar) but also as well as doing that it can be used for direct messages to other members who have added each other as a friend, which in a way is like free txt messaging. You set up your mobile to do this and then as long as you just message from the web it wont cost you a penny!
You can send updates to the web and to friends via your phone but you may be charged for the messages (as I was) but it's free to recieve messages and updates from others..
You can choose who you recieve these updates and messages from. Also set the phone notifications to OFF during the night.
Now I'm all set up the only thing is I don't know many people who use it (only 2 at the moment) so theres not a lot going on for me in it! So if you fancy a Twitter just add me and let me know!
Whilst signing up for an account recently I was asked to enter my timezone (which is GMT) I noticed a timezone I had not heard of before, "Mountain Time" what a lovely name... it conjures up a picture of an idyllic quiet life living in beautiful mountains far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life...
I wanna go there!
Anyone reading living in "Mountain Time"?
For some time I have been using Cooliris. It's a browser add-on and I have found it very useful.
It enables you to preview links on webpages, search results, bookmarks on Del.icio.us, videos on YouTube, photos on Flickr... Click HERE for more...
The options allow you to choose how the previews open:
* Mouseover Icon - (selected by default) This option inserts a Cooliris icon to the right of previewable links. Once you mouse-over the icon, you can see the preview.
* Mouseover - To preview a link, simply rest your mouse over the link. You can customize the time it takes for the preview to appear by specifying the 'Preview Open Delay' in milliseconds.
* Mouseover + Ctrl - To preview a link, press control and then rest your mouse over the link.
* On Click - To preview a link, click it once. To navigate to the page, double-click the link.
Once the preview has opened you can scroll up and down in it, see if you like the page.. If you wish to keep it open, at the top of the preview are icons which allow you to lock the preview to keep it open, to open the page in a new tab, to go back, close or to email the link to a friend..
(Browsers supported are Firefox, Flock, Safari and IExplorer)
A few days ago I watched a TV documentary of these remarkable conjoined twins. They have achieved a great deal despite the obvious difficulties and it left me feeling rather humbled... They still have many obstacles ahead of them in life and I wish them well!
I think this site is so very cool.. it's a new music video site which has several channels hopefully catering to many peoples tastes.. including cartoons!
Its called Tubecast
As you can see it's still at the alpha stage but brilliant none the less!
Do check it out HERE
Oh, and by the way don't think I'm at all biased just because my son designed and made it all!
AnswerTips are small bubbles of information triggered by double-clicking any word on an AnswerTips-enabled page.
An AnswerTips-enabled page allows your visitors to access definitions and fast facts on millions of obscure words, personalities or slang.
I have now added this feature, try it out, double click any word, let me know if you think it's useful! (or not)
Find out take this TEST
This is the result I got:
Grounded in real life: Some of these statements seemed outlandish and wrong to you, but you found yourself wondering if maybe there was a little inner geek screaming to be let out to play.
(It's just a bit of fun!)
My partner came home with a Powerball today. It's a rather odd thing I had not seen before but it's supposed to help strengthen your arms/wrist and help with RSI and carpal tunnel.
I had a go and it's amazing how heavy it feels as the inner gyroscope spins faster and faster - a very odd sensation!
However it will take a lot of practice to get as good as this guy in the video!
GMail Fetcher
I read about this several months ago and have looked forward to it appearing on my Googlemail account ever since. But everytime I checked.. nothing.. Me being patient (haha) and having read that it was being added to accounts slowly, just had to accept that.
Tonight I was lucky enough to read this on wongaBlog.
It says if you are unable to see the “Get mail from other accounts” option try changing the language from English UK to English US.. so I did and it worked!
And I am very pleased :)
At last I can write about something I have had to keep quiet about for the past few days. Couldn't write about it as not all the family knew and didn't want to risk anyone finding out by reading it here before being told.
Anyway, my son came over to visit a couple of nights ago saying he had something to tell me! Well as you can imagine all things began to whizz around in my mind, (he is 25 by the way) and I began to feel very unsettled! So I asked him to just hurry up and tell me which he began to do with a large grin on his face - he said, "I'm getting married, we are having a kid and I'm leaving the country!" Wow! I was not prepared for how strange I would feel at that monment, I was totally in shock, but he still had this grin on his face which made me feel I had not heard the whole story or at least something was not as he had said...
So I begged him to continue, to give me the whole story, to explain more as I was not even aware he was seeing anyone... his next sentence threw me into even more of a state. he said that not all of the 3 were true, that only 1 was and that I should guess which one it was!
That was very difficult and oddly I said that I didn't think he was leaving the country, he was surprised, and then said that I was wrong because that was it, he is leaving the country.
He has been offered a job in Dubai, starting as soon as he can possibly get organised and get over there. I hoped he would say it was for a 6 or 12 month contract, but no it's actually a permanent contract.. so he could be gone for a long time. Now that's quite a difficult feeling to get used to, the first of my children living abroad. It was bad enough when he went away to uni a few years ago and that was only about 250 miles away!
I'm sure he will do well over there and things will be fine, it's just going to take a while for it to sink in and I'm going to miss him so much..
One good thing I guess is the possibility of holidays in Dubai :)
I get these stats from Blog Flux MapStats
All these different people from all these different countries! It's amazing this internet!
Today I didn't go out as still feeling a bit run down, and in the course of my day-long browsing I came across Yaplet
It's brilliant, you just add a button to your site/blog and then you can easily chat with other visitors to your site. There is no registration or installation, it's so clever it just works!
So give the green button at the top of the right hand sidebar a click and see if there are any other visitors to have a natter with right now! It will bring up a window on the right hand side of this page.
I know a few days ago I was chatting about YakAlike but I think this is waaay better, in fact I'm going to uninstall YakAlike!
Edit: I really feel the chat window needs a list of online users, as there is no way of telling if the person you are currently chatting to has left the page or not.. But I'm sure this will be implemented as the creators Matt and Cristina are only too happy to recieve feedback and ideas which is great.
The last couple of days I haven't been feeling too brilliant.. just a kind of general achey, headachy feeling, so not spent much time online and also have no inspiration for anything to blog about. I have just about managed to drag myself to work and I do mean drag...
Anyway hope to back to normal soon, in fact I hope I feel better Saturday or Sunday as I'd really like to get out and enjoy the weekend, the weather looks like it won't be too bad - maybe nice enough for some new photos!
This morning I found this in a magazine I read, and of couse being a Firefox extension I just had to try it.
It's called YakAlike .
It allows you to chat with other people on the same website as yourself by opening (at your choice) a window below the current page you are viewing. If you have lots of tabs open the "chat room" you are in will change accordingly as you switch tabs/pages - see pic.
It's a nice idea but I don't think many are using it yet as I have not come across anyone else online in one of the rooms yet.. or maybe it's just the wrong time of day, or maybe just the wrong webpages I look at ... lol
I know from the image it looks like people had been there but it was empty when I arrived, I think it was just showing past conversations.
Well if you fancy giving it a go let me know then maybe we can try it out on a page together, I just want to see it in action!
I don't think I had enough lunch today at work as I was so hungry when I got home this evening. That sort of hungry that makes me want to open the fridge and just eat everything there, but today, left on the table was a half eaten large sized bag of mango chilli kettlechips, my absolute favourite!! Left by my daughter for later no doubt. Oh well they've gone now! Crisps come very close to chocolate in that when I start I can't stop. Yummy!
I came across this on a blog I read regularly Cyber Chocolate and thought I'd give it a go as I like the subject matter... and I think the outcome is pretty accurate as well!
| Your EQ is 120 |
 50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick! 51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese. 71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely. 91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that. 111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt. 131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin. 150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar. |
I came across this news article today on the BBC.
Reading it made me shiver as I could have written it about myself. For years I have suffered with extreme PMS, which until you have experienced it is hard to imagine how dreadful you feel, as the article states sometimes suicide seems the only viable way out of these horribly devastating regular changes which occur every month for up to 14 days before a period. So that means only 1 week of every month feeling completely normal as 2 weeks are spent in a hellish state, 1 week bleeding and recovering, then back to hell. Not only hell inside myself but for all around me...
I had tried many changes to help alleviate this problem, dietry changes, supplements, you name it I probably tried it. That in itself is very difficult to do as well because when I was feeling in such a bad way I was not at all open to belief that anything could help me, so it was always very difficult to get started on anything or to continue long enough for any beneficial effect.
However, in the end I got so bad, I can't even describe how I was, my partner thought I had some kind of psychotic illness that I did eventually manage to crawl into my GP surgery. He suggested I try an anti-depressant, which at first I was very reluctant to do, thinking of all the nasty side effects etc. But after thinking about it for a while I decided that nothing could be worse than what I was already going through. So I took Citalopram for about 6-8 months and it was amazing.. almost right away we (I say we as it affected everyone around me) had months that were OK. Then I stopped it hoping I was cured - but no, within the next 3 months I had a steady fall back to how I was and I didn't like it one bit... So I returned to my GP who thankfully put me back on them again and my life soon returned to just about normal. I still get a bit ratty as it comes to that time of the month but NOTHING like before. I have now been on the medication for about a year non stop, just hope my GP allows me to stay on them long long term.. They have saved lives!
I have just joined this thing called Me.dium. Its very attractive and looks like it will be/could be very interesting, not tooo sure yet as I really haven't got to grips with it yet.
Take a look and if you need an invite just let me know and I can send you one. One thing, at the moment it only works with Firefox or Flock, which surely can't be a problem, who uses IE nowadays? LOL
Anyway "the more the merrier" I guess as it's all about interaction, and we can't interact if there's no-one there to interact with!
I came across this site The Sainsburys Virtual Museum which is a virtual museum of one of UKs leading supermarkets. Its fascinating to see the pictures of how they used to be and that the Sainsbury stores have been around since the 1890's!
It's a fascinating site which amongst other things has recipes from the war, stories of bomb damage, rationing, and lots of old photos such as this one, which was the first store in Drury lane London.
A site well worth a visit if you like a bit of history!
When I saw this pic it made me smile and I immediately thought of my daughters aged 18 and 23..
I know they are too young to be settled down but they always find faults in every man they meet, even silly little faults that you learn not to bother about as you grow older - they are just too young too believe there is no such thing as a "Perfect Man" just hope thay realise before they end up like this lady!
These woolly breasts are used by Liverpool Women's Hospital to show new mothers how to breastfeed and how to express milk.
The hospital appealed for volunteers to knit breasts for them and have been amazed at the response..
The knitting pattern for the breasts is being made available online for volunteers to download. (Although I've not found it)
The breasts are produced in a variety of skin shades and are cheaper than sourcing latex models, which cost around £35 each. Full Story on BBC
I came across this on padandpanty a blog I have been reading recently and I just had to post it here as it made me laugh... I remember these things, but was lucky enough that shortly after needing such items there were newer and neater ones around!
The weather forecast for tonight is SNOW and maybe 5-6 inches of it!! I really hope it does snow, it makes life a little more interesting, a bit less monotonous, but I wouldn't bet on it, maybe in the North it will but down here in London in the South East.. I doubt there will be much..
Well, off to bed now, gotta start a new book!
Seems like a good idea to me..
Help the Aged has given a warm welcome to the decision by the management of St Albans Swimming Baths to set aside a special swimming lane purely for pensioners who want to stand in the middle of the pool and chat to each other.
Water Activities Co-ordinator Sarah Morrison said; ‘We are simply responding to a growing demand by our most loyal customers. A lot of our older bathers don’t really want to swim at all. They tend to come just for the social side. Now they don’t need to feel self-conscious about sticking to water activities that suit them, such as gossiping, moaning about their husbands, complaining about the council, and laughing very loudly and slowly, you know the way old people do.’
hehehe..
Full Story HERE
Thought this may be of interest to some.. Most days they giveaway things that are no use to me but maybe one day! I have added the site feed to Google Reader so it's easy to check what's on offer each day!
Not long got in from work and on my journey home I began to reflect on the past day, in fact the past couple of days and I'm not liking all I was thinking.
The past 2 days I have said things I really didn't mean to say at work, came out with the kind of stupid comments you may think of, but never let them slip out. Babbled on about a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff, getting caught up in ridiculous conversations where it slowly began to dawn on me that I should have just kept quiet.. Never started the topic, I suppose it's a kind of verbal diarrhoea! (Yuck!)
Nothing I said was offensive to anything or anyone but just the kind of thing that in retrospect makes you cringe and feel quite embarrased although I'm sure (hope) no one else even really remembers..
Anyway, I'm going to have to try to keep my big mouth in check over the next few days or it could have more serious consequences!
Do other people have days like this or is it just me going slowly mad??
Came across this amazing cake in the shape of a small baby, not sure I'd feel comfortable cutting and eating it! more HERE
Watch it being created below...
Thanks to those who have commented on my use of Snap. One commenter, Mark, pointed out that any readers who do not like the pop-up previews can disable them for this site or all sites they visit.
To do this go to the options, (on the top right of a pop-up bubble) and make your choices.
So with that option available to everyone I don't think there is good reason for me to remove them and spoil it for those that do like them - so hopefully everyone will be happy?
Snap Preview?
It's been on my site for quite a while now and I think it's quite pretty, and useful as it gives a preview of where you will go (in a little pop-up box) if you click any particular link.
However, I have been reading that a good number of people find them annoying and would rather them not to be on any site they visit..
So I would be very interested and grateful if you, the readers, would tell me what you think of Snap preview on my site, as you are the ones who see it more than I do!
If most people actually do dislike it, then maybe it's time to say goodbye to Snap.. we'll see!
How we used to live.. my son sent this to me a couple of years ago and something just reminded me of it.. Click to view large and have a read, it's hilarious!
