Help Stop Family Violence in California!

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"Hello Stop Family Violence California!

There is frightening news for victims of domestic violence in the Governor's budget.

Governor Schwarzenegger has eliminated all state funding for Domestic Violence programs - funding that legislators had approved!

Programs will close and lives will be lost if this funding is not reinstated!

YOU CAN HELP!

Visit http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/pages/441 to send a free, pre-written message to your CA legislators urging them to reinstate this life-saving funding.

Then please forward this message to your friends, family, colleagues - anyone who lives in California!

Last please help get the word out on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace: Here's the message:

CA Gov Eliminates funding for Domestic Violence Programs. Lives will be lost. You can help! CA residents click http://bit.ly/3jKQSo

Thanks for your quick action on this!

Together, we can.. www.stopfamilyviolence.org

Irene Weiser"

where godaddy went wrong

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I have been a godaddy customer for years.  My company(s) use godaddy both for hosting and domain name registration in the past.  They are well known, provide good prices, and decent service - most of the time.

This past month whilst traveling abroad in through Asia, I submitted a simple request to remove an auto-renewing service called smart space (which is not worth it IMO).  I had it added in as a promotion when I registered this domain (mikemuonline.com).

Within minutes of using smart space, I decided it was going to be a waste of money and went with squarespace instead.  I immediately switched the site over.

Fast forward a month, and I find out that it was on autorenewal and I could not figure out how to remove it / cancel it.  I submit a request to customer service to please have them REMOVE the service immediately and that it was inconvenient for me to do so while traveling abroad.

They did not remove it.  They replied telling me how, which didn't help at all because 1. I had very limited internet access.  2. I still couldn't find it.

I replied and asked them again to please just remove it for me.

Today I got another bill for the service.  GRRR!!

Now that I have internet service, I removed the automatic renewal of the horrible smartspace.  At the end it asked me to fill out a survey - gladly!  Well the script failed and of course no survey could be submitted.

While I'm just out $10 because all of this is non-refundable (written in red on the side), they have lost a lot more business from myself and my colleagues.  I will now at most just register domain names with them and not recommend anything else.

 

Its not just the drunk, and inexperienced drivers...

If you are over the age of 60, forgetful, don't know how to get somewhere, drive half the speed limit, and are of Asian descent, please, please don't drive. This is particularly true if you are driving in California, but equally important in Asia.  

Let someone else drive, and if you know this is about to happen, offer to drive.

This is a public service announcement.


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You've heard about Bing! But do you know about Microsoft 'Labs' other FREE stuff for photographers?

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Most recently I've tried out:

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools for geotagging and ITPC tagging.

Microsoft Photosynth for a 3D experience.  This is a very interesting proof of concept which I look forward to pulling out my old photographs for.  Wow - just check it out.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor for Panos.

Microsoft Live Photo Gallery.

These tools are all FREE, and I'm definitely recommending any photographer to add these to their software arsenal.

Interesting Bit-Torrent, and peer to peer users statistics

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New study Micro-analyzed among 18-44 year olds:

34% watch more movies in theatres, rent more movies.

24% buy more movies than average.

Tend to have more and better equipped home theatres.

Spend less time watching TV.

Do far more downloading and streaming of videos.

Tend to be early adopters.

Share more of their opinions online.

 

None of this surprises me.  Yet the RIAA, MPAA, etc say downloading is bad, breaking the law when they should really be embracing this group of P2P users.

Microsoft Vista (and Windows Server 2008) Service Pack 2 available

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It 'quietly' was released yesterday.  I'm currently downloading all 1.7 GB of it to burn on DVD for installation now.

Its going to be a pain for anyone who has a bad service pack 1 installation.  I have one such laptop that is going to be a problem, but I was planning on re-installating the entire system anyway.

Microsoft Zune HD announced

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Today Microsoft announced the Zune HD, which is basically an Apple iTouch competitor.  It's going to have multitouch web browsing and interface, and HD radio and HD output through a separate docking station.

I really don't see how this is going to compete with the iTouch unless they do something incredibly drastic.  If anything all those cool apps that make the Apple iTouch and iPhone so awesome is reason enough not to go with anything else.

Its said we will find out more about the unit at E3.