Americans are drawing down on their personal savings at the fastest rate since the Great Depression, Japan’s debt is so large that it pushes the world’s financial systems to the limit and consumers in the UK are racking up more debt than ever before …
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Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt’s comment about stocking up on tuna and canned milk prompted me to talk with my friend about the bird flu. We ended up joking about isolating ourselves from the world and irradiating our mail with ultraviolet rays. My friend laughed and said that he’d patent the idea. I couldn’t help but look to see if somebody had already had. Here is the link.
I was perusing the WordPress plugins and I found one that allows me to synchronize my WordPress blog with a LiveJournal account. I’ve been thinking about signing up for an account so I can post (without posting anonymously) on my friend’s LiveJournal blogs. I haven’t signed up until now because I thought it would be silly to keep two separate blogs, have an empty Live Journal blog, or keep posting the same entries twice (I firmly believe that computers should be used to make our lives less complex, not more). Now I with the LivePress plugin I can post to my WordPess blog and it will automatically post a duplicate of it to my LiveJournal account. I don’t know if I’m going to get any real use out of this function, but I still think it’s neat. I guess now I can spread my nonsense across a broader spectrum of the Internet.
Response Insurance, from Connecticut, categorizes mall parkers as: “search and destroyers,” “lay and wait,” “stalkers,” and “see it and take it” drivers. I am definitely under the “see it and take it” column. I don’t understand those people who roam the lots to find a “good” space. Unless a person has a medical condition, it’s not worth the time, aggravation, and risk.
