Random Ramblings

Elephant Pharmacy

If you are looking at healthy living and alternative medicine Elephant Pharmacy is the place to go. They offer everything from traditional Western medicine and Eastern medicine.

Art

As I was going about my day I was thinking about sidewalk chalk art. Here is a link to Julian Beever's work. I think he is a very talented artist.

The Breast Cancer Site

This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

We can help generate some traffic so that they can continue to offer mammograms.

Parallels

I did have a snag in my upgrade yesterday. After deciding to upgrade the Parallels software I was not happy with the system behavior, slow and unresponsive. This was operator error on my part and after reading the manual, yes sometimes it is necessary, I now have things working well again. There are a couple of items I want to tweak, but overall not bad.

This weekend also found me updating my printer. I don't know about you, but I'm so tired of cords going everywhere! Wireless is the way to go.

Hope you are having a great Sunday!

Apple Computer Upgrade - Update

I'm loving my Mac Mini! Parallels installed without a hitch. Windows XP Pro installed no problem! I need a cable and a few more hours and the transition is done! I have not been working on this migration day and night, but a couple of hours here and there. The roof stayed on the building this time, no steam rising or screams!

SICKOCure.org

In case you are interested in health care reform (and you should be) and you could not find the link, (what was that guy's name, the one that made the movie?) here it is. His name is Michael Moore. His website complete with what to do information can be found by clicking on Mr. Moore's name.

If you are thinking, this does not effect me and you have your list of reasons why, think again. Anyone at anytime can be a statistic in the system due to no fault of your own. Help fix the system before you need it.

O'Reilly

If you have never been to O'Reilly.com they have books on just about any subject related to computers check them out at least once. I have an entire library of their books and find them very helpful. I have heard people that don't care for them at all. I guess it is like any other large organization, some will like them and some will not.

So far, so good

Setting up my new Mac Mini and monitor went really well today. I'm loving the new screen real estate and the Mac OS. Next week the data transfer and installing Windows on Parallels starts. I'm not expecting any issues, so this will be the most pain free transition ever.

I'll let you know how this week went. :-)

Apple

My exposure to computers began with PCs. I have listened to and watched the debate between PC computer users and Windows computer users. It never really mattered to me which computer I had as long as it connected to the Internet and allowed me to send email.

Now I am completely an Apple computer user. I will still run Windows programs using Parallels on my Apple computers because most of my applications are currently Windows based. The Apple or Mac computers are just better. I purchased and iBook 8 years ago and it is still running strong. That hard drive was so fragmented. When I finally bought a utility to defragment the drive, there was only 1 gig of space left that was no fragmented. They are work horses that just keep plugging along.

Sorry Windows and PCs, I'm replacing you for something that I find more reliable.

Blogging

I'm reading a book about blogging and I feel it is worth sharing this book, clear blogging by Bob Walsh. His detailed book about blogging its beginnings and were it is today are a great read if you want nothing more than to just understand the history and why we blog today. This is also a great book if you want to blog, are blogging and would like to get better at it.

At the end of each chapter, Mr. Walsh has included a little homework to get you started with your online research.

Here's to great blogs!