In the tradition of staying connected… I added Google Friend Connect to my site(s).  Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas, please let me know?

Now that school is almost over, I going to start changing things up a bit.  So stayed tuned!

Thanks!!!

I am will be re-designing my sites.

If you have any suggestions please let me know!

Thanks!

If you are a fan of Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and/or Henry Winkler… you will love this!!!

Keywords: ron howard election andy griffith henry winkler fonz andy taylor opie richie happy days barack obama 2008

Credits: Starring Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, Henry Winkler. Written By Ron Howard, Adam McKay. Directed by Jake Szymanski

Go here http://www.maps.google.com/vote and type in your address and register to vote!!

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Justin Timberlake, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Zach Braff, Colin Farrell, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Shia LeBeouf, Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, and Jason Segal, are featured in a second of a series of public service announcements to encourage American youth to vote in partnership with Google, YouTube, Declare Yourself, and MySpace. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to vote and participate in the upcoming election.

I signed up for Qwitter a few days ago and I thought it would be cool to see who was stopped following me…  Well, I got an interesting surprise when I went to their “following” page.  They were still following me??!!?! What’s up with that??

For those who don’t know what Qwitter is… it is a site that will monitor your Twitter account tell you when someone unsubscribes to your Twitter feed.

The strange thing is… I got a ton of unsubscribes at the same time.  It was like a batch process ran and randomly grabbed people and said that they have stopped following me I was very said; however, with a little re-search, all was ok.  I think Qwitter needs to fix their API!

Phase 1

You are listening to STEVIE WONDER
( Your first hour at work and all is fine and great )

Phase 2

You are listening to HOUSE music
( After a while you are so busy that you are not sure if you’re coming or going anymore )

Phase 3

You are listening to HEAVY METAL
( This is how you feel right before your lunch break )

Phase 4

You are listening to HIP HOP
( You become bloated due to stress, feel sluggish and suffer from constipation )

Phase 5

You are listening to GANGSTER RAP
( After more time passes, your eyes start to twitch and you forget what a “good hair day” feels like, as you load up on caffeine )

And Finally…
Phase 6 kicks in

You are listening to TECHNO (on Ecstasy)
( The truth is…this is how all employees end up eventually )

Go here http://www.maps.google.com/vote and type in your address and register to vote!!

A bunch of actors got together and filmed this…  it is good!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

From : http://www.blogday.org/ so you follow them too..

BlogDay posting instructions:

1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2008
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
   http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org

1) Sean Percival is probably one of my most favorite persons to follow.  He is quite brilliant and if I still lived in CA… I would do my best not to stalk him daily

2) Jason Calacanis - as we all know Jason no longer “blogs”; however, we all know he still communicates in other ways.  I still love reading what he has to say.  I just wish he would come back

3) Chris Brogan - one word.  Brilliant!  This man is very insightful and has a good head on his shoulders.  Just read it!

4) Lon Harris - his blog is really not why I read it… it is more about the man behind the blog.  I admire Lon for him comic wit and he is just a nice guy!

5) CptObvious1031 - Mr. CptObvious1031 is one of my best friends!!  He has a twisted look on life and that is why like him so much!  Just a good read anytime you are down.

Yes, I was one of the millions of people that stood in line on Friday morning.  I got there at 5:15am-ish and waited patiently until 8am.  I was about number 30, so, I was in and out by 8:40am-ish.  Well, as you probably guessed (as many of us did), I played with my new toy all weekend.

Well I have to say, my first iPhone experience was not necessarily a pleasant one.

Let me try and explain.

First, I will be doing a short series on my experience with this new toy and hopefully some videos on how do some of the things I found.

Second, let me start by saying, that this new toy is AWESOME!!  The only thing I don’t like is the keyboard, other than that… it ROCKS!!

Third, even though the Microsoft Exchange piece is easy to setup and works really well.  I highly recommend to anyone who going to use it… do not initialize the process until you have installed all of the applications you want on to your iPhone, first.

I say this from my recent experience…  I am not saying this is the case for everyone, but this happened to me.

On Friday, I immediately initialized my Exchange on my iPhone and my email started flowing right away… YAY

After that, I hooked it up to my MacBook Pro (after I installed iTunes 7.7).  I stated by adding some applications right away.  Well, that caused all types of problems.  I installed Remote, Twitter, AIM, Google Apps, PhoneSaber, Light, Loopt, Flickr, Pandora and about two or three other apps. Well, it started rebooting about every 30 to 60 seconds.  So, I uninstalled all of the apps and started over… well, this took me all day Friday and part of morning on Saturday.  Then I finally gave up (after two full resets and data wipes).  I took it back to the Apple store.  They were very nice and exchanged it.

So, I took it home and started missing around with it again… well, guess what???  It started happening again.  I knew that it wasn’t the hardware (mostly)… I knew it had to be the software and/or configuration.  So, I started slowly (again - both on my Mac and PC), and initialized Exchange and installed one application.  Well, within 20 minutes, it started rebooting again.  So, I reset again.  Installed one application and then did the Exchange setup and it ran just fine for a couple hours.  So, I tempted fate and added couple more apps.  Well, it took about 10 minutes and it did it again… reboot city.  Mind you, these apps are nothing special, just the ones I mentioned above.  So, I thought just maybe I would add all the apps I wanted then initialize Exchange.  Well, that has been working for about 6 hours now and no reboots.

Crazy story, but it is mine

Well, I hope to have more stuff later on this week.

Enjoy your iPhone, if you have one… I know I will “tomorrow”

NBC’s Tim Russert died on June 13, 2008. He was host of Meet the Press and served as a political analyst for NBC, including NBC Nightly News and The Today Show. He died from a sudden heart attack.

Please check out Mahalo’s Page:

http://www.mahalo.com/Tim_Russert_Dead