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I just had a brilliant idea. The inspiration for this idea was the fact that I wanted to write a blog post, but I had absolutely not one thought in my head. It happens.

So, my idea is to create a virtual jar where bloggers can add the ideas that they don’t want to create posts with. There is a random retrieval process and each idea that is added can only be removed once. This will allow people like me to just go and grab a one or two sentence idea and use it to create original content. This is quite possibly the best idea since sliced bread. For the record, I prefer unsliced bread. Once this jar is created, I am going to put in ‘Sliced Bread Versus Unsliced Bread.’ See, the ideas don’t have to be original or profound.

The100YearWebsite is an interesting idea. Users can pay to have some data kept securely for 100 years and they can choose various options with regard to accessibility. I think that if you go in for this thing, you should get a watch or a ring or something engraved with http://www.the100yearwebsite.com/ just in case the metal canister that you receive in the present day is forgotten about 100 years from now. Your grandchild might wonder what the old fashioned URL is all about and then he or she will have a lecture at school about the Internet . The teaching unit might even give each student a copy of the Internet to take home and examine. Once you remove all the porn it fits easily on a 4 Googlebyte memory key. Don’t worry about your grandchild finding out about all the dysfunctional friends that you have on your MySpace…you’ll be DEAD.

The cool thing about the 100 Year Website is that they will update your data should technological changes warrant it. They will always make a duplicate copies and then transfer the images, text, audio and/or video from one copy of your data into the more up to date file type.

I guess that what this Virtual Time Capsule does best is allow you to chose what information you want to highlight as representative of your present day life and times. Remember the oft told fact about how our television broadcasts are traveling through space and that intelligent life will receive the oldest stuff first? Maybe you would like to encapsulate a video blog explaining the socioeconomic implications of Good Times. Maybe you just want to store family pictures and your favorite music. It is entirely up to you.

These Virtual Time Capsules make great gifts. You have the choice of conveying it electronically, or they can receive a physical package that looks cool and has all the login information inside.

Organizations like Amnesty International are using this service. I plan to check out the site 48 days from now because their capsule will be open to the public then. There are capsules belonging to groups, families and individuals that are viewable by the public right now.

TheIntelligentCommunity.com, makes it obvious simply by their web address that they are ready for an argument. They have a very interesting product that is now available for download. It is a file for the iPod that is meant as a companion audio critique that you can listen to as you read Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. The podcast points out 200 instances where the author’s facts and/or statistics may be called into question.

The Intelligent Community Website presents this as a tool to help teach critical thinking. I am already pretty good at that task, and I have reasoned that the website is supported by individuals or groups that are on the other side of the theism versus atheism debate.

They encourage everyone who has critically read the book with the aid of their podcast to add their voice to the reviews of the book on Amazon.

If ever get to live my dream of having a Hot Tub, I want it to last. My goal is to successfully recreate every famous movie and television scene that takes place in a hot tub.

In the scene from Boogie Nights featuring Mark Wahlberg , Burt Reynolds and John C. Reilly I think I will play the part that Mark Wahlberg played.

In the scene from About Schmidt featuring Jack Nicholson and Cathy Bates, I will go with the Jack role. I wish there was a smiley that grinned like Jack.

I would even try to do my best impression of Marilyn Manson in the Tainted Love video, but it would have to be Halloween.

I could go on, but people might start to think I am weird. I just noticed the keyword search on IMDb and got carried away.

These sorts of situations are very hard to arrange and rehearse, so I need to take steps to make sure my Hot Tub will hold up against the elements for many years. The Hot Tub Covers that you can have custom built by TheCoverGuy.com are built of the best materials. The website has an application that allows you to input the exact specs so you receive a custom built cover that fits precisely. There are several options to choose from and lots of advice as well.

I was just reading today that scientists are predicting heavier snowfall and cooler weather in the western regions of North America during the next few years. If you live in that general area, you may want to upgrade your sauna cover even if the original cover is still in one piece. TheCoverGuy.com builds extreme covers that are 5 inches thick in the center and 4 inches on the sides. They are build to withstand a heavy snowfall.

I honestly had no idea that night golf was a glowing…I mean growing trend. I spent a few years living beside a golf course and I pretty certain that there were no night games.

I used to walk my black lab on the golf course on moonlit nights. Golf courses at night are beautiful and just a bit spooky.

I can see how it would make a great corporate event. I have played golf with coworkers in the conventional way before and I always find that there is a discord of sorts between the serious golfers and the social golfers. If you have a corporate golf event at night with the course marked out with glow sticks, it’s pretty clear that it’s just for fun. It levels the playing field. The essential night golf supplies include glow sticks of various colors and of course, glow in the dark golf balls.

Don’t under-buy when it comes to the golf balls. I think you will lose a few on a dark night. The balls are available in four bright colors, so each team can have a different color of balls.

PremierGlow.com has a very illuminating interactive introduction to night golf. They also sell those crazy blinking things that people were at trade shows and events in 91 different styles. Somebody gave me one of those things once and I couldn’t get it to stop blinking. I put it in a drawer and I have moved since then. It might still be blinking somewhere.

So, in my last post I mentioned the new computer. I’m working at this computer right now. When we get around to installing the important programs in it like DreamWeaver and Photoshop, I will have to go back to an old computer again. We didn’t buy a new desk and chair to go with this new desk top unit. I am actually sitting at an entertainment center at the moment and my next hurts a bit. It’s not very entertaining. I would like to find a good source for used office furniture.

Cubicle Depot has a great business model. It’s good for business and good for the environment. They professionally refurbish office furniture including the typical units that are being used to furnish call centers. Without Cubicle Depot, much of this stuff would end up contributing to the solid waste disposal problems. They operate in the Dallas area. I would like to see this business model being practiced everywhere. Several years ago I did my own miniature version of this enterprise when the company I worked for was expanding. I actually took the desk that had belonged to the founding manager home and installed in a child’s bedroom. It was a huge hardwood built-in unit. I left it in place when we moved later that year.

It seems weird that expansions result in surplus furniture, but the reality is when people have designers involved and lots of cash flow, they usually want all new, all coordinated furniture. It’s great to have someone like Cubical Depot to take the unwanted furniture and spruce it up making it available to smaller businesses or even individuals.

My brain hurts from trying to think about the implications of a battery that uses plant sugars as its energy source. The announcement as reported by Reuters has no information as to when these might actually be available to the public.

The only prediction that I can make with confidence is that complimentary sugar packets at restaurants and cafes will disappear when these batteries hit the streets. The low amount of electricity produced is suitable for operating things like iPods. I think the recent break-throughs with solar panels will make this sugar battery kind of pointless.

I really like Pine Beds and the items featured at Wooden-Beds.com are a good example of the kind of beds that I like. Simple yet elegant design without any impractical elements. That is what I want in a bed.

I had been given a second hand futon once and, being the handy man that I am, I took it apart and used the lumber to make a computer desk. Futons are not among my favorite things. I like to be a good foot or two off of the ground when I am asleep. This Plank Bed is my favorite. The pine beds sold on Wooden-Beds.com have a lacquer and wax treatment that gives them a rustic look and practical durability.

Most people get on a self improvement kick of one kind or another on a regular basis. Personal goals might be related to wealth, health, relationships or any number of other things.

The self help industry is lucrative because people don’t typically decide to improve themselves, find the best resources, achieve a goal and then stop. The typical cycle is for a person to set an unrealistic goal, seek out resources that promise to help them achieve that goal, fail, and lay some of the blame on the resource. This blame is well deserved in many cases.

The Law of Attraction videos bypass the steps that are more like stumbling blocks for many people and if in 6 weeks you fail to see results, your money can be refunded with no questions asked.
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The key points of the law of attraction method involves recognizing and overcoming obstacles.

Kiva is a website that provides very low interest loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. We have been supporting this model since late last year. Our experience from the lender side is exactly what is portrayed in this very well produced video.

I highly recommend participating in Kiva . The website is featuring another great video in which a NYT journalist visits his own loan recipient at a bakery in Kabul. Here is a PDF of his article.