Gary’s Posterous

The person who invented this sentence is either a Vocabulary GENIUS or
is absolutely JOBLESS.
 
Why?
 
You’ll soon find out !!!
 
Read the sentence below carefully…
 
“I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing
handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality
counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes
intercommunications incomprehensibleness”.
 
This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long.
 
e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on...

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Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget.
We have gone through every line of code in every program in every
system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including
backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the
change. We are proud to report that we have completed the "Y-to-K"
date change mission, and have now implemented all changes to all
programs and all data to reflect your new standards:
 
Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September,
October, November, December
 
As well as:
 
Sundak, Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak
 
I trust that this is satisfactory, because to be honest, none of this
Y to K problem has made any sense to me. But I understand it is a
globalproblem, and our team is glad to help in any way possible. And
what does the year 2000 have to do with it? Speaking of which, what do
you think We ought to do next year when the two digit year rolls over
from 99 to 00? We'll await your direction.

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Packt have opened the voting for the Packt Author of the Year Award 2009. The Packt Author Award 2009 is open to authors of all Packt books published during 2008 which includes my Learning FreeNAS book.

By voting and answering the survey, you enter yourself into a prize draw to win one of three iPod Shuffles.

Go to Packt Author Award and click the VOTE NOW! link and select "Learning FreeNAS" in the "Choose the book that you want to vote for:" drop down box and then fill out the rest of the form.

Voting closes the 28th May.

Please pass this on to all your friend!!!! :-)

Thanks,

Gary

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A quick report on how Islam could become the dominant world religion
and culture based purely on birth rate.
 

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John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood
and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him
how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be
twins!'
 
He was a natural motivator.
 
If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the
employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
 
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and
asked him, 'I don't get it!
 
You can't be a positive person all of the time How do you do it?'
 
He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two
choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can
choose to be in a bad mood
 
I choose to be in a good mood.'
 
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I
can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
 
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I
choose the positive side of life.
 
'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested.
 
'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices. When you cut away
all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to
situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
 
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's
your choice how you live your life.'
 
I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry
to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him
when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
 
Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious
accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
 
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released
from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
 
I saw him about six months after the accident.
 
When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be
twins. Wanna see my scars?'
 
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through
his mind as the accident took place.
 
'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my
soon-to-be born daughter,' he replied. 'Then, as I lay on the ground,
I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I
could choose to die. I chose to live.'
 
'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?' I asked
 
He continued, '..the paramedics were great.
 
They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me
into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and
nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'.
I knew I needed to take action.'
 
'What did you do?' I asked.
 
'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said
John. 'She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The
doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took
a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity''
 
Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on
me as if I am alive, not dead.'
 
He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the
choice to live fully.
 
Attitude, after all, is everything.
 
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' Matthew 6:34.
 
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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Some church signs you might not have seen... I think my favourite is "There are some questions which can't be answered by Google".

                             

Click here to download:

Some_church_signs_you_might_no.zip (652 KB)

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A recently published report says that social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and blogs are more popular than email.

During December 2008, there were 242 million unique visitors to so-called member communities but only 236 million to email sites around the world. The figures are mirrored in Britain, with 25.6 million visitors to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Blogger compared with 24.2 million users logging on to Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail.

I have just discovered Twitter myself, you can follow me here.

Twitter is becoming more and more mainstream with Twitter users including 10 Downing Street, Barack Obama, the BBC and Google.

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I just found this excellent video on YouTube. As a promotion for Samsung SSDs they put together a monster computer which runs FAST! The systems uses 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD's in a RAID configuration.

The computer uses:

• 24 x 256GB SSD drives (6TB in total)
• 2 x Quad Core QX9775 processors (with huge fans)
• 2 x Radeon HD4870 X2 video cards using crossfire
• 4GB of RAM
• 2 x 1000 Watt power supplies

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I read with interest this piece that Olympus has declared an end to the megapixel race. Megapixels like Megahertz can sometimes be a red herring. Olympus said "Increasing the number of megapixels on cameras is an easy selling point for camera makers, in part because it's a simple concept for people to understand." Which I am sure is true. Personally I have a 6 Megapixel camera and it is more than enough for me. But I would like better dynamic range, color reproduction, and a better ISO range for low-light shooting which is what Olympus said they are going to concentrate on now!

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Matt Cutts, who works for Google - specializing in search engine optimization issues, has written about how to to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube... I didn't know this was possible... But it is!!!

If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For example,

youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s

Notice the “#t=31m08s” on the end of the url? That link will take you 31 minutes and 8 seconds into that video. This example takes you straight to where someone asks Eric Schmidt a question about Twitter. From there, you can listen to his answer.

Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on link spam. Cutts also advises the public on how to get better website visibility in Google and inequitably imposes, as some justifiably argue, the infamous "Google penalty" on select websites.

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