For those who are not aware of the cheapest Voip option available, browse over to the MagicJack site. Voip, by the way, is basically a phone line over your broadband Internet connection.

After the first year Magic Jack is only $20 a year. You get the whole works…unlimited outbound calling, an inbound number, caller id and voicemail. Even with the latest trouble of the bleepin beeps – its a steal. This short little blog post is in hopes that it creates more attention to the problem and they will get around to fixing it sooner.

Basically, whenever you call someone with the MagicJack, they or you hear what sounds like keystrokes, quite frequently. Highly annoying yes, but may be a good way to get those certain people not too call and talk for so long as it usually is the inbound callers that hear it. Perhaps its the Government monitoring the calls. So nice of them to let us know! Either way, its to the success of MagicJack’s future, that they do fix the problem quickly.

The only version I will be well, reading – has already been “scripted”. It was wrote the way it should have been the first time. Now Hollywood is once again treading on Holy Ground.

If you think of yourself as a “Christian” meaning to be Christ like and understand the Word, this series touches on things that should not have been. To start with, and the most sensitive item, is when the producers use Butterflies to represent the Holy Ghost/Spirit of God anointing His chosen individual.

The Word is very clear about this, and the consequences of making light about anything related to this aspect of God, or the Godhead.

Matthew 12:31-32

³¹Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

³²And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

To continue we will proceed next to the part of the king’s son being gay. In the Word, Jonathon, David’s friend, was clearly not gay. It also mentions that they were closer in their friendship than brothers and as such would not do anything as happened in the last episode where I quit watching.

Those who are not well founded in the Word and only listen to what is being preached to them, instead of reading it for themselves, could very well enjoy this series. In turn, they could also be further misled, and may step in an area that there is no forgiveness for. I for one, cannot in good consciousness continue watching, and or, recommend this series to anyone.

In conclusion one must ask. How dangerous it for our own Salvation to watch things from the Word that they twist around so much to fit such entertainment scripts?

                                          
Easter is coming up and with your friends hiding eggs on your profile Facebook decided to get in on the game. If eggs could have smell online, which they eventually will, the one they did not hide so well on ours – smells quite bad.
 
Ever since the new layout my friends there are mentioning they do not like the new at all. In fact, I noticed one has already signed up for twitter and more are soon to follow.

What is Facebook thinking? Making more money with the current design, or keeping twitter from stealing their thunder as the old saying goes? First it was the terms and conditions and now this. If they do not switch back to the previous layout, my predictions are, they will soon start noticing less traffic and more account deletions.

As I am into several different categories of interest e.g. Web Development, Radio Station, and then my “friends”, I am trying to decide if multiple twitter accounts are best or just one. Not sure if I want the one group to see the related topics of the other. I do not want to turn off the one, from twitters to the other, and so on.

As a Web Developer and a user I ask, why not place add sense off to the right as we do not like how the side bar is currently. We would not mind seeing humorous video ads per related interest categories at the top of this section as well. This would take care of financial concerns – if any. I, for one, also do not mind seeing an occasional public opinion poll or questionnaire on the main stream or wall.

For some reason people like seeing their own status as we once could, “Joseph is done posting a new – no to Face book blog”. Perhaps it is an ego thing but whatever, – put it back. Put all of it back, or prepare to die a very slow and painful death!

Ever see a monkey cleaning another’s hair? I for one would concur that a monkey could and would do a better job than the average government inspection procedure.

For those who do not understand how such things work, please allow me to indulge myself. You see, after the recent salmonella problem here in Georgia and Texas, I was not at all surprised that something like this happened.

Here is out it works. In my situation, they come out once a year, to “inspect” the apartments where I live. That was supposed to have happened here this past week.

They let management know ahead of time when they are coming out. Then management sometimes let the “tenants” know the day prior that they will be entering units “at random”.

Management, of course, is then in a tizzy rushing around trying to make sure that the outside of the units are presentable, especially. They usually know from past experience what to expect.

The USDA Inspector has not entered my place one time, of all the past 5 years I have been here. They usually go into the one or two units every single time and the same ones every year. As for this year I do not know about the others aside my own from being asleep at the time. Yes I would know had they entered – just ask my brother who was here.

To top it off, the Inspection agency has an office next town, over which is where they come from, as far as I understand. This means that the owners/management probably know them quite well.

Perhaps now you’re beginning to understand how such things can happen with the peanut butter recalls. First and foremost the government is making a huge mistake in notifying others when they will be there. Next they send folks who probably know each other very well.

In conclusion, it is usually a matter for the owners of the location, whatever the business may be, if they care about what they do. They would then, of course, strive at all times to do the best they can to maintain quality, regardless of inspectors. This overview will conclude that the government is as much at fault as those who make own, manage, or work at individual locations.

Prior to the last few days Facebook worked as it should. Recently features do not function properly and pages load way too slow or not at all. Are they growing too fast or what?

First along these lines… gone is the post button  on the wall when you first log in. It is on your profile, however. Is this normal? 

Next the chat feature does not work as it should in Firefox although at this time it may be due to the most recent Add Block Plus plugin. “If you do not have it get it as it may save you the trouble of being infected from online adds.”

This is only a very quick observation about the sites loss of quality. My suggestion? Add more servers and network capacity. It really destroys the joy of using the service. We really do not want to go back to MySpace.

One last note and if not already in place it should be. Tools to check various profile load speeds around various parts of the country and the world. These should be tested using other servers aside from Facebook.

Update:

After checking several things I am not sure what to think. Both IE 6 and 8 and also Firefox seem to have trouble. Chrome and Opera work as they should with the site. This means that it rules out add block plus on Firefox partially and as IE also has trouble. It could be a browser and site problem both. 

Conclusion:

My apologies to Facebook. It appears to be the first filter selection that users can select in the Add Block Plus plugin.
After uninstalling and reinstalling and selecting a different one it FB seems to act more normally. Further testing is required but this seems to conclude the matter. Folks this is how you debug issues.

Most times people know you care about them by how you relate to them. For example, taking the time to call, or visit, or go to an event. This shows the true character of friendship.

I would be the first to admit that I use my social phobia as my main excuse for such things. I really do hate large crowds. I probably would tell you that I would not take a million cash at times to go.

For the most part, in my situation, that is true. Being the geek that I am, I feel uncomfortable being away from the PC. But is that really a good excuse?

It is a fact, that the more such types, or anyone else, are out in public the better the situation and the more likely they are to go the next time. Compare it to a baby taking its first steps.

But then what am I saying? Take the first step. Get off Facebook and just go, quit texting and make a call instead. After all it is the little things that matter in life.

Loaned the ole freebie out which taught me something about doing such things. Make sure to set regulations for borrowed systems. After all, your friend is lucky to know you and be able to use one of yours while theirs is being worked on.

Anyhow, when I got it back, it would not boot to bios. Power supply was ok memory ok as far as I know. I tested through all the usual debugging steps with no success.

Oh well – now it has been totally dismantled for the parts. Manufacturers need to quit using old parts such as memory thus driving up the prices. After all newer memory is faster and sometimes cheaper.

Well it’s getting to be another late night. Waiting on my iso to burn and listing to my Pandora Petra station. What a life.

Ha! Look what I found. Mr T, my next door neighbor taking his daily walk along our street. The best I can tell is the Google Street View vehicle drove through my town about this, “that is, right before Christmas,” time of last year.

It was simply amazing to me to find they actually took the time to drive through my little city, much less, my street. I feel privileged, as after checking a bigger city like Winchester, VA which seemed to not have been driven through yet.

Google Street View is a good way to waste time and liven up those oh so boredom moments. As posted above and below you never know what you might notice or can expect. There has been some very unusual sightings as seen below.

In all seriousness check out the best of Google Street View sightings.

It is time I wrote about “how to keep your facebook notifications private”. I recently found out that any Superpoke or other fun item you sent to a “friend” was posted for all to see and did not like it.

After doing some research I found these options which should allow you to keep those private. In the new facebook layout click settings top right. Next click application settings. Then you click the app you want to change the settings on. Here you are able to remove any app you do not want also.

Now after testing your choices with a select few friends you can now send that “poke” you do not want everyone noticing. Here are a few other security items of interest.

Never use your real birthday in your account. Choose a fake one that you can remember for every online account. It can, however, be the same year and possibly day, but never the month. I would also suggest not using your middle name. The less the public knows the better.

Oh and if you’re a missionary, and have been in a country like China, avoid social network sites like the plague. If you must use email or the phone figure out a general type of communication before you leave. You risk not only your life but others as well before and after the fact.

Well they finally did it, my worst fear, putting a CAP on my service that I have been more than impressed with. Now it really is time to go shopping for another provider or switch back to Earthlink.

My suggestion to ATT is, do not do it. Instead implement technology that can detect which customers are using P2P often. Generally these would be the culprits using more bandwidth that eats it up for the rest of us legitimate users Starting monitoring these and find out what the chances may be of them doing file sharing, watching TV online, and or using VOIP.

As for me I have been wanting an excuse to ditch ATT altogether. Unfortunately I am limited in my options. However I suggest to the rest of you notify them you do not like it and may switch. It is that important as we are going backwards and not forwards. Did you know in countries like South Korea connections of 100mbs are common?