Goodbye President Bush

So what you want about President Bush and his policies but the "man" is truely an amazing guy. President Bush personally sent a letter to the family of a fallen soldier. He also has visited a lot of the families. Of course this was all off the radar and was not publicized. Read me here.

Merry Christmas

What To Do When You Have Money

Face it. We would all love to be rich right? I know that I would. I also know what I would buy. I would have tons of land, large house, big truck, farm animals, go on vacations, have some great clothes but I would also try to do as much good as possible. Help out with my church, local families and charities. I was reading an article today on Fox News about David Spade. He of course now live in Los Angeles but he grew up in Pheonix. He was watching Fox News and saw that the Phoenix Police Department was outgunned by the Mexican drug cartels. He took it upon himself and donated $100,000 to them so they could purchase 50 AR-15's. Also in this article it was said that he donated $25,000 to the family of a fallen officer last year. Isn't that amazing? Now of course he did not call a press meeting or blab to the paper about this. He quietly called the PPD and made it happen. I love reading stories like this. Unlike most he is not hoarding what he has earned. He is using it to help others. Really cool.

Merry Christmas

Yes I said it.  MERRY CHRISTMAS! I am now typing this entry under my desk.  Ducking to make sure I do not get attacked by the nut job wackos that hate this phrase.  

Every year you hear about the far left wanting to cut Christmas out of the vocabulary during the holiday season.  I would like to put my spin on this.  I believe that Christmas the holiday and Christmas the religious celebration are two different things.  Now I understand that the reason for the holiday started with the religious aspect but it has become so commercialized I do not feel that one has anything to do with the other.  I would actually be ok with the holiday having a name change.  What do you think?  When I think of Christmas the holiday I think about the man in the red suit, decorations, decorated trees, cookies, gifts, shopping, spending time with family and friends, days off from work, movies, traditions and the list can go on and on.  When I think about Christmas the religious celebration I think about Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Bethlehem, the nativity scene and God sending his only son to save us.  Christmas the holiday really other than a shared name has nothing to do with  Christmas the religious celebration.  What I have a problem with are the individuals or groups that have an issue with businesses decorating or saying "Marry Christmas" because again they are not representing the birth of Jesus but rather Christmas the holiday.  Now I might get burned at the stake here but I do agree with the the left that the religious aspects (i.e. nativity scenesor a pentagram) should not be displayed on state or government property.  The reason I believe this is the only way to be fair is to allow all the various other religions to have a display for their religion and lets face it I am not for allowing 10 or more different "displays" on the front lawn of the local fire department.  Now I am not saying that town hall, government buildings or the White House can not decorate for Christmas because the decorations represent the holiday and to me are no different that those of Thanksgiving or Valentines Day.  Christmas the holiday is really just that.  Another holiday.  

I hope that you enjoy this holiday season.  Whether it is celebrating the holiday, celebrating the birth of Jesus or if you are like us and recognize that the two are separate and can appreciate both.   So again I say MERRY CHRISTMAS!  

Sorry My Content Has Been Sucking

When I first started this blog I was gun ho.  I was going to post lots and post often.  Then the holidays hit and that took my attention.  Other outside things have taken my attention as well.  Also I have lost my focus on where I want this blog to go.  Origanlly it was about my day to day, family stuff and maybe a comment here and there about the news, current events, Web 2.0 and gadgets/techy stuff.  Nowadays though more and more it has been more of Web 2.0 stuff, news updates and gadget talk with little to no of my personal views..  I feel that maybe I should start a seperate blogs but man that would be so much work.  I don't like the way this blog has just been a cluster lately.  Thinking about some changes so stay tuned.

Making Money By Tweeting

Want to make money by doing what you do already?  How you ask?  Simply tweeting.  Well thanks to Kid Tech Guru for turning me onto Magpie.  Sign up with Magpie and adjust your tweet to ad ratio.  On their front page you can see what you can potentially make.  Me for example right now according to my tweet to follower ratio I can make around $100 a month.  Not bad for doing what I already do.  Now the con is obviously that your followers can get annoyed that you are now posting ads and many say they would not follow someone that post ads but my opion is most every commercial site I visit has ads so why would I be annoyed as long as I am not inundated with ads I think its cool.  I will give it a run until I or my followers get annoyed.  Check it out.

Add Twitter To Gmail

Oh yeah.  You heard me right.  I sit at a desk all day so twittering is pretty easy but it is a tad annoying having to have Gmail and Twitter open.  If you are as big of of twitteraholic like me you have to have both of them open all day.  Well I just read on Lifehacker you can now add TwitterGadget to your sidebar on Gmail.  With the limited testing I have done so far I find it to work pretty well.  My only problem is the quickest refresh is 3 minutes.  You also have the option to manually update.  Give it a run and let me know what you think.