From the monthly archives:
November 2007
I have been to 3-4 conferences this year and this is right on. Such an easy thing to notice and yet no one is doing it right. And the conferences I go to are Web 2.0 / Social Media places where everyone has a laptop, a blog and a Korean like addiction to the internet.
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This is an incredible article on how to go about engaging in the social media landscape. Definitely a must read if you are in this stuff.
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The Global Summit on AIDS & The Church at Saddleback Church, is hosted by Rick and Kay Warren. I will be live blogging and video blogging my experience here at the Summit over the next couple of days. Here is my first post from the opening Session.
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Since it is Thanksgiving I thought I would do at least one post on something I am thankful for, my family. Needless to say, the move to California and our life here over the past 15 months has had it’s excitement, hardship and disappointments.
But I can’t even imagine having done the last year by myself. Getting to see my girls play in the ocean for the first time and now loving the beach, watching Nehemiah grow up as fearless as any boy has been, and seeing the strength and grace of my wife to help keep everything together while I have risked with new opportunities has been incredible. I seriously have no idea how I got so lucky to have a wife like her… seriously. It is like Katie Couric falling for David Spade.
Anyways, I am also thankful for my brother and his wife, and their new family, my parents and their journey, my in-laws and their support and how “Nana” sends our girls a package every single week with fun stuff for them = they love it!
Finally, I am thankful for the members of our “California Family”, the Griffins, the Busbys, the Mackeys, the Greens, the Nagles, the Coates, Brian, Nathan, Sarah, Johnny, Jason and more - all of them have helped us and have been family for us. We have never felt so cared for and supported in a community of friends like we have here - truly a blessing.
What are you thankful for?
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My family and I have just moved into a new home that we love. We live in Southern California, in Orange County - home of plenty of technology usage, planned communities, just south of Disney Land and Hollywood. As we moved into this house Cox Communications has been a bumbling bucket of incompetents in getting our service working.
First they sent the “guy” to activate service at the house. But when we plugged in our router and cable - nothing worked. So, we called support. They said they could send someone out the next day at 10am. “okay” I thought, “Maybe this guy will get it right”.
The next day another “guy” comes. Finds that there is a “trap” on our house which kills the signal to the house. Sort of wondering why the first “guy” completely missed it - since it was in the same box he had to use to activate service. The second guys gets the cable working, and then I ask about the internet. See, the internet is pretty vital because my wife and both work at home. She is a partner in ScrapGirls.com, a digital scrapbooking company, and I am the CEO/Founder of my own Social Media Consulting company Contagious Solutions.
The second “guy” said that fixing the internet was not on his “work order” and that we would need to call Cox and request someone to come fix it - even though he was right there…
So, We call Cox and they say that they can send someone out tomorrow at 10am… hmmm. I tell them that the guy was just here - and they say they “can’t do any better” than tomorrow at 10am.
So, that brings us to today. I was out in meetings and my wife was home when the third Cox “guy” shows up. She said he was here for a long time, talking about levels or something. He finally gets the internet to work and packs up. While he is barely gone the internet goes down again and my wife calls Cox. They tell her that he can’t come back today, and that they can send someone tomorrow. HOLY COW! Counting the weekend that is 5 days we are without services that we are paying for and need and have been told they would fix.
I am sorry COX - if I can find any other solution for High Speed Internet we are going with it. Your incompetence to work with your own line of service and products and complete disregard for us as customers is irresponsible and ridiculous.
So, now I have to go and reset the router every 10 mins or so as it keeps crapping out. While I see strong wireless networks from my neighbors all around - at least five. Guess I will ask what service they use - how much you wanna bet it isn’t COX?
What have you guys used besides cable internet? Any suggestions on DSL, Satellite, or even more professional installations?
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I just read a saddening story on Cnet’s news.com about a girl who committed suicide after a group of adults, one of which was the mother of one of the girl’s friends she had issues with, had befriended the girl and then turned on her.
The parents of the girl want to press charges, but the FBI doesn’t see any laws that the parents hoaxing the girl have broken. Now, if this had happened in real life interaction there would surely be consequences, but I guess because it happened over MySpace - they are in the clear?
Thing like this are always a reminder that we are always excited about advancement and new ideas, technology and new interactions - but we rarely process the implications of those advancements and how to interact with them ethically. The same is true of medicine as we edge closer to DNA sampling and the possibilities surrounding cloning. Would a cloned human have a soul? Would it be ethical to clone a human? Regardless of our answers - we would be fools to think at some point in our future that cloning a human won’t be attempted - and potentially successful.
Anyways, I feel saddened that whenever there are loop holes there are always evil people there to take advantage of it. And yes, the parents that did this to that girl, posing to be a boy, and then turning on her the way they did should be at least guilt of man - slaughter. It was more than irresponsible, it was an evil thing to do.
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