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Xanga do you remember?

  How many of you remember when I did my blog on Xanga?  If you remember that then your one of our long time readers.  The last time I posted on my Xanga site was July 13, 2004 and that was just to update everyone and tell them about my new sites.
  Xanga says that I signed up with them 1737 days ago.  I am not sure if theie number is correct or not. 



  It looks like the last time I was posting to the Xanga site and using it as a blog was in December of 2003.  

 

Jim Howard on Friendster

  OK I did not know this for real.. I have a page on Friendster.  I set it up April of 2004.  I know these services are popular but I think they are stupid. 
  Everyone just list everyone has friends.  I do not know anything about Friendster but I know if someone says go to MySpace it will be a young person and they will have their page filled with crap and music blasting.

  I know I am an old fart living in the past.
  I like blogs, email and sites like YouTube so I am not one of those old people that is down on computers.

   If your a fan of these services and you want to write up something about them I will be happy to post it on Howard's Notebook.  Maybe you can convert me and make me a fan of MySpace and Friendster.
   I can not remember when I signed up for MySpace.  I had never heard of it and I do not think many people knew about it.  I did not know anything about it.  I signed up and looked around and I saw nothing been teens using it..and I decided I better get the hell out of that place.  I think if your older than 30 your not allowed to use it.  (Smile)

 

Jim Howard on MySpace

  I have a MySpace page.  I did not know it.  The last time I logged in was 8/5/2007 and I think I did it then to check and see if I did have a page.  I am not sure when I will log into it again but IF you use MySpace then please add me as a friend or what ever you do with MySpace.
  I have no friends on MySpace and I think I have been signed up with it for years.  Check out my MySpace page and see who I listed as Heroes and check out the list of movies that I love.

   OK OK.. now this hurts.  They have their own video section and I put a there August 5, 2007 and one person has watched the video.  I bet that one person was me.
   If you check out the video please give it a "Booyah!" for me.

 

Big Month for ShowMeBog

  On the first day of September we had 1603 visitors to ShowMeBlog.  That was a big number for us.  The number of visitors most days was over 1000.  On 09/08/2007 we only had 599 and I was wondering where you all went.
  Today the last day of September we have 1642 visitors.  So it has been a good month.

   Tomorrow will be October (2007) and there will be some changes.  We are moving. We will still be in Miami FL.  We will be getting Comcast for Internet service.  I hope they are better than the people we have been using.

    I am going to try and diet during October.  I am going to try and get out during the month and go a few places and take some videos.
    I am going to try and start making some videos for the blog.

    I am looking forward to October 2007. 

   

Some of my YouTube Videos

Gingrich Not Going To Run

"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Two days after hinting he wanted to try for the White House, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decided he would not run for president, his spokesman said Saturday..."  
  The debates would have been interesting if he had run.  I hope that the next president, who will be Hillary Clinton, offers him a job in the government.

 "(CNN) -- -- The Iranian parliament on Saturday voted to designate the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army as terrorist organizations, IRNA, the country's state-run news agency, reported..."
  God love the Iranians I am starting to like them.  They are funny.  I hope we can work things out with them.  I have heard that the Iranian people like the United States.  We just have problems with the people running Iran.  Come to think of it ..we got problems with people running the United States government.

"PHOENIX -- A 45-year-old woman who was in police custody after being arrested for disorderly conduct in a Phoenix airport terminal died in a holding room while apparently struggling with her handcuffs, police said..."
That sort of thing should not happen.  You put the cuffs on them and you own them.  Something happen to them and it is your ass. 

   There just seems to be too much shit happening.  Is it because we see everything on the news or is it because our police are fucking up major all the time.
    You got the case were there was a car accident and the victims of the accident and family said there are two other victims and the police did not look for them or did not look good.  The father found them much later.
     You got the woman that drove off the road and crashed in her car and the police did not find her.  The husband asked the police to look.  The husband drove the road him self looking for her.  He asked them to use cell phone information to find her.  They said they could not do that and she was found 8 days later. She is in very poor condition in the hospital ICU. 
      There are too many police shootings.  The taser being used too often.
      Something is wrong.

      Murder is up all across the United States.  It is up 26% in Miami.  That is a big increase. 

       The Miami police are getting AK-47s now,  I don't think it is a good idea to arm police with AK-47s when they don't know when to use a taser.

Virgin and T-Mobile

  I found out from Ken that the condo we are moving into is A.  So I can now sign up with Comcast for Internet service.  Ken says he does not want TV service.  So I am just going to sign up for the Internet service and they have a special at this time.  I can get Internet service, 8 M down, for $30.00 a month.  I will have to pay $99.00 for them to set up the service.  Oh that 30.00 is for six months and then the price is $60 a month.
   Right now I pay $120.00 a month for TV and Internet.  So I am going to save after six months $60.00 a month.  Of course I will not have TV.

  I was going to sign up now that I know the unit we will be in...but they ask a phone number and I know the service guy is going to call and not show up unless he gets someone to answer.  I was going to give Ken's cell number but he turns off his phone when at work etc.

   For my phone service I use Skype (VoIP) and that will not work since I will not have Internet service.

   I am thinking about getting a pre-paid cell phone.  I also think a cell phone will help during this move.  I am sure there will be times when I am at the old place or the new place and Ken or Russ will need to contact me.
   I looked on line.  Now the Virgin plan that looks good is I would pay a flat $7.00 per month and and each call is 10 cents a minute.  It is rare for me to talk to the telephone.
   But T-Mobile has a couple of plans that sound good...one is $25 and you get 130 minutes for that money and unused minutes roll over.  That $25.00 is good for 3 months.
   The other T-Mobile plan is you pay $100.00 and you get 1000 minutes and it is good for one year.  Today I hate to pay out $100.00 but if I did the $25.00 plan I could add $100.00 at anytime and then I would be in the "gold" plan.
   I am thinking about doing it today because I want a phone number I can give to Comcast when I  put in the order for the install at the new place.
   I guess I should go with T-Mobile.  Russell has an old T-Mobile pre-paid phone.  So today all I need to do is come up with the money for the plan.
   Feel free to leave comments here.

   

Signing up for Comcast

  I just attempted to sign up for Comcast cable service on line.  It was not bad.  I put in the information.  I picked out the service I wanted and I just picked Internet service.  The price would be $29.99 a month for six months.  There would be a $99.00 install fee to hook up one computer.
  So after answer some questions I end up in a chat room.  They pull up the address and they want to know is it A, B, C or D.  I did not know the condo used a letter for the address.  I was thinking we just had an address.  I said can you call my son on his cell phone and ask him if he knows.  They can't call out.  I said can I email it to you and he said they don't have an email address.  He said the only they I could do was cancel the order and find out if it is condo A,B,C, or D and do it over again.
  So I did not get an order in Internet service yet.
  I do know that it is going to cost me about $130.00 to get the service going and that I will pay $30.00 each month for six months.  Then it will be about $60.00 a month.

  Maybe later today I can get some input from Ken and Russell and I may change what I order.  They use the Internet and TV here but they always act like they don't care and don't need it.  I would like to get some input from them.  I am willing to spend a few dollars for TV but it they don't care.. I will just get the Internet and to hell with the TV.

 

White-lipped keelback

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.

It makes you think about our world.  Thank God we are not in Vietnam bombing and dropping Agent Orange on it now.  There are so many parts of the world that are so special.  Even Iraq is a special place.  It has a long history and is called the cradle of civilization.  It is the birthplace of writing.

I posted about the brain eating organism here but forgot to say something..that I say often..and that is why in the hell do they keep coming up with new things to kill you.  Don't we have enough?  I know I know these things been around since the beginning we never knew about them.  But at one time in my life I was thinking ..that we would cure things and be safer.  It does not look like it now.

Of course what we need to worry about is crime and things like traffic accidents. 

I guess I will call Comcast and put in an advance order for cable TV and Internet service at the new place we are going to move into soon. 
But am I correct that I can order DSL or the high speed fiber Internet service even if we do not have phone service installed at that location?  Do they just charge you a little extra because you don't have a phone line?  I would like to have the Verizon FiOS service.

I just did a check at Verizon on line and put in the address and it says the service is not currently available for the address.

Looks like it is going to be Comcast. Any experts on Comcast out there?  You have the service?  What do you recommend?

jimhoward@spamarrest.com

 

 

Brain eating organism

  This story is scary.  An Arizona Boy Dies of Rare Infection.  I saw a scary TV show long time ago.  In the story a guy puts a bug or slug or something into the ear of a guy when he is sleeping and it eats it way through the guys brain.  I never forgot that dumb TV show.  I can't get it out of my mind.
  Now when I was a kid and my friends and I went and saw movies like the The Brain Eaters (1958)  that was easy to forgot...
  But this current true live attack is scary and I don't even swim.

  CDC fact sheet on:  Naegleria

  FDA fact sheet on   Naegleria

  I know this is very rare but sometimes things brother a person.

  Remember the Flesh-Eating Bacteria? 

  Ken and I went to the casino last night.  We both lost.  It has been years and years since I won at a casino.  I think that was back in Missouri.  I should not go to the casino.

  Ken is going to take me to the store today and I am going to stock up on some cheap food.  
  A new eating place opened up at the food court over at the mall.  I can't wait to get over and check out their food.