I am so used to Gmail working all the time for me that I was shocked when I woke up from a little nap and decided to check my Gmail and I got the message:
“We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.”
Oh NO Temporary Error 500 and numeric code 21.
Others are having the problem. I am sure they will have it fixed soon.
“Published on Mar 28, 2012 by Google
We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient. Having safely completed over 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, we wanted to share one of our favorite moments. Here's Steve, who joined us for a special drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment, but we think it's also a promising look at what autonomous technology may one day deliver if rigorous technology and safety standards can be met.
A version of this video with audio captions is available here:
http://youtu.be/peDy2st2XpQ”
Music: The Album Leaf - "We Need Help"
Back in February Kodak told the world that it was going out of the digital camera business. For people my age that is hard to believe.
"...By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames, the company announced today. The company plans to focus heavily on its current brand licensing and on attracting companies that might need some of its patents. Kodak will still offer its online Kodak Gallery service and retail-based photo printing. Its inkjet printers will also remain on store shelves..." CNet
I notice, on Amazon, that some of the Kodak EasyShare cameras seem to be priced pretty cheap. Like the Kodak EasyShare Z990 12 MP has a list price of $449.00 and it is $184.95 now. I wonder what was the price before their announcement.
I would not have a problem buying a digital camera from them because they are going out of the business. I might buy an extra battery or two.
I have a Canon camera right now.
I just found Imgur a week or so ago and it looks excellent. I have not had time to check it out but I did post 8 photos on it.
Well this week I get Google Drive. It looks great.
Anyone out there want to write a review or do a post on Imgur vs Google Drive?
I am not up to it yet. You know what a busy life I lead? Smile
It looks to me like Imgur is very easy to add photos to and get the url for the links and share them.
It looks like Google Drive will do those things but also lets you do a LOT more. It lets you save all sorts of files and you can access them from other computers.
If anyone wants to post a review of either Imgur or Google Drive please write something and email it to me. It can be a post about the merits of each if you wish.
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I been thinking about getting a 3D camera. I do not think people are real interested in 3D but I think it would be fun to play with and see what I could do.
You can upload and view 3D videos to YouTube.
I have looked at some 3D videos on YouTube and they are pretty dull. So I was wondering what sort of thing could you do in 3D that would be interesting.
But my eyes and head hurt after just a minute or two of trying to watch anything in 3D.
How about you?
My son, in FL, took the above photos this morning. It is the Space Shuttle Discovery on the way to the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
The above photo was taken in Florida. It is the shuttle on top of a modified jumbo jet.
If you read ShowMeBlog or looked at my video about Spike Lee you know that I was real pissed that he would post the address of someone that he said was the address of George Zimmerman. It was not his address but the address of some old couple.
The old couple got hate mail, the media showing up at their home and neighbors questioning them. The couple had to move into a hotel. They are scared.
In my post and video I said that some how Spike Lee should be punished. He should get the message that you do not do something like that… You do not put people in danger. You do not put out a contract, for murder, on someone even if it had been the real Zimmerman.
But I said there was no way get the message to Spike Lee. He is to rich.
I have my blog and YouTube setup to post to Twitter. I do not have to do anything it just does it for me. I never read Twitter. I never follow it. It does not mean anything to me.
But Spike Lee has 250K followers on Twitter and he sits around and uses it!
I got one lottery ticket for the Mega Millions drawing Friday and the cash value is $359 million. If I won and I was rich I would not be posting to Twitter. I can not understand why someone with money and a nice house would sit around and post to Twitter.
I do not know the Twitter rules. I signed up .. but I never read the rules.
"You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission."
That is an excellent rule. I did not think about them having a rule like that. I am glad they do have a rule like that.
I sure as hell hope they cancel Spike Lee’s twitter account. They should cancel his account and take some steps to send a message to him and others not to do something like what he did.
He could have got someone killed.
Come on Twitter enforce your rules.
If you been following my blog you will know that I was very happy with my electric bill. I put in all cfb and put up curtains to keep out the cold and heat. I been trying to keep lights turned off. I been following the TXU stats on their site about my power use.
Then I found out that when TXU put in their new digital meters someone made an error and crossed up the meters. I guess someone else in this apartment building was getting my bills and I was getting billed for their power use. They were screaming about the very high energy use and I was telling my family how great I was at using so little power and I was getting low power bills.
Well at last TXU found the problem. They never contact me or send me any information and in fact I have not received the printed bill yet. I suspect it will come today in the mail.
I been checking online and it looked like they were going to bill me for about $800.00 of back power use. But the bill is online now and this month they want $555.65 for back power use. I guess they call that “re-billing.” I think under the laws or rules that control the power corporations they can only go back five or six months to do a “re-billing.” Thank God for that.
Just think if someone had a problem like this for x amount of time how much money you could get hit with.
When I get a high summer electric bill of $150.00 it is hard for me to pay it. I pay it but it hurts. But during the winter the bill is lower and I have a few extra dollars that month to buy toys.
Well I blogged about this and a very nice lady with TXU read my blog and she is going to contact me now or I will contact her and she will set me up with a payment plan so I can pay off the extra cost in a payment plan.
What is sad is all the time I spent each week and month looking at “My Usage” on line and trying to use those stats. The stats are all messed up. I guess at some point I will have new stats and I can start over.
But I am never going to be sure that the bill is correct. I will always wonder if it is correct and I will always fear that at some point they are going to a “re-billing” again.
“U.S. politics had its "Super Tuesday" yesterday, and so did the sun, says Joseph Kunches from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
That's because the sun had two solar flares associated with two coronal mass ejections. Coronal mass ejections involve massive amounts of energy and charged particles shooting out of the sun, and can cause problems if directed at Earth, as was the case over the last couple of days.
This event may stir up a geomagnetic storm, and lead to disruptions to high-frequency radio communications, global positioning systems and power grids, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said Wednesday. The peak of the storm is expected to hit Thursday morning; it may gradually diminish by Friday morning…”
A few hours ago I was laughing. I saw that TXU, the electric company, showed that I used $518.00 worth of electric power in one day.
I had just paid my electric bill for last month and I had used 290 kWh of power and the bill was $30.95 for the month.
I was thinking that TXU must have had some sort of computer problems. I was not worried.
Well I am not laughing now. It seems that TXU is “rebilling” me for the last five months!
I have not heard from them yet. I am not sure if I will hear from them. I may just get a bill in the mail that says they have “rebilled” and that I will have to pay them about $700.00 for electric power!
I have been happy with the electric bill that I been getting. Russ and I do not use a lot of electric power. I have put in all CFBs here in the apartment. We do not have a washer or dryer.
I was surprised however that are bill was so low.
Back a few months ago a guy moved into one of the apartments here in the building and the office told me that he was very unhappy. He was using very little power and he had very high electric bills. The office had Oncor come out a couple of times and check his meter. They did not find any problems with his meter.
Now from what the apartment office is saying …. Oncor found that his meter was not reading his power usage but some other apartment and they did not know which apartment.
I guess now for some reason they have decided that this is the apartment that is hooked to his meter and I guess his apartment is hooked to this apartment. I am just guessing. I don’t know and I am not sure that they know.
So they are rebilling me, I guess, and so starting in September they say they billed me for 737 KWH of usage but I only used 606. They say for October they billed me for 496 KWH but I used 947. They say that for November they billed me for 413 KWH but that I used 2138 KWH. They say for December they billed me for 443 KWH but I used 2576 KWH. For January they say they billed me for 290 KWH but that I used 1946 KWH.
I have no idea how they came up with those numbers. Of course I have no idea how many KWH I did use.
Now if I had done something wrong… If I had changed the wiring on the meters or something like that … Then I would say what they are doing was fair. In fact I would think they should have the right to have me arrested for stealing.
But their workers installed those new meters and hooked up those meters.
But I am going to pay for their error. Plus I will never be sure if the meter readings now are correct.
Plus think of all the other people in this apartment complex and others here in Fort Worth. How many of them are hooked up wrong. My guess is that if you live in a house then the meter maybe the correct meter for your house. But how many apartments are hooked up wrong?
I will let you know what happens and what I find out.
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