Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book release.
Gryffindor versus Slytherin at the Barnes & Noble bookstore. The Summit, Birmingham, Alabama.
Porsche 250
Its time again for the Grand American Rolex Porsche 250 race weekend at the Barber Motorsports Park. Last year was my first time attending the new event and what a blast it was! Friends ask why I enjoy this over NASCAR. The answer is simple, really. Which would you rather watch, European sports cars that are created to go fast with left/right turns on hairpin curves or Ford/Chevy cars turning left for a few hundred laps?
I thought so, too. One of my photos from last year’s event below…
Like Father Like Son
Mom just sent me a 34 year old photograph she took while pregnant with me. Here is my father staining my dresser while below I prepare to paint my baby’s dresser.
Freaky cool.
So Wassup?
Yes, I know that the highly-popular “Wassup?” Budweiser commercials are about 7 years old, but they are classics. A few people have decided to mashup Bud with Star Wars and Superfriends characters with hilarity. Just press play!
I’ll spare you the just-as funny “white-boy, granny & petshop” wassup commercials…for now.
The MOB Scene
I had a great time connecting with a more than a few folks in the local media last night at Workplay. The Media Of Birmingham (MOB) hosted their July event, Monday Bloody Monday, a reference to the U2 concert playing in the Workplay theater at the same time. Here are a few shots from last night’s event:
even U2 lead singer Bono showed up!
Geo Mojo
Something I have been interested in for awhile but never really could pursue until now (maybe) is geocaching. Geocaching.com describes it this way:
“Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a
cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and
capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and
organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these
caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find
the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of
rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should
try to leave something for the cache.”
I was prevented from enjoying this activity because there was a lack of a GPS receiver, until now. My mother had been reading this blog & listening to me ramble on about it for a year and finally decided enough was enough and surprised me with a Magellan eXplorist 500 recently.
Thanks, mom!
Details also provided show a map of the area, description of the area’s surroundings as clues, and a legend of what to expect in the area so you can prepare yourself for the environment. For example, this geocache says there are cliffs/falling rocks, snakes, poison plants, kid/pet-friendly and available parking.
Once the cache is discovered, usually in plastic containers, metal ammo boxes, toolboxes, metal tins, etc there are trinkets, that you can take and a log to notify the person who hid the cache that you were there. Everything is then uploaded to the cache’s website as feedback.
Neat, huh? So who is with me?
As mentioned before, Geocaching.com is a great resource for finds.
In a previous post here on Go Mojo there was mention about a book by a local author, Russell Helms called GPS Outdoors. See also GPS Made Easy by Lawrence Letham.
Also locally and state-wide here in Alabama is the Dixie Cachers. Check us out!
Empathetic Pregnancy
Empathetic Pregnancy, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.
Planning for Parenthood class at St. Vincent’s hospital. Almost 9 weeks to go!
Mojo Network Redesigns
As mentioned previously, I love change. Change is good. Things get changed around here often because there is always something bigger/better/prettier. Go Mojo has a new interface as does Techno Mojo. Photo Mojo is untouched…for now.
After a brief hiatus (yes, it was neglected, thanks for noticing!), Techno Mojo is back with more news about social software, web 2.0 and must have gadgets. Today’s 2 posts include web applications that are by invitation only that I want you to have. Spock is a web search app for people. Pownce is an instant messenger/Twitter-like piece that allows you instant communication between friends.
Go check it out and add some comments to Techno Mojo. Feedback is appreciated!
Techno Mojo screen shot
Website Do-Overs
I get bored easily with designs and so I have upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and gave this site as well as Techno Mojo an interfacelift. Check them out!
iPhone Development
Because there is little discussion over the Apple iPhone this week *snort*, I thought I would help contribute to the conversation. A week after the iPhone’s release, on the weekend of July 6 there will be an unconference in San Francisco called iPhoneDevCamp. Campers/attendees will be able to create new web apps for the iPhone, optimize existing applications, migrate dashboard widgets to web-based widgets for the iPhone and more.
Technorati tags: iPhone, Apple, AT&Traffic, mobile, phone Barcamp, iPhoneDevCamp
What’s Up With Yahoo?
I’ve been watching the blogosphere’s love/hate relationship with Yahoo! these past few months with interest and wonder why is Yahoo losing the battle to Google?
I like Yahoo. Yahoo has been the dominant social web portal for a decade. Not Google, not MySpace or Microsoft, but Yahoo. Y! helped people come together with an easy-to-use instant messenger, games, chat rooms and more. Who else can match this? This is social web dominance. Even today, no other social website can compare.
Yahoo has made some smart purchases recently to help solidify their social dominance with some of the web’s most useful applications.
- Flickr-Social photos
- Del.icio.us-Social bookmarking
- Upcoming- Social event notifications
- Mybloglog- Social blogging
- Jumpcut- Social video sharing/mixing
Yahoo has made huge strides to compete with the fantastic Gmail service by enhancing their own Yahoo Mail service. Unlimited inbox storage trumps Gmail’s 2+ gigabytes. It even has a nice desktop application feel to it. Although admittingly, I am addicted to Gmail. It is my primary web account. All mail from Gmail is forwarded onto Yahoo mail as a backup.
So, moving on to my recent Yahoo encounter…
On Monday, I discovered that I could swap Yahoo ID’s (2) while I was looking in my Flickr account. My desired ID was not registered in Flickr but an old one that I never used. Except for Flickr. So anyway, once I switched it to my desired ID, I decided to delete the old, unused account.
POOF!
I no longer had access to Flickr because Yahoo deleted my desired account instead. I have no idea why, because I had specifically requested and verified deletion of the “old” ID.
I received an automated email from Yahoo confirming deletion.
** This is only a notification. You do NOT need to respond. **
This email is to confirm that your Yahoo! account, “mojodenbow,”
has been recently terminated per your request. Your account
has been deactivated and will be deleted from our user registration
database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to
discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity. To satisfy
terms agreed to in the Yahoo! Finance Terms of Service, personal
information for users subscribed to Yahoo! Finance Premium
Services will be kept by Yahoo! for at least 3 years after the
subscription date.
If you did not request this action please reply to this message.
Thank you for using Yahoo!. You can always sign up for a new
account by clicking on any “Sign In” or “Sign Me Up” link
appearing on the front page of most Yahoo! Services.Yahoo! Member Services
Um, WHAT? I did not request THAT account. Anyway, the account was restored after a 5 question inquiry.
WHEW!
Needless to say, I am still very pleased with Yahoo for restoration of my desired account and Flickr access.
What Yahoo! services do you enjoy the best? Is there anything you’d like to see from Yahoo in comparison to other webware applications? Shout it out in the comments.