Yettie One

Oh now see, I am not sure who is going to be doing more groaning, the rugby titans on the field of Zombie sat in front of his telly drooling. Although I do have to concur, I think I'll be joining him with a grunt or two and a uncontrollable stirring in the loins every now and then. It will surely be an interesting game when England go to Cardiff on the 16th. England will be game on for the grandslam, but tell you what, the welsh will be in no mood to let them have it easily. ooooooooooo, going to be a fun game to watch. BRING IT ON!!!!!

Grief! It was the way the fenced cage seemed to have moved that made me wonder. What is that a sink hole?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm Dunno if it is just me, but that second pic looks decidedly dodgy!

I used to use Bull Guard for my anti virus, but soon enough it began to consume extraordinary amounts of system power, that I eventually ditched it and went to AVG. But Adobe is not the only one. Flash and Java are another two I get fairly regular updates from. And there are times I'm just like oh ffs get a life!

It is wonderful when a reader like drops in on an author and leaves their thoughts on the page after you've read the work. I know I was always grateful to hear what you thought, and I know there are others that feel the same way. Thanks for being such a keen participant for so many of us here JoAnn. xx

My sister and I have been sharing videos over the last couple of months since she began her treatment. I guess it was sort of a way to try give her something to smile at each time we exchanged something. I had a pretty hard day today. A lot on my mind, and at a busy stage with work right now too. This evening when I finally sat down to check my facebook, I had this waiting in my inbox for me. Remember when you were young, and the world was so wonderful, and exciting, and vibrant? Remember where everything was an adventure, we would do anything to avoid having to work for one hour, let alone every damn day of the week. Friends were wonderful and there was always something interesting to explore, or some mischief to partake in. Trouble? What trouble? Danger? I laughed in the face of danger? Responsibility? To hell with being responsible! Hell man those were the days. Don't grow up too fast! Enjoy your youth, it is precious. Anyway, totally but I that is not uncommon for a Yettie blog right? This video is really damn cute, especially the puppy right at the very end, so bare with it, it is worth it. Yeah I am a big soppy nutter for a cute baby animal. Aren't we all to some degree? Watch, enjoy and have a GREAT day.

Awwwwww man, just seen this on the telly, and besides getting a massive good giggle out of all of us, I have to say, this is a damn cute ad. Just had to share. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfH_p2EbRw4 There any good/clever/cute ads you know of?

Well done. Great to see some of the one's I voted for in there

That is just too cute. Glad things are looking up for ya buddy, and things worked out well with the new job.

Hey all you UK/European GA members. I am proposing organising a GA Meeting over a weekend in the Summer. So one day in June/July/August. (date to be chosen after discussion with members interested) Ok so here is the general idea I have got. It would be over a weekend, either a Saturday or a Sunday. I propose making the meeting place somewhere in the Midlands so it is central for members from North, South, East and West to attend. A city well serviced by train links would be a good plan, and I will organise to have a mini bus to take members travelling by train to the event grounds. I'd also propose organising the event at a social club/similar type venue and make the event a whole day BBQ event, so bring and share type of thing. I will happily work on finding a venue and handling the booking, preparation for the event from this end. So all you have to do, is bring yourself, your friends, your food, lots of drink, and we'll have a day outdoors, in the sun, enjoying some grub grilled on the fire, some good music and a great social event. If this seems like a good plan, please let me know and lets start putting things together. I want to find out how much support there is for the idea before I begin to actually put firm plans for dates, places and venues together. Let me know. Let's have a great summer together. (everyone welcome, even ya international lot that ain't in the UK. If you may be over here around then, let me know and we'll see if we can sort out something to help you get to the event.)

Not sure I agree with everything that you say, although you do have some solid points. Glass is an amalgamation of a lot of different technologies, but then that is common with many bits of tech these days. Yes it is born from military hardware coming to play in the commercial world, yes it has similarities to heads up displays in cars (although I wasn't aware that vehicle mounted heads up displays also had a camera you could control) and voice command has been something we've known about for a good few years. When apple started out their first Personal PC had a massive price tag with it. I can recall GPS units that cost a bomb when they first came out. A iPhone is still over £500 in the shops. When flat screen TV's first hit the shelves they were priced way over the odds. As a new product, launched to lead the way, it will cost a small fortune, but time and competition will drive that cost down. I agree that others will bring out products that will improve on the design and function of glass. That is natural progression. Samsung gave Apple the heeby geebies when they released their version of the smart phone. It is bound to happen. As for prescription lenses? It is not difficult to assume that a lens manufacturer would be able to shape and fit lenses to glass that would meet with a personal prescription for eye glasses. I think it is a little short sighted to assume that this wouldn't have been considered at the very least! But then there is any of a range of options to get around this. Clear lenses in glass used with contact lenses, in the same way some people do with sun glasses to avoid glare. I personally have a few different sets of glasses which I use in different circumstances. It'd be logical to assume an owner of a pair of Google Glass tech would not want to or be able to wear them all the time. (Battery charging, downloading, syncing, etc) I guess a lot of it does come down to personal preference. Some people won't like the application and could find the heads up display distracting. Others will love it, and I am sure that there will be those that find unique and inspired ways of using Glass to contribute to our world and experience of it. As an adventure junky jumping off a cliff top, what a rush to be able to record that hands free, and share it almost live with people that you know and care about. Wow. A mom who captures a classic pic or vid of their kid and shares it with a grandparent a 1000 miles away then and there. I know my mom would find that pretty damn cool. My niece is getting married in Cape Town in June. Imagine her wearing Glass on her special day to share that day with those of us who won't be able to be there with her. Heck I can see a load of ways that this could make life a lot richer for a lot of people. I guess it just depends on how you choose to use it, if you bother to of course. Erm, our mobile phones pretty much do this already don't they? Yush that is one point I would agree on. Don't like the idea of a massive battery pack. I wonder how they will power it, and how much lifetime its power supply will have. It'd be a bit of a pain to have the map suddenly go dead on a busy highway.

LOL You could still have been tied down to the airbed JC. Hehehe, Me thinks the lady doth protest too much ey Andy??? I really did like the idea of that Hearse though. That'd be cool! Enjoyed this interview. Was a lot of fun!

Um wow.

I don't get why he's got to build an exact replica and sail the exact route. I dunno but that kind of smacks of bad taste. Talk about rubbing it in! I don't think it'd matter how well the thing was designed or equipped. If a ship is going to go down, it's going to go down. The Costa Concordia proved that. Enough war ships sank in a variety of sea wars with fully drilled crews trained in evacuation procedures without enough men being able to get to safety. I think a lot depends on training and a crews willingness to admit that the ship/vessel is in trouble in enough time to abandon ship. As long as the ship don't hit something it should be fine.

Hhahaha Actually I found it was when half English and half Welsh families came together on game day that the hair used to fly! I'm looking forward to the Roses coming to Cardiff. We'll knock em off their block!

Hey gang. Leshwar, I can totally identify with sleep as a defensive mechanism. I'm safe when I am asleep. The thoughts that rage around my head are at peace when I am asleep. The world is calm and easy to handle when I am asleep. I totally get where you are coming from. Yes sleep does not face the issues, nor does it bring answers to the problem, but it is a part of the world of depression. As strange as it may sound, the body is just not equipped to deal with the stresses of dealing with depression, and insomnia and irregular sleep patterns are one of the many pointers towards depression. I guess it is just a part of being completely out of sorts with the normal daily swing of things. I have no fixed pattern of sleep anymore. I am never really sure when my body will allow me to sleep or when it is going to wake me up unexpectedly at 3 am in the morning. There is one thing I have learnt. You can't fix it with a click of your fingers. It is a process, and that process differs for us all. I suppose that is what makes it so difficult to treat. It is well worth talking to someone who understands these things to get their take on things. Marky hope that the new meds work better when they kick in. They say it takes three to four weeks before you feel an effect. I am still not sure that the ones that I am on make that much of a difference, but then again, I am not all that sure that I want to try facing the world without them again. I just don't trust myself enough yet to be able to do that. Fingers crossed you begin to start feeling an effect buddy. JoAnn, I was kind of an accident in terms of being born. I came along a whole 9 years after my next brother, and as part of a family of five, my mom always had her hands full. Now for me, I was a whole generation behind my brothers and sisters, but I got to see a lot growing up, and when in their early 20's my brothers and sisters all got married and left home in just short of four years, it left a huge hole for my mom. She used to go off in the afternoons on her own, walking. When she got home, she couldn't tell you where she'd been or what she'd been doing. It was a whole world of depression all of her own. I don't know if dad felt it as much, he never really displayed that side of him, but I think deep down it troubled him that he never got to really know his kids. They call it Empty Nest Syndrome. It is a form of depression, although not a medically recognised term, it is now widely accepted that older folk do hit this wall of isolation and as you put it "uselessness". It makes sense when you think about it. The bottom of your world has fallen out from under you, and everything you've been used to doing as a mom is suddenly not needed anymore. I couldn't think of anything worse. I know the pain of having lost love once, I'd hate to think of the pain that goes with the feeling of losing your kids to independence. There is a lot of really good information about things that you can do to make it easier online JoAnn. I hope that you feel better soon mate, I hate to see you so down. This journey along this road is not so much fun. I'm just glad that there are people along it that care and understand enough to share. Take care friends. Hugs to you all.

What a stunning victory for Scotland over Ireland at the weekend. Well done lads, you worked your hearts out and so deserved the victory.

I sat down to read this over the weekend. I'd not read anything about the story, so didn't have any preconceptions about the story, or know anything about it. To say I was somewhat alarmed as the plot unfolded would be pretty accurate. This is not a story I can say I really enjoyed, yet it gripped me all the same. It is a world of their own making in many ways, although you do get the feeling that in some ways Travis was preyed on by a rather cunning man and a vulture of an ex partner. There were parts of the story where I actually felt ill reading. It is scary to think that someone could be that bent and twisted, yet the character of Travis is so well written you can't help but believe that he is completely capable of such a killing spree without remorse or effect to his mental state it would seem. Yet throw in the death of his first real love, and he loses it. It poses a really interesting question. When we really find love, do we ever really fall out of love, even if we part? I also found it quite spooky to explore the unhealthy aspect of attraction, and how despite the fact that Travis knew he was out of his depth, knew he was in love with a killer, he didn't care. Weird to think love can do that to a person, but again, the manner in which is presented, you accept it and believe it. All in all.... A really well written story, somewhat of a thriller I'd agree, but not one that I'd rave about I have to admit. The subject matter was a little too obscure and while I admire JWolfe for being bold enough to explore the theme so well, it would not be a story i'd go back to in any great hurry. I'm glad the book club chose to read it. It was interesting to say the very least, and I did enjoy the fact that it was not a blissful, ideal, coming of age make believe. So what are we onto next month then???

I saw this today through a Tech mate, and wow, I wants me a pair of these. Sorry, I know there are those that don't agree, but as I see it, this is the stuff that makes Google possibly one of the most influential companies of our time. Apple stand back, there's a new kid on the block. http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

Just in point of fact, your data is from 2011. This is the future for Google Glass, and I have a feeling that it is going to make a whole lot of current trends seem insignificant in future years. New context perhaps? http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

Um I have to be honest, when it has come to the hosted Author's, I've kinda worked my way along a list, and while there is a lot of talk about a few of them, I have not got to some of them as yet. I do tend to track off to some of the more current stuff, as I have found that I can at least enter into a discussion about the story with the author, which is really cool to be able to do. It is a shame that many of the hosted Authors are not as active as maybe they used to be at some time, and while I can understand that things change, I do wish I'd been around to get to know some of them. Also I am a slow reader, so maybe don't get around stuff as quickly as some of the other readers out there.

I doubt that Google worry about the profitability of advertising revenue that Facebook gathers. They are very successful in terms of Google Adwords, used on a multitude of sites as a way of generating income, and revenue the earn through advertising on YouTube. But yes, I will agree that in terms of the stickiness of Facebook in opposition to say Google search, Facebook wins hands down there. However, Google knows its place as a search engine. They understand people hit the page in search of another, and for this reason will not stay on the google site for long. For this reason their page is clean, slick and functional, unlike some others out there. They are good at what they do, and while you do have points, I personally don't agree that the content of the BBC as in your example outweighs the usefulness or the power of Google. In this example you give you know the web address, are familiar with it, and can find what you want easily enough yes. I even listed the BBC in my own five choices, and it is a personal favourite of mine too. However, ask the BBC or Wikipedia something their website does not have content about, and I'm sorry but Google trumps both here, as only the search engin will return results related to the question/query you ask. It is all well and good to know the content url, but say you want to know something from the South African Government. Are you going to go to Google to search for their website or guess weather it is a .com or a .co.za or a .org or even a .gov I have often ended up at the wrong place because I've used the wrong url, and now with domain parking, and url forwarding, you can end up landing at almost any kind of site if you just happen to use the wrong spelling or extension. I'd rather just go to google and find it first time every time thank you. I do agree though, good content is great. A well thought out website, and ease of use makes the experience nice, and keeps you coming back. So yeah, content is important you are right.

That is an interesting point actually, however when you consider that Facebook has the platforms for app games to be played within the structure of the site itself, it isn't difficult to understand Facebook has the whole "sticky" concept fine tuned to an art form. I think you could weigh the debate on either side of the scale. Content without an indexing system is valueless as it becomes difficult to find, and an index without content is pretty pointless. With that in mind it kind of makes them mutually dependent on each other, but maybe the indexing being slightly more important as a referencing point to start from to find the content?

I have to agree with this. In terms of time saving alone it is a key driver in assisting us to manouver around the web, and in terms of its ability to find stuff you didn't know existed, surely that is an indicator of its power. Yes you may not need to use google to find BBC, but if you were looking website that gave you information about the Matebele preferred meal options, would you not go to a search engine to find it? And lets be frank, it is not just a search engine, it is doing so much more than just search! Another dynamic advantage of Google is its ability to ask it a question. I can't tell you the number of times I have not really known quite what it is I am looking for, or what it is called, but a simple question in the Google search bar has brought me results. Sorry but simply can't deny the power of Google.

Are they sure that the sheep were going to be eaten?