This morning I was channel surfing, not much on on a Saturday morning unless you are into cartoons and other kiddie shows. So I ended up watching some programs on MTV that I normally wouldn’t consider watching. Like “16 and Pregnant” and “The Things I Did When I Was 17″ both are hard core Reality Shows, which I normally don’t enjoy watching, other than “Survivor” on CBS.
Anyway, I have to say that these MTV shows weren’t as bad as I first thought and I found myself getting interested and watching more than I would have normally watched and stayed in bed a few hours longer than normally on a Saturday morning. I could get used to that!
I love how the Internet brings so much to us from all around the world. It is fun having a bird’s eye view into other people’s lives and their countries. I prefer to visit other english speaking countries like the UK and Australia, but thanks to sites that translate it makes it possible to read and learn from sites in France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. I try and stay away from sites that are in Japanese, Chinese and other Asian languages, they are just to difficult and tend to give me a head ache, and I don’t need any more head aches than what my own country gives me. LOL!
I like how they have shopping guides and directories, like what ShopWiki has to offer in many countries that are interesting and very helpful for many. If you get a chance, give them a look see and see what they have to offer.
The Animal Planet is doing a wonderful job in bringing attention to the brutality being done to dolphins in many countries with their new show Blood Dolphins. I found this clip on YouTube.com and wanted to share it here. I hope more people watch this show and that it enlightens a lot of good people to the atrocities being done to thousands of dolphins each year.
My sister-in-law, Linda, is enjoying her new job in a near by and very busy pediatric doctor’s practice, that she went back to school and worked so hard to achieve. She is such an upbeat and happy person, who has the perfect personality to be working with kids day in and day out, along with the other people working in this large and still ever growing kid friendly medical practice.
One thing that she was concerned about was the issue of having to wear a uniform to work each day. Linda is a total fashion and accessories freak and has more clothes then one woman would ever need in her life time and would be miserable having to wear only uniforms at work. So she was happy to find that the other woman working there have turned her onto a great website that offers a a nice variety of scrub clothing that they have been ordering from lately and are thrilled with the quality of their products as well as their prices. Since Linda is so busy with her new full time job and still has the kids and my brother to deal with, shopping online is very appealing to her.
I’m so happy that she has found a great new career with some nice people and I wish her all the luck in the world. I also look forward to hearing some funny and entertaining stories that I’m sure she will come up with in time about the people and the place that she is now spending so much of her time with.
I heard on the radio that YouTube isn’t even 5 years old yet. It will be in November though. It seems like it has been around for much longer than that. It certainly has made a major impact on millions of people. You can access such a variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging along with short original videos. And all of this is free, you just gotta love that.
Once I discovered all that you can experience on YouTube.com and started composing my “Favorites” list, it didn’t take long to get up to triple digits which can be time consuming and a good amount of them are stating that they aren’t available any longer, that really bites. But all in all YouTube.com is awesome and I can’t imagine computer life without it there, along for the ride.
I have a good friend Donna who moved over to the U.K. years ago. We keep in constant contact with emails, Face Book, IMing and cell phones, I’m so grateful for all of today’s technology that is making it easier to keep in touch with so many people in so many ways, it is so enriching all the way around.
Anyway Donna on occasion will send me a picture or a joke along with her emails, but she has never sent me a video before and we decided that it was time to try and attempt it. So she went onto YouTube.com and found this video featuring Digby Jones and got it to me with the first try. It can be a bit overwhelming learning some things on the computer, especially when you are on your own and have no one close by to ask for help. She lost her husband over 5 years ago and is still on her own, but she is doing pretty well all things considered.
