Like It Is

I know some pretty fast text messaging people but this girl is faster than all of them put together.

K, so i ws gng 2wrt the hdln as txt bt thgt it mgt nt b 2 ez 2 rd. I like texting, but I have to say I dislike it when people use the language of texting in general email or on blogs. Text is text, everything else should be properly written English. No excuses.

But hats off to Morgan Pozgar who certainly deserves the title, having beating 250 competitors from across America. But does she ever find time for… other things? Like school? She trained by sending an average of 8,000 text messages a month to her friends – that’s about 260 a day. Still, she beat a 23 year old engineer and I say she deserves every bit of her $25,000 prize money. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google is always in the news these days. More often than not because it’s taking over buying a new company, or it’s pretending to be Microsoft or its shares have entered the stratosphere. Again.

But it seems to Google no news means good news. Because the little fact that several Gmail users had had their Gmail accounts disabled, was mysteriously absent. From anywhere. Even a Google search was hard put to bring up anything. Google hadn’t put out notices about the snafu, even though many users were screaming with frustration, many having been unceremoniously booted off their accounts and their blogs (since the new Blogger now forces you to log in with your Google username and password) with no clue as to why. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m experimenting with a new theme. One of the great things about Wordpress is the range of available themes. I love Regulus, the one I’ve been using to date, however I have to say I do like the darker text on this theme. We’ll see if I warm to it or not