I haven’t been feeling well since I woke up today and I really wish I could just stay in bed, but I had to get up because today is Wednesday. What’s so important about Wednesday’s? Well its homework day, lots to post. Normally, I would have gone through all the lecture notes and videos but I totally skipped Monday to attend to other matters. Yesterday, I spent all day watching lecture videos and doing them myself so by 6pm I was drained. This morning I woke up feeling like poop, took some drugs, and got back to reading lectures and posting for one class. Now, I’m too lazy to read the lectures for the other class but I have to. So, in my laziness I thought about the Accessibility Tools Windows Vista have, I was hoping for a program that reads so I wouldn’t have to read just listen. Before I found the Narrator I discovered the Snipping Tool. I was curious of what it does so I clicked it open. It’s one of the most useful tools! You know how you do a print screen and then have to paste it to Photoshop or something to get the screenshot and then crop what you need then save it as an image? Well the Snipping Tool just lets you snip any part of your screen and lets you save it. I use screenshots a lot for many things and I’m so glad I was lazy today, I found a new tool to cut down on some steps. I love being lazy sometimes, I find the coolest shortcuts to do things.

Well I gotta get back to school, get my Narrator on to read my lectures for me.

For no apparent reason I got up at 5:30am this morning. By 10:30am I had nothing else to do, so I sat down on my desk and started stumbling through websites. StumbleUpon is one of the best web surfing tools around. You just click a button and ta-da you’re at a web page you probably never would come across. So here they are, the 10 interesting sites I stumbled upon today.

10 – Скульптуры из песка (43 фото) – Sculptures of sand (43 photos) – what if it rained?

09 – The Vampire Library – get your fill of vampire lore here.

08 – Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket – oh the things people do for art!

07 -The Rise of the Machines – I don’t remember meeting a robot in Japan, South Korea, or Singapore when I was there. I don’t even know of any here in Germany. I need to get out more, I guess I haven’t traveled enough.

06 – Males of All Species Are Becoming More Female – the environment is turning our men into women!

05 - Cheap First Class Airfares: Airline Secret Exposed! – the key word here is Y-ups, just remember that every time you make flight reservations! Get first class tickets for almost economy class prices.

04 – Who Needs a House Then? – where’s the pool? Gotta have a pool?

03 – Brain Pop – yep, knowledge is power, learn something new.

02 – The Simpsons parody iPods, iPhones, Apple Stores, Steve Jobs, and even Apple’s 1984 commercial – I have a white ear buds!

01 – Cookie Recipes – this has to be the best site ever! I’m starving for some Margarita Cookies!

As I was browsing the Google Trends this morning to find inspiration for an article on eHow, I found inspiration for a blog entry instead. Googleganger ranks number 5 in today’s Google Trends. I clicked on the article “What does Googleganger mean?” and began to laugh as I started reading the article. It reminded me of a blog entry I wrote a long time ago on my Multiply profile called “Have You Googled Yourself?” Don’t lie, you’ve Googled yourself, and if you haven’t you are going to do it now. A few months ago, I was talking to some girls at work about results I found when I Googled myself and my husband’s name… expectedly I do not have a Googleganger (ah, now I know what it’s called), but my husband had a few. So, the girls were curious about themselves and so we went to Google and Googled away! One girl’s Googleganger turns out to be a porn star!!! How insane is that?! And the other girl found her divorce information. Way more insane than having a porn star Googleganger.

It’s time I start building a portfolio and the best way for me to do that is to offer my services for free. I want to build you a website… from nothing, from your drawing, from your Photoshop mokup, or to redesign one you already have. The idea is for me to make web pages based on a client’s needs. Of course the hosting and domain fees are not covered, but if you don’t have those yet I can help you get them. I use Dreamhost, I registered the domains I host with them. The fees are very reasonable. I’m also open to designing lithographs, certificates, and collages. These are other ways I can practice and show my skills in graphic design.

If you’re interested leave a comment or send me a message so we can discuss the details.

The past couple years or so major TV networks have posted full episodes on their websites for public viewing. It is such a great service for people who don’t have time to watch their favorite shows on the scheduled times. We can just go online anytime to watch. Of course having a TiVo is great too because some shows came on at the same time and you can record one and watch the other. While we were home in California we used TiVo but now that we’re here in Germany we were counting on watching streaming video to keep up with our shows and new ones. The most disappointing thing hit us when we went to the websites and they all denied us the service, saying it was only available for US residents! What kind of crap is that?

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I was browsing the web last week trying to figure out how to do certain things and I came across instructions from eHow.com. I’ve been to the site before but I never really browsed it too much, at first I thought it was just a glorified Yahoo! Answers site. It kind of is but the great part is that you can pretty much find instructions on how to do anything. If you don’t you can write the instructions yourself and get paid for it through the Writers Compensation Program (WCP). It’s free to register as a writer and your articles are instantly published to earn some money.

I figured there are some things I do that could be helpful or interesting to others. Anyone can do this, as long as you have decent spelling and grammar skills you can earn some cash by publishing articles on how to do the things you do best.

Check out my articles on the side bar. I will post links to all my articles under eHow Articles.

Since I’m all the way over here I decided to post my Christmas List early. I figured why buy these things myself when the gift giving season is near. So here’s my list on Kaboodle, I’m going to update it frequently because when I’m bored I window shop. Thank you in advance to those who buy me stuff. A lot of TV shows since we don’t get cable here, a bunch of stuff from Sephora, some stuff for my iPhone 3G, and other stuff I like.

I invite you guys to post your lists on Kaboodle too, its a great way to send your wish list to everyone and adding items is easier and way cheaper than adding items to a cart. Once you sign up you can get your family and friends to do the same and be your Kaboodle buddies that way whenever someone updates their list you get a notification. Another cool thing is that people can mark off the stuff they get you so that you don’t get duplicates… get exactly what you want… not that ugly sweater nobody ever wants but always get. Just download the buttons or plugins for your Internet browser and you’re on your way to building your own shopping and wish list.

Christmas List by ememfrick

Since last week I’ve been calling the Philippines a lot, I’m pretty sure our phone bill is going through the roof. Even though T-Mobile says that we have a country flat rate, they don’t mention the fine print when you sign up. No mobile phones and not to certain countries… like the Philippines! Well that doesn’t help us much since almost everyone we know in the US and also Philippines are on mobile phones. Another set back to this stupid land line we have with T-Mobile is that the connection is so bad, we either get cut-off or they cannot hear me! Arrghhh! I really don’t need this right now!

Today I’ve been searching for SMS online that works worldwide, primarily Germany, US, and Philippines. While searching I stumbled across Chikka.com, how awesome! I totally forgot I even had a login for this SMS online service. It’s free! I can send and receive SMS between Germany, US, and Philippines!! Yay! The cool thing is that it still has all my previous contacts from Manila and Baguio, I just hope they still have the same numbers.

I sent two messages after downloanding Chikka messenger, one to Tito JonJon to see about getting a car to pick me up from the Manila International Airport to Baguio next week, and another one to my cousin Phoebe to see how she’s doing. Neither one responded yet, I hope they got the messages. If they don’t respond I guess I’ll have to attempt calling again. I miss AT&T!