Remember the Yip Yips?
Thanks goes to my friend Brandon for linking to a YouTube clip of the classic Yip Yips. Definitely brings back memories from childhood...
Words and stuff.
Thanks goes to my friend Brandon for linking to a YouTube clip of the classic Yip Yips. Definitely brings back memories from childhood...
USA Today had an interesting article recently (another copy of the article ran here). Research published in the journal Human Genetics found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one "founder", an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Here is something interesting... a personal test for right-brain vs left-brain dominance. (Thanks to Rational Jenn for the link.)
I've been a jogger/runner for many years now, going back to my college years in the early 1990s. I do it mostly for exercise, and also because I find it pleasureable and a good way to clear my head -- and sometimes do some really good thinking. In fact, I find that some of my best ideas arise while running. From April - November I try to run 3-4 miles, several times a week. It is always weather and schedule dependent. I think the longest I have ever run is 6 or 8 miles, many years ago.
After 10+ years using Eudora Pro as my email client application, I'm finally moving on. Like so many people, I'm going to be using Outlook. In fact, as of this weekend, I am now switched over to the new Outlook 2007. The reasons for this are several:
So in recent weeks I've been cleaning up all my Eudora stuff, preparing for the switchover to Outlook. In doing so I've archived thousands of emails sent and received since 1997, and re-organized how I structure email folders and so on. Having done all of that upfront, the switch over has been relatively smooth.
With Outlook I plan to use a great many more features than I was able to get with Eudora. A while back I already started to use Outlook for RSS feeds for blog-reading. There too the tool I had been using, the web-based Newsgator site, served me well for a couple of years, but I decided I wanted to read blogs in the same tool that I read email -- so that was going to be Outlook.
I've already switched over all my Contacts data into Outlook too, info which had formerly been stored in a custom Access database I had designed. And I intend to start using Outlook's item categorization features, the Tasks feature, the To-Do Bar, and perhaps Calendaring. I doubt I'll use its Journal or Notes features, as I use Microsoft OneNote for that sort of thing already.
For long-time Outlook users, all of this "ho-hum" no doubt. But for someone who had been using Eudora for 10+ years, it has been a major switch-over! So far, so-good...
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A severe storm current in Texas is making its way east, and will mix with colder air up here in the northern states to produce some more snow... or so the weather folks are predicting. As of now, it seems the worst of it will miss us here in Rochester, NY.
Labels: personal
I don't usually write "personal" blog postings... but this one verges on that I guess. I recently saw my first spring training baseball game on TV, and of course that was a great feeling. Then a few days ago the temperatures here in the Rochester, New York area rose into the 50s and even low 60s I think. I was able to go for an outdoor jog (just 3.5 miles) on one of those days, which was great, because I really need the exercise. And we actually had ample rain in recent days too.