My Crazy Polar Bear

This is my crazy dog Lou Lou playing on the back deck during the snow this week. She's like me, has no sense to come in out of the cold when she's having fun. She was out there for about 10 minutes just playing around.



Some more snow photos from this week are here.


Cheers,
Dean

common short code 654654

Anyone reading this know anyone from Snackable Media?

Snackable Media
350 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
telephone: 212-588-1180
http://www.snackablemedia.com/


http://www.predicto.com/


I’d like to publicly shame them for texting cell phone numbers that Predicto LLC are slamming into their sms engine using the short code 654654.

If you want to point them out to me privately please do so as I’d like to punch them in the face personally and wait for them to say STOP – which I will ignore just the way they and their premium sms servers are ignoring my text message replies.

At least Predicto LLC are smart enough to have a phone number thats outsourced to an indian call center who refuse to hand over their USA head office phone number of so i cant extend the same punch courtesy on to them.

Yes I have filed a complaint with the FTC but seeing Snackable is local here to NY someone must know them and I’d like to extend them an extra special Hello to them.


BTW as of 11th of Feb add - 77893  http://www.thefinancespot.com Financial services alerts - to the shit list. it sounds like someone in NY is selling a list of mobile numbers and is going too get arrested sooner than later.

Nirvana - Nevermind

Wow - thats just scary.

I upload a few tracks into the Music Box ---->   to remind you just how perfect this album was( I mean 'is').

I'm going to go have a bex and a lie down...I'm getting too old.


Cheers,
Dean
(P.S. lol anyone who really knows me is laughing about the too old comment right about now).



P.P.S - After i uploaded the tracks i was checking out wikipedia - actually some people are just realy really bad at maths. regardless of whether the original people stating this were referring to the release dates of the album

Please Please Me was launched in 1963 - so in 1991 when Nevermind was launched it was 28 years old.
Nevermind is now only 19 years old


Or the age of the band members,

Krist Novoselic (the oldest Nivana member b1965) will be 45 in 2010 
Ringo Starr (the oldest Beatles memeber b1940) would have been 51 in 1991


Both dates are wrong by about 10 years.Come back and post this in 10 years from now guys......

www.RT.com

Want to see some refreshingly different news on TV? You might want to check out http://www.rt.com/ (if you are in NY on Time Warner it's channel 135).

I happened to stumble across this a few weeks ago and i keep flipping back from time to time to check it out for a different point of view.

Maybe their advertisement can get across how they look at both sides.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Dean

Fire hydrants

I've probably walked past this fire hydrant 500 times and never thought about it (it's on the route that i normally take Lou Lou for walks).

So is it just me or am i the only one who is wondering....when did they stop painting fire hydrants red?

Cheers,
Dean

#SB44

oh wow the fairytale katrina recovery is coming true -
http://www.livefootballchat.com/CHurl/02-07-2010/2842/1463 #Colts #Saints

Gilt exclusive sales

I keep hearing about how "Private Sales" are the hottest new trend and that people are clamouring to rush to 'outpurchase' their friends and that Gilt is one of the hottest at the moment....supposedly because you are supposed to be "invited" by someone in the "know".

lol - but if you go and sign up on their webpage saying you want to join you get an email pretty shortly thereafter, not right away but within 2 days when i signed up.

Ok so i have been looking at the Gilt Man emails over the last few days without seeing a single thing i would buy (let alone at the designer prices) lol but today i burst out laughing and finally had to unsubscribe.

lol - i'm out of here.

Cheers,
Dean

Motorola invests in Scanbuy

"Mobile barcodes are an extremely powerful tool for consumers, businesses and wireless providers, which makes this opportunity very exciting for Motorola," said Motorola Ventures Managing Director Reese Schroeder in a statement. "The camera quality, display capability and processing power of today's smartphones, coupled with advanced network speeds, now enable consumers and the advertising community to fully take advantage of mobile barcode technology."
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2010/02/Business-Motorola-Invests-Scanbuy-Mobile-Content/


lol wonder if Motorola will be as thrilled with their investment in the future.


QR codes are free - dont get suckered into paying for 2d codes or 2d code patent technology.
 
 
Cheers,
Dean

DVI-I Dual Link digital and analog cables

hmmm in case you ever get stuck with some DVI-I Dual Link digital and analog cables but only a DVI-D dual link digital connector on your monitor and you're wondering....hmmm my monitor connector doesn't have a slot for the 4 extra pins i wonder if i can just bend them out of the way..... the answer is yes, yes you can  :)

http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html#Page06

Basically you need to cut or bend those 4 pins around the flat blade. The good part about it is the metal outside sheath isn't conducting anything (unlike a mic cable etc) so the pins can be bent back and touch the outside - note in the 3 cables i modified i didn't let the 4 pins touch each other - basically i leaned them back using a small flat blade screw driver and then used a bigger screw driver that was able to force a 90 degree bend where they leant against the outside sheath.

Getting the cable into the monitor is a bit of a force because the flat blade is smaller on a DVI-D connector but if you can push it on to the point that the retaining screws will tighten you're golden, just use the screws to force it in.

Hopefully google will index this post so next time someone like me gets stuck and tries to google the answer they wont have to worry so much about if they should just return the package and wait another week for the right cables to be shipped back.

Cheers,

Dean

Monday mornings

Early Monday morning walking with Lou Lou on the promenade while listening to Supla...... Is there a better way to start the week?



(btw if you liked the track i just put some more Supla into the Music Box ---->>)

Cheers,
Dean