The Lure of The BAJA - coming in February

This writer had the opportunity to race two Baja Events in Baja California, Mexico and meet some really great people and find out what I'm made of. I am putting together this unique story on how to race the Baja and some tips and tricks. Thanks to my co-rider Rob Poznoff and Team Greem Kawasaki, we managed 2 respectible finishes. At both the Baja 500 and Baja 1000. You will see maps, pictures, links and a great story.
Read it in February...

Blink Magazine

Written by Charlie Halpin

Blink Magazine™ - NEW

I'm sorry I haven't updated this site but I have been busing working on my new domain and I am building it with Movable Type.

Please visit regularly.

Blink Magazine™

Old Stock? - Read Below 

A stock research company that will search for cash values in old stock certificates and old bonds. Company history research our specialty.

* Do you have old stock certificates or old bonds?
* Need Stock Research or Company Search Services?
* Wonder about old stock certificate values?
* Need an old stock search on old stock shares?
* Need stock company research or old company history?
* American and Canadian stock research is my specialty!
* Worthless stocks? Maybe not!

A stock research company that will search for cash values in old stock certificates and old bonds. Company history research our specialty.

Google stock hits new high as analysts boost earnings estimates

By Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s earnings are growing so rapidly that not even the stock market bulls can keep up.

Blown away by the online search engine leader's first-quarter profit, securities analysts raised their already high expectations for Google and investors scrambled Friday to buy a piece of a company that's drawing comparisons to some of high-technology's greatest growth stocks of the past.

The fervor lifted Google's stock to a new high on an otherwise dismal day on Wall Street.

Google's shares traded as high as $224 on the Nasdaq Stock Market before retreating later in the day. By the time Nasdaq closed, Google's shares stood at $215.81, a gain of $11.59, or 5.7 percent.
Google stock hits new high as analysts boost earnings estimates

Company PI - Financial Investment and Stock Resource Center

NEW CENTURY ENERGY CORP. (NCEY) – Fueling the Future
By applying new technology and creating operating efficiencies to existing knows gas and oil reserves New Century Energy (NCEY) is posed to fuel the future. With a proven track record, a strong management team, rising oil and gas prices and future oil shortages New Century is well poised to take advantage of the situation, providing an incredible investment opportunity for you today.
Company PI - Financial Investment and Stock Resource Center

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New Direction for Interactive Agencies

The next time you have the ear of your agency's CEO, ask the following question: "Which competitive organizations are taking business away from our agency?"

Odds are your CEO will rattle off the names of several consultancies that previously were not known for their expertise in marketing work.
New Direction for Interactive Agencies

National Post

TORONTO -- Supporters of the province's proposed smoking ban say they want the government to close a loophole that could expose Ontario youth to tobacco advertising.

Rowena Pinto of the Canadian Cancer Society says the bill doesn't ban massive convenience store cigarette displays.

These, known as "power-walls," tempt young people to smoke.

She says the group plans to raise the issue during the four days of public hearings on the proposed laws that start today in Toronto.
National Post

FT.com / Home UK - Open source moves into Microsoft's Office block

Open source software is coming to a personal computer near you. The success of Firefox, the open source web browser, has shown that "free" software is no longer the preserve of bearded geeks and hackers. Now comes a credible alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office suite that costs not a penny, euro or yen.
FT.com / Home UK - Open source moves into Microsoft's Office block

Benedict welcomes dialogue

Pope News. Goes to show, you can get a job after 75. I was worried. So kids, don't throw that resume away at 70.
Benedict welcomes dialogue

Questions?

What is an RSS feed?

RSS is a format used to syndicate news and other web content. This includes major news organizations such as The New York Times and Wired, but also covers blogs and other types of content. Sites that offer RSS-formatted content are accessible through a news aggregator such as NewsGator, which feeds and displays new items from each feed you track.


What is a blog?

A blog is a journal, a running log of thoughts and or commentary that an author (or “blogger”) makes available for reading on a website. Blogging software allows bloggers to update their weblogs whenever they want. People reading the blog can respond to individual entries of the blogger, sometimes creating extended discussions.


What is XML?

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variey of data on the Web and elsewhere.

Wow - 300 Islands For Sale in Dubai - In The Shape Of The World

And they're only 14 million each. But they are in the shape of the world.
You have to see this video. I say, What Are They On? Money!
See it here. (Listen to the video and how the commentator says "the Wooorld")
Click Here For Video

via: arkius

See These Huge Waves

Go to my global warming site to see the latest killer tsunami pictures taken off of a memory card from a couple's camera from BC. Their camera was found destroyed. They did not survive.
Click Here 6-8 Story Waves

Molson Picks CCL's Award-Winning Aluminum Bottle

Cool! Aluminum. Gives new meaning to
smashing a bottle on someone's head, doesn't it.
Click Here For Beer News

Brand New Brands, Inc. Launched to Develop 'Functional' Foods & Beverages; Announces $15 Million in Funding

MILL VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Function is the future of food. That's the basic proposition behind Brand New Brands, Inc., a new company formed to develop great-tasting food and beverage products that incorporate health-promoting ingredients. Backed by leading investors in the health and wellness sector, Brand New Brands has raised $15 million in venture capital from Burrill & Company, Great Spirit Ventures, Unilever Ventures and Prolog Ventures.
Press Release

Changing the Nature of the Beast

The Holding Company - Is this The Future? Click For Full Story.
On paper, the holding-company focus offers a compelling proposition for marketers who want to streamline the number of partners they work with: It allows them to work with a single point of contact in day-to-day coordination of marketing services.

A Soothing Site

Oral Fixation is a designer breath mint company dedicated to making everyday objects beautiful. Design by Number27. Also a very soothing site for a food company! http://www.oralfix.com/home/index.html

WordCount™

WordCount™ is an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words.
This is a fun site and so usful too! WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance.
The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is.

WordCount was designed and developed by Jonathan Harris of Number27, in conjunction with the FABRICA studio of Italy.

http://www.wordcount.org/index2.html

I searched the following words to see their ranking by world use and this is what I found:
Grant - 1390
Randy -17118
the - 1
advertising - 2258
road - 317
snow - 2781
mullet - 52935
carbuncles - 81544
sex - 1236

Bookmark this one!

10X10

Very Cool News Site Link

Every hour, 10x10 gathers the 100 most important words and pictures in the world, based on what's happening in the news. You are welcome to use the information produced by 10x10 in your own non-commercial projects.
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

http://tenbyten.org/

Coined Here

I'm trying to coin new words all the time. Here's one.

"SNIRT"

When ski conditions are bad and there's a 50/50 snow dirt mixture covering the runs.

cHaZ

santa cruz - the mountain bike silly

Visit my offroad speed site. This is where I exstoll the benefits of keeping the rubber side down as opposed to eating dirt while riding through squirrel invested forests in beautiful Ontario. I promise to get a picture of the turkey vultures in Milton this summer and will post the picture there.

Where. Here... http://santacruzheckler.blogspot.com/

One Stretched Mini

Now here's an interesting video from the UK about a stretched Mini Cooper Limo.
Just when you think you've seen it all.......
http://homepage.mac.com/bigyahu/iMovieTheater37.html

PodCasting

I definitly will be posting "PodCasting" for this web blog as soon as I figure out how to do it. The possibilities seem endless so check back here soon. When I get a little more time I will experiment with Podcasts and bring that info to you, the audience.

For more information on "PodCasting" visit iPodder.org.

Buzz Logic

My Ultimate Briefcase

# First, it's no secret I am a Firefox junkie. I am also a Web junkie and I am trying to move my entire life off the desktop and onto "the cloud" so I can access my information from anywhere. My essential Firefox extensions include Scrapbook, Spellbound and the Bloglines Toolkit. Online apps I use regularly include Bloglines, Blogspot, Lycos, Gmail, a Socialtext personal wiki, del.icio.us, Flickr, Microsoft Outlook Web Access for corporate mail, Citrix and finally TypePad for my blog. I am also a huge fan of Google Desktop Search. I use Firefox's Live Bookmarks feature extensively as well. In fact, I use Live Bookmarks primarilly to access RSS news search feeds to find new things to blog about and do corporate intelligence.
And now that Google has bought Keyhole, this should be great for powerpoints or making videos.

What can you do with Keyhole:
Fly from space to your home town. Visit exotic
locales such as Maui, Tokyo, Rome and Paris.
Satellite imagery makes it real. Explore restaurants,
hotels, parks and schools. Think magic carpet ride!

Note: News station have been using it for a long time.

Check it out: http://www.keyhole.com/

Astrobleme

It came from outer space. This lovely word refers to the remains of a large ancient meteoric impact, a roughly circular scar of crushed and deformed bedrock, from half a mile to 40 miles (0.8 to 64 km) in diameter. It’s only in the last half century that these remnants have been identified for what they are, since most have been almost completely eroded away. The best way to identify one is through the cone of shattered rock that lies beneath it. The most famous is probably the Sudbury Astrobleme in Canada, whose mines supply about half the world’s nickel. Geologists may dispute the inclusion of this word in the Weird Words category, as it is a well-known term in geology, though it only dates only from the 1960s. But let's salute the person who invented it: showing a poetic streak not often associated with that most literally down-to-earth subject, it was coined from Greek astron, a star, plus blema, a wound. Star wound—what a romantic notion. Shall we never think of geologists as prosaic ever again.

Manorexics

Really skinny guys that could blow away in a stiff wind~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~