Views of New York City's Skyline

Never forget September 11, 2001.

[Photos: Sister72, midweekpost, hyunlab]

Quote for the Day

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Technology Roundup

The Next Web Conference will be occurring within the next few days. It will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on June 1st. Find out more here. Also, watch this documentary for a preview of what is to come at the conference.

An interesting tech oriented blog, with the subtitle: "Just a lowly edtech geek, blogging from the University of Calgary"

Adam Kalsey explains why IP banning is useless.

If you're in the market for a fast, high capacity portable USB 2.0 flash drive, I may have found the solution for you. That is what I want to get, anyways. 8GB is plenty of storage for me and it's acclaimed as very fast when compared with its predecessors.

This one is for people newer to the internet and/or possessing little knowledge. Check out this website for all your information needs regarding how to build web pages, programming languages, and various other basic topics dealing with the internet. And, if you really want to learn about the internet, I would suggest reading this book (because it was written by the original sole creator of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee).

Links for the Day

I found this four page article on childbearing to be very interesting and informative. The article focuses on the importance of women having children at a younger age, rather than later, because doing so improves fertility rates and decreases various problems. The article says birth is optimal for women between the ages of 18 and 30, with fertility difficulties slightly increasing from 30 to 35, and a significant increase in difficulty after 35 years of age. The article touches on countless topics related to obstetrics, including egg cryopreservation, the process of freezing eggs for use at a later date, and "trisomic" anomalies, the cause of Down syndrome. An excerpt from the article:

The natural reduction in reproductive capacity can be considered an unavoidable part of being human. But in weighing the potential liabilities of delayed childbearing, the slings and arrows of personal fortune must also be considered. Every woman is an individual, and as all college students learn, statistics apply to populations, not people. Whether any particular woman will have difficulty conceiving if she delays childbearing depends in part upon her history and family heritage.

My favorite presidential candidate, Barack Obama, came out with a new health care plan, which the New York Times described in a short article. The plan is "aimed at covering the nearly 45 million uninsured Americans". Personally, I liked how his plan omits small business', which may be defined as 15 employees or less (still undetermined), from the potential health care rule.

Here is a list of tips for the shy and anti-social. This article gives readers suggestions on how to become more confident in social situations. It is basically a good outline on improving social skills and is full of many useful tips. As the articles says, which I strongly agree with, practice makes perfect. So, if you want to improve your sociability, get out there and mingle with people!

And, in technology news, Dell plans on entering the retail market by selling their desktops at Wal-Mart stores, beginning June 10th.

[Photos: operalynn, roxannejomitchell]

Home

Well, I came home from the soccer tournament yesterday. We won our division and we all got medals. However, it was a mess. We were placed in a division with teams considerably younger than us. They did this because, currently, we are in a rec league instead of a select league. The problem is that we told them we are normally select, but, because we didn't have the commitment to travel, we chose a rec league so the games would be more local. Apparently, they didn't listen so the tournament was rather non-competitive for us, except for the last game (the championship), which was a good game.

Oh well, we won and got medals.

Another "revival"...

I've decided to revive this blog again. Using my logic, I decided it was better to continue using this blog rather than start a new one. One example: I'm already indexed in some search engines and submitted in some blog indexes. Overall, I just thought it was better to stay with this blog because it is already established. I can't really find the right words to describe the thoughts and reasoning behind my decision.

Yesterday, (Friday, May 25th, 2007), was my last being a pupil in the public K-12 school system. It was my last official day of "school", ever. (Although, I will be going to college in the fall, but I don't consider that "school". Yes, by technical definition it is "school", but I mean the public institution that one attends until approximately 18 years old. In my opinion, university would be the appropriate term.) I just had to go in for the afternoon and take my pre-calculus exam. But, that is in the past now. I'm done!

As for now, I am going to be playing in a soccer tournament this weekend. That is why I am ending my blogging for the day. I need to go catch some Zzzz's so I can be somewhat rested for my game tomorrow.