Volvo and iPhone have teamed up with ‘Commute Greener’ to create an application that allows you to calculate the CO2 emissions created by your own means of personal transportation.

‘Commute Greener’ can be accessed as an application via iPhones or through the group’s website enabling the user to quickly see by how much carbon dioxide emissions are reduced or increased by using different means of transportation.

Volvo’s home town, the City of Gothenburg in Sweden, is the first city in the world to order the service for its employees.

By registering the different methods of transport that are used for commuting to and from work, the program calculates how much carbon dioxide is emitted per user when utilising different modes of transport, such as the car, train, bus, boat or bicycle.

The service also provides an online community for exchanging experience and for competitions between colleagues, friends and family members about the possible size of reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.

“Our tests have shown that individuals can quickly reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by more than 30 per cent using Commute Greener,” says Magnus Holmqvist at Volvo IT.

‘Commute Greener’ has already been launched within the Volvo Group. The same tool will now make it possible for 2,000 employees within the City of Gothenburg to understand the most efficient and environmentally sound way to commute in any given scenario, and change their commuting habits.

“Commute Greener is a tool which the employees within the City of Gothenburg can use to set a good example regarding the fulfilment of the City’s environmental objectives,” says Eva Rhodin at the City’s traffic office, who is in charge of increasing the demand for sustainable transport.

‘Commute Greener’ is also an important part of the Volvo Group’s overall environmental programme.

“Volvo has been working with environmental care since 1972. We now regard it as an important task to involve individuals,” says Niklas Gustavsson, Vice President Environmental and Public Affairs, Volvo.

The technology behind ‘Commute Greener’ is in line with the UN´s climate change initiative.

“The UN has made it very clear that innovation and technology play an important part. Regulations and agreements are also important. However, at the end of the day, it is the choices that you and I make that can really make a difference,” says Niklas Gustavsson.

For more information on ‘Commute Greener’, go to www.commutegreener.com

pocas veces suceden cosas como estas que descojonan a todo al que entra al server y a todos los que andan jugando, me refiero a la MUNIECO INVASION

Os puedo asegurar que el cachondeo ha hecho que estemos un ratazo jugando descojonados (me incluyo)

Podéis agrandarla hasta 1440×900 pinchando sobre ella.

Friday November 27th was my final day with IBM. I sent the following letter to everybody I worked with, the people replacing us, the CEO of the company (Samuel Palmisano), an executive who oversaw our operations (Susan Black), and the up-line manager who sucked their dicks (David Roberts). The months leading up to that day brewed a great deal of frustration for my co-workers and I. I only hope my ventilation may breathe some life into the slumberous potential we all have to stand up for ourselves, and demand to be treated with respect. I don’t have much hope to change the hearts of those who really do value profit over people.

Today is the end of many people’s jobs, and the beginning of a new era of suffering for their replacements.

In order to remain competitive in the global business market BLAH BLAH BLAH IBM is shutting down places of employment for working class people all across North America to consolidate operations at a lower cost in a few locations where the new employees will be treated to significantly lower wages than the people they are replacing. A net income of $12,334,000,000 USD in 2008 wasn’t enough. Today the Fluor Helpdesk in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is no more.

The Fluor Helpdesk in Edmonton has gone through a lot lately. Starting with the horrible management of Amy Kennaway. We lost a lot of good colleagues through her attempts to demand respect. Any times that we were fully staffed under her were only due to Adam’s relentless struggles. Of course all of the extra weight fell directly onto all of us bottom rung “resources”. We were given no compensation or adequate thanks for our perseverance. A nameless-under-appreciated saint (who quit a while ago) was never reimbursed by IBM for the money he spent to buy us cold water on the hot summer day that the air conditioning was broken. This was the beginning of a bleak future.

Misery continued. Requesting a raise for the past two years has been such an exhausting process that I don’t think many attempts ever saw any answer, let alone a positive one. “Sorry faithful resource, maybe IBM will hire you directly next year. Right now we’re more concerned about squeezing you for every joule of work we can so that we’ll look good to our stockholders. Profit before people!” While we watched coworkers come and go through the building’s revolving doors, the dedicated staff of the Fluor Helpdesk were toyed with and smothered with FUD. Zurich smartened up and left IBM; the end had begun. We had incompetent Team Leads sit on their asses waiting to quit or be laid off, leaving the one useful Team Lead we ever had to do the work of what was supposed to be three. Promises were broken and spirits were crushed as the once busy workplace withered away. Where were all the accounts going? No official word, only rumours.

Entropy at the workplace increased to such levels that physicists might need to update their theories. We all knew we’d be losing our jobs, but we didn’t know when, or how, and our employers didn’t even have the heart to tell us it was true. We just watched the events unfold around us. Nothing was going to get better now. There was no hope left, only rumours.

As of today IBM has still made no official statement regarding the relocation of the Fluor Helpdesk, or the larger scheme it is a part of. It’s “business as usual.” Goodbye foul business.

Samuel Palmisano,

According to the Executive PayWatch Database you raked in $24,965,547 in total compensations in 2008. Was that not competitive enough? The CEO of Google only raked in $508,764, and his company seems to be doing great. Have you ever looked in a mirror and asked yourself whether you are consumed with avarice? You disgust me.

Susan Black,

You have been the crushing force behind our overburdened misery. Your unfathomable expectations have pushed us all to the brink. I’m certain you attained your position in IBM for your merciless ideals, and stubborn resistance. Please, for the sake of many good people who work under you, try to exercise some empathy.

David Roberts,

I genuinely thank you for firing Amy Kennaway. I would also like to thank you for your commitment to meeting our Service Level Agreements, even when it meant going so far as *censored to protect my legal innocence* and tirelessly implementing disastrous band-aid solutions. It’s just a shame you never considered getting to the root of the issue.

Colorado,

I don’t blame you for what has happened, but I do consider you in the same rank as scabs. Take this letter as a warning that you have found yourself employed by a heartless corporation that will never treat you right. I strongly encourage all of you to seek more gainful employment. If you are stuck working for IBM, then at least don’t roll over and let them have their way with you. Be aggressive, demand higher wages, and stick together. Never take on additional work or responsibility without additional compensation. You’re not IBM employees but I would still recommend that you check out the Alliance@IBM union (http://www.endicottalliance.org/).

Edmonton,

Bravo to everyone who has refused to help IBM with this transition. It is action like that which provides hope for a just future. I’ll get off my soap box before I rant three pages about worker employee relations, and the sycophants who give power to the bosses. In stead I will encourage you to read Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay on Civil Disobedience (http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html) that inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr..

“What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
- Henry David Thoreau

Best of luck in the future. Farewell everybody.

Regards,
Maurice Enclave
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Laid Off by IBM for the Sake of Profit

I hope my next job is better.

Twitter Counter provides a Top 100 Tweeters list. Lots of other good Tweet Junk like widgets, buttons, etc.

MultiHack [HCMHIK] working with sXe-Injected 8.4
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www.SiCheats.com
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www.YouTube.com/MatekHaxior
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INFO:
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This is MultiHack for sXe-Injected 8.4. Also this hack is working with all sXe-Injected from sXe-Injected 1.0 to 8.4.

MultiHack Functions:           < Características do hack
- WallHack (3 Modes To Choose)
- No Smoke
- No Flash
- No Sky
- Lambert
- New crossHair
- AntiLocal Ban (BETA Version)

INSTRUCTIONS:                < Instruções
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1. Copy INSTALADOR.exe to the folder where you have HL.exe file
2. Run INSTALADOR.exe and press INSTALAR button, then close INSTALADOR
3. Run sXe-Injected 8.4
4. Start Counter-Strike
5. When Counter-Strike starts a small window will pop up in the top-left
corner of the screen. Click on CARGAR CHEAT button, click OK and in new window choose sxe84.dll and click OPEN
6. Now connect to any server with sXe-Injected 8.4 protection or without this protection
7. In the game press F4 key to show HACK MENU. Choose and enable any options by your mouse.

-português:
1- copie o INSTALADOR.exe para a pasta do CS (aonde fica o arquivo HL.exe)
2- Rode o INSTALADOR.EXE e aperte em Instalar, depois feche o instalador
3- Rode o SXE 8.4
4- Rode o CS
5- Quando o CS começar, vai abrir uma telinha no canto esquerdo (em cima), aperte em CARGAR CHEAT depois aperte em OK. Vai abrir uma tela nova e escolha o arquivo sxe84.dll e aperte em OPEN
6- Agora conecte em um servidor com sxe
7- Aperte F4 para abrir o menu do hack!
CREDITS:
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h4×0r
Cocodrilo
Matek-Haxior
Inexinferis “Karman”

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FAQ:
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This hack was tested and 100% working on this PC configuration:           < Este hack foi testado e funcionou com essas configurações
- Counter-Strike 1.6 (cs16full_v7.exe)
- Counter-Strike PATCH v23
- DirectX 9.0c
- Windows XP Service Pack 3
- ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
- Omega Drivers for ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
- NET Framework 3.5

DOWNLOAD – Megaupload

DOWNLOAD – Rapidshare

SCAN

obs: o link do rapidshare tem +5mb, coloquei um arquivo inutil junto para dar pontos. Caso não queira baixar um arquivo tão grande, use o Megaupload.
(the file at Rapidshare has +5mb, i just put a useless file at it just to get some points. If you don´t want to download such big file, use the link of Megaupload)

Today after some delay version 3.6 of our Yu-gi-oh Calculator for iPhone & iPod Touch, iDuelpro was approved and added to the iTunes App Store. The price remains the same at 0.99$. You can download it here : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iduelpro-yu-gi-oh-calculator/id299220306?mt=8

This update is the biggest ever with 16 changes, the biggest are the settings panel where you can set the players their names, the initial lifepoints and watch statistics of previous duels and the new virtual field where you can play around with tokens and spell counters.

This update is a welcome addition to the most used Yu-gi-oh! calculator on earth and takes care of nearly all user suggestions.

Here’s a full list of all new features and updates :
-Ability to change the player’s names
-Ability to change the lifepoints base value from 8000 to 4000 or 2000
-Win/Loss/Draw counter in a statistics section
-Automated function to calculate your Victory percentage
-Added a function to reset statistics
-Added support for up to 19.980 spell counters on a virtual field
-Added support tokens on a virtual field
-Ability to toggle sides when using customized names
-Added a settings panel
-Added a twitter link to stay up-to-date on the latest iDuelpro news
-New snappier “custom lifepoint” and “preset” dialogs
-Fixed “Display wrong grammar on victory” bug
-Minor changes to make the top bar blend in with the GUI
-New online PDF help file with screenshots
-Various changes to the interface
-New Splash screen

First Create a Command Definition inside Centreon that looks like this. Naturally alter the globals to fit inside your organisation.

Notice the Argument example, when you test it in this form you might also notice that you get a valid response from the server. Sadly this argument will not work inside the service definition.

Next Create a Service definition that utilizes this check command to check a specific counter. In my example i am using the MSExchange OWA\Total Users counter that is part of the new Exchange 2007 Perfmon counters. It will not work with a older exchange version. Use Perfmon on the destination machine to locate the right counters for your organisation.

Notice the difference in the passed Argument. To make this check command work you need to slightly alter the argument because the application is making the strings “save” when these settings are stored. The result is that some of the characters will be escaped. This can luckly be countered by participating this behavior.

We need the check_nrpe binairy to parse the escaped characters as literals and make centreon believe that we have already escaped the unsafe chars by adding slashes to each present slash, and add a double qoute at the start and the end to make check_nrpe binary parse the argument correctly. The outcome should look somewhat like this.

If this is the counter you want to check, and lets make it chalanging

\MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\Messages Queued For Delivery

Then the service argument for $ARG1$ in my example should look like this inside the Centreon service definition.

!\"\\MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\\Messages Queued For Delivery\"!(ARG2)!(ARG3)!

The result will be the following.

I hope this will help you tackle the “Counter” chalanges that Centreon will present when using the NSCLient++ and Check_NRPE commands.

Tools used in this setup

NSClient++ for Windows (32Bit / 64Bit) Using the NRPE option instead of the NS option.
http://nsclient.org/nscp/downloads

NSClient manual for Check_Counter
http://nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckCounter

NSC.Ini file that we used on our remote machines (do add your nagios server IP to the allowed hosts section)
NSC.ini (Rename it by removing the .doc part or simply copy paste its contence)

Check_nrpe Command.
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=check_nrpe

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She will gladly arrange an appointment with you to listen to your ideas and to stun you with our own creative ideas! You dream it, we manufacture it! Badec Bros Deco will create a 3 dimensional render and calculate a quotation FREE OF CHARGE for you! We can deliver your unique Badec Bros Deco product(s) within 10 to 15 working days, upon acceptance of the design and quotation and the required 50% deposit. These services come standard and will not cost you a cent extra! We offer a 1 year guarantee on all our products.

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The KKK is sure doing a lot of protesting and marching this past week.

 For a racist organization who routinely mocks the marches,protest, and boycotts organized by the Reverend Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton that they pattern after the Civil Rights protest organized by the late Rev.Martin Luther King,Jr. , they sure are acting a lot like the legendary iconic African-American freedom fighters, with all of their marching and protesting this week.

The protest staged by Dr. King  proved to be  effective in defeating the Klan in the 60’s.

The Klan,just this past week, held two days worth of rallies in Kennett,Missouri in protest of the Heather Ellis versus Wal-Mart case.

http://jerrybrice.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-kkk-and-wal-mart-in-memphis-join-forces-and-support-a-15-year-sentence-for-cutting-in-line-down-in-dixieland/

…and on Saturday they held a rally outside the Ole Miss vs. LSU game in protest of Ole Miss dropping  the lyrics and fight song ”Dixie”  from being chanted at their games.

Chancellor Dan Jones had ordered students to stop chanting the homage to the states racist past. After they continued chanting, he ordered the song From Dixie with Love to cease being played.

The Ku Klux Klan came out to rally in lieu of the chant “The South Will Rise Again.”

The medley, combining “Dixie” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” was often followed by shouts of “The South shall rise again.”…reports the UPI.

Charise Van Horn of the Examiner.com reports…Chancellor Jones sent an address to the student body of the University of Mississippi. It reads, “We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation. Consequently, I have asked the band not to play ‘From Dixie with Love’ at upcoming athletics events. The absence of this song will send a clear message that the university is neither facilitating nor indirectly condoning the chant.” The order to stop playing the song, From Dixie with Love, was issued on November 17, 2009 to stop playing the song.(http://www.examiner.com/x-12837-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m11d21-Ku-Klux-Klan-protest-at-University-of-Mississippi-over-the-South-will-rise-again-photos-video)

The counter protesters outnumbered the klan 10-1 on Saturday, and their ranks included faculty,staff,students, citizens, and alumnae.

They all read  the student creed aloud, including a call for belief in “the dignity of each person.”

“Our major concern was to show that this is what we stand for as a university,” said Artair Rogers, the Associated Student Body president.

Ole Miss, fueled by the insults from the klan, defeated the game LSU 25-23 in the historic rivalry.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/10404452/No.-10-LSU’s-late-confusion-boost-for-Ole-Miss

From the looks of things, the klan needed to be on the sideline helping the LSU coach manage his time a lot better than he did, with those last three plays, as he messed up an easy field goal kick with his loopy clock management and ultra-strange play calling at the end.

I mean,LSU fans…didn’t you expect your team to kick a game winning field goal with that last play, rather than the one they ran to lose the game? …Seemed to me to be a pretty easy play to call, and you would have won that game.

I think, as I have been pondering that play all night,…maybe, just maybe, the LSU coach did not want to actually win the game, as it would have been celebrated as a win for the Klan, instead of what it would have been, just a win against Ole Miss.

Who knows, but that had to be the case, because that call was just as bad as the one coach Bill Belicheck made last week, to lose the game against Indy and Peyton Manning….it had to be something like that!

The Klan will never learn.They always support the losing side, and the failed causes like racism and the defeated and humiliated Confederacy that their ancestors supported with their lives.

Many of their ancestors did foolishly in their futile attempt to preserve slavery here in America, and if the scorched earth of General Sherman’s march did not convince them, them they all are truly ignorant and insane.

I watched this game between these two great institutions that at one time denied black players a chance to compete on their teams,…but all that is in the past.

Someone needs to let the klan know that.

The Grand Dragon of the Klan Shane Tate stated that …”We aren’t coming there to cause problems or cause trouble. Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college.”

What is a sodomite college…together these words mean nothing!…I find this statement to be whimsical and nonsensical, much like gibberish.

Gibberish sounds like a fair  description of the Klan.

Follow the story here…

http://www.examiner.com/x-17321-AfricanAmerican-Sports-Examiner~y2009m11d22-KKK-used-the-Ole-Miss-vs-LSU-football-game-as-platform-for-protest

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/21/Counter-protest-outnumbers-KKK-at-Ole-Miss/UPI-42151258850426/

Zufällig schaue ich auf meinem Bloggi unten auf den Zähler, lehne mich wohlwollend zurück. Morgen werde ich wahrscheinlich den zehntausendesten Klick erwarten! 1465 Kommentare (meine inclusive) wurden hinterlassen. Mein geliebtes Internet!
Meine “normale” Hausseite hatte bis eben 117.077 Besucher seit 22.08.2002. Ob diese Zähler überhaupt so verlässlich sind? Na egal! Auf jeden Fall bin ich stolz auf so viele Besucher, die sich immer wieder auf meine Internetauftritte verirren, und das mit den wirklich unmöglichsten Suchworten!
Ecki freut sich und morgen wird eine Liga aufgestiegen! Lach!

November 21, 2009

Here is the Ku Klux Klan Protest at the University of Mississippi, pretty much in its entirety. There is plenty of great heckling throughout this video. My favorite is when a little girl says, “You are just standing there. Think of what you could be doing if you weren’t just standing there.”

The lead heckler who can be seen in the video leading the “Go to Hell, KKK” chant said at one point, “I hope a tornado destroys your trailer.” I did not get that on video though.

I am a grad student in Southern Studies at Ole Miss and I have never seen a Protest like this, except on television. I was struck by how toothless the KKK is. They are totally useless here except for being a great target for ridicule. Even the black students in attendance didn’t seem the least bit concerned and most of the people just seemed to look on as if it were a free carnival freak show.

The protest was supposed to be a silent demonstration, so it was strange to see the Klan get clearly aggitated by the taunts of the crowd and then to respond with what was clearly unrehearsed banter. At one point some one called them stupid and a guy in a red hood said, “not as stupid as you.” I thought maybe they would at least show more discipline than that. I guess not. Perhaps they thought they would get more support than they did, so they stayed there for only a few minutes.

Some students and faculty held an anti-hate counter rally that had more participants than the Klan did. The people of the school are concerned about the image this sends to the rest of the nation. But it is important to remember that none of this would be happening if there weren’t still a very strong racial sentiment at least among the alumni and undergrads that is promoted with coded language that refers to “Southern heritage” and “Tradition,” etc.

The Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) standard is a set of file naming and configuration guidelines created to ensure reliable Oracle installations that require little maintenance.

You can think of Optimal Flexible Architecture as a set of good habits to adopt when organizing Oracle directories and files on your computer. All Oracle components on the installation media are Optimal Flexible Architecture-compliant; that is, Oracle Universal Installer places Oracle components in directory locations that follow Optimal Flexible Architecture guidelines. Although using Optimal Flexible Architecture is not a requirement, Oracle recommends that you use it.

Here are the steps to accomplish OFA before an Oracle installation on a Windows environment:

Step 1: Create ORACLE_BASE Directory

ORACLE_BASE is the root of the OFA compliant Oracle directory tree. It is a base for all oracle installations.  It should be in format <DRIVE_LETTER>:\oracle\product\<version>. For example:  D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\ is a good choice for an Oracle 10.2.0.1 database server installation.

Step 2: Create ORACLE_HOME Directory

ORACLE_HOME directory is the directory of the current Oracle installation and contains subdirectories for Oracle software executables and network files. Every ORACLE_HOME directory is also associated with a ORACLE_HOME name which you specify during Oracle Software installation.

ORACLE_HOME directory should be in format <ORACLE_BASE>\<type>_<counter> where type is the purpose of installation (db, app, client etc.) and counter is an identifier which shows the order of installations. For example:  <ORACLE_BASE>\db_1\ => D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\ db_1\  is a good choice for an Oracle Database installation for the first time.

Step 3: Create Admin Directory

Create an admin directory to store administration files.  It should be in format <ORACLE_BASE>\admin\<DB_NAME>\ .

For ex: <ORACLE_BASE>\admin\my_db\ => D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\ admin\my_db\

Some of the directories that the admin directory should contain are shown below:

\bdump –background process trace files
\cdump –core dump files
\create –database creation files
\exp –database export files
\pfile –initialization parameter files
\udump –user SQL trace files
\arch — archived redolog files

Step 4: Create Oradata Directory

Oracle data related files (data files, online redolog files and control files) should be kept in an directory called “ORADATA”. The oradata directory should be in format <ORACLE_BASE>\oradata\<DB_NAME> . For example:  D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\ oradata\my_db\

Step 5: Naming Files In Oradata Directory

Datafiles should be in format <tablespace_name><counter>.dbf . For example:  mytablespace01.dbf .

Online redolog files should be in format redolog<counter>.log . For example: redolog01.log, redolog02.log, redolog03.log .

Control files should be in format control<counter>.ctl . For example: control01.ctl, control02.ctl, control03.ctl .

Step 6:  Spreading Files

It is quite common to have data on multiple physical disks to spread I/O workload and thereby provide better performance and reliability. In such a situation create the same directory structure on all drives and spread the files in relevant directories.  For example the log files can be shared among the drives like:

 C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\my_db\redolog01.log
 D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\my_db\redolog02.log
 E:\oracle\product\10.2.0\oradata\my_db\redolog03.log

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the girl who works behind any counter

dead give-aways:

-can only count as high as the number 7 (with cheese)

-thinks asking if you want to “supersize” is foreplay

-is personally offended by complicated orders

- that’s a girl to avoid

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Today (Wednesday), I will be focusing my thoughts on the ever-growing popular concept of advertising (as evidenced in the latter two “Austin Powers” movies). Specifically, I would like to call attention to some of our nation’s most bizarre forms of ads or, as I like to call it because it sounds clever and witty, “odd-vertising.” This piece will discuss three places I recently saw advertisements that I deemed odd. Keep in mind, however, that there is a fine line between what constitutes an oddly-placed ad and what is simply a desperately-placed ad, just like there is a fine line between quiet sanity and homicidal rage, which I myself am about to cross if the crazy bastard sitting across from me on the train as I write these words doesn’t stop talking to the damn window every ten seconds. For example, people may view an ad placed during the world network premiere of “Alexander” as odd or bizarre, when in all reality it is really nothing more than a desperate and pathetic move. Also, the fact that wireless phone service companies agree to sponsor movie theater messages telling you to silence your cell phones is not odd, but rather just plain stupid.

The first form of odd-vertising I saw was at a local diner, which was a part of my home township until a fire in its kitchen gave the nearby Dennys the upper hand in immediate area restaurants. As you are probably aware, buildings gutted by fire normally have their windows boarded up with large wooden slabs in the days, months, eras, etc. following the inferno. I never understood the point behind this, seeing as how wood is rather flammable and could easily be re-ignited by forgotten smoldering embers that the firefighters overlooked in their rush to quell the blaze so they could get back to drinking at the station. At least, I never understood the point of boarded-up windows until recently: to advertise the wood’s contractor. Seriously. The wooden slabs boarding up the windows of the township’s (former) local diner is prominently stamped with the name and number of a contractor. I’m not exactly sure what audience this contractor is hoping to seize, but, by the same token, it is a pretty ingenious way to show off exactly what he can do. I mean, he won’t get a a lot of calls for, say, building a house thanks to this form of “odd-vertising.”

I came across Example #2 while urinating…meaning not only did I earn another form of odd-vertising to enhance my point, but also earned the “Most Disgusting Sentence Beginning” Award, which was formerly held by the writer of the screenplay for “American Beauty,” which, if you have seen the Oscar-winning flick, has as its first sentence of dialogue “There I was, masturbating in the shower.” Nevertheless, the odd form of advertising in this instance was located on, seriously, a urinal pad. It wasn’t for a product but rather was the bland 1980s-era public service message “Say No To Drugs” followed by a 1-800 number in case, I don’t know, someone who the pisser knows says “yes” to drugs. No (further) offense, but if you take suggestions and phone numbers from a urinal pad, you have definitely got to be on SOMETHING not made from legal substances. Besides, doesn’t the mere fact that you’re literally pissing on the slogan pretty much kill the intent of the message?

The final form of odd-vertising that I can currently think of caught my eye at South Philadelphia’s Wachovia Spectrum several years back. I was there finishing up my self-guided walk-through tour of Lynton Harris’ “Nightmares on Broad Street” Halloween attraction which had used the sporting arena as its home base for most of October 2004. Striding quickly past the “Nightmares on Broad Street” souvenir vendors lining the Spectrum’s concourse (where the tour coincidentally ended), I spotted a rather oddly-colored turnstile, which is of course that revolving three-pronged object seen at the gates of most high-crowd places. Closer inspection revealed that the turnstile’s three prongs were actually covered with “Philadelphia Inquirer” and “Philadelphia Daily News” logos; these are obviously two large newspapers here in the City of Brotherly Love that apparently feel the need to corner the turnstile-passing-through market. I cannot recall any instance wherein I or anything human made their choice of newspaper based upon what they observed on the oversized counter granting them access to their overpriced sporting event.

In conclusion, I invite everyone, living and dead, to share with me any and all forms of oddly-placed ads you have come across while strolling around town or urinating. Sell-out nation that we are, I honestly doubt that advertisers did not stop at simply turnstiles, urinal pads, and boarded-up windows.

I can’t say that everyday is a bad day, because I do find myself in one those “good” days they call them. Today was one of those days.
I finally got some sleep after a few days lacking, not because I was up all night, but because I went to bed at the wrong time. [laughs] No, I mean I tried sleeping a little earlier than normal and boy that did not work! After my sleep I woke up feeling as though it was going to be a good day, (or at least I was hoping for one) and it just got better after I got dressed. I had applied for a hardship bursary and they gave me a little more than what I had asked for, I guess I was mistook how much I really needed, but I’m not complaining (no sir!)

The day got better, it was nice outside, (still a little on the chilly side) and class was fairly short. I got some good criticism from my peers, and I was really happy to have sat in on a lecture by an Executive Director for RGD (Registered Graphic Designer). Very informative and very useful information! I also was texting a friend of mine back all day. I wont mention his name, but he made me very happy and of course got me to smile a lot with his replies. Friends like that are amazing and I wish I had more of them.

Well, my psp finally came in and I was actually disappointed in it. It was missing a piece of the back, it’s batter looked cracked, there was no charger and I was forced to put it aside for now. How sad…now I have to wait for a new shell, charger, and still waiting on my memory card. When will this be resolved!? Well I at least have the darn thing (but don’t know if it actually works…) cause who knows if the seller was lying (damn ebay…)

So, after a chat with dear old Councilor, I got home, checked my email and of course started Counter Strike Source. I know, what is a girl like me playing a first-person shooter with a bunch of guys? Well, I like video games and it’s good therapy I suppose hahaha, until you get bored. I get bored after…3 hours? [laughs] not sure how long I was playing for, but it was long!

Well I hope these kinds of days come along again…I do like them and they need to happen a little more often.