Dilbert of the Day

So many things can be said about this one... meetings which are typically interminable if they do not have focus, taking technology out of the hands of people that use it for productivity, crushing one's souls, which people who know me know how I feel about that one...

ummm.... Been Here Before???

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Free Ringer

OK... gonna try this over the weekend... But on the surface it looks pretty cool... Found via Lifehacker (a good blog with a wealth of info)...

Webapp FreeRinger makes free PC-to-phone calls from your browser to over 30 different countries across the globe-or at least that's the idea. FreeRinger is powered by another free international calling service, Talkster. The calls are ad-supported, so you never have to pay anything, and since the app runs from your browser as a Flash application, you don't have to install anything to use it. Unfortunately FreeRinger, I wasn't able to successfully log in when testing FreeRinger (even after forwarding port 1935, as the troubleshooting page recommended), so I wasn't able to verify the quality. If you give it a try and have better luck, let's hear how it worked in the comments.

FreeRinger [via MarketWatch]

Insect Collections...

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Originally uploaded by cpudawg2k

I got flashbacks this weekend to insect collection requirements during the course of all the years of science classes I had to take when I ran across a walking stick at the cabin...

Question...

How come any time you wanted to find a walking stick or praying mantis they were nowhere to be found???

The Lake in November...

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Originally uploaded by cpudawg2k

Regardless of how hectic and tumultuous life can be, how could you not be calmed down and forget about some of the worries of life when you can see something as beautiful as this?

How could someone ever think there is not a God who could put together something as complex and magical as a the things in nature?

No fish this weekend... Got some scouting reports from my uncle, so it is game on next weekend...

Interplanetary Soccer Kid...

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Originally uploaded by cpudawg2k

So, we did the fishing thing at the lake again this weekend... So, where is the pole, you say??? Well, this was Jackson mid-exploration of some fish he saw near the boat ramp...

It Hurts with the Parallels...

Dilbert's daily comments relative to life in the workplace some times hit so close to home... However, as pessimistic as this viewpoint seems, I have found that if you focus on long term goals and break those down in a timeline of related milestones for those goals you can overcome any barriers whether external or internal. Hello, Tony Robbins... :)