Ditto on the Do Follow Policy

I read a post tonight on Tricia's Musings about commenting on Do Follow blogs or D-list blogs. I agree completely with her post in that anyone who wants to leave a comment should do so in a meaningful way; don't leave a pitiful little comment just to get a link back to your blog - give me some content - some meaningful relationship to my post, please. Thank you!

Microsoft Surface

I first saw this advertised when I was in Spartanburg, SC earlier this month. It's the Microsoft Surface Table PC. What? At first glance, it looks cool, but then you have to think, how much does something like this cost? I wonder...

If you're thinking about getting one of these one day, check out this video...

PPAP Information

No, I didn't type it wrong - it's not something you have to go to the "big hand" doctor for your yearly physical...

It's Production Part Approval Process or in QA speak, PPAP, one of the many, never-ending acronyms we use on a daily basis...

I'm working on a Level 3 PPAP for a new product for an OEM customer. For those of you who aren't familiar with what a PPAP is, check out the PPAP article on wikipedia.org. If you're familiar with a level 3 PPAP, you know I have a lot of work ahead of me and less time for blogging...

I've been working on a better way to create the PPAP book, yes, the information gathered will fill a 3" or 4" ring binder to the max. One thing that I'd really like to develop is a meaningful spreadsheet or database that interprets dimensional tolerances for different types of callouts on prints. Anyone have any ideas?

YouTube Running Slow...

Anyone else experiencing extremely slow uploads and/or video processing on YouTube? How long is it taking your video to become live? I uploaded a video about 1:00 AM and it's still not live as of 8:30 AM this morning. This was on the YouTube blog:

Monday, June 11, 2007
Videos processing slowly

We're currently experiencing a very high volume of uploads, causing upload times to be significantly longer than usual. This issue should be resolved shortly and all videos that have been uploaded will become live on the site soon. If your video is in the processing stage, you don't need to reupload it. Thanks for your patience!
Posted by Colin @ 2:47 PM

Instant Hot Ice - Cool Video

This cool little video that I found shows you how to make Instant Hot Ice just in case you're bored and need to whip up some. For more cool videos organized by category, go to i-am-bored.com to kill some time and find out what you can do with instant hot ice and if you're so bored, look around and find out why you shouldn't mix diet coke and mentos...



Make Instant HOT ICE ! - video powered by Metacafe

Whogets? You Decide...

Vote for who you think should get the prize at whogets.com. They run an online sweepstakes site where you decide who gets the prizes. Anyone can enter to win a prize - all you do is signup which is free, then find the prize you want and enter the contest's semi-final pool. If you're chosen as one of the finalists, you can plead your case to the voters who discuss the finalists and give their 2 cents worth on the contest's products and sponsors. Get the most votes, and take home the prize. Registration is free and there's no spam. Check out whogets.com for more info and to see what you can win!

Do Follow Badge

As a product of having BAD (Blog Addiction Syndrome), I was peeking around a few blogs this morning and found a neat little 'do follow' badge. I clicked the badge and wound up at randaclay.com where I found a nice post explaining the 'no follow' tag and why you should try to remove it from your blog in order to be able to spread comment love. There are also some badges available in several colors promoting comment link love for those who'd like to add to their site or blog...

Webroot Spy Sweeper Software

Several months ago, my teenage daughter came to me and told me that her computer wasn't working. Not working, how?, I said. To which she replied that it would come up, but wouldn't do anything. I asked her if she'd visited any new sites or downloaded/installed any new programs, but she said she didn't. It was then that I had an icky feeling in the pit of my stomach because I know enough about computers and teenagers to know that this was going to take awhile...

It's one thing to work on your own computer - you know where you've been and what you've done, but it's a totally different thing to try to work on someone else's pc because you don't know what they were doing, where they'd been and they're sometimes reluctant for one reason or another to give you that info.

If you ever have to work on a teenager's computer, the first thing to do is install Spy Sweeper which is a spyware removal program. Kids don't realize how much spyware there is out there in file sharing programs and exchanging other files like music and photos promotes spyware infection. My daughter had a ton of spyware on her pc, so much that none of the programs would even start up. After installing, updating and running the Spy Sweeper program, her pc began to function normally. This program is a must if you spend any time online. It works continuously to detect, remove, and block spyware utilizing an extensive spyware database which is constantly updated and delivered to the user's pc through regular automatic updates.