This past weekend marked a huge point in history for the world as the 2008 US Olympics opened in Beijing, China. With so many great events taking place over the course of the first few days of the Olympics, there were a few highlights that really stand out.
Olympian Michael Phelps and teammates scored the gold in the men’s 400 relay medley, keeping Phelps’ dream for 8 gold medals at the 2008 Olympics alive and barely beating France in what was called the best 400 relay medley event in swimming history. The war cry that exuded from the US team after the winning time was announced on the scoreboard was out of this world, and the excitement was unmatchable. You can read more here, but if you missed the event you really need to find the video to understand just how close it really was.
Overall, it was an awesome weekend for the Olympic games and I’m really excited to see how Michael Phelps fares in his continued pursuit of history.
In other news, the acting world lost two great actors this weekend: Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes. I was shocked to find out Saturday morning that Bernie Mac had passed away from pneumonia. Bernie Mac was one of my favorite comedians, and I’ll never forget his great role in Ocean’s 11 and 12.
Isaac Hayes, the former voice of Chef from South Park amongst other things, was found passed out on the ground next to his treadmill in Memphis, Tennessee. The cause of his death is as of yet unknown, and this is another shocking and unexpected death. Both he and Bernie Mac will be missed.
With the new obtainment of HackerSafe by McAfee, I decided to go the route of being super secure with my shirt site, Seventh.Ink. There are a lot of great features available with the new McAfee Secure and I took the opportunity to get my hands a great service.
Beginning next week, McAfee Secure should be fully integrated with Google and other major search engines, showing off sites that utilize their services of providing the safest net possible. This is a great asset, and I’m very excited to offer this security on Seventh.Ink.
Just got a new business phone the other day.. a shiny new BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and boy am I happy. I won’t even post a photo of the last phone I was using, most of you wouldn’t even believe it. For shame.
Needless to say, upgrading from my last phone to a PDA with such a huge list of capabilities is a bit daunting, but so far so good. Luckily for me there are quite a bit of sites out there that offer tips and tricks as well as general set up information when it comes to working with a BlackBerry. The main thing I needed was email access wherever I went, and I definitely got more than I bargained for.
After perusing sites for a few days I finally figured out how to get my email working. For some reason, the menu system just isn’t that obvious so I was having some trouble. I think Sprint had some good info on it’s page titled “How do I set up email for my BlackBerry 8130 or 8830 device?”, but for some reason it still wasn’t clicking for me. I was trying to set up an account with an SMTP server system, so why don’t they just come out and tell you how to do that? I basically had to create an account Username on the phone and THEN go in and enter my email information for my SMTP email. All I had to enter was my email address and password and viola! Instant access.. as far as I can tell.
So what other goodies did I stumble upon during my BlackBerry crusades? My personal favorite is a blog on Wordpress called My BlackBerry Pearl 8130 in which a man named Kelly Carter, who is an Adjunct Instructor at Mercer University in Macon, GA, writes about the trials and discoveries he endures with his new BlackBerry. Pretty interesting stuff, and a good resource for some really cool tips and tricks. It was here that I found another site that will soon become more visited by yours truly, RogersMJ.com.
RogersMJ posted a theme for the BlackBerry that I find absolutely awesome: bPhone, a simulation of the beautiful iPhone that runs on your BlackBerry. You may be asking yourself why I didn’t just get an iPhone if I wanted one so bad. There are a few answers, mostly relating to cost and the necessary service provider switch. To be honest, I’ve been with Sprint for the past 7 years without an issue while many around me complain about the service provided to them by TMobile, Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Plus, Sprint is rockin’ their design side at this moment. Or, I could just have a comfort zone that I don’t want to leave.. but that doesn’t sound like me.
Well, that was quick.. I’m a bit flustered. 
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You can view this piece on my DeviantART account or my RedBubble account.
This design is an homage to the original digital camera, the Polaroid. Hopefully you’ll enjoy this design, if you’d like to contribute and critique it, I’d really appreciate it!
Critique this design here.
Alrighty! I worked out a new font that I think incorporates the styles of both of the previous fonts, so hopefully everyone likes it. Also, I added in a tiled bathroom and a splattery sort of counter top that’s crusted over with toothpaste (I tried it smoothed out and.. just didn’t look pasted enough!).
So, definitely looking forward to some critiques on this. Thanks in advance!
It’s getting there.. what do you think?
Critique this design here.
I’m loving all of these shirt companies just popping up out of nowhere.. I feel like the possibilities are limitless! I just set up a gallery at T-Shirt Monster, which is similar to my Wordans Boutique, except it doesn’t seem that they print on American Apparel so I’m guessing that keeps the costs down.
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