Last night I entitled a post: “Poor College Students Sacrificing Precious Christmas cash for Ron Paul“. I finished the post just before I headed out on a Saturday evening date. My intention was to write a post that would influence my small readership and more of my family and friends to donate, I hadn’t even proof read the post. When I got home from my date it was just after midnight, I shut my eyes and clicked “donate”, giving the $100 I have saved up over the past month. It was an awesome feeling.
It was then that I realized that I had 111 Diggs! I had three emails from friends congratulating me for getting on Lew Rockwell’s home page. Feeling rather embarrassed realizing that thousands of people had read my poorly written (I hadn’t even proofed it as I ran out the door to my date) blog entry, I some quick fixes.
I also want to thank the two of you who offered to donate a little to my school tuition. I didn’t intend to solicit donations to me, but thank you.
Back in September I donated to a politician for the first time in my life. I am a BYU student. I am poor. I am trying to help build a company. A few weeks ago, my 1991 VW’s engine blew up. I can’t afford a new car so I am moving about on foot. BUT tomorrow I am going to dump what ever extra money I can into the Ron Paul campaign in my support of the constitution.
I heard about Ron Paul from a coworker, Duane. For over a year I had watch Duane reading about Ron Paul. I figured Ron Paul was a loony, until one day Duane sent me and email entitled, “An important part of my life.” Duane explained how important the ideas of freedom are to him. It was then I saw that Duane—also a BYU student and a newlywed, bootstrapping a company—had donated over $200 to the cause. I deeply respect Duane so I decided I best pay attention.
Jumping on Youtube I found dozens of interesting videos of the debates. Initially I was bothered when Ron Paul would say that he wants the troops out of Iraq immediately. It wasn’t until after watching hours of Youtube debates on the war, and reading an article by my brother Neal about choosing between our fellow Mormon, Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul that I decided the war is unconstitutional and will never work to fulfill its purpose—to rid the world of terrorists (I will discuss my logic against the war in a later post)
on September 9, I saw this video:
When I clicked “submit” to my first meager $15 (ALOT for me in September) donation, that I realized, “I must really like this guy!”
I knew nothing about the 5th of November until the day of. I couldn’t donate because I didn’t have the money. Since the 5th, myself, three of my brothers, two of my sisters (I am a Mormon, we have a big family), my mom, my uncle, and several friends here at BYU have all been saving and proselytizing for Ron Paul. None of us donated on the 5th and only I have signed up at teaparty07. Looking at this tonight, I believe that is the way we are going to see all the records broken tomorrow.
When people take a minute and look past Ron Paul’s unpolitical image, they see truth and the correct principles of freedom. In Ron Paul I feel as though I can visualize the kind of men who founded this country. Just yesterday I showed my friend from Brazil a video on Ron Paul. When it got done he said, “I would vote for this man!” To bad he is not American.
I have been learning Portuguese lately. I finally found out how to write accents on my Mac. I used Yahoo Answers to learn how. I was directed to this site.
On A Mac
This list is organized by Accent type. The sample shows a letter with that accent, and the Notes present any special comments about using that accent.
For the Template, the symbol “V” means any vowel. The format is to hold the first two keys down simultaneously, release, then type the vowel you wish to be accented.
ACCENT
SAMPLE
TEMPLATE
NOTES
Acute
ó Ó
Option+E, V
Circumflex
ô Ô
Option+I, V
Grave
ò Ò
Option+`, V
Tilde
õ Õ
Option+N, V
Only works with “n,N,o,O,a,A“
Umlaut
ö Ö
Option+U, V
Example 1: To input the letter ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. Release both keys then type lowercase o.
Example 2: To input the letter Ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. Release all three keys then type capital O.
This list is organized by Accent type. To determine the appropriate numeric code, match the accent with the vowel. See the individual By Language pages to see how to handle other accents.
One of my instructors at BYU, John Richards—a Utah Angel Investor, was talking about Facebook in a lecture series at BYU. He was asking us how Facebook has become so huge? He then explained that it was in part because they started with the College age students. This is what has given Facebook the coolness factor.
It is great to see Ruckus following in Facebook’s footsteps. I imagine that Ruckus was inspired almost entirely by Facebook’s stratagy and that they already have plans to release their music to the general public as some point down the road.
This is an example of an article that we use at FamilyLearn. We built this one to Optimize the 50th wedding anniversary keywords:
Given the escalation of divorce rates in recent years, a 50th wedding anniversary in 2007 represents a true accomplishment. According to recent statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau: “About 52 percent of currently married couples had reached at least their 15th anniversary in 1996, and 5 percent of them had reached at least their golden anniversary (50 years).” Making it to 50 years is a pinnacle that only few couples attain.
“Over that period of time a couple builds a legacy that can’t be measured in material possessions, but rather the lives they have touched through their union,” says Donna Pilato, Entertaining guide for About.com. More than golden anniversary mints, a 50th anniversary gives family and friends an opportunity to take a ride down memory lane and honor a very special couple.
When Barb Sasaki of New Jersey started planning for her Turner parents’ 50th wedding anniversary party for July 2007, she wanted to craft the perfect festive environment. Invitations were sent to family and friends. The big party was decorated with gold while sound of once popular 1957 music filled the air. She even convinced her dad to make his famous homemade wine. Guests were each greeted at the “sign in” book with their own labeled photograph of her parents. Barb went all out. Still, she wanted a 50th wedding anniversary gift idea that would represent the legacy of the lives her parents had touched over those 50 years.
It was with the “guest book” that Barb really got imaginative and pulled her 21st century cards. She discovered a website called MemoryPress.com where she could create a 50th wedding anniversary gift book, add her favorite memories and invite family and friends to contribute to the book from their own homes. The book blossomed into 143 pages of photos and memories contributed by family and friends. “It was the highlight of their 50th anniversary party! We used it as the guest book. Everyone wanted to sit down and look at it! My Mom and Dad were both brought to tears when we presented it to them and Mom told me the other day that Dad has read it cover to cover 8 times now in the 6 weeks or so since the party and cried every time!”
Barb realized that giving her parents memories was more valuable than gold or a perfect party. The Internet, via MemoryPress.com, made celebrating a 1957 couples’ lives with the memories and photos of family and friends as easy as email.
Match.com and eHarmony.com help people fall in love online, now MemoryPress.com is helping couples celebrate their lives online as an unforgettable 50th wedding anniversary gift. MemoryPress 50th wedding anniversary books can include everything from the couples 1957 love story to drawings by their grandchildren. Why not? After all, it’s 2007.
Today Mashable mentioned MemoryPress on their blog. Here is what they wrote:
MemoryPress is a recently launched service that lets you create physical books, scrapbooks, if you will, with its Mashup tools.
With MemoryPress, you can create a scrapbook of your choice, for a wedding, a new baby, or a memoir. The service will cost you about $50 per book, and works in a similar manner to PanRaven. The mashup part comes in when you see you have the option to import content from Microsoft Word or a Blog. There’s also integration with Flickr photos as well.
The editor has all the necessary tools for document creation, which seems to be from a different service than MemoryPress. This can be somewhat confusing, as it seems like the two aspects of the services aren’t quite interconnected, but the two options are part of the FamilyLearn site. At any rate, you won’t be able to try all the new features of MemoryPress, as they’re not all live yet.
In regards to the comment about FamilyLearn. FamilyLearn is the company that built MemoryPress. All the books that are created on MemoryPress are archived (at no extra charge) so that they will be searchable for future generations on FamilyLearn. FamilyLearn’s Mission is to be the world’s most enjoyed family library. MemoryPress is just a tool to help it get there.
We just posted a video where we put a MemoryPress book in the dryer for 45 minutes. I am trying to decide what video serving option we should use to serve it to our website. Here are some options:
I just found Jake Jarvis’ website Litesum.com. You type in a topic that you want to learn about and wait for results. A brief summary of the requested topic will appear instantly. I will be using it in the next few weeks to see if it sticks.
The first thing I typed in was “imemorybook” to see what it would do. Surprisingly it found iMemoryBook and pulled it up. It sourced wikipedia.
