So what has been happening with me?  I have got several emails of people asking.  Lets see,  my wife has a brain tumor.  A good friend of mine died in a motorcycle accident.  My eldest daughter finished her first year of college.  My little ones are starting middle school, and playing in the band.   FYI Gary Clarinet and Oboe.

So where do I start?  Well this is a start…my main focus is my wife.  She has a tumor on her pituitary gland.  The tumor is producing HGH (Human Growth Hormon).  This is called Acromegaly.  It is a rare type of tumor, and extremely hard to get rid of.  She currently shoots herself up 3x a day with Octreotide to try and shrink the tumor but eventually we will be doing surgery.

So how have you been?

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Time, yea I got that!

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• Congratulation to the Crimson Tide! Who won the Redneck Award? (1)

Don’t get me wrong, I like talk radio.  One of my favorite shows is the Matt Murphy show on 1070 WAPI.  I listen to talk radio, on AM.  When I switch over to FM, it is because I’m wanting to listen to music.  Not just any music, I want to listen to classic Rock and Alternative,  Live 100.5 was my other radio station.  I don’t want to listen to Top 40 and Country.  I don’t want to listen to those two fat head guys.

So today the Facebook group SAVE LIVE 100.5 was created.  If you are on Facebook join us.  The group has grown in 10 hours to 3,500+ members.

Fans rally to save Birmingham radio station Live 100.5

The Radio Carousel returns, unfortunately, for Live 100.5

We are also emailing Citadel Broadcasting.  If you want to help try to keep 100.5, you should do the same.  Contact info below:

LIVE 100.5, the best radio station that Birmingham has ever known, is being yanked. Let’s let the folks at Citadel Broadcasting know that we are not in favor of this move. Join this Group and then go to the LIVE 100.5 fan page and let your thoughts be known! Let’s keep it civil people. Let the suits know that the listeners of LIVE 100.5 are educated, thoughtful music lovers that spend money in this area and we want a station that fits our high standards and that station is LIVE 100.5, the way it is RIGHT NOW!

Please email or call these two folks and ask them to save LIVE 100.5

jellis@citcomm.com
fsuleman@citcomm.com
AND
judy.ellis@citcomm.com
farid.suleman@citcomm.com
212-887-1670
702-804-5200

Be nice…

Updated: Contacts

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Live 100.5 Going Silent

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On January 12, 2010 Google on its own blog, posted that it had been attacked and that it originated from China.  At the same time Google threatened “reviewing its business in China”.  On the same day U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton released a statement condemning the attacks.

This weekend in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland started the World Economic Forum.  The one thing that was not brought up was the attack from China on Google. Lets not forget at this forum both China and Google was present and accounted.  You might say it was a big’ol elephant in the room.  People were asked about the attacks.  The Vice Premier Li Keqiang, of China made it clear “China did not want to discuss Google”.

So where does this leave us? Should this be forgotten for economic reasons? Is it at this time, we walk away and go “Well Shit Happens!”.

There was never a mass attack using this flaw.  It seem to be quietly aimed at certain US Companies.   I can tell you now, no one is going to know what all was taken and or compromised.  I believe these types of attacks will become more and more common, not just used by countries vs countries but individual groups vs whole countries.

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Operation Aurora – Continues

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I believe Microsoft said it best about project Aurora.  And I quote:

Microsoft Security Advisory (979352) – Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could allow Remote Code Execution

So what does this mean?  Well if you go to the right web page… just go to it.  Your computer can be compromised by an “Hacker”.  When Is say hacker, I mean the Chinese Government.  For the record, no one in the Chinese Government has come out to say they did it, but… well common sense says different.  We’ll get to that later.  You know whats funny, is I don’t fault nor do I blame them.  I blame Microsoft.  I will get to this later.

Lets look at the companies that where effected to begin with:

• Google
• Adobe Systems
• Juniper Networks
• RackSpace

unconfirmed but probably so:

• Yahoo
• Symantec
• Northrop Grumman
• Dow Chemical

So why do I blame Microsoft and not the Chinese Government?  Well its simple… as usual  Microsoft has know about this flaw for a while.  My simple research shows they have known about it since September of 2009.  That is four months to long for what should have been considered a critical flaw.  How many of you store not just your personal important but your businesses important data on computers running windows.   Now how many of them are being used with Internet Explorer as the default browser?  Now how does that make you feel?  This should have been put to the top of the priority queue for fixing.   It should not have waited till it was being exploited to be fixed.

To be continued…..

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So I’m sure you are wondering, what does this have to do with the Redneck Award?  Well the Austin Statesman has a Columnist aka Joke named John Kelso who wrote an article “As far as rednecks go, Alabama may have UT beat“.  Well he got it wrong.

You see under normal circumstances my family would have been “War Eagle” all the way, simply because that is where the majority of our family members have graduated and/or attended.  Being that Auburn was done for the year, had no chance of going to or seeing the National Championship, we stood behind the other team.  You see Auburn, is in Alabama the state.  Alabama the school is also in Alabama..

What I never expected to see was the disrespect, the total lack of loyalty to the state, and the complete ignorance that I saw on twitter and Facebook from Auburn fans!  One tweeter that was a stand out, and someone who thinks they represent Auburn was @WarBlogle.

At one time they say “Bama fans…you are the only reason we pull against your team. Not the players, not even the coaches. YOU.”  … hum really?

As a person looking from the outside in… let me just say Kettle let me introduce you to Pot.   So it is Auburn Fans that gets the Redneck award.  At least if I was handing it out.

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Congratulation to the Crimson Tide! Who won the Redneck Award?

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Most of these E-Cards, even the legit ones, will end up collecting not only the person sending the E-Card to you but also your email address and selling these to spammers.  Some use tracking code in their images, links, java, and or flash.

Then there is the malware type, these are the ones that are sent to you.  They look legit but they are really from a virus/worm that someone you know has.  These cards are fake and will ask you to install and or run something.  Once done your machine is also now infected.  You get to join in the fun of slowing your company network, getting your company on a black list, and giving your IT Staff something more to do.

Lets face it, these are horrible things and we should all do our part to avoid falling into these traps.   So this holiday season if you wanna be in the know and do it the right way, let me recommend Send Out Cards.  These are high quality cards, they handle all the hassle of actually sending.  It cost about $1 a card.  It is actually as easy as using one of those stupid e-cards.  Except the final product tho, let me tell you, is a professional looking real card.  Give them a try, tell Beth I said hi when you do.

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Holiday time approaches!

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So what do they offer?

Mail Collector.   This is a way to check and or get your other mail ie hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail all in one place.

Well I wouldn’t know see, when I went to it originally I was using Chrome the newest version of Chrome even.  This is what I ran into:

See they do not support chrome.  So I opened up IE 8 and was able to sign up.  This went pretty well.  The interface looks nice. It was easy to navigate.  The main login looks almost like a iGoogle page with widgets.   There are some good widgets, one for facebook, one for twitter.  Setting these up was easy and the login was fast.  The widget for twitter is Betwittered I believe.  I tried to setup my Gmail with the mail collector and it failed, wouldn’t connect to gmail.  So then I tried to setup my yahoo email and guess what, fail again.  So my next thing to try now that I have a username and password was to sign in with Chrome since it is my main browser of choice.   Fail again, username and password hit login and just sit.  At this time I have given up and try to close out IE 8 and it just hung.  Ended up having to cntrl + alt + del kill it.

Final Thoughts

So what does this say… lots of good ideas but maybe like Google did they should stick a Beta label on it.  I will give it a try again in a few months, see if they have any bugs out of it.  I’m always interested in new things.  Have you tried it? What did you think? Any issues with it for you?

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• Birmingham-Southern College – Greensboro Scholarship
• President’s Outstanding Academic Achievement
• National Honor Society
• Honor Graduate – Achieved a grade point average over 4.0
• Certificate of Excellence in Honors Anatomy
• Photography Student of the Year

She will be attending Birmingham-Southern this fall studying Biology.  She has pretty much know what she has wanted to do since she was very young.

People approach me like I should be sad, sad that she’s growing up.  It is not sad, it is a great thing.  My wife and I have accomplished the goals we set out to, and that is to raise a Strong Woman, A Free Spirit, a Philosopher in her own right, and a person with a keen eye.  Someone that I know will touch the world in some magnificant way.

Oh I’m so proud of her not taking the easy road, of long nights studing to get to where she wants to be.  I’m so proud of the way she deals with everyday issues and takes the time to think of worldly ones.

I will leave you with a poem, by Richard Wilbur that reminds me of the days of her studying alone in her room, late into the night.

The Writer
by Richard Wilbur

In her room at the prow of the house
Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden,
My daughter is writing a story.

I pause in the stairwell, hearing
From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys
Like a chain hauled over a gunwale.

Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky passage.

But now it is she who pauses,
As if to reject my thought and its easy figure.
A stillness greatens, in which

The whole house seems to be thinking,
And then she is at it again with a bunched clamor
Of strokes, and again is silent.

I remember the dazed starling
Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago;
How we stole in, lifted a sash

And retreated, not to affright it;
And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door,
We watched the sleek, wild, dark

And iridescent creature
Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove
To the hard floor, or the desk-top,

And wait then, humped and bloody,
For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits
Rose when, suddenly sure,

It lifted off from a chair-back,
Beating a smooth course for the right window
And clearing the sill of the world.

It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.

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My Daughter

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So lets says a big hello to:
@ 50 Cent
@ Adam Goldstein (DJ AM)
@ Adam Savage
@ Aisha Tyler
@ Al Gore
@ Alex Albrecht
@ Alison Sudol
@ Alyson Hannigan
@ Alyssa Milano
@ Amber Benson
@ Andy Dick
@ Andy Murray
@ Andy Samberg
@ Anita Cochran
@ Arnold Schwarzenegger
@ Ashlee Simpson Wentz
@ Ashton Kutcher
@ B Real
@ Barack Obama
@ Barbara Walters
@ Ben Kweller
@ Bishop Alan Wilson
@ Bjork
@ Bob Guiney
@ Bob Vila
@ Borat Sagdiyev
@ Brea Grant
@ Brent Spiner
@ Brett Gurewitz
@ Britney Spears
@ Brooke Burke
@ Brooke Hogan
@ Carson Daly
@ Cesar Millan
@ Chris Carrabba
@ Chris Cornell
@ Courtney Love
@ Crispin Glover
@ Dane Cook
@ Danny Masterson
@ Danny Wood
@ Dave Matthews
@ Dave Navarro
@ David Blue
@ David Henrie
@ David Hewlett
@ David Lawrence
@ David Lynch
@ Deborah (Debbie) Gibson
@ Demi Lovato
@ Demi Moore
@ Diablo Cody
@ Don Draper
@ Donnie Wahlberg
@ Doug Benson
@ Dr. Drew Pinsky
@ Eddie Izzard
@ Eli Manning
@ Elisabeth Hasselbeck
@ Ellen Degeneres
@ Emma Watson
@ Erykah Badu
@ Evan Williams
@ Ewan McGregor
@ Felicia Day
@ Fran Drescher
@ Fred Durst
@ Gail O’Grady
@ Gayle King
@ Gene Simmons
@ Gerard Way
@ Giuliana Rancic
@ Greg Grunberg
@ Gregg Opie Hughes
@ Harvey Levin
@ Heidi Montag
@ Hugh Jackman
@ Hulk Hogan
@ Ice-T
@ Imogen Heap
@ Ingrid Michaelson
@ James Gunn
@ James Kyson Lee
@ Jamey Jasta
@ Jamie Kennedy
@ Jamie Murray
@ Jane Fonda
@ Janina Gavankar
@ Jason Mraz
@ Jemaine Clement
@ Jerry Rice
@ Jesse Jane
@ Jessica Simpson
@ Jhonen Vasquez
@ Jimmy Fallon
@ JJ Abrams
@ Joe Biden
@ Joe Rogan
@ Joel Madden
@ Joey McIntyre
@ John Cabrera
@ John Cleese
@ John Edwards
@ John Hodgman
@ John Mayer
@ John McCain
@ Jon Favreau
@ Jona Bechtolt (Yacht)
@ Jonathan Coulton
@ Jonathan Knight
@ Jonathan Ross
@ Jordan Knight
@ Joy Behar
@ Judah Friedlander
@ Justine Bateman
@ Karl Rove
@ Kate Hewlett
@ Kathy Griffin
@ Kathy Ireland
@ Katy Perry
@ Kay Hanley
@ Keiko Agena
@ Kelly Clarkson
@ Kerry Rhodes
@ Kevin Pollak
@ Kevin Rose
@ Kevin Smith
@ Kim Kardashian
@ Lady Gaga
@ Lance Armstrong
@ Larry David
@ Larry King
@ Lauren Conrad
@ Leo Laporte
@ LeVar Burton
@ Lily Allen
@ Lisa Loeb
@ Ludacris
@ Luke Wilson
@ Mariah Carey
@ Mark Hoppus
@ Martha Stewart
@ Matthew Perry
@ Maxime Verhagen
@ MC Hammer
@ Michael Ian Black
@ Michael Phelps
@ Michael Urie
@ Mike Mizanin
@ Mikey Way
@ Miley Cyrus
@ Mischa Barton
@ Moby
@ Nastia Liukin
@ Natalie Gulbis
@ Neil Diamond
@ Neil Gaiman
@ Nelly Furtado
@ Nick Cannon
@ Nicole Richie
@ Olivia Munn
@ Oprah Winfrey
@ Patrick Wilson
@ Paul Brandt
@ Paul Wall
@ Paulo Coelho
@ Penn Jillette – The Real Deal – Thanks Ike
@ Perez Hilton
@ Pete Wentz
@ Pete Yorn
@ Phillip Schofield
@ QTip
@ Questo of the Roots
@ Rachel Bilson
@ Rainn Wilson
@ Regina Spektor
@ Richard Branson
@ Rivers Cuomo
@ Rob Corddry
@ Rob Thomas
@ Robby Gordon
@ Robert Llewellyn
@ Robin Williams
@ Russell Brand
@ Ryan Adams
@ Ryan Newman
@ Ryan Seacrest
@ Samantha Ronson
@ Sara Bareilles
@ Sarah Palin
@ Sarah Silverman
@ Sean P. Diddy Combs
@ Sebastian Bach
@ Selena Gomez
@ Seth MacFarlane
@ Seth Rogen
@ Shaquille O’Neal
@ Shaun White
@ Sherri Shepherd
@ Slash
@ Snoop Dogg
@ Solange Knowles
@ Soleil Moon Frye
@ Sophia Bush
@ Spencer Pratt
@ Stephen Colbert
@ Stephen Fry
@ Steve Jobs
@ Steve Nash
@ Steve Wozniak
@ Summer Glau
@ Taylor Swift
@ Terra Naomi
@ Tila Tequila
@ Tom Felton
@ Tom Waits
@ Tony Hawk
@ Tony Robbins
@ Travis Barker
@ Trent Reznor
@ Vanessa Hudgens
@ Walt Mossberg
@ Weird Al Yankovic
@ Wil Wheaton
@ William Shatner
@ XZIBIT
@ Yoko Ono

If you happen to know if any of these are really the person, let us know.

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Celebrities, for real? Or is it hired Twit?

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We have channels that are dedicated to 24/7 news.  Journalist are no more, they are celebrities now.  Willing to do anything to put themselves in front of the camera.  The more extreme the more chance of them being the one in front of the camera.

I remember growing up, we would hear the “Breaking News” on the TV.  The whole family would run toward the TV to see what was going on.  Now everything is breaking news.

As defined by Wikipedia

A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren’t biased.

Key word in there biased.

To favor one thing over another due to personal opinion.

So what has happened to journalist? Are there any more journalist in the world?  Do any of them still exist?  I would hope so, but the more I watch the “news” the less I believe it.

So where do you get your news?  Do you still believe in and trust the local news?  What about the News Channels?

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A response to a friend. Why I Didn’t Attend a Tea Party!

I completely 100% agree with you, except the getting involved part.

We The Federal Government!

I do believe we can go back to a true United States of America, and live by the constitutional rights given to each and every citizen.  The country has and can live up to ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.

While I was there, I did not hear anyone chanting Republican, Republican or Democrat, Democrat.  I heard the chants of USA.   I saw many people explaining their problems with the government.  Guess what, they where not all about Taxation.  I too thought they would be.  Several groups where there taking up signatures for their causes.  I also heard several people explain ways they thought it should or could be fixed.  After all, it has been said

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Yes nothing that is happening now is new, but some people see and or take it longer then others.  Its like the pain threshold, I prefer to call this one the bullsh*t threshold.  Only when that threshold is reached do people start wanting to do something about it.

In this last election we where faced with two democrats,  I do not believe we have a two party system anymore.  We now are under a one party system.  The media is controlled by such a party that is why we hear nothing of the Fair Tax, something I believe in.  It is also the reason fair and equal time was not given to Dr. Paul during the last election.  The only time he was actually on a network any network even the Republican network Fox was when they where trying to make fun of him.  Even the “Great American” Sean Hannity wouldn’t give him the time of day.

I used to call myself a Republican, but I didn’t feel let down on this last election.  I’m not even mad about the election itself.  I feel I would have lost either way.  I am also glad for the current economic problems.  I believe in the worst of times, America is at its greatest.  I think America has become a bunch of puds!  I have said and told people watch the unemployment rate rise and you will start to see real customer services.

So while I agree with you, I do NOT believe sitting at home is the answer.  Not doing anything, will never get anything done.  It will take real change, nothing that can come from the elephant or the donkey war.  That change has to start somewhere, the seed has to be planted with someone.  If nothing more then someone reading the fair tax information, and thinking about it.  Then it was worth it.

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Why I did attend the Hoover Alabama Tea Party

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What about that thing on your back? It was Nasty!

Doctor has given me a clean bill of health.  My wife now wants me to wear sun screen but I can’t, it either smells funny or makes me feel slimmy.  I’ll just avoid the sun as much as possible.

Are you still fat?

Fat, yep still fat we joined the gym and since the surgery on my back haven’t been going as regular as I wished, we are going to start doing that again very soon.

Are you still a 2 1/2 pack a day smoker?

I haven’t had a Cigarette in 2 weeks! I don’t feel any different and still crave the hell out of them.  But I am now an Ex Smoker.

What about going Skype?

Went with T-Mobile @Home.. Great service so far.  The saving are not as good but I keep my number and have E911.  With our plan we was able to get this with $39.99 cost of equipment and $10 a month.

Are you still looking for Guest Posters?

Yes I am, if you have something that fits into one of my categories, write it up and email is to z3r010v3@gmail.com

Last does your new guy at work look like Ross or Fogell?

Yes!

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Doctors, Health, Zero the follow up!

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Thanks Will

Hulu Blocks Boxee Browser Entirely Gloves Get Ripped Halfway off

After reading click the link below to join the Boycott!

http://www.petitiononline.com/boxehulu/petition.html

Reported to me by @budporter on twitter this morning.  Boxee has a bleeding edge release that contains and RSS reader that will allow you to watch Hulu again.  From the Boxee blog here ->

” Internet video on a TV brings into question many of the industry’s business models that developed before the web. that’s part of the reason why Hulu asked to be removed from boxee. our meetings over the past week weren’t able to change that. but the people in the industry “get it”. they are users. they read the blogs. they talk with users. they are trying to adjust to a new reality, but they need time.”

So I am stopping the Boycott of Hulu. This is a hard time for some of the people not ready to embrace technology. Things are changing, and rapidly. So lets give them the time.   Let me also say Thanks to all that signed the petition!  As technology changes we will continue to see things like this.

Even local News People, someone I would expect to embrace new technology don’t get it.  NBC13′s Mike Royer on his blog “I’m just all a”twitter” …so I better practice” where he appears to be making fun of it and not getting it.  Well its people like him and the content providers that need to either embrace technology or get out of the way.  It won’t stop and wait for ever, someone else who does get it will take your place.

For ideas and pointers of someone that does Get it, and does so very well check out Rick Sanchez on CNN.  He gets it.

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So here is how it works, excited yet… please note the follow is NOT a real conversation, I would never take the computer.  I would just smack it really hard and then restart it.

Customer: Hey Zero can you work on this computer for me?

Zero: Sure I can, what is it doing?

Customer: Well when I turn it on it makes a humming noise.

Zero: Well I need to take it for the day, will bring it back tomorrow

Customer: Ok, Goodbye

as I walk away….

Zero: Unless

You can use it at any time it does not matter.  When your ready to leave.  How about when asked to do something.  Use it when you are passing by someone and they say Hi.  In the elevator as you get off.  You can even use it on Twitter.  I did a tweet the other day with an @reply to someone and just said Unless.  With that my blog traffic actually made a nice jump, all traffic from my twitter profile.

So give it a try today at work, try it when you are at lunch.  Order your food and when they say thanks for visiting… walk away and say “Unless”.  Then drop me a comment and let me know how you used it and the reaction you recieved.

Till next time, Unless.

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