Do you know about this? A free, internet version of Photoshop! How cool is that? It’s pretty basic, but really fun to tinker with. Check out what I did with a few simple clicks to a couple photos that appeared in a previous post…
Last night I watched an interesting program about the history of chocolate on the History Channel. Facinating stuff. Really.
Anyway, one of the little tidbits of information I learned proves once and for all that I’m not crazy. See, I’ve never liked the taste of Hershey’s chocolate. “Why?” I’ve been asked. “It tastes sour to me.” I would say. In response I’d get a confused frown and an “Oh.”
Well, when Hershey set out to bring milk chocolate to America in the late 1800’s, the Europeans would not divulge any of thier secrets. So, it took Hershey almost two years to come up with his own recipe. One of the steps in his recipe was condensing the milk, a process that took several days, and somewhere during the process, the milk would sour, giving Hershey’s chocolate it’s characteristic sour taste!
“Today,” a voice on the program said, “the same basic recipe is used, and you’ll still notice a slight sour taste to Hershey’s chocolate. It’s the taste that America has grown to love!” (not me!)
“I’m right!” I said to myself, “I’m right!” It was very exciting. Wow, I really need to get out more…
Well, they have done it again. It was certainly coming. I had heard talk of it quite a while ago on CommandN, yet I did not know it would happen yesterday. I was on the phone with the guy who is leading worship for me on Sunday at Bethany. ::side note: Janet and I are going away for the weekend. We’re not sure where yet but later today travelocity will tell us where to go.:: So there we were, Ryan and I discussing the band and the music for Sunday and he asks me if I knew that Google had docs and spreadsheets that you could use and collaborate with. In shock, I said, “no”! I had been using Google Spreadsheets for months but Docs? I was longing for this day to come. It was now upon us and I fell to my knees in surrender. Google has won my geek heart once again. They continue to leave me no choice but to use their services. So this morning I created my first Google doc. Exciting stuff. I am now using their calendar, mail, spreadsheets, and docs. I now no longer need Microsoft Office…well PowerPoint and Access, I guess. However, I really hate using them!
Thank you, Google. Aren’t giant web start ups that now rule the word great? If any of you have a good idea that we can sell to Google in 19 months for $1.6 Billion, contact me.
Love,
Dave
Last night was Kindergarten share night at Elijah’s school - the kinders get to show their families what they are working on in class. This is what Elijah is doing…
He’s learning how to type! Actually, I think it’s called ‘keyboarding’ now, right? He’s really very good at it too! It’s quite amazing to think that in a few years Elijah will probably be ‘keyboarding’ better than his Mom and Dad. (I took a short typing class in tenth grade, and Dave - none at all. We’re pretty pathetic!)
Google, finally, launched their calendar last week and it is so sweet! Thanks to DiggNation’s Alex and Kevin, I have just imported my entire MS Outlook calendar and I will soon see if I am indeed free of Outlook. I have been forwarding all my email accounts to Gmail for a couple months and that’s been cool, but my calendar was one of the major hurdles to ditching Outlook for good. Gmail allows me to accept (or decline) an appointment that was generated in Outlook and automatically sends it Google Calendar.So sweet! Just yesterday, I was tied to my employer’s internal network for sending and receiving appointments. Now, I don’t see any reason to ever be at my desk again…well, I do have to figure out how to forward my office phone to my cell phone…then…ah, yes…then…I will be free.
I may spend days on end now at Dunn Bros. Long live free wireless!