tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34296422012-01-10T20:46:02.948-06:00The Ramblings of a Mellow Yellow Fellow.Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-78181596918360336812012-01-10T10:14:00.000-06:002012-01-10T10:18:11.032-06:00

My New Year's resolution. Image by Ian Soper David Tate has a great recent post on this -  http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/

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To those who have never been to SXSW Interactive, it is a crazy, crazy scene. Thousands of people everywhere down by the Austin Convention Center. There were almost 20,000 badge holders this year. If you include people like me, who were just there for the spectacle of it all, there might have been close to 23,000 people there. This year, I went to SXSW Interactive badge-less. Due to a heavy

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This past Saturday, I spent the day with 500 "thought leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, performers and innovative doers" at TEDxAustin 2011. To those who are unfamiliar with TED, it's basically a gathering of thought leaders in the technology, entertainment and design fields, with the stated mission of spreading ideas. The annual TED conference held in Long Beach, California costs $6,000 to

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I have decided I need to properly document my resolutions for the year. In no specific order, here they are - 1. Exercise more. 2. Eat less. 3. Blog more. 4. Tweet less. 5. Save more. 6. Spend less. 7. Read more. 8. Watch less. 9. Learn more. 10. Worry less. 11. Pray more 12. Stress less. Not sure if those are even grammatically correct. But you know what, it's my blog, so shut up already. ;)

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I couldn't be prouder.

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Wow, I can’t believe I haven’t posted an entry since March. A lot has happened in the past 9 months. When I say a lot, I mean A LOT. I’ll dedicate a future blog post to that. One thing that has happened is that I found other ways besides blogging to express my deep thoughts – namely Twitter. Yes, I have become a veritable Twitter-holic. There’s something about having to only come up with 140

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This past Saturday the rain stayed away, and Benjamin ended up having a great time at his birthday party, despite the fact that he didn't want to hit the pinata. (Note to self: do not let pinata become a part of the family by letting it stay in the house for over six months before getting "whacked" at birthday party). However, everyone else did a good job of putting the Kung-fu panda pinata to

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I haven't updated this blog in awhile. My excuse? We've just spent the last 3 weeks in various stages of sickness, and we are in the final stages of recovery, hopefully. Not only that, but I was busy wrapping up work at my previous job this past Friday. Yesterday, we took Benjamin to the Book People puppet show (lame-o) in the morning, then went to the grand re-opening of Recycled Reads in the

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Is this a nationwide phenomena, or is Austin the only city under attack? Just remember, you can always outrun a zombie. Also, make sure you completely severe the head from the body to prevent the zombie from making a comeback. For more useful tips on how to survive a zombie apocalypse, I highly recommend Max Brook's Zombie Survival Guide, available at Amazon. (Let's just hope your local UPS

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If you haven't seen it yet, you need to check out David Bergman's shot of the inauguration, seen above. Apparently, it looks like any other of the millions of digital shots taken this past Tuesday. But what if I were to tell you that it is over 1400 megapixels large and over 2 gigabytes in file size? You might begin to  think, "Alright, so it's a big photo. So what?" Then, as you begin to peruse

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Ah, you just gotta love technology! Thanks to the fine folks at Hulu, you can watch history being made, live, here on my blog.

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President Obama's official portrait: the first ever taken with a digital camera - EngadgetLooks like the move from film to digital is complete. Anyone out there still using film?

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The now-iconic image broadcast by Fox Sports at the end of the National Championship game. Thanks Fox Sports for ruining this poor girl's life. Or should I say, thank you Tim Tebow and the Gator Nation for proving which Big 12 school really belonged in the Big Dance. For further proof, see below for "Big Game" Bobby Stoops record in the last 5 BCS games...Texas > OU, and this poor boy knows it...

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 Better luck next time! Congratulations to the Longhorns, 2009 Fiesta Bowl Champs!

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Here's to a year full of happy new memories and hopefully more correspondingblog posts!

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Having a 2 year old gives me a great excuse to still watch Sesame Street. Even after 35 years of being broadcast, it still rocks! I mean, how do you beat the combo of Elmo, Norah Jones and the letter Y? Here's to another 35 years of Big Bird, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, and Mr. Snuffalufagus!

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Pictured to the left is The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. It is arguably one of the most beloved children’s books of all-time. Surprisingly, I don’t remember ever reading this book when I was in grade school, even though I was a pretty big bookworm at the time.  But when I was in the 5th grade, I did become a big fan of the author’s books of poetry – Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light

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Regardless of your political affiliation, it is hard to deny the history made with the election of Mr. Barack Obama. Despite his relative youth and inexperience, his overwhelming victory at the polls spoke of our country's need for something new. While I don't agree with a lot of his politics, he is still my president, and as stated so eloquently by my friend Nicole on her blog, there's no way

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I just got back last night from attending a Christian Young People’s Conference in Odessa, Texas. There were about 120 attendees, ranging from junior-high to college-age.  The topic of the conference was “Experiencing Christ as the Good Land of Canaan”. If you are familiar with the Old Testament, you will know that there is a major focus on entering and possessing the Good Land. We saw this

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I spent 3 hours today installing our new dishwasher after our old one gave up the fight after a brief 5 years of service. I am by no means the master of home improvement (just ask my dear wife), but since I installed the original dishwasher 5 years ago, I thought it would be a piece of cake. Turns out, some cakes take a long long time to make. Needless to say, that’s 3 hours of my life I won’t be

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Pictured above are the latest issues of some magazines I subscribe to: Men's Health (Nov. 2008), Time (October 20, 2008), and MIT Technology Review (Sept/Oct 2008). Guess what they all have in common? That's right, they all have cover stories on the 47 year old senator from Illinois! Yes, the media infatuation continues! Seems like he doesn't need to be spending any of the $150 million he raised

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My sister Anne just got back from a 3 month rotation in Kenya last week. She flew into Austin, and we went down to San Antonio to surprise my parents for their anniversary. We had a great time together, especially on Saturday morning. We drove out 10 miles past the city of Medina to the Siesta Valley Ranch to go on a 3 mile walk. The only drawback was that I had to miss what many are calling

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Hard to believe it has been 7 years since all our lives changed dramatically. I believe most of us will never forget where we were on that fateful Tuesday morning. I realize a 7th anniversary doesn’t have the nice ring of a 5th anniversary or a 10th anniversary, but if anything, it is a good reminder for us to  be those who are always “redeeming the time, for the days are evil.” (Eph. 5:16)

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  Forgot to include a few links in my last post. Both are courtesy of the Boston Globe’s Big Picture section. Truly amazing photos, check ‘em out…   2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony   Beijing 2008 – It’s a Wrap

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As the 2008 Summer Olympics drew to a close tonight, and our television gets a much needed break, I thought I'd write up some of my thoughts and impressions of the past few weeks. Highlights   1. 2008 drummers in unison This was probably my favorite part of the unbelievable opening ceremony. When I saw them perform the 60 second countdown, I could hardly believe my eyes. I can't

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The season draws nigh! Check out this cool "Guide to the BCS Galaxy" put together by some smart fellow over at ESPN. Much better to look at than some boring Top 10 list. Notice how Baylor is almost on the way out of the galaxy...poor Bears!

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Look for a new design and new posts coming soon...I promise! In the meantime, try not to laugh.

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A few years back, I had a co-worker who had some major B.O. issues. I had to hold my breath everytime I was around him. I would have killed to have had this service at that time -NiceCritic :: The Anonymous Way to Send a Helpful MessageThankfully, it wasn't too long before he moved onto another company, thus clearing the air (literally) and sparing me from having to be in an awkward conversation.

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You've got to feel for that poor passenger.

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Recent video taken at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. Hopefully the kids in the video weren't too traumatized.

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Don't you wish you were here?

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I am often asked what company I use to print out my photos. I look for a place that has a combination of good quality and price. I think you should never pay more than 15 cents for a 4x6 print. I remember in the early days of online printing where they charged 35 cents a print! If I need the photos in an hour, I usually just upload them to Walgreens and pick them up at my local store. It usually

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Happy 4th of July everyone! In honor of Independence Day, I need to become less independent and more dependent on you, my readers (ie Vanessa, Hannah and Tim). What should be the overall theme of my blog? Right now, it's just a bunch of random stuff, which is fine I suppose, but I would like to focus on a specific topic more. Perhaps I should leave this site to random stuff, and create a new

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He's back, and this time he invited a few friends to come along for the dance! Just watched this tonight for the first time, and I thought it was funny as well as heartwarming, believe it or not. Good job Matt! Coincidentally, according to his website, Matt arrived in Austin today, June 22. Hmm, maybe he's getting started on the 2009 edition! If anyone knows where he's going to be filming, let me

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Whew, this last week has been a crazy one. This past Wednesday night two supercell thunderstorms rolled into town for a little visit. Texas thunderstorms are pretty amazing, nothing like the wimpy showers in Seattle. Thankfully, we were able to avoid the wrath of the first one, but weren't so fortunate for the second. We lost power around 1 am, Thursday morning. By this time, we were all wide

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I am watching the Spurs try to come back from being down 2-0 to the upstart New Orleans Hornets, and find it hard to believe the current ESPN NBA broadcasting crew...Who in the world is Doris Burke, and what in the name of all things pro basketball is she doing as the color analyst? Before you accuse me of being a pig, hear me out. The job of the color analyst is to add insight and analysis into

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In my search for cool threads for my 2-year old, I stumbled across the art of Glenn Jones, a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. You can check out more of his work here. He's got some great designs, including the one above, which is my favorite. What an iconic image - Thomas the Train as a Transformer. Now, the only question is how to justify getting one for myself as

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As probably with most people, spring is my favorite time of the year. Our little family just came back from walking around "the Lake formerly known as Town" and it was quite pleasant. Vanessa and I asked ourselves afterwards why we don't do that more often. Then we remembered - it's not summer yet! This is why I love springtime in Texas. The heat of the summer has not enveloped us yet, the

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I stayed home with Benjamin today so Vanessa could attend a Microsoft(!) event. No, it was not your usual Microsoft event, as there were no IT nerds and geeks discussing the newest release of Microsoft software. Actually, the majority of the attendees were women! Based on the usual gender breakdown of Microsoft events, I am sure this was quite the statistical anomaly.The event Vanessa attended

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Congratulations to Kansas, winners of the 2008 NCAA Basketball National Championship! And congrats also to everyone who watched the game, as it turned out to be one of the best championship games in NCAA history. You may be asking, what was the best NCAA championship of all time? That title, according to ESPN, goes to the 2006 Rose Bowl title game between UT and USC. (Hook 'em Horns!)Had some UNC

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...because I get to receive smiles like this!

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I never thought the day would come. I am actually considering switching sides. As a long time Windows PC user and even enthusiast (yes I subscribe to Maximum PC ), my defenses are ever so slowly being worn away.It all started about a month ago. I was starting to look for a new phone. These days, you can't help but think of the Iphone when looking for a new cell phone. The closest thing Sprint

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Our wonderful boy turns 2 today! Goodbye baby blues, and hello terrible twos! We threw him a little birthday party this past Sunday in San Antonio, with family and a few close friends.As usual, he received a ton of gifts from his proud grandparents. The gift that he will be using the most in the near future is his new Fun-to-Learn Potty! See the look of dread in Benjamin's face in the photo to

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Found this neat site that lets you upload photos and turn them into magazine covers. I found a cute recent photo, uploaded it, and it seemed to match this magazine title the best. Looking forward to seeing who will make it on the cover next!

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Guess who turns 30 today? My lovely wife can no longer say she is in her late twenties anymore. She was a little sad about that, but I told her she should be happy that people still mistaken her for a college student. Believe it or not, she's even been mistaken for a high schooler on a few occasions! Not bad for a mother of a two-year old. Yes, I am a lucky guy.I gave Vanessa a surprise birthday

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...unless you want all your company's data deleted. Maria Lupe Cooley thought she was going to be fired, so she went to the architectural firm that she worked at, and deleted 7 years worth of drawings and blueprints, worth an estimated $2.5 million. Unbelievable. You can read the full article here.I found the last sentence of the article a bit unnecessary - "The firm told FOXNews.com that Cooley

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Vanessa,Wow, five years...time sure flies when you are having fun! Can you believe it has already been five years since you agreed to become Mrs. Yu? I think you will agree that was one of the smartest decisions you could have ever made. ;) You are more than I could have ever hoped for in a spouse, and you are a wonderful mother as well.I know recently things haven't been easy for you, due to all

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I believe my family has contracted the norovirus, aka the stomach bug. According to the CDC this virus is very contagious. If no one hears from me in a few days, please send help.I am up bright and early this morning after having dealt with the after effects of Benjamin's latest "present". Let's just say it was so bad, I needed to give him a bath. I was up late last night dealing with Benjamin's

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-37940329008276092822008-01-22T23:41:00.001-06:002008-01-23T01:37:38.452-06:00

I told myself to stop doing it. First, it was Flickr. Then I moved on to Smugmug. In the process Ringo became popular among my circle of friends. Then I joined Facebook, even though I was not in college at the time. I joined Linked In a while ago, but only recently have I begun to use it. Then, just for kicks, I went ahead and joined Twitter. At this point, I realized I was in danger of social

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-4931184777628975432008-01-15T10:56:00.000-06:002008-01-15T11:07:36.775-06:00

Stumbled across this new book this morning. Even though our son is not even two yet, I was already getting anxious about having "the talk" and how we would bring up this subject in a normal way. Now, thanks to Dr. O'Connor and Microsoft, we feel confident in our ability to explain the matter to him in a nonthreatening and easy to understand way. While the book is not available for purchase yet,

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-8225290102044858662008-01-10T15:13:00.000-06:002008-01-11T11:26:16.491-06:00

I took the time to upload and caption photos from our recent trip to Cabo San Lucas. You can see them here. I have come to the recent conclusion that photos that are boring are even more boring without captions. There is already enough boredom in the world so I took it upon myself to caption every single one of my photos. Every single photo. Perhaps by doing this I was able to move the scale on

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-4422948442406849842008-01-07T02:41:00.000-06:002008-01-07T02:44:49.371-06:00

Wow, it's been a long time between posts. What has contributed to the delay? Hmm, let's see...oh yes, a baby! We welcomed our son to the world last March. Hard to believe he will soon be two. That and laziness are pretty much my only real excuse. One of my new year's resolutions is to establish more of a web presence/identity. I now own the rights to samuelyu.com, thank you very much. That site,

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1123478136644198212005-08-08T00:15:00.000-05:002005-08-08T00:15:36.650-05:00

From the Axim!Testing to see if I can write a blog via pda...

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1107927779232083882005-02-08T23:35:00.000-06:002005-02-08T23:42:59.233-06:00

Stop the presses! New post alert! Okay, it's been awhile since I've posted. Just wanted to let everyone know that Vanessa and I just celebrated our second anniversary. Altogether now - "Awwwww". Thank you, thank you. We had dinner at a nice restaurant called Bistro 88. They serve fusion food (Asian + European). Very fu-fu. (is that even a word?) It was delicious, but be prepared to spend about

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1101768075214910752004-11-29T16:05:00.000-06:002004-11-29T16:41:15.213-06:00

Oops...looks like another 4 months have passed by without a post. Man, what is wrong with me? I know I have disappointed my legions of fans...er fan (Jimmy) and for that I apologize. Let the posting begin anew!

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1090002723820160992004-07-16T13:25:00.000-05:002004-07-16T13:32:03.820-05:00

Gotta love Google. They just bought Picasa, a company that developed an easy-to-use photo editing/management program, and are now offering it for free! They used to charge $29 for the program. Free is much better. ;) Let me know if you like it. I think it's got a very nice user interface, similar to Iphoto for the Mac, and better than Adobe Photoshop Album 2. Just my two cents.

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1089314075322201572004-07-08T14:11:00.000-05:002004-07-08T14:14:35.323-05:00

In case you haven't been able to acquire a Gmail account, try Walla. I'm not sure what Walla means, but it does rhyme with Holla. Anyways, the company is based in Israel, and they recently began offering 1 gig of email storage for free.

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1089139935330369132004-07-06T13:47:00.000-05:002004-07-06T13:52:15.330-05:00

Check out this crazy article from ESPN on the new gold standard in trading cards. I used to collect basketball cards back in the day, but never thought it'd reach this level. Wonder if Vanessa will let me shell out $500 for a pack...hah hah, as if.

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1089139539550950322004-07-06T13:37:00.000-05:002004-07-06T13:45:39.550-05:00

Read this interesting article today about Best Buy's new policy. Basically, they've decided to classify customers that they can't make money off of as "demon customers". Just because I pride myself as a savvy shopper, doesn't mean they need to start calling me names! Of course, I don't stoop so low as to return stuff that I've already mailed in the rebate for. That's not cool. But I definitely do

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1087853567005735872004-06-21T16:12:00.000-05:002004-06-22T11:04:03.020-05:00

I've had the same glasses for almost 5 years now. My wife kept telling me that I needed new ones, but of course, I'm cheap. hah hah. It wasn't until my glasses kept falling off my head when I bent over that I realized she was right. After a little searching on Fatwallet, I discovered Optical4less, and their prices were unbeatable. I decided on this style, and got them for $59 shipped, for the

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1087851935252756122004-06-21T16:00:00.000-05:002004-06-21T16:05:35.253-05:00

Heard about this over at Slashdot. Check out the press release here. Who says Texas is a backwards state? Yee-hah!!! This news makes me want to go lasso some cattle!

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1087325851604180512004-06-15T13:43:00.001-05:002004-06-16T15:21:28.806-05:00

Today I logged into my Yahoo mail account, and realized I had 2 gb of email space. 2 gb. That's a lot of room for spam. Because I am a Yahoo plus subscriber (subscribed until Feb) they automatically bumped up my storage from 25 mb to 2 gb. Quite a jump. Does anyone really need 2 gb of storage for email? The normal Yahoo mail account has also been increased, from 4 mb to 100 mb. Wonder how Hotmail

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1086968843220200122004-06-11T10:41:00.000-05:002004-06-11T11:13:44.576-05:00

After conferring with a few colleagues to get their respected opinions, I narrowed the choices down to three: 1. samuelyu@gmail.com 2. scamyu@gmail.com 3. yumail@gmail.com 4. yugotmail@gmail.com Upon further consideration, while the last 3 are quite clever, and I'm hoping they will be available later, I decided to go with the more standard samuelyu@gmail.com, especially after I found out that

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1086929958964263252004-06-10T23:52:00.000-05:002004-06-11T11:10:01.316-05:00

Two posts in 1 day...I'm on a role! Okay, here's my dilemma that I need some help with. I just got an offer to join Gmail. For those who don't know, Gmail is the new email service by Google that offers 1 GB of storage space for your emails. You read it right, 1 GB. Anyways, Gmail signup is not open to the public yet. How did I get in you might ask? Gmailswap.com! Check it out if you want. Okay,

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-1086896611891468302004-06-10T14:42:00.000-05:002004-06-11T11:10:30.703-05:00

Wow, only 2 years between posts! At this rate, I will have only 50 or so more posts to write before I die.

Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808929959083043972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3429642.post-114434862002-04-04T00:40:00.000-06:002004-06-11T11:10:55.416-05:00

This is my first blog ever! Woo hoo! I used to do this all the time. Now I just got lazy and used this premade form. What a loser I am.

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