Alright ... I really hesitated to post this today: It's just borderline tacky, and inappropriate; but the funny factor won. And as I'm sure you and I will both find over time, finding funny stuff without being borderline tacky and/or inappropriate is going to be difficult.
This, I must say, cracked me up. I hope you find it funny too.
What did you think if this video? Write me back in the comments.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Weird Wednesday - From Now On
Effective today, Wednesday posts will now be "Weird Wednesday."
Weird Wednesday will host odd or weird news, pictures and/or video.
Should you come across any of these, please send them my way at theahmadism@gmail.com
I also invite you to tell me what you think about these entries in the comments.
As today is the 1st Weird Wednesday Ahmadism.com hosts, I will be featuring an odd news bit, a "Darwin Award" and a weird picture. Enjoy.
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Ninth Place (hopefully next week, I'll be sharing 8th place and so on)
In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
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My guess is that they'll tow this car afterwards any ways.
To get right to the hydrant without having to wait, however, is genius.
Weird Wednesday will host odd or weird news, pictures and/or video.
Should you come across any of these, please send them my way at theahmadism@gmail.com
I also invite you to tell me what you think about these entries in the comments.
As today is the 1st Weird Wednesday Ahmadism.com hosts, I will be featuring an odd news bit, a "Darwin Award" and a weird picture. Enjoy.
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Wed Apr 8, 12:58 am ET
HALTOM CITY, Texas – A woman called 911 to report she didn't get as much shrimp as she wanted in her fried rice at a Texas restaurant.
Haltom City police on Tuesday released the taped emergency call, in which the customer is heard telling the dispatcher, "to get a police officer up here, what has to happen?"
The customer also says: "He didn't even put extra shrimp in there."
The upset customer had left the Fort Worth-area restaurant when an officer arrived Monday afternoon.
Restaurant workers say the woman had been denied a refund after leaving with her order, then returning to complain.
Cook June Lee says nothing was wrong with the meal, and that "some customers are happy. Some are not."
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Information from Fort Worth Star-Telegram & KDFW-TV:
http://www.star-telegram.com & http://www.myfoxdfw.com
-------------Honoring those who improve the species...by
accidentally removing themselves from it!
Ninth Place (hopefully next week, I'll be sharing 8th place and so on)
In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
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My guess is that they'll tow this car afterwards any ways.
To get right to the hydrant without having to wait, however, is genius.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tip Tuesday - Using iGoogle for RSS
Google's home page offers a personalized version, which it rebranded to 
iGoogle towards the end of April, 2007 (two or so years ago). In addition to Google being the most effective search engine out there, many have had the regular/original Google page as their default browser's home page for many years because it loads very fast. What's amazing is that iGoogle loads pretty much as fast with all the gadgets as it does without them.
But iGoogle's gadgets is not the focus of this post; rather, it's about how to use iGoogle as your RSS reader. For more information on iGoogle, please see Wikipedia or Google's Help pages.
So what is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as news headlines, blog entries, and other dynamic information. An RSS document (which is called a feed, web feed or channel) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text.
RSS makes it possible for you to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be read using an RSS Reader (also called a "feed reader" or an "aggregator"). You subscribe to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser to initiate the subscription process. The reader checks your subscribed feeds regularly for new content, and downloads any updates that it finds.
iGoogle adds prebuilt content gadgets based on popularity, to make it quick and easy for you to get a page set up. However, some sources of information you want might not be in Google's default direcgory. To add outside contnet, you need the web address for the RSS feed from which your information will come.
As you browse web pages, you may notice icons like the oversized orange one on the side, or the options on the right-hand side of this site ("Share" or "Posts"). You can "subscribe" to that site and have it automatically feed into your iGoogle page. Your iGoogle gadgets and RSS feeds typically refresh once a minute or so. That way, there's no need to go out to that site to see if there's new content; instead, it'll come to you on your now virtual desktop: Your iGoogle page.
Once you've added lots of RSS feeds and gadgets, you'll notice things start to get a little crowded. iGoogle lets you sort gadgets by topic separating them into "tabs" along the left side of the screen. You can create a new tab by click the "Add a tab" link, which appears in the drop-down arrow from one of your tab titles on the left. You might want a tab called "Career" with RSS feeds from customized searches you created on job boards like dice.com, monster.com, careerbuilder.com or even the aggregator of all job boards, indeed.com ... I digress.
You may want RSS feeds in that tab to articles, blogs, podcasts, etc. related to your career area. Perhaps you want a tab called "Deals" and in it are all your shopping sites. I have RSS feeds in a similar tab to woot.com (one item on special a day), Amazon.com's Gold Box Deals (awesome sales/savings), etc. Fill each new tab with relevant gadgets and/or RSS feeds in the same way/manner you set up your initial page.
Each one of my tabs is filled with at-a-glance options. Some are a look at the stock market, daily news from sources like NPR, this or that newspaper or specific periodical, tech news (of course) from selected sites and blogs, and even gadgets to see my own email right there and then (from Gmail and Yahoo!'s mail). ONE central location, a virtual desktop, of all the things I usually seek out on the web on an regular basis.
Here is a step-by-step on how to add RSS feeds to your iGoogle page.
Firefox users:
Do you use RSS feeds? Is iGoogle your RSS reader? Let me know in the comments.
iGoogle towards the end of April, 2007 (two or so years ago). In addition to Google being the most effective search engine out there, many have had the regular/original Google page as their default browser's home page for many years because it loads very fast. What's amazing is that iGoogle loads pretty much as fast with all the gadgets as it does without them.But iGoogle's gadgets is not the focus of this post; rather, it's about how to use iGoogle as your RSS reader. For more information on iGoogle, please see Wikipedia or Google's Help pages.
So what is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as news headlines, blog entries, and other dynamic information. An RSS document (which is called a feed, web feed or channel) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text.
RSS makes it possible for you to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be read using an RSS Reader (also called a "feed reader" or an "aggregator"). You subscribe to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser to initiate the subscription process. The reader checks your subscribed feeds regularly for new content, and downloads any updates that it finds.
iGoogle adds prebuilt content gadgets based on popularity, to make it quick and easy for you to get a page set up. However, some sources of information you want might not be in Google's default direcgory. To add outside contnet, you need the web address for the RSS feed from which your information will come.
As you browse web pages, you may notice icons like the oversized orange one on the side, or the options on the right-hand side of this site ("Share" or "Posts"). You can "subscribe" to that site and have it automatically feed into your iGoogle page. Your iGoogle gadgets and RSS feeds typically refresh once a minute or so. That way, there's no need to go out to that site to see if there's new content; instead, it'll come to you on your now virtual desktop: Your iGoogle page.Once you've added lots of RSS feeds and gadgets, you'll notice things start to get a little crowded. iGoogle lets you sort gadgets by topic separating them into "tabs" along the left side of the screen. You can create a new tab by click the "Add a tab" link, which appears in the drop-down arrow from one of your tab titles on the left. You might want a tab called "Career" with RSS feeds from customized searches you created on job boards like dice.com, monster.com, careerbuilder.com or even the aggregator of all job boards, indeed.com ... I digress.
You may want RSS feeds in that tab to articles, blogs, podcasts, etc. related to your career area. Perhaps you want a tab called "Deals" and in it are all your shopping sites. I have RSS feeds in a similar tab to woot.com (one item on special a day), Amazon.com's Gold Box Deals (awesome sales/savings), etc. Fill each new tab with relevant gadgets and/or RSS feeds in the same way/manner you set up your initial page.
Each one of my tabs is filled with at-a-glance options. Some are a look at the stock market, daily news from sources like NPR, this or that newspaper or specific periodical, tech news (of course) from selected sites and blogs, and even gadgets to see my own email right there and then (from Gmail and Yahoo!'s mail). ONE central location, a virtual desktop, of all the things I usually seek out on the web on an regular basis.
Here is a step-by-step on how to add RSS feeds to your iGoogle page.
Firefox users:
- Click on the iGoogle tab where you'd like to create the RSS feed gadget.
- Then visit the site or blog you'd like to subscribe to.
- Click on the orange square RSS feed icon which can usually be found in the toolbar or somewhere within the website, usually at the top.
- Choose Google from the drop down menu and if you have not specified before, select Add to Google Homepage.
- It will automatically appear in your iGoogle account under tab you last visited.
- Copy the RSS feed URL.
- At iGoogle, click on the "Add Stuff" in the upper right-hand corner.
- On the left, click on "Add feed or gadget" and paste the URL in the field.
- The RSS gadget will automatically appear in your iGoogle account under tab you last visited.
- Click on the iGoogle tab where you'd like to create the RSS feed gadget.
- Then visit the site or blog you'd like to subscribe to.
- Click on the orange square RSS feed icon which can usually be found in the toolbar or somewhere within the website, usually at the top.
- Choose Google from the drop down menu and if you have not specified before, select Add to Google Homepage.
- It will automatically appear in your iGoogle account under tab you last visited.
Do you use RSS feeds? Is iGoogle your RSS reader? Let me know in the comments.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Inspirational Monday - Change
Today, I have two inspirational quotes I'd like to share:
In trying times like these, inspiration goes a long way. If you have inspirational pieces, pictures, video, etc. please write me back a comment with its location.
"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value." --Stephen Covey
"Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm." --Peter F. Drucker
In trying times like these, inspiration goes a long way. If you have inspirational pieces, pictures, video, etc. please write me back a comment with its location.
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