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In an interview on the Conan show, comedian Louis CK complains about today’s generation who can not appreciate all the great things they have, complaining that they have to wait for a moment for the cell phone to connect while he remembers the days of a rotary phone where you  could only make the call standing NEXT to the phone.

As the headline describes this is how you get from New York to Los Angeles, while some hundred years ago it took 30 years – OK, he is exaggerating a little bit here – maybe.

Enjoy…

OK – they don’t want to embedd this video -
so just double click to go to YouTube and watch it there.

A little while back I reported on Laura Trice’s TED talk about the importance and power of thank you, of validation. Delivered right a thank you looks really simple but as with all very true facts it appears so simple yet is often so hard to attain. This talk is a very good demonstration of what it teaches, look at the ease with which Ms. Trice walks the talk at the end. I personally don’t know many people who can blow you away with a simple thank you like she did.

Today another video came across my desk that actually caused me to revisit Ms. Trice’s talk. It delivers the same message in form of a short film and be prepared to be moved…

in order to remember the site and spread the word – here’s a pointer to Sketchory, which offers free sketches and animations of those sketches (how to do sketching) under very liberal licenses, speak Cretative Commons.

Here is one example…

Hans suggestst that if the job in IT and software development does not work out, there is always the option of becoming a forklift operator.

All of you who understand German can really appreciate the following short film, warning you that even though the profession of a fork lift operator is glamorous, it can be dangerous if the safety rules are not followed.

The film follows Klaus from the completion of his training as forklift operator to his first job and some of the things that might go wrong.

Be warned though – things can and do go wrong…

I just love the line from this Dilbert clip:

Mother of little Dilbert: Can he lead a normal life??

Doctor: No! – - – He will be an engineer.

This video is a few years old but I still love it so much that I finally have to put it up here for all of you who have not seen it yet.

When I first saw it I was really amazed that Mr. Colbert would do this right into Bush’s face. And seeing the prez’s face was just great. So enjoy Steven Colber’s praise of President George W. Bush…

I looked all around the video sharing sites and the best version of this video was on Google Video but unfortunately for this video the embedding was not working, so I could not bring this to you here, but if you want to go there and watch it bigger and better please go to Colbert Roasts Bush on Google Video. YouTube has the video also but with bad sound and split in two parts. The only one I found to enbed was on Vimeo which you see above.

Rick Mercer from the Rick Mercer Report at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation CBC explains all you wanted to know about Canada, but were afraid to ask.

I would love to embed the video here but the CBC does not allow this so you only get a picture of the video you will see and when you click you will see a new window or tab and watch the video there. Then you either get lost on Rick Mercer’s pages (which is OK) or you come back here – this is the freedom of the internet, yes?

I just wished somebody would create a lecture like this about the US – it could not be any more difficult as we don’t even have a queen, and once we have this all laid out, there would never be a confusion again.

Anyway, here is Rick Mercer…

We are proud today to be able to offer you instand religious enlightenment.

Sounds pompous?

OK, I admit, it’s a bit far fetched, but isn’t seeing an apparition often the start of a religion? Isn’t the perception of something not belonging to this world is a clean sign that that there are things beyond what we perceive?

Real work is done in this department and over there at Universal Serenity it’s now started for sure, but for the instant gratification society here in the US we have a goody.

See this image below. It has four little dots in the center – this is where the universe will break apart, so start at these points for maybe half a minute…

Done?

Now look at a blank wall, see a circle of light appear first, and then ….

(This one found amongst other amazing phenomena at GeZi World.)

If you can’t beat them, invade them – or something to that effect, right?

Microsoft installs, without asking, an extension in Firefox to “make things easier for users” and, I guess, to protect our children.

Thanks, Robert, for the instructions to remove it. Here is the short form:

Registry:

Delete
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions

in Vista 64-bit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions

Firefox: about:config in the address bar
set to empty string:  general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet
set to false  microsoft.CLR.clickonce.autolaunch.

Filesystem:
delete files under: \WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Windows Presentation Foundation\DotNetAssistantExtension\