Web Cams Bring Soldiers Together With Kin

December 18th, 2005

Found another great news article on web cams bringing people together. Our military does so much for us, it’s nice to know that technology is helping maintain their morale during the holiday season. My hat is off to all the men and women in the armed services during this time of the year, as I personally know what it’s like. I spent 12 years on active duty in the US Air Force, and many holiday seasons spent abroad. Communication with family makes all the diference in the world this time of the year.

Anyways, here’s the link to the article:

That’s all for now.

Streaming Webcam Watches As Director Preps Hollywood Movie

December 11th, 2005

So have brought even more to our viewing of entertainment, this time in the ability to watch directors preparing Hollywood movies!

Streaming Web Watches As Director Preps Hollywood Flick
Dec. 9, 2005

Movie buffs can catch a glimpse inside the creative process as director Christopher Coppola and a team of writers draft a movie script in 72 hours live over the Internet with a Webcam looking over their shoulders.

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Live Webcams Help Families Strengthen Bonds Over Distance

December 8th, 2005

This is a great article I found on Japanese families that live abroad in keeping their family ties close with the use of .

THE FAMILY–Seeking stronger bonds / Kin use IT to overcome distance

The following is the last of the final six installments of the yearlong “Family” series focusing on the impact of rapidly growing internationalization on contemporary families.

As mixed-nationality marriages increase and Japanese families increasingly find themselves living abroad, many are turning to the Internet and other forms of electronic communication to keep in touch with family members living in other countries.

Shunichi Futagami, a 60-year-old executive in Matsuyama, looks forward to talking to his grandson, who lives in Michigan, via his computer’s webcam every weekend.

“Good morning, Hiro-chan,” he greeted the 1-year-old Hiroki on the Internet at 10 p.m. on a Sunday, which was 8 a.m. in the U.S. state. Hiroki smiled at his grandfather as his father, Takahiro, and mother, Mikako, appeared behind him.

The Futagamis began this weekend ritual after Takahiro was transferred to his company’s subsidiary in the United States. Futagami’s wife and daughters join him when he talks with Takahiro on the Net.

“I think my family’s ties have become stronger than when we all lived in the same country,” Futagami said.

Kayoko Roppongi’s six family members live in four countries.

Read the full article here.

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Yahoo Targets Skype With Improved VOIP

December 8th, 2005

Well it looks as if my favorite web portal & search engine directory is coming on strong in the VOIP wars. has been a leader in the search, messaging and for many years. I’m not shocked to see Yahoo step-up and take on some of these new fish in the pond. Good for them, and I wish them the best. They really do offer some of the best services online.

Here’s an excerp from the article I read this morning:

Yahoo! targets! Skype! with! improved! VoIP! offer!

Yahoo! is adding more features to its existing VoIP service in a bid to gain a bigger of the rapidly growing broadband telephony market.

A new version of Yahoo!’s Messenger service is due to be released soon that will enable users to make broadband calls that are reportedly cheaper than those on offer by VoIP giant Skype.

The new offer includes PC-to-phone calling and inbound calling with prices for calls ranging from 1 cent a minute to US destinations and 1.9 cents per minute to 30 other countries. Punters will also be able to choose phone numbers for incoming calls in the US, UK and France for $2.99 per month or $29.90 per year.

According to Jan Dawson, principal analyst at Ovum, Yahoo! is “frustrated” that Skype is “grabbing all the VoIP headlines when Yahoo! has been offering PC to PC calling for five years and webcam-based video calling for several years as well”.

The Full Article Is Here

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Gay-chat room talk could be mayor’s doom

December 5th, 2005

It amazes me how being gay is still such a big issue in the year 2005. The article mentions that he met some guy online that was 18 and wanted to hookup. That may be considered odd as the age difference is fairly large. But as long as all he sought after were people of legal age that were consenting adults, what should it matter to us?

Gay-chat room talk could be mayor’s doom
Northwest Herald Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:48:00 GMT
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Mayor Jim West, a former Boy Scout executive and sheriff’s deputy, says he no longer engages in gay sex and has stopped visiting Internet chat rooms.

Read the Full Article Here

I guess the only thing that is noteable is that he is a Republican who’s platform is the most unaccepting of people from his sexual preference.

That’s all for now.

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Skype Partners With Logitech, Creative For Webcam Sales

December 5th, 2005

I figured it’s been a bit since I’ve posted. Here’s a webcam news item I stumbled across today.

TechWeb via Yahoo! News Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:10:00 GMT
Logitech and Creative, which together own about three-quarters of the Webcam market, joined Skype on Thursday to co-market the Luxembourg-based VoIP developer’s newest software with their cameras and headsets.

A fun list of things found on an internet forum

November 10th, 2005

All the things you thought you’d never need to know:

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for
blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times .

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every
year.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.”

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.

All polar bears are left handed.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their
elbow.

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Military Using Webcams & IM to Keep in “Touch”

October 25th, 2005

Here’s another interesting article on how military couples are using webcams and IM to keep themselves ‘connected’ in that special way while deployed. Checkout the blog entry and link to another related story on this topic:

http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sex/index.blog?entry_id=1262046

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Most Highly Rated Webcams in Ireland

October 20th, 2005

Most Highly Rated Webcams in Ireland

Click the link above to visit the most highly rated webcams in Ireland.

Just thought it was about time I put another post up PURELY about webcams, I know it’s been a while.

Anyways, enjoy the link and I’ll type-atcha-later, WebcamsGuru

What is an Internet Troll

October 14th, 2005

Ok, so I’ve been slacking in posting lately. Sorry but just got done moving AGAIN.

I was visiting one of my favorite forums today and someone posted a humorous picture I thought I’d share with yous guys.

internet troll

If you’ve been on newsgroups or forums you’ve probably heard this phrase before, it’s so common that it’s got a rather extensive page on Wikipedia about it.

Internet troll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory messages on the internet, such as on online discussion forums, to disrupt the discussion or to upset its participants. The word, or its variant, “trolling”, is also used to describe such messages or the act of posting them.

Anyways, enjoy the link & the pic and have a kick ARSE rest of the week!

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