Mikel's Blog

The new blog site is up and running so please go there in the future…
thanks,
Mikel

It seems that the video has generated quite a bit of interest on youtube so I decided to share it here. Thanks to the team at HFVT for getting me set up with the proper interface and thanks to Parrot for making a great product. enjoy!!!
Sandy\'s Parrot

I fished yesterday with Randy Knight and the Bryan Bass Club at Lake Limestone. It was tough to catch fish. We were able to catch a few on and around humps that held brush and stumps.
The lake is lacking vegetation. We did not find any hydrilla or grass in water deeper than 5′ or so. The days of catching an easy limit seem to be long gone at Limestone. There were no limits at weigh-in.

Side notes: Randy is a friend and member of the Bryan Bass Club and is currently the tournament director for PAA. If you are interested in either the Bryan Bass Club or the PAA, you can click on them to visit their website. Links are also provided at my website: Mikel.com

As if I haven’t had enough fun this year: I have completed Basic Orientation Training (BOT) at Camp Bowie for the Texas State Guard. It really feels good to be ready and able to help my fellow Texans in the event of natural disaster or civil unrest. For more information on the Texas State Guard or how you can help just visit our website HERE or feel free to contact me.
Mikel

About ready to settle down and get to work. For the Spring 2010 semester I will end up with 22 hours of college credit and graduation from the Central Texas Police Academy. I am ready to jump head-first into the new career.
I will still have control of my Aflac accounts thanks to the technology of Google Voice and a wonderful support staff of agents and coordinators. I can focus on the new career and still ensure that my clients are taken care of whenever they need anything.

Here is a compilation of info from different sources. Please take a few minutes to read this (especially if you hvae forwrded emails.)
First, make sure you’re sharing the email, not the addresses in it by removing all addresses from the forwarded message.

Hoaxes are chain letters telling interesting (sometimes funny, often scaring) stories of computer viruses, something for free (even money), new laws and much more. They all have one thing in common: they are not true.
Don’t Forward Hoaxes

This is why you should not forward such a story unless you have investigated it yourself.

You will irritate those that do not spot the hoax and
they will probably pass it on, causing more irritation.
Those that identify the hoax will likely send you a message notifying you that you passed on an urban legend.

If you know a message is a hoax but have a specific reason to forward it nevertheless (for scientific purposes, for example), you might want to include your reason with the message.

Forwarding emails as attachments is a clean and useful way to share them with others. Unfortunately, doing this will usually also share all the email addresses of the original message with the recipient of the forwarded message: the sender (which is desirable), but also all the To: and Cc: recipients (which should be avoided in general).
Forward Emails as Attachments Without Revealing Addresses

To forward an email as an attachment without revealing all the addresses in it:

Save the message you want to forward as a .eml or .msg file.
Open the saved message in a text editor like Notepad.
Delete all the email addresses you do not want to reveal.
Usually, you can simply remove the To: and Cc: lines completely.
In your email client, forward the original message as an attachment.
Before sending the forward, however, delete the automatically generated attachment.
Attach your edited .eml or .msg file instead.
Continue composing and delivering the forward as usual.

Some email messages are worth forwarding.
If many people share that opinion, many will forward a particular message, and they will forward it to many other people. Most email programs insert the headers including To: and often Cc: by default when you forward a message.

What Happens if You Do Not Remove Addresses

This has the single advantage that everybody knows who already got a particular message. No need to forward the same mail to the same person twice.

But including all header information with all other To: and Cc: recipients has overwhelming disadvantages.

The message looks horrible, and often the actual content is buried and hard to find between all the email address.
You share the email addresses with third parties without the consent of the addresses’ owners. I wouldn’t want my address given to I don’t know who just because somebody forwarded me something that she also happened to forward to 150 other people.
Remove All Email Addresses When You Forward a Message

That’s why you should always remove all email addresses
(except for the original sender if you deem it appropriate) before you send a forward. If you forward the message inline, just highlight them and hit Del. If you forward the message as an attachment, you might have to take some extra steps.

Well my iPhone s going to be exchanged. This time for the wi-fi problem that had apparently been restored due to the 3.1 software upgrade. After working for a day and a half the wi-fi stopped working and has not returned. I will be getting my 3rd iPhone in just over a year. Too abd the thing is so useful or I would opt for a Palm on a sprint plan and save some $$.

I’ve been hearing quite a bit of hype lately about Google and especially their Google Docs. I had a chance to check it out and I am impressed. This may be old news to some of you tech-savvy youngsters but the secret is just now getting out for everyday folks. Google offers, FOR FREE, the use of a nice word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, and form builder. But they are not done with those; one of the coolest programs I have found from Google is their calendar. It works like the calendar in Outlook but is web-based and will sync to other calendars (iPhone or Outlook) so you’ll never have to be away from your calendar as long as you have internet access! How cool is that? Their contact manager, in Gmail, (Also Free) is one of the best I’ve ever used. And it imports contacts from just about every imaginable source and provides a very easy way to organize and merge contact info.
I’m not exactly sure why Google is offering these services for free now but I speculate it is to get as many users as possible familiar with their format so when their cell phone and internet communication products are released they will have the bear share of the market (not unlike AOL did back in the early –mid 90’s) I, for one, say bring it on as the items that Google has provided have enhanced my lifestyle. Kudos Google!

I am testing the Plugin called Twitter Updater. Hopefully If I can get the settings right then my twitter followers will not be bombarded with tweets.