Finally the sun is back out to play. This is the weather I came to Austin for!!!
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Ever since my days at my College C.W Post LIU, I have benfitted from great service of a Credit Union. They didn’t charge crazy fees and I felt my money was safer because they are Not for profit and their profits came to me a member not some investor.
Here we are in 2010 and a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon and pushing this move your money campaign. I think this is great and hopefully everyone takes the info and move their money away from theses huge evil banks.
Im tired of hearing the complaining of these Banks stupidity and want to see all of us take action. We do have choices and power. You can check out the campaign at Move Your Money and read up on it. If you are looking to join a Credit Union please go to “Find a Credit Union” to see which ones are close by and which ones you qualify for. Also, if you are one of those people who think Credit Unions don’t have as much Branches to service you. Please check out CU Service Centers to locate all shared branching for your credit union. This service gives you branch access is any state or country and is a great help to us members. Enjoy and switch now.
I feel that with websites like Flickr or Facebook our “personal” moments aren’t personal at all anymore. People fail to realize that uploading any pictures to these third party sites isn’t always the smartest thing to do. I realized this even more when I have been asked to see my wedding pics so many times by someone that really doesn’t need to see them anyway. So from this point on I refuse to upload any personal pics on Facebook and will only upload those pics to my personal server. Even a “personal server” or sending an email isn’t that personal being we have to use a third party site.
I was also inspired and impressed with my favorite browser Opera new add on called Opera Unite. They made things simple by taking away the third party websites and made it possible for two computers to share content with eachother directly from a web browser. To some this might sound weird, but trust me this will make a persons life so much easier. I’m not saying that this should replace all third party sites, but we shouldn’t trust so many with so much personal info. For that matter using Opera Unite is still using something third party, but obviously it’s a lot different from uploading my personal content onto a server that later stays with them even if I think I deleted that photo or info.
We assume the best, but that’s still a chance we are all taking. Opera Unite at least brings it up and gives everyone a choice. The more choices we all have the better. I think Opera Unite will make a lot of third party vendors upset and I can careless. At the end of the day it’s all about the consumer and making them feel safe. What do you guys think?
So it’s officially a year since Carmen and I moved to Austin and it doesn’t even feel that long. I must say that it’s an amazing feeling when you accomplish the goals you set in such a short time. Carmen and I were fed up living in our home town Brooklyn, NY because we couldn’t get a decent apartment, and just felt that we outgrew the place. Within a year I got a cool job paying a wage I deserved, carmen got herself a car and is a driver, we got an amazing apartment, we got our puppy Brooklyn and we got married.
Yup I said it, we got married. Besides all those things the most important thing is the fact that we got peace of mind. That is the most precious gift a man can recieve to me personally. I would like to thank my family and friends because without their support non of this would be done so easily. Also with our current social technology because that has made our transition easier too.
Kindle vs. iPhone
This is exactly why I don’t see the point in purchasing a Kindle at all. I can only see an older demographic buying this because they most likely wont have a smart phone to use any new technologies or enhanced applications that provide eBook reading. If you do have a Blackberry or iPhone try out these cool eBook readers and you will realize why I make that statement.
So many times I hear people say “oh the iPhone is just pretty blah blah”, but that’s the point it is pretty and its also a great device. In this business we learn that without some type of glamor the device will lack appeal to the general public even though its a great device on its own. Has anyone willingly wanted to purchase a G1 lately? exactly. The iPhone is pretty with its glossy icons and etc, but the applications bring so much to it that its makes someone’s life simple by having everything in one device. Well that’s my rant on this for the day, let me know what apps are the best ones.
