Carrie Ann Inaba engaged! and received an extra special engagement ring from Jesse Sloan. Ann Mangini of Santa Monica’s Rafinity jewelers tole PEOPLE mag “Jesse came in a few months ago,”  about the said engagement ring.Jesse Sloan was secretive about his proposal and of course his big purchase. Sloan played it very cool when he proposed to his longtime love on live television.The Ring.“He had a very clear idea...

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Carrie Ann Inaba engaged! and received an extra special engagement ring from Jesse Sloan. Ann Mangini of Santa Monica’s Rafinity jewelers tole PEOPLE mag “Jesse came in a few months ago,”  about the said engagement ring.Jesse Sloan was secretive about his proposal and of course his big purchase. Sloan played it very cool when he proposed to his longtime love on live television.The Ring.“He had a very clear idea...

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For some reason, this tune reminds me of "This Boy" by the Beatles. I wonder if McCartney-Lennon were listening to this and then wrote "This Boy" ...

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I WANT IT NOW YESTERDAY!Now that you've been told how to 'think outside the pixel' ... you might want to think about the virtue of patience. Newer generations seem to have less and of it. I don't think that's a good thing for anyone!Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the author of the coming “Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way...

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Response to “5 Reasons Why You Should Start With Blog Commenting” Dave Lucas says: March 31, 2011 at 1:51 pm It’s frustrating when trying to leave a comment, and any of these things happen: (1) The REGISTRATION process some bloggers employ is a huge pain in the ***!(2) The comment system (platform) doesn’t open, and eventually freezes the screen(3) You write on what seems to be the comment...

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Tired of viewing my humble weblog in the same old way?Fatigué de voir mon blog de ​​la même manière ancienne?Now you can look at it this way: check out my posts as SIDEBAR entries!For my French blogging friend Olivier, and others who may have had some screen-loading issues: TIMESLIDE!Maybe you'd rather look at things this way: My blog in PICTURES!Take your chances viewing posts as a MOSAIC... or even in FLIPCARD mo...

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Hudson Valley poet Paul Clemente will read his work at the next program in the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series. The event will be held in the rear room behind the Utopian Directions bookstore at 7 West Street in Warwick at 4:00 p.m. on April 2. Following the feature, others are welcome to read original work. Admission is free. Clemente is known not only as an original and compelling poet, but as the producer...

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State lawmakers planned to work into the evening in an attempt to finish up the NY state budget one day before the deadline. They had company: protestors who vowed to camp out at the Capitol to demonstrate how they felt about the budget as it is written...This afternoon I walked downtown to check out the protest at the State Capitol. Even though I was very early, it took quite some time to get through security (the line at the...

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...and who wouldn't? Yahoo tried to copy Google's success in accumulating existing programs (like blogspot/blogger and youtube) by snapping up MyBlogLog. But now they are shutting down the service in May. I really liked MyBlogLOg and actually found it superior to BlogCatalog. It would be a feather in BlogCatalog's cap if they could persuade Yahoo to turn it over. But if Y demands cash...Anyway, I'm sharing with all of you this...

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.Is there any news following the terrible attack on the holy thorn at Glastonbury last December? - KesThe Holy Thorn grew from a cutting of a tree said to have been planted by St Joseph of Arimathea two thousand years ago before it was cut down by what many now believe were four men with a chainsaw. Needless to say, they carried out their act of malice under...

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Two weeks ago Xiaxue tweeted that she hates blogs that feature videos and blogs that beckon one to "read more" ... like this one.According to PCWORLD ::: dial-up business still accounts for about 40 percent of AOL's revenue; AOL still has about 2 million US subscribers to that service! Xiaxue's blog loads on dial-up! But lots of other blogs don't!Here's one blog landing page that's really confusing! There's no need for the "slider"...

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Hmmm. I can spell but my brain-to-keyboard skills sometimes render incorrectly spelled words (I ditched the spell-checker because it kept screwing up my blog posts in other ways!)But when you see a company online that claims to offer "PROFESSIONAL photo editing & graphic design services" and then you see a GLARING error on the company webpage (A very simply laid-out page; the error quite obvious)...Hopefully, these folks are...

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Everyone seems to be surprised today when they learned that Make It Or Break was back tonight on ABC Family. What makes it worse are Vampires. Is Make It Or Break It wanted to slice an audience in today's trending characters?Relief! At least the vampires were only just Kaylie’s weird dream that she was describing in group therapy in rehab for her eating disorder.That bizarre trick of trying to cash in on vampire popularity aside,...

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Everyone seems to be surprised today when they learned that Make It Or Break was back tonight on ABC Family. What makes it worse are Vampires. Is Make It Or Break It wanted to slice an audience in today's trending characters?Relief! At least the vampires were only just Kaylie’s weird dream that she was describing in group therapy in rehab for her eating disorder.That bizarre trick of trying to cash in on vampire popularity aside,...

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In the news today, Britney Spears confirmed her forthcoming summer tour. Fans were more surprised when Pop singer added that she's going with Enrique Iglesias to, saying  “I’m going on tour with Enrique Iglesias in June.”Spears huge announcement were made in between songs at her pretaped San Francisco show on “Good Morning America,”Huge number of fans were gathered at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to enjoy Spears'...

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In the news today, Britney Spears confirmed her forthcoming summer tour. Fans were more surprised when Pop singer added that she's going with Enrique Iglesias to, saying  “I’m going on tour with Enrique Iglesias in June.”Spears huge announcement were made in between songs at her pretaped San Francisco show on “Good Morning America,”Huge number of fans were gathered at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to enjoy Spears'...

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BRACELETS ARE IN!!! The support ♥ bracelets for Marizela Perez have arrived. They are orange with the words "lahat ay magiging maayos" (all will be well) on them. They are $5 - ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE PEREZ FAMILY.All Will Be Well (Coffee House, Benefit for Marizela Perez)The search for Marizela Perez continues. Hopefully, wherever she is she will be ok...

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Do you recall that old saying "you only have to do one thing and do it well?" Well, it seems that Andrew Cuomo has mastered the art of being Governor of New York State.But his success is so much more than that. If you read about his present and then research his past, you'll see there were a few bumps along the way as our "guru guv" strove to get to where he is today,A lesson for all of us - so if you are an aspiring writer, musician,...

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Alec Baldwin's angriness to Kim Basinger is still there right? Well how bout Kim Basinger making Alec even more angry to her?According to news from Chicago Sun Times, Basinger who tipped to paparazzi's about the actor's condition led into "major misunderstanding". Well, it just made her ex-husband Alec Baldwin mad again to her.Here's the clip from Chicago Sun Times:A major New York paparazzo claims he and other shutterbugs were...

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Alec Baldwin's angriness to Kim Basinger is still there right? Well how bout Kim Basinger making Alec even more angry to her?According to news from Chicago Sun Times, Basinger who tipped to paparazzi's about the actor's condition led into "major misunderstanding". Well, it just made her ex-husband Alec Baldwin mad again to her.Here's the clip from Chicago Sun Times:A major New York paparazzo claims he and other shutterbugs were...

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Corey McGriff described himself as "THE most talented DJ known to man." Police say the 32-year-old NY/Philly deejay was found dead on a Staten Island street Sunday morning with a gunshot wound to his chest.Tags: DJ Megatron, Corey McGr...

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It's really very simple... anyone who enters the New York Times via Facebook or Twitter can read anything they want to, absolutely free. What paywall? Shut up! There is no limit to FREE!Up until now, we’ve seen paywall enthusiasts like The Wall Street Journal offer such loopholes. But they’ve done so via Google. It’s a trick that most web-savvy news consumers know. Is a WSJ article behind a paywall? Just Google the title of it....

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According to Hollywood reports, that Amy Adams has been cast as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's upcoming "Superman" reboot.Zack Snyder confirmed that Adams had the role to the Los Angeles Times, saying that he reached out to her by phone while in Paris on Sunday.  "There was a big, giant search for Lois," Snyder told the paper. "For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but...

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According to Hollywood reports, that Amy Adams has been cast as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's upcoming "Superman" reboot.Zack Snyder confirmed that Adams had the role to the Los Angeles Times, saying that he reached out to her by phone while in Paris on Sunday.  "There was a big, giant search for Lois," Snyder told the paper. "For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but...

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Are you miffed because nobody bothers to comment on your blog? Could that possibly be YOUR fault? Here's a FAST FIX!(1) Make sure your blog loads quickly, free of annoying pop-ups...(2) Set Your Comments free! ("How-to" on BlogWorld.)Blogspot users now have the ability to turn on a switch that makes any blogger blog "smartphone friendly" - there are also services that will do this for you if you are...

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Yikes! The package is almost as big as the netbook!TESTFREAKS Blog not too too long ago reviewed the Broadband2go service, complete with COVERAGE MAPS, SPEED TESTSVM has just recently capped the service and if you didn't get in on the $40 Unlimited plan early on, you can't get it now (however, those who already are on it, like little ole me, get to stay on it!) Broadband is awesome! If you've got it, maximize your use of it!Among...

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Here's a bona fide treat for you, and a bonus BLOGGING CLASS post!Here is the article I would have submitted to the Blog Engage contest, had I been able to meet the requirements for entering!10 Ways to Blog Better1 - Make 'em real; Make 'em feelPeople who write about real life experiences and current events (like Xiaxue writing about Peter Coffin, for example) increase the odds of having any given blog post tweeted and repeated...

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Blog Engage and Affiliate Lights are wonderful web services for bloggers! Having said that, I'm NOT entering the contest! Sure, I have great writing skills and a plethora of previous posts that could be updated or rewritten or re-imagined. I just can't fill the requirements! Here's the details (my comments italicizd)! I only have two small problems, as you will notice. Small problems that are big...

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UPDATE!Xiaxue finishes crushing Peter Coffin! -or- as I tweeted, "puts final nail in coffin" :)Recently Xiaxue posted two articles critical of another blogger, a sort of digital stalker-taunter-shuckster who writes as " Peter Coffin" - and in no time at all, the story went GLOBAL!Here's a rip from nowpublic.com: "Peter Coffin threw a brick at Xiaxue, and she responded with a nuclear bomb..."Peter Coffin: The strange story of a...

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One Wednesday morning, not too very long ago, upon awakening after a night of stormy, troubling dreams, I tweeted out:After all, someday, one day, the journey ends for each and every one of us. But in the meantime, humans are daily interfacing with computers more and more and more! It cannot be avoided, it seems! The PC at home, work, school... the ubiquitous "smartphone" and air card, the bank ATM, the computer panel at the...

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The Dutchess County SPCA seizes a puppy and arrests store owner and employee following complaints of selling an unhealthy puppy.I'm always saddened when I hear about cases of animal abuse or neglect...HYDE PARK, NY (March 25, 2011) –Yesterday, the Dutchess County SPCA seized an unhealthy puppy being offered for sale by Puppies and Kittens, a pet store in Wappingers Falls, and charged the store owner and an employee after a local...

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Does our boxing superhero knocked-down by critics after his controversial Twitter account? Manny Pacquiao made his decision by posting at Twitter his last message “Sorry everyone but hanggang dito nalang delete ko na account ko thank you very much to all your support.”According to news, Manny Pacquiao's Twitter followers became upset he replied one of his follower's question "why he ever ran ran for Congress despite his obvious...

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Does our boxing superhero knocked-down by critics after his controversial Twitter account? Manny Pacquiao made his decision by posting at Twitter his last message “Sorry everyone but hanggang dito nalang delete ko na account ko thank you very much to all your support.”According to news, Manny Pacquiao's Twitter followers became upset he replied one of his follower's question "why he ever ran ran for Congress despite his obvious...

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