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Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I signed up to receive info on Gmail after it was first announced. A couple weeks ago, I was sent an invitation to join. I've joined and now have an active account. Also, there is an option on the screen to invite friends/family to join by entering their e-mail. Mine currently says I have '50 left', I suppose since I haven't sent any out yet. I bet the same will go for any new accounts also - maybe we should all get together and get everyone 'hooked up'?

PS: I haven't used it for anything yet, but I've heard others talk about the suspicion that the service scans every e-mail you receive and targets their advertising to the content somehow - not sure I want anything 'personal' going through there if that's true.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra I have read that the scanning is automated to target the advertising...Just a sec while I find the article..I just read it this AM:

While Gmail is free to use, it does feature text ads that are served up to users with each message they open; ads are based on each message's text. This feature caused an outcry from critics concerned about privacy, but Google responded by saying the text scanning is automated and without human intervention.

Computerworld



Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eggie, no I've had it for a while. I also received an invitation in the mail. I emailed them a long time ago to sign me up for GMAIL for whenever it became active and after receiving the invitation I signed up..so if I can remember my password, that will really be great..LOL

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember way back when Ladyt said it gmail wasn't a good idea so I stick with yahoo.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is a link to a website that speaks in some detail regarding concerns about Gmail. I have absolutely no idea as to whether the concern is justified but I thought that I would post the link to it so people can read about it themselves.

I’m always interested in hearing other’s comments on these issues. Let us know what you think.

http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

You may also want to look at this link:

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/gcook.html

Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I second that Essence
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!!!
and %#$#$&###&&%&$%###

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 3:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This job is really interfering with my personal maintenance. I now have a 2nd broken nail and can't get it fixed until the weekend.

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1 - Indecision is the key to flexibility.
2 - You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
3 - There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
4 - Happiness is merely the remission of pain.
5 - Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
6 - Sometimes too much drink is not enough.
7 - The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
8 - The careful application of fear is also a form of communication.
9 - Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
10 - Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before.
11 - Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
12 - Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
13 - Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
14 - I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
15 - If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
16 - One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
17 - By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
18 - Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
19 - The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
20 - There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21 - This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it.
22 - Never wrestle with a pig: You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
23 - The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you realize it's a 'do it yourself' thing.



Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rootbeer is not evil

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pi r not square.

Mybbusername
Member

08-22-2002

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lattice is NOT A BUILDING SUPPLY!!!

Note to Home Depot Managers Everywhere: Put the lattice in the GARDEN DEPARTMENT... Not 11 miles away in building supplies.


hmmmph- what in the h*ll do you "build" with lattice?

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 10:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Could you build a gazebo?

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A fence, lol, sorry Mybb! We needed something temporary (a few years) to keep the kids out of the street when they were little. We built it from house to the edge of the driveway, it locked so they couldn't get out and no one could get in. It was like having an extra room during the summer and fall, because we could leave the front door open and the kids could walk out into their own little play area where we could either see them from the kitchen or the living room or where we could go out and sit on the porch. We used posts and cross beams, and then nailed lattice to it. I do remember though being in the building supplies to buy it, because at the same time we were looking at wood slats for the backyard fence right down the aisle.

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my job stinks. my coworker is mad at me because she got her hair cut an i didn't tell her i liked it - can you say dingbat.....

Mybbusername
Member

08-22-2002

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fences should be in the garden center, too! (Part of the Lawn/garden).

And a gazebo- again Lawn and garden.

Cut me slack guys-your not the ones who spent and hour and a half ooohing and aaaahing over plants this morning only to find out you would have to hike cross country to get the lattice! Uphill!! And that says nothing of the hike back- also uphill!!!! And in the snow!!!!!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Without shoes too? LOL.

Hardwares stores are set up oddly. I went in last summer to pick up sprinkler heads and spent forever searching the garden department to find them. Finally had to ask because I was feeling real stupid out there not seeing the damn things. Turns out sprinkler heads and stuff are kept with plumbing, which would never have dawned on me since they're more of a garden thing, lol.

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There's a llama on the loose.

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary, try as I might, I just don't have a response for that.

And that's unusual.

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We have had some highly unusual happenings lately in our neck of the woods lately. So Hubby called to let me know that he heard on the radio that someone nearby is missing their llama.

Animals have a way of finding our house...so hubby thought I should be warned in case it should show up. We've had several deer, a few cows, a herd of longhorn cattle, a whole bunch of pigs (are they called herds?), a whole flock of sheep, and even a couple of stray horses make their way to our place. That's not counting all the abandoned dogs and cats.

He didn't want me to think I was seeing things, if the llama showed up.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A group of pigs can be called a herd, a drove or sounder. And a group of donkeys is called a pace. For more interesting names, check out http://www.indianchild.com/babyanimalnames.htm.

Did you know a "flock" of crows is actually correctly termed a "murder" of crows? Incubus had an album that refers to this obscure fact - -and I found out by doing some research to teach the novel 1984!

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Friday, April 08, 2005 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just wanted to and had to say that the wife and I just rented the movie Saw on pay-per-view.

What a piece of crap!

The acting sucked, the plot had too many holes and Danny Glover must have been hard up for a job.

Remind me not to watch Saw II.

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 7:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tiger Woods is the man! Great Masters Tournament!

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just have to say that I'm noticing a recent rash of disappearing TVCH posters. I suspect a conspiracy...or an alliance...yeah, that's it, an alliance of lurkers. It's kinda eerie, and I don't like it. HELLOhelloHelloI've been reduced to echoing to myself, merely a figment of Juju's imagination.

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just have to say I agree with Mak1 that there has been a recent rash of disappearing TVCH posters. It makes me very sad.