The Life of James Mowery

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Tom, that bastard!  He is sending me messages on MySpace.  I have yet to open it, but I know it is going to be some bullshit about some other bullshit going on with MySpace.  That, or he is going to beg that all the users don't switch to Facebook.

Truth be told, I don't want Facebook to overtake Myspace, even though I know it is going to happen.  When sites get huge, they tend to lose sight of what they once envisioned, and then it just comes down to how they can extract the most money from the users.  If you look at one page on MySpace, you will see it littered with advertisements, so you know what is on their mind.

Oh, now that I have opened it, it is just bullshit about friend count.  The sad thing is, that people give a crap about how many friends they have.  This is why Facebook is special.  It was created for friends, and in most cases, REAL friends.  It isn't supposed to be something where you go and add random people.  Yet, I know as Facebook grows, this is what it will develop into.  Especially with the announcement that all profiles will be searchable on Google.  That idea is a bit iffy to me.

Oh well.

Which foods do you eat a lot of? Too much of? 
Submitted by Allishandra.

I'm an Italian food person.  I love all things Italian.  So much so, that tonight is going to be Spaghetti!!!

It is now the late-early morning for me.  I've been thinking about things.  Nothing bad nor good, just simply things in general.  I'm a thinking person after all.  There isn't "much" to my thinking: life, work, love, future, past, present, finances, politics, technology, friends, challenges, opportunities, success, failure, freedom, and so on.  I'll deal with it as usual.

My sister pretty much has me beat in a hardcore match of Scrabulous on Facebook.  Scores are Jeanette: 297,and Mysef: 283.  She got lucky as hell with a 91 point word, "astonied," which really did not make any sense to me, but hey, it just goes to show you that it is never over 'till it's really over.  My winning streak comes to an end, which is probably a good thing because I have been far too cocky with that game.  My excuse for friends is that I am just a confident and competative person.

I miss Sierra a lot more than usual.  I almost feel alone for some reason, even though I'm far from it.  It is just a mental thing I am sure.  I'm probably 95% happy and optomistic.  When I get to that 5% of depression though, it can be just a minor thing where I avoid talking to people for awhile and feel jealous of other people for reasons which I can't explain.  It could sometimes be more serious where I just flat out refuse to speak to anyone, and things start to annoy me that wouldn't otherwise.  I rarely ever get angry; I can't remember the last time I was so, but I can suddenly feel really alone with no warning.  I'm not even sure if I am at this point of feeling lonely, but things like this come to mind and I evaluate myself as a person.

I think about how fortunate I am, and I never try to act depressed because there are so many other people that have much worse to worry about.  I just take life day by day.  I do not try to plan things for the future because they rarely ever work out in my life.  That does not mean I don't think about the future, I don't bother to plan as much around it.  I do this because it allows me to be more flexible (figuratively speaking.)

Yeah, it is starting to get very annoying.  No internet blows.  Things are apparently working though, as I had my mom check if the internet was working; she says that the indicator is solid, meaning I'm back in business.  I'm going to return home tomorrow and get back to work.

I don't really know of anything interesting going on.  Well, one interesting fact is that my site is now almost past the 1,000,000 rank on Alexa.  This is very good considering the fact that only a week ago I was ranked around 1,900,000.  I'm going to write a few more articles, and try to get out one more good one before the end of this month.  Right now I'm looking to end the month on 300 unique visitors, but maybe I can get it up to around 400.  I know that Sierra has visited my site at least 16 times.

I've been reading up on my old college book, Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, for ways to improve my writing. Making a good effort to read the entire sections about punctuation has really led me to find how many bloggers are doing so much wrong.  I must admit that I too am guilty of some things I have read.  Correct apostrophe usage is something I have more than likely abused.  I know I have placed "it's" instead of "its" a few times too many in writing.

It could be worse!  I do know I will continue to improve my writing, as it is a good skill to have!

Okay so I had a brief exodus, but now all is fine, and I'm back at it. 

My internet is failing to work at home, so that blows, but I am at my sister's for now until that gets back to working correctly.  I love technology, but it really sucks when it doesn't work.  Our reliance on technology is amazing.

Speaking of technology, this entry on Wikipedia had me very interested with regards to NASA and stuff.

The article talks about many amazing things for the future:

NASA's long range Vision for Space Exploration plan includes a return to the Moon, with a manned mission in 2019 and permanent staffing of a polar base by 2024.^[1][2] A Chinese space scientist has said that the People's Republic of China could be capable of landing a human on the moon by 2022 (although the country has announced no formal plans for human lunar exploration),^[3] and Japan is now talking about plans for a lunar base by 2030.^[4] None of these plans, however, involve permanent residents of the Moon. Instead they call for sortie missions, in some cases followed by extended expeditions to a lunar base using rotating crew members, as is currently done for the International Space Station.

It will be interesting to see how that works out a nice 10+ years from now.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could never fail? 
Submitted by BeckyPink. 

This is simply unreasonable and impossible.

If I was to make it to the top though, I'd love to be known by everyone for my knowledge with technology.  Maybe make some appearances on some podcasts, and be making enough money to live a relatively nice and secure life.

I don't need it to be guaranteed though, because I'm going to work hard for that anyways, so just send me a check for a million dollars and I'll be happy :)

I am writing an article for Tech In Demand focused on my top 8 favorite Facebook applications.  This is obviously poking fun at Myspace, but I believe it's a fun idea.

So what are your top 8 Facebook applications?

Okay, so as you might see above, I created a new banner.  The only problem was the fact that it was supposed to be the background for Tech In Demand, but I started going all crazy with it and decided to make it the header for here.

I don't know how on earth I got to the above, and I think posting a tutorial would be insanely difficult, but yeah.  I think it looks pretty cool for what it is.

I still need to find something for Tech In Demand though, so I guess I'm off to do that now.

My eyes are about to pop out of their sockets.

So this is going to be really fast.

I did work, and made no progress on the logo, but will be on it today.

Tech In Demand now has 23 subscribers, at least that is what the FeedBurner says.

So yeah, things are going well, but I must work even harder to push things forward.

I come up with more and more article ideas by the day, so that is good.  Hope they keep coming to me :)