• LIBRARY ELF - This probably goes down as one of my all time faves in the toolbox.  Because we are big users of the public library, we couldn't do without this email library reminder service.  By signing up with the free service, and entering each of your library cards into the database, Library Elf will take care of the rest.  It reminds you of due dates and holds on any type of media in the library, by sending a personalized reminder to your email.  You never have to deal with overdue fees again! 
• I WANT SANDY - I am of the opinion that every homeschooling family needs a personal assistant.  With all the comings and goings, scheduling conflicts, and appointments, we could use a little help.  Introducing: Sandy - - your digital assistant.  No matter how big or small the detail, you can let Sandy remind you of it, by sending you messages to your email, Blackberry, Palm, iphone, or cell phone. You talk to Sandy in natural language, and she "gets it", and makes it really feel like you have an assistant backing you up.
• DONNA YOUNG NOTEBOOKING PAGES - There are quite a few good websites that catalog printable homeschool organizers. This just happens to be the one I go to most often.  The resources are free and plenteous, including lesson planners, attendance & grade trackers, checklists, curriculum shopping lists, notebooking templates, and homeschool group printables. The forms can be printed and saved in several formats, including RTF, DOC, and PDF.
• EDU-TRACK HOME SCHOOL - If you are tired of all the paper trail, and especially if you are concerned with the environmental impact of all that paper, you might prefer to do a lot of your homeschool record keeping on the computer.  Edu-Track is a homeschool record keeping and lesson planning software that helps you create lesson plans, track progress reports, keep a teacher's journal, track hours and attendance, organize assignments, create transcripts, organize unit studies, and many other things.  It isn't a free program (it costs $59 for the PC version), but it can more than make up for the investment in time and paper-clutter savings. 
• HOMESCHOOL SKEDTRACK - Homeschool has a few less bells and whistles than Edu-Track, but it accomplishes many of the same tasks for free - - and your information is kept online, so that you can access it from any computer.
• MEALS MATTER - This is a nutrititionally-focused online meal planner that helps you organize healthy meals for your family, and includes meal planning tools such as a meal-planner, cookbook, pantry list, and shopping list.
• CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM - As you guys well know, we recently chucked our satellite subscription.  But before the DirecTV headed out the window, this was one of my favorite sites for finding and organizing upcoming educational programs.  Cable in the Classroom is a cooperative effort from Cable Television stations to create educational programming that is good for classrooms.  The resources at the website include a searchable index of upcoming educational shows by subject, and a monthly calendar of programming highlights.  There are also links to online video content (for folks like me who have said bye-bye to cable)

I hope you will find something in my Topsy-Techie toolbox that will make your homeschool schedule a little less topsy-turvy, and a little more manageable!  Have a great weekend!

Direct TV according to Wikipedia

Direct TV Customer "held hostage with no rights once you sign up for Direct TV" Agreement

This on actually made me laugh.

Oops, not out fault

Of course it isn't their problem

Pissed consumer

My3cents.com 1 My3cents.com 2

25 Reasons techs hate you

Another complaint for Direct tv

Link for Directv Defense - Lots of information on how to go after Direct TV legally

How dare you unplug your box - It also states in there lease Addendum that you have no right to sell,give away, transfer, pledge, mortgage, remove, or relocate with the equipment at any time. So don't even think of rearranging your furniture, Damn it.

More complaints

I agree direct TV does suck

You can search for local and national news stories pertaining to Direct TV.

Join the club.

Search for Class-Action Lawsuits against Direct TV.

You can also just search for Direct TV complaints. I did this through Yahoo.com and it returned 13,100,000 ouch that's a lot.

i would have to also agree, the suck

What you thought you could leave us, we think not

Lawsuits involving media and telecoms

And we end on a good note. A success story, yeah! one or two out of 13 million or so complaints.

I will try to keep updating this when i come across more and feel free to leave your story about Direct TV, good or bad.

The cat’s out of the bag. Even though there’s been no official press release, CableLabs leaked and then confirmed that the Motorola MTR700 was one of two tuning adapters to be awarded certification in the recent Cert Wave 60. Quick recap: the tuning resolver is what will allow one-way cable devices to continue to access all cable channels even when some channels are moved to a switched digital network. Current plans are for the MTR700 to ship in the fourth quarter.

Interestingly, Comcast has been as enthusiastic about migrating to all-digital broadcasts recently as deploying switched digital video to save bandwidth. Another type of Motorola adapter, the DTA100, is on order from Comcast and will convert digital signals to analog for subscriber hold-outs still clinging to basic cable service.

Meanwhile, SDV work does continue to move forward. Cable Digital News recently reported that Comcast has added two more trial markets in Minnesota. Motorola has commitments in hand to pass more than 24 million households with SDV service.

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Woohoo, series 6 is going to start soon and by the look of it, it seems to be a brilliant series.  I will keep you informed when we can expect to see this series on channel 5 (yes I know some of you may have seen it on Sky or cable or whatever you have) but for some of us we don't have it, and have to wait till it is on "normal" tv.  But I can't wait, after CSI: New York finished and CSI: Las Vegas.  If any of these series stopped, I don't know where I would be lol.

Synopsis: The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connection. If big business starts to be selective about what can pass through it will be like when the FCC cracked down on early radio expression and it wasn't long before only commercial radio existed. The internet needs to stay neutral and not give certain files preference. A 10 minute version of this feature length documentary has circulated over the past year getting half a million views and now more then ever the issue is heating up and threating the future of the net. Please help me raise the funds to get a full time editor to make the project complete. I've already proved my filmmaking abilities with Four Eyed Monsters and the 10 minute edit. And I know I can get this documentary seen if I can release it for free. So I want to get it funded in advance so I don't have to sell it when it's done. people will be able to just have it and become a part of the cause.

IndieGoGo

I hope the atmosphere will be the same as we had in Cergy back in the days! Well it's such a good news! Look what we will be able to do at the cable that is located on Yas Island below! By the way I just don't know when it's gonna open! :(

Burn Notice, a very good spy/secret agent sort of thing in which the main character has been "burned," i.e. cast out and left to his own devices (though that's now changing a bit) returned for its second season a couple of weeks ago. New this year is In Plain Sight, with the very appealing Mary McCormack as a Witness Protection officer whose charges keep getting found by the bad guys, and The Middle Man, a show I suspect is not for everybody but which I get a kick out of. It's done the way the mindless critics mean when they call something a "comic book movie," with the lead character played as a dim-witted parody the way Adam West did Batman all those years ago and his female sidekick doing a lot of self-referential comments in a patter so fast you'd think she was a refugee from The Gilmore Girls. Absurd, in other words, but great fun.

The Closer, the story of southern belle policewoman relocated to Los Angeles, and Saving Grace, another female cop story, this one a hard-drinking, openly promiscuous lady with her very own guardian angel (for real), both came back this Monday night. The two are somewhat unusual in the summer genre (but not unique, as we shall see) in that they feature big name stars from other media. Kyra Sedgwick is phenomenally good as the self-centered Brenda Leigh Johnson, extraordinary at her job, not so much as personal life. The latter show, which still seems unclear about exactly what it's storyline is, is built around Holly Hunter's riveting portrayal of loose-living Oklahoma detective Grace Hanadarko. The pair run back to back on Monday nights, another bonus.

Monk, a show most have probably at least heard about, has another recognizable star, Tony Shalhoub, as obsessive, compulsive former police detective turned private eye Adrian Monk, returns Friday night and is followed by Psych, the story of Shawn Spencer, who uses his extraordinary powers of observation to run a psychic detective agency with his reluctant pal, Burton Guster ("Gus"). The emphasis for these two hours is more on the comedy than the mystery, the right approach for a Friday night.

More comedy drama, and evidence that this whole summer lineup isn't just about cop shows, is featured in Eureka, which returns late this month. Instead of cops, we got a sheriff in this one, Jack Carter, a perfectly ordinary guy who gets hired to maintain law and order in a a secret government complex where everyone is a genius and crazed inventions and failed experiments are the focus of most stories. Pretty daughter Zoe complicates things as pretty daughters do on television.

Two of the most highly regarded of the "off-prime" shows will arrive later in the summer., Damages, starring another big name star, Glenn Close, is a complicated and nicely cynical legal drama and also has the very recognizable Ted Danson is a role far removed from Cheer's Sam Malone. The Danson character was apparently killed off at the end of the first season but word is he'll be back, although maybe only in flashbacks.

Man Men, set in a 1950's advertising agency, was far and away the most critically acclaimed cable show of last year (The Closer is still the highest rated ever). It's a terrific period piece with a terrific cast, a great deal of its charm lying in its verisimilitude, capturing the clothing, the habits (the cigarette smoke almost seeps from the screen) and the hypocrisy of the days the The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

Note to Kelly Brook

If you're on an advert, you're not meant to make it obvious that you're trying very hard to remember what it is your advertising. And stop, like, talking to the cameraman as though you're trying to convince him you can just about remember why you're in front of his camera in the first place. You twit.

Note to Sky

Never book Kelly Brook ever, ever again

For Real!!? This is so funny to me. A) this has to be about more then reading stuff wrong, this is some outside business coming inside. B) Terrence was the angry one he just kept going until she got pressed. c) do you notice how uncomfortable all the kids look during the exchanges?? LOL!! They looked like little kids when mommy and daddy get in an argument!!!

BET has said that Terrence will apologize to Rocsi on the air. (beacuse they're making him)

So what's going to happen? What did happen? Why did Terrence even start this mess? Why did Rocsi punk out and refuse to finish it?? Will Rocsi stay on the show? Why does BET have a GMail Account instead of an @BET.com account? Where can I get The pink Short set Rocsi had on?? (I was feeling that!)

All this and more on "As the MTV rip off Show Turns"

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P.S- I miss FREE and AJ & Ananda and DeJour!

P.S.S- Am i the only one who thinks they slept together?

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After some research and asking around the New Zealand Vodafone dealers, they recommended me to go to Omni Tech Limited, it is located at 378 Great North Road, Henderson, Auckland to solve my problem.  Before going there, I search for "mobile phone repair" under www.google.com, I found a few links pointed towards Omni Tech Limited's site.  This company is listed with New Zealand Retailers' Association under the Supplier's Section <here>

It took me less than one day to let Omni Tech Limited to unlock my mobile phone from the Australian network and did not cost me a bomb!  They provide superior and quality service; which gave my dollar a big bang!

You have to be very careful who you choose to repair your mobile phone as you do not want your expensive phone to be messed by some amatures in Auckland!  If yuu have any doubt, you can always contact Omni Tech Limited at (09) 8383943.

They charge only $22.50 inspection for a full checkup on your mobile phone (which is counted towards the final repair bill). Other might charge you $25, $40 or even $70 before they even look at your phone!

In other news, I received a rejection this morning stating my story was "cute and quirky and fit the genre but just didn't make the cut." Ha! The story of my life! ;-) It's only the story's second rejection, though. There are still plenty of places I can foist it upon.

And, as of yesterday, my internet at home is down again, for the second time in the last month. The modem's acting the same way it was when my cable got disconnected. I'm almost tempted to cancel. I got a lot of writing done last night without it.

The Viking Islay Tragedy

Three men lay dead in the anchor locker.
What they'd need to stay alive was everywhere around them
except in the one place it could have saved them:
The air they breathed

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It has been quite a Monday. I've had problems with my cable company - they never billed me last month, and evidently I'm supposed to notice that among all of the mail and bills that I have gotten that I haven't received one, and so they were getting ready to cut my cable off. I've paid them and it's all good now, but really, I have better things to do then notice that I have or haven't received a bill. The lady actually told me that I should have called and asked where my missing bill was. I told her that since they were having all of these issues with switching us all to digital receivers that I thought that they were waiting to bill us until they got it all straightened out. Anyways, I was reduced to tears, because I have never been late on a bill before, and wouldn't have been this time if they had sent the bill. So, not so great a start for things with a cable company I'm already not happy with.

So, I went down to my office to inquire about other cable options as well as about resigning my lease. Starting with the cable - there are no other options other than my current carrier. Which is really irritating. But they have the monopoly on my complex. So I can either stick with my cable company and have to deal with them or I could switch to satellite or dish. None of it is without its upsides and downsides. On top of all of that when I asked about resigning I was informed that my rent was being raised. Which, is so not what I wanted to hear after everything else. I'm now weighing my options of trying to find a cheaper place to live, like the potential for a free garage apartment, or just sucking it up and staying here. If I stay here I may drop my cable and just not bother paying for something that I don't need anyways.

Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

I did give Friendfeed a try and I really like it. Follow me here.

I recently took back my DVR cable box. It was acting up again. This time I decided to cancel cable all together. Now I just have the internet and I haven't missed cable T.V. at all. Most of what I want is on the internet. Now my attention is divided between my iMac, my PS3 (for games and Blu-ray movies) and reading. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I can download any T.V. show I want to watch, the rest doesn't matter. Even live sports is streaming now. It's not as good as high definition, but it's not nearly as expensive either. I now pay $55/month for high-speed as opposed to $120/month for internet and HD cable. My biggest problem with cable is all the channels you have to pay for to get the few you might watch. It just isn't worth it. Not to mention the heavy compression artifacts you get with cable HD. Once you've seen 1080p HD on the PS3, you can't really go back to cable HD.

I'm also digging into the BBC Planet Earth series on Blu-ray. Absolutely stunning. I have a new appreciation for this beautiful planet. Let's not destroy it with another war in the middle-east, or by ruining our environment.

Still missing Tim Russert, and George Carlin. I bet they're asking tough questions and speaking the truth wherever they are. Check out Carlin's bit about the decline of the west, and the real owners of America.

Or this one about religion...

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