Please...shoot me now...

I'm dying from cuteness overload!

Alright so I'm a sucker. I had this program and I had a free registered version of it. I didn't have all the expansion packs though, just the basic free ones. But I forgot to back it up on my external HD when I reformatted. How did I do that? Welll, I'll tell ya. I had so many damned programs on this box, it's a wonder it didn't fall through the desk, LOL. And the pathetic thing is, I did, and do, use most of them.

Anyway, they sent me this email for the paid registered version, which gets a whhhoooolllleeee lot more smiley packs by the way. About 40 of them with everything you can imagine, and then some. It was only 10.17, so I sprang for it. Haaaaaapppy Biiiirrrtthday! You can insert these cuteness overloads in just about anything from email to journal posts, I just click on the spot I want the image to appear, and then click on the image I want in the prgram. Easy peasy. You get a registered version of the program along with a year's worth of new expansion packs for 10.00. So I'm like, meh, why not? I've used the free program for more than two years now, I wanted some new images to play with. I think they're worth the 10.00. if not for anything but saving me the time of hunting down images, saving them, putting them on my pic host and then using the image insert thingy. Oh and you can add your own images to the program too. Isn't that just all that and a box of chocolates?


Anyway, here's the email with the pertinent info. After you pay, you can download a PREREGISTERED copy, go to the lost your key link and there's a link on the page for new gold members to download a preregistered version. You just plug in your log in info, and wala. No messing with code keys and stuff. Neato. You have to have a registered copy to download the expansion packs for gold members. Anyway here's the email with the coupon code. If you're interested. Oh, and you can use PayPal.

Today we're making a very special offer to you because we want YOU to be a gold member! We're including a coupon code in this email message that gives you and automatic and immediate 40% discount on our Smileycons Gold Upgrade. The Smileycons Gold Upgrade includes a one-year subscription to Smileycons Gold plus a registered version of Smileycons if you don't have it. The regular price of a Smileycons Gold Upgrade is $16.95. When you enter coupon code 722B during the signup process, 40% will be immediately deducted from the price at checkout. You final cost is only $10.17. When your Gold Membership will be immediately activated upon completion of the payment process and you'll have access to all 57 Smileycons Expansion Packs, all 10 premium 3D screensavers, a registered version of Email Backup Guardian, as well as all privileges and services that come with a Gold Membership - including instant access to a registered version of the Smileycons program.
To use the coupon code, visit http://smileycons.net/amember/signup.php

1. Select the product "Smileycons Gold Upgrade" from the list
2. Fill out the required information
3. At the bottom of the sign-up form, under "Coupons" enter coupon code 722B .
4. Press "Continue"
5. You will be automatically transferred to the checkout page. You'll see that 40% has been deducted from the regular price and you'll see the final cost is $10.17
Hurry! Offer expires tomorrow - Friday June 5, 2009 at midnight!

Typical

Typical.

The media exec to the right just launched an attack on the Web, saying that he sees "nothing good having come from the Internet. Period.

Michael Lynton

"I'm a guy who sees nothing good having come from the Internet. Period."

Michael Lynton
CEO of Sony Pictures

Don't Let Michael Stifle the Internet

 

But Michael Lynton is just the latest in a line of old media bosses who see the open Internet as a threat — something they need to control in order to keep prices high, access limited and users in check.
Those of us who rely upon the Internet every day now have a chance to tell Michael otherwise:
Make Sure Lynton and His Cronies Don't Stifle the Internet
At this very minute, the Federal Communications Commission is crafting America's first national broadband plan. Whether the plan will give more control over our Internet to the likes of Sony Pictures, Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon depends on what we do right now.
These companies' well-heeled lobbyists are flooding the FCC's public docket with comments in support of policies that let them:

• Tilt the Web’s level playing field to favor the Web sites of corporate partners;
• Deploy content-sniffing devices that would randomly open and sift through our private Web communications;
• Impose usage penalties on people who use the Web for more than simple e-mail and Web surfing;
• Block innovative Web services that compete against their phone, cable and entertainment products; and
• Disconnect users for any reason or without justification

Acting FCC chairman Michael Copps has called the creation of the broadband plan "the most formative — indeed, transformative — proceeding ever in the Commission’s history." He added: "The Commission must act to ensure that the genius of the open Internet is not lost."
Copps is right. Michael Lynton is wrong. We need to tell the FCC that a more open open and accessible Internet is a good thing that will revitalize our economy, engage millions more people in our democracy and give new meaning to freedom of speech. And we reject the nonsense that open Internet backers are all conspiring to promote piracy.
It’s time for the FCC to get behind a people-powered vision of 21st-century media media that’s participatory, open and democratic -- and not to hand the keys to the Internet to the old guard.
Tell the FCC: The Internet Is Good for Democracy. Period.
Click on the link above and tell the FCC that our national broadband plan must guarantee an open, fast, affordable and people-powered Internet without corporate gatekeepers.

Thank You,

Timothy Karr
Free Press Action Fund
www.freepress.net

P.S. Tell your friends to file comments with the FCC, too. Share the link on Facebook. Post a tweet. Forward this e-mail. Get the word out.

David Eddings and David Carradine both passed away...

I just read about the both of them passing away.

Mannn, what a bummer. I love David Edding's books. The first book I read that was written by him, I was hooked.

I remember distinctly the first time I picked up one of his books. I was trawling the scifi/fantasy section of Barnes and Nobles, looking for something new and different, when I picked up a new release from the display at end of the isle. I read the blurb on the back cover, and the first few pages. I was hooked. I bought the book and devoured it in a manner of hours. I waited impatiently after that for the next one in the series to hit the shelves. The man could tell a good story.

My poor sets of The Belgariad, and The Mallorean, are so battered and worn, I'll have to buy another set, probably very soon. This is my third set of both series of books.

I hate to think that he won't ever write another story. I've got every book he wrote, but I enjoyed those first two series more than any of the others. He wrote such wonderful, strong female characters in those two series, and men who were macho but still respectful of the wimmen. Sigh, I loved the character of Polgara. She was independent, stubborn, strong, and could still be vulnerable. I think, if she were real, we would get along like a house on fire.

And David Carradine. I can remember the very first episode of Kung Fu. There were very few shows that caught my imagination while I was growing up, but Kung Fu was one that did. I watched that show religiously, LOL. I guess my age is showing.

And he was so great in Cannonball, and in Kill Bill.

Sigh two great, but differing talents, gone. What a crying shame.

Go in peace David and David, maybe you can bear each other company in this last great adventure.