Have you ever become so frustrated with your computer that you’ve thought of doing something like this? Or perhaps throwing your monitor to the ground?

I once lost the contents of my hard drive due to a power surge (and yes we had a surge protector on the computer, but it failed) and I felt like doing something like this!

I can’t imagine how much force you’d need to shove a keyboard through a monitor though. Wow.

I think Ctrl’s losing control!

I haven’t been writing in this blog as much as I should. Surprisingly I’m spending all my time, it seems, trying to pick out new themes for few of my sites. Did you know that the more you download and test out the harder it gets to pick just one? Yeah … it’s true.

Well .. at least with all this theme testing I’ll have some great themes to tell you guys about just as soon as I get around to telling you about them.

The latest news is that we’ll soon be able to create websites on Google. The sites will run on Google servers and I imagine will be fairly easy to use for non-techies. By that I mean you won’t have to know much if any code to create a website of your own within a matter of minutes!

Here’s a news story I found that discusses Google’s latest step into the world of website creation:

Avot Media has developed a system whereby mobile phone users can watch video in near real time streaming.

If you’ve ever watched a video using your mobile phone I’m sure you’ve noticed that with some services you have a limited video selection and that the quality of the video display is quite poor. This is not the case with Avot mV. They’ve created an innovative mobile video solution that ensures that you’ll be able to enjoy video on your mobile device and that it will be of high quality.

Using Avot mV you’ll be able to watch virtually anything you want on your mobile phone.

If you go to the Avot Media
Corporate Site you’ll be able to watch demo’s of Avot mV. You’ll also be able to download a free copy of Avot mV from their Product site. You can download the program onto your PC or visit the site using your mobile browser and download Avot mV directly to your mobile device.

Once Avot mV has been installed on your mobile device you’ll be able to access any web-based video sharing sites, and you’ll also be able to use Avot mV’s content based search capabilities to find videos suited to your personal preferences.

The best thing about Avot mV is that once you’ve selected a video on the internet that you’d like to view on your mobile phone the Avot mV software can transfer the video to your device quickly. In fact Avot mV is much quicker than earlier mobile video solutions. Playback will occur in near real time which means that you should not experience video delays.

If you want to download a number of videos at once you can organize a play list so that you can watch your videos on the go. You’ll be able to create as many play lists as you like and watch what you want when you want to watch it.

You can learn more about Avot mV and all of it’s features at the Avot mV website or read more about the program and upcoming product news at the Avot Media Blog. You’ll be enjoying lots of videos on your mobile device soon I’m sure.

I plan to attend both events and hope to meet up with some of the bloggers that I’ve gotten to know over the last couple of years. I also hope to get something out of the discussions that I plan to attend so that I can learn how to make my blogs more successful, but mainly I’m looking at this as a chance to travel to a city that I’ve never been to before and as a way to meet up with friends and network a little bit.

If you are attending either convention what’s your goal?

Why not enter the “I need a new design” contest that’s being held by lifeBLUE Media.

LifeBLUE specializes in web design, graphic design, SEO, Internet marketing, application development, and web hosting. Visit the site and take a look at their portfolio. They are featuring some very nice web designs that they’ve done for past clients. You’ll be in good hands if you win the contest.

It’s easy to enter the I need a new design contest. Simply visit the LifeBlUE.com website and fill out the contest entry form. Unfortunately this contest is only open to US residents. Otherwise I’d probably enter this plain Jane site myself.

Once you enter the contest you can tell your friends, family and site visitors about the contest and ask them to vote for your site. As you’ll see by visiting the contest link above the site that’s in the lead is shown as a larger image in the collage of sites that have entered.

The contest began and July 9th and submissions and votes will be collected until August 8th, 2007. There’s still plenty of time to take the lead and win a professionally designed web design.

The winner will receive a custom design that will be in both graphical format as well as html format. The design will be created by LifeBLUE’s experienced design team.

The winner will of course have the ability to provide feedback on the design and information about the goal and direction of the site so that the team will be able to create a suitable design that will take your site well into the future.

There are actually two ways to win this contest as two winners will be selected.

One way is to simply submit your site as described above and then to garner votes. The person who has the most votes, and likely the worst current design as determined by their voting friends, family and site visitors will win a free web design.

The second way to enter this contest is to enter the random draw. Write up a blog post and use the following anchor text to link to the main index page of LifeBLUE Media:

Link url – http://www.lifeblue.com/web_design_contest/

Text: web design, web designers, website design, web design company

I presume that the people at LifeBLUE will be keeping track of incoming links with any of those link phrases and that they will add those sites to the random draw.

Why are you still here?

Get going! Enter the contest! A free web design would be fantastic wouldn’t it?

I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to check out the AppleTV boxes but they’re kind of cool. You can watch everything that’s on iTunes through AppleTV on your own television set.

Now there’s news that YouTube will soon becoming to AppleTV. If you have an Apple TV box you will be able to watch all your favorite YouTube videos via AppleTV. This news came out on May 31st and sent a buzz through the tech world.

The museum is the worlds largest Titanic Museum and considering that the Titanic was probably the most technologically advanced ship of it’s kind in it’s time I’m sure technology buffs will be heading to the museum to check out the 100 foot tall building built to resemble the actual Titanic.

The entrance is through a mock iceberg tip that juts out of the ship’s side. Inside, visitors take a 90-minute walk past more than 400 artifacts and reconstructions of the ship and the life stories of many of its passengers.

Check it out if you are ever in Branson!

In fact, when Chris goes to work this morning he’s going to check on how much vacation time is available to him and if he can he’ll take off at least one week in July.

I used to go on traveling road trips with my parents. Even Chris came along for one of them when we took my parents out East in ‘99. We’ve actually been thinking of taking a trip to the Outer Banks in Carolina.

I’ve actually been to almost every State but I don’t believe I’ve ever been to Carolina. That’s one of the reasons we’d like to go there. Have you been there? Did you enjoy your vacation?

She’s gonna love it.

The best thing about buying the bedding was that it was on sale! We got it for more than 50% off the regular price. I just love a bargain.