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A.I and Amazing Race fans?

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I just wanted to let you know that I have two posts over on Celebrity Scoop that you might enjoy.

If you’re a fan of American Idol – I’m not!!! – read a post that I wrote about the contestants that just got booted off the show. People magazine interviewed them after their lose, so if you want to know what their plans are for the future go take a peek.

I also have a rant about Rob and Amber who were on the Amazing Race for the second time! All they do is reality shows – they have no life.

I think I’m getting sick of reality shows. There are just too many of them, and most of them aren’t all that good. Yeah, I do watch Survivor and I like The Amazing Race, but none of the others really have much appeal.

What I would like to see on television would be a few more good comedies. A lot of the new ones kind of suck too. If laughter is the best medicine I’m not getting my medicine these days.





The color of a rose – what does it mean?

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You know I love flowers. All you have to do is visit my gardening site to know that much, or perhaps visit this page on a Sunday. As much as I love flowers I didn’t really know what the various colors of each flower meant.

So I was happy to visit ProFlowers new Rose color meanings guide. Naturally, just like everyone else I knew that red roses meant love, but I didn’t know that lavender roses meant enchantment. Now that I know that I think I’d much rather have my husband give me lavender roses than red as that would mean he’s enchanted with me.

If you’d like to find out what the color of the last roses you were given really meant you should visit the rose color meaning guide. It has a lot of information about the meaning of each color and how it’s meaning has evolved through time.

Hey, if you decide that you like the meaning of a rose color and think of someone that you want to send that color of rose to, why don’t you visit the rose products section of Proflowers and schedule a roses delivery. Make someone special happy today.

Mind numbing weekend

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I’ve spent the weekend working on all of our websites and blogs. Mostly behind the scenes stuff like organizing categories and fixing messy code. Mind numbingly boring stuff if you ask me, but it had to be done.

As you can see I haven’t even begun to start fixing this site up. Yes the side bars will get a make over and I’ve got some new features that I want to try out on this site that I think you’ll enjoy.

Unfortunately when I get busy working on a site I loose track of time. Next thing I know it’s 4 a.m. and if I’m close to finishing what I’ve been working on I just stay up and finish it. No matter how tired I am.

I wish that I could tell you that I did something exciting this weekend, but unless you find staring at a computer screen exciting it’s been a pretty dull weekend over here.

There should be some great changes on all of our sites over the next week. As you visit this site and our other sites and notice the changes I’d love it if you’d give us some feedback on the new features and look of the sites.

New digital media convert makes it easy to convert video and audio formats

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Last summer I was lucky enough to be given a free Nokia smart media phone. My new phone could take pictures, record audio and voice, play MP3’s, and record video. One of the very first things that I did with my new phone as I returned home with it was to record a video as we were driving. You see, my husband and I had accidentally discovered that we could drive on the Molson Indy race track that was being set up in downtown Toronto the day before the big race was to start.

How exciting! Our car on a race track and we could record our adventure too!

Unfortunately, when we got home I discovered that our new cell phone recorded video in 3GP format. At that time, I don’t believe that YouTube or Google video accepted uploads in that type of format. That was a huge drag since I wanted to post my little film on this site.

I got busy searching the internet for a free program which would convert the 3GP format over to AVI which was accepted at Youtube at the time. Problem was I could only find programs that would convert 3GP to another format, before I could use yet another free conversion program to convert the video to AVI. My video lost a lot of it’s quality along the way and I was very disappointed with the results. As a result of this I’ve made very few videos with our cell phone.

Lucky for me, and any of you who have gone through some of the type of experiences I’ve just described there’s a new digital media converter available and it converts a multitude of video and audio formats quickly and easily. No more fiddling around and losing quality!

You can easily convert video and audio files from one format to another. You can even batch convert too. Common formats that work with the new digital media converter are VCD, DVD, AVI (DivX, MS MPEG4, uncompressed, etc), MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PAL, NTSC), MP3, MOV, WMA, WMV, DVR-MS, ASF, AIFF, AU ,VOB (DVD Video files), SND, DVR-MS (including radio station DVR-MS file format), 3GP, DV-AVI, MP3 and WAV formats.

We have a DVD recorder but it doesn’t record in a format that our DVD player accepts. Now, if I were to get this software, I can record shows and movies with our DVD recorder onto a re-recordable DVD disk and pop it into my computer and convert it to a format that our DVD player will accept.

You can also use this converter to extract the audio from a video and save just the audio tracks. That would be great for recording really wonderful movie sound tracks wouldn’t it?

There are all kinds of great features in this new digital media converter. Using the advanced settings you can change the video frame size, audio/video compression codec, number of channels in an audio stream and the frequency too.

I think I could go on and on about this media converter. Probably because I spent so much time searching for a decent one last summer. So I’ll just tell you about one last feature that I think just about everyone would want to try. If you have an iPod, Sony PSP or another type of portable media device and say that you are about to take a long road trip, or perhaps your commute to work daily is by bus or train and it takes an hour or so to get from home to work. Why not convert DVDs and films that you like to a format that works with your portable media player so that you can watch them whenever your out and about, traveling or commuting? I know that if I had a long commute or a long trip coming up I’d do that.

You can learn more about this digital media converter by visiting the information page I listed above. You can also read a number of articles that will teach you how to use the media converter in different ways.

If you want to try this software there’s a free version at http://www.Deskshare.com. You’ve got nothing to lose by downloading the free trial. Give it a try.

In the daisy patch

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Rudbeckia fulgida Goldstrum

What is nicer than a patch of daisies?

Actually this “daisy” is Rudbeckia fulgida Goldstrum.

I was just reminiscing about growing sunflowers and how they alway make me remember great hot summer days whenever I see a photo of one. I feel almost the same way about these flowers, except there’s a slight tinge of regret as well.

You see these flowers often bloom well into September and October, and while they are very pretty and add some color and life to the garden when other plants have stopped flowering, they always remind me that that a cold season will be upon us soon.

No matter how this flower makes me feel there’s no denying that I’m longing for spring and summer to hurry up and get here. I’ve had enough of winter and dull colors. I want to see the light greens of spring, and smell the scent of a spring shower.

What is it? 10 more days or so and it will be spring? I can’t wait!

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