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I watched this commercial on TV and after I stopped laughing the first thought that came to my mind was, “The 1990′s called they want their commercial back”. Sure the graphics and video quality is great, but the entire presentation just screamed 90′s. This commercial in no way is going to make me purchase a pillow pet, yeah I’m not exactly their target audience, and seeing how I do not have kids or grand kids I will not be getting one.
In this generation and with the fast pace of technology, companies need to be making better commercials ones that grab your attention and make you say “how did they do that?” or “what is that?”. I’m talking about crazy commercials that make you laugh and that are memorable. The Kia Motors company did just that, (for me at least), with their commercial for the Kia Soul. Enter Exhibit A-

I started looking into the new features of HTML 5, and it is amazing. It adds some pretty sweet features that I am just in awe of. The global attribute, contenteditable allows the site visitors to change the text content; however, as soon as the page is refreshed all of their changes go away. To implement it you will set the value to “true”.
Another sweet attribute is the spellcheck attribute, apply this to any tag containing text, such as the “div” tag and you will now be able to see whether or not you have misspelled something.

The concept of checking in to a location is suddenly becoming the next best thing on social networking sites. There are a lot of positives of this feature, especially for business. There are also negatives, for one I would not want everyone on my friends list to know exactly where I am and at the exact time.

I’ve heard about people posting that they will be out of town for the weekend and then one of their ‘friends’ see’s that and then proceeds to rob your home once you are gone. Personally I wouldn’t give these thieves another way to see what you’re doing.

And if you’re afraid of stalkers, these are definitely not for you. I have no idea which is better, I’ve heard a little about foursquare having more capabilities but I’m sure all the stalker and thief types love both of these applications.

The Lake Solitude hike is very easy, it is just up above Silver Lake up Big Cottonwood Canyon. The hike from the sign is about 1.1 miles, and it is fairly level across the hillside. Upon arrival to the lake you will enjoy a very beautiful view. Check out the pics…

Yesterday evening I went and saw Vampires Suck, it was hilarious. If you are looking for a very funny movie then you should go see this. It makes a mockery of the vampire movies and books, so if you are really annoyed with that stuff this movie will easily become your favorite. As much as I enjoyed laughing through this movie it is not one you should take small children to, hence the rating pg-13. This is a movie that I might only watch one time, I might watch it again at a much later date just for the humor. Out of five stars I would rate it at a three and a half. Is it worth your money? That is for you to decide.

Yesterday evening while strolling around Silver lake up Big Cottonwood canyon my siblings and I decided to hike up the trail to Twin Lakes reservoir, no idea why it’s called twin lakes because there is only one. The hike is about a mile up and gets a little steep and rocky near the end. Once on top you get a beautiful view of the lake and the top of the canyon, this picture does not do it justice because it was taken with a cell phone camera. We came down in the near dark on the service road, and when we reached the end of that there was a giant bull moose grazing along the stream. Not wanting to get charge by the monstrosity we bush wacked it to the Brighton parking lot, safe and sound.

I know I have already posted about this but deal with it because I liked this book and have now read it. How was it you ask, amazing, I would definitely recommend this to a friend. If you are looking for an amazing true story of overcoming obstacles then this is a book for you. It is a short read for most about 300 pages, and is definitely worth your time. I believe it is available at Deseret Book and from the authors website at paulcardall.com.

The Beluga-blog.com “I Don’t Fix Stupid” shirts are now in. If you want more information go to the ‘t-shirts’ page. This is what it looks like–

All I have to say here is that Google is amazing, it’s about time somebody incorporated the television with the internet. For all you couch potatoes this means you can get your TV and your internet without leaving that comfortable chair.

I think I might just cry, why are people using this piece of crap browser? The answer: IE is pre-installed on every PC, and second people actually believe Microsoft’s commercial promoting IE and how it supposedly prevents threats. Personally that excuse for a browser is barely functional and should be destroyed, never to return. When it comes to rating browsers IE comes in last place.

Unfortunately IE has been gaining percentage share in the browser battle for the past two months. So to fight the evil browser that Microsoft has forced upon us follow this link and sign the petition and maybe, just maybe Microsoft will get the message.