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No matter your outlook on the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, we can all be grateful the men and woman devoting their lives for us. One way we can thank these brave souls to is to simply “say”, “Thank you.”
The Gratitude Campaign site is a great place to shortly show you how you can sign a quick thank to those serving our country. The short (or long, your choice) flash video explains it all.
Next time you see a soldier, say, “Thank you.”
If you are ever wondering what this tech-gadget loving guy may be doing through the day, then check out my Twitter account. I’ll be using the site to also post some sites of interest and it will be a great place for you to get some “behind the scenes” stuff I may not get onto SvenOnTech. There are a lot of sites I go to in research for posts here but due to the time it takes to actually type the stuff out, a lot gets lost to the ether so to speak.
Beyond that, you’ll also get some of my witty commentary on just life. 
I promise, I’ll try to abstain from the gross, though I am a guy so sometimes I may stumble. So please accept my pre-emtive apology.
Oh, try to figure out what my account name, 7mary4, is about, too. I’d love to see if you can figure that out. (It’s not that hard to figure out with Google, folks. )
See you on Twitter…
Okay, we usually do not go down this road, but when I saw a little boy doing a Number 1 in a moving clowns face, well, I just couldn’t resist sharing. So the next time you go to Osaka, Japan, you’ll know what to expect when you go to the Little Boys Room.
It is with a heavy, heavy, heart that I announce the sad departure of a very true and dear friend, Eric Davis. He went to be with the Lord today at 11:20 am while hospitalized in Merced. Collapsing Friday at a job site from a lack of air, Eric simply could not recover from the ailment that has troubled him for years, most recently just before Christmas. He leaves behind a wife and six beautiful children, two of which the family adopted from Africa (he personally went to Africa to bring them home.) It was just this month that the kids officially became theirs.
Even though I have only known Eric for about a year, I regard him closer than a friend. He was my brother. He and his family was the first to truly take us in when we started attended our current church. Eric and I immediately bonded and how could we not? He was a geek within and was just excited about technology as I am. What struck me the most about Eric was just what an amazing servant he was. He happily helped where ever there was a need.
What I will most miss about Eric is his tender heart and smile. Seen here in the picture I used for his Caller-ID on my iPhone, this was typical Eric. Taken at the end of last summer at an impromptu BBQ he invited us to, I asked him for this shot and laughingly he said he didn’t want to but he smiled any way while I took it. This picture will forever be on my iPhone.
Please be praying for Eric’s family. This without a doubt is such a tragic loss that it will be very difficult to digest. They will need the soft and tender touch of Jesus through this difficult season.
Eric, with tears in my eyes…I say goodbye. I love you and will miss you. Until eternity, my friend, goodbye.
The more and more I reflect on the seventies, the more I am glad I was only but a child and have room for excuse for my actions. Others are not so fortunate.
Quinn Martin has found a collection of photos from the seventies as well as some spanning to the early nineties. Apparently, those from the later years have not learned from the mistakes of their forefathers. Tisk, tisk.
Martin’s collection of photos from Olan Mills, Sears, and other mall professional houses of photography will have you cracking up. One of my favorite, shown here for your enjoyment, has the caption reading, “Hiroshima, 1945. The last known photo of Kelli and Senor Loco“. The picture above it is of a young man, maybe a high school senior, with the caption stating, “I got a 20 that says he drives a Camaro.” One look at this kid and you’ll agree!
Take a look at the rest of the photos and enjoy saying goodbye to 2007 with a good chuckle. We’ll be back in full swing January 2nd with our Macworld predictions and CES coverage in the coming week. 2008 is sure to be interesting and I hope you’ll be here with us to experience it together.
See you at Macworld!
Thanks, Fletch, for the link.
It looks like founder and co-inventor of the sport drink Gatorade, Dr. Robert Cade, has drank his last carbohydrates and electrolytes refreshing beverage as the former University of Florida researcher has past away. Using only $43 in supplies and freshman football players as guinea pigs, Cade’s drink brought instant fame to the Gators most notably with it’s Orange bowl win over Georgia Tech in 1967 when Tech’s coach Bobby Dodd explained that his team had lost because, “We didn’t have Gatorade … that made the difference.”
Becoming a multi-million boom for the school, receiving $110 million in royalties since 1973 when PepsiCo purchased it from Stokely-Van Camp, Cade was surprised by the success of his drink. “I never thought about the commercial market,” he said. “The financial success of this stuff really surprised us.”
As a kid, my first experience with Gatorade wasn’t with the drink but rather the gum. It was 1983 and a friend with relatives in Florida had brought him some and he gave me a pack. Soon later the drink hit Lucy’s shelves and I was like, “Oh, cool. They make a drink now!” How little I knew at 13.
I look at this picture and think, “Wow, how hard was this to get 18,000 guys to line up in a way to make this look like something?” No computers to help during the World War I (or the Great War) era on instructing the soldiers at Camp Dodge in Iowa where to stand. No, it was all up to Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas to get everything right, climb up a tall ladder and take the picture. Smile!
Yes, the stud muffin IT techs at our provider, Christian Web Host, has brought all of our data back up to date. Dealing with an overwhelmed data center, it was finally able to retrieve the original hard drives and thus restore all of our databases. We in turn reposted the limited articles we’ve done in the last two weeks and now, we’re back. Woo hoo! Thanks Lance and Owen! You guys rock.
Sorry for the lack of posts in the last week. Our Network Operating Center (NOC) upgraded it’s data center a week ago and it experienced a less than desireable outcome. Instead of successfully upgrading servers virtually, it had to be done by hand moving physical hardware. That meant nearly 300 servers were moved and in the move, data wasn’t caught up from all servers. Hence, the reason SvenOnTech is missing a week of its life. Until our database is restored, we don’t want to do any posts since they will all be lost when the old database is restored. Though, if things take any longer, we just may export our new posts and then re-import them with new unique keys. More work, but we don’t want to lose any more readers.
Stay tuned. We hope to have more and exciting content within the week.
After a long weekend, our servers are back up. Our provider upgraded to a new data center and thus, the switch over took a bit longer than your standard server upgrade. With the new data center, we are told that our web sites, such as this one, will be quicker and server more pages in a more efficient manner. Always good stuff when you’re database driven as SvenOnTech is.
Thank you for your patience and we hope to be back on a regular posting schedule in the coming weeks. Look for our review of the Alpiine iPod head unit as well as some iMetal headphones. Keep it here.