Looks like someone forgot to flip the stencil before painting. This is why you should always double check before painting. =p

Posted by monicayoo on Natuba

I kid you not, this crack appeared out of nowhere. I hopped in my car this morning and immediately noticed the 11 inch crack running through my sight. *sigh* I was really hoping it was some kind of strange illusion, but it twas not.

My first windshield crack ever. =(

Posted by monicayoo on Natuba

Hey there folks!

As you can see, I’ve changed up my website. I woke up one morning last week and said to myself that I was going to spiffy it up a bit and…here it is. *tada* I’ve been meaning to revamp it for a long time now, but hadn’t because of reason #1, reason #2 and reason #3. I finally got my act together when I lost power for 2 weeks from the whole Hurricane Ike catastrophe. You must be thinking, “what does losing power have anything to do with making your website?” The answer – a lot. During those 2 weeks I didn’t have power, my world was flipped upside-down from not having the ability to Google what was going on in the world and not knowing what to do with all my down time. I probably don’t need to say it, but I will; much of my lifestyle runs parallel to the existence of the internet. If the internet ceases, so do I. Ok, I’m being dramatic, but you get the idea. A lot of personal and professional productivity was lost and that explains why I’m going down my list of to-do’s, starting with my website. =)

Posted by monicayoo on Natuba

I’m surprised that the issue of cell phone users with recycled phone numbers being inundated with text messages sent from the Facebook website has only just recently surfaced. I can vividly remember when Facebook launched its new profile text message updating feature because I had a couple of friends who were all over it. Every so often (more like every half an hour), someone’s phone would beep or ring, notifying them of the new wall post by Jane or that Bob just had poked him. It seemed like a good idea at first to have Facebook readily available no matter where you were (and I guess it still is if you’re into that), but only if you’re keeping up with your account. Knowing the nature of young internet users, I had a feeling that this text messaging service would get out of hand. Why? Well, there are many reasons:

• Facebook users LOVE to write on each other’s wall and update their profiles (almost obsessively)
• There are approximately 60 million Facebook users
• It’s always fun to try out a new feature

When you have millions of teenager wall-posting fiends constantly making edits to their own profiles, as well as their friends’, at all hours of the day (I’m guessing peak hours would be anywhere from 4 PM – 2 AM), imagine how many text messages are being sent out in a day? week? a month? That’s a lot of texts. I don’t know what percentage of Facebook users actually have their online account and phone synced, regardless, a lot of texts are flying out. 1% of the 60 million users is even a pretty big number.

It’s good to know that Facebook will be regulating and monitoring their phone number database a little more closely now. It would really be annoying to receive random Facebook updates about people you don’t know and then NOT have the ability to make them stop. Not sure if this is possible, but it would be neat if the Facebook website could detect a phone number being recycled and when it does, have the messaging feature automatically disable. There are other methods I’m sure, but those are my two cents.

I had a conversation with my friend about Pownce and we both agreed that it kinda pseudo sucks, although I think his dislike for the website was a little stronger than mine. =p Basically it came down to this – he was sending me messages or doing something on the site and I wasn’t aware of it until he confronted me about it days later. Doh! This actually relates to one of my previous posts about interactivity! Pownce is great because it allows you to interact amongst your friends and do a variety of different things. HOWEVER, what’s the point if people won’t know about what kind of activities are occurring when the user won’t know about it until the next time they log on (which could be NEVER)? By that time it’s too late! Geez… I wonder if the people at Pownce intentionally left the notification alerts out, assuming that when a lot of people were to use it that inboxes would be bombarded with emails. Whether or not that was the case, they’re still beta and only people with invites are able to use it – I doubt people will have THAT much email. In the mean time, they should probably add some kind of activity alert system integrated into the site. I’m someone who actually likes Pownce – at least enough to write about it, and even I don’t feel like I have any incentive to login to the site.

OH WELL…