Phil Does it again!
Phil Collins has once again stolen the red carpet and won the Johnny Mercer songwriting award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York.Mr. Collins was most modest. He said that when organisers contacted him about the award, he assumed he would be presenting it, not of receiving it.
"That's something that I never thought I'd be qualified to get, I still don't think I'm qualified to get," he said.
As someone who grew up with the music of greats like Phil Collins, I say he more than deserved this award. He has inspired many great artists of today, and no doubt of tomorrow.
The award is the second this year for Phil, now 59 years old. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past March.
A note to Phil from me directly. Good to see you shine again! -Al
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About that oil...
Now.. about that oil...It seems like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is getting worse by the day. What is really happening?
Speculation has it that there is so much oil gushing out of the BP well that the EXXon Valdeze disaster in Alaska (which we all remember) pales in comparison. Would you believe that the spill drops that much oil into the gulf every 10 days???
No one really knows how bad this is, and if it can actually be stopped at all for sure. Is that scary? Yes it is. We all need to get down on our knees and pray a little here. It seems BP is too up in the air on their high horse to participate themselves, still promising a dividend to their shareholders.
How delusional they truly are at BP. Has Hayward gone Haywire? We must all hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. As happened in Alaska, the worst is yet to come!
Your Data Center Incorporated wishes our friends in the already battered New Orleans Louisiana and gulf coast regions some luck, and perhaps a little less of that black magic that BP has so enthusiastically provided.
After Hurricane Katrina and her damage inflicted upon New Orleans, this disaster may destroy an entire sub-culture in the United States. A sub-culture that has played a major part in all of our lives since this country's origin. We wish them well, perhaps some hope this will turn out okay in the end.
We are all children of the Earth, and now we have injured her badly, destroying life on a scale never before seen by mankind. This could very well be the beginning of the end, all because the oil companies refused to let us use clean alternative energies because of their greed. Chances are the world-wide recession is also a result of this very same greed. If god is waiting for a reason to come to us and to help, this is surely it.
Everything else seems so unimportant now..
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Tribute to "Father of the PC"
Dr Henry Edward Roberts was the inventor of the Altair 8800 computer. This computer, which had no display and was operated by a series of switches, started the personal computer movement. This one invention soon made Microsoft, Apple and their founders as well as countless others in the personal computer industry billions of dollars. Henry Edward Roberts died on April 1st, 2010 at the age of 68 after a long bout with pneumonia."Ed was willing to take a chance on us - two young guys interested in computers long before they were commonplace - and we have always been grateful to him," Microsoft's founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen said in a public statement.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told CNET that Dr Roberts had taken "a critically important step that led to everything we have today".
When we look back at all of these incredible ideas and inventions that eventually gave us the technology of today we have to say one thing.. "Wow, what an incredible ride this has been.. so far anyway".
We'll miss you Mr. Roberts.. Thanks for all you have given us.
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To update or not to update..
To update, or not to update ever again... that is the question..This is IMPORTANT! Microsoft will drop support for Vista (without any Service Packs installed) on April 13 and will also drop support for XP SP2 on July 13. That means no more security updates for those of you who are hard of hearing, and lax on updating your computer operating system.
If you are still running these old versions, it it time to go to the Microsoft Update website now. Chances are you do not update anyway if this news seems alarming to you at the moment!
Just do it already!!!!!
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Walter.. on a new flight now..
Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee (the original name was the Pluto Platter), has died, age 90.Morrison died at his home in Monroe, Utah, on Tuesday.
Morrison's son, Walt, told The Associated Press Thursday that "old age caught up" with his father and that he also had cancer.
"He was a nice guy. He helped a lot of people," Walt Morrison said. "He was an entrepreneur. He was always looking for something to do."
Morrison sold the production and manufacturing rights to his "Pluto Platter" in 1957. It was later renamed the "Frisbee," surpassing 200 million discs sold. It spawned sports like Frisbee golf and the team sport Ultimate.
Morrison and his future wife, Lu, used to toss a tin cake pan on the beach in California. Morrison worked out ways to make the cake pans fly better, then began manufacturing his flying discs in 1948.
He would sell the discs at local fairs and eventually attracted the affections of Wham-O Manufacturing, the company that bought the rights to Morrison's plastic discs.
Wham-O adopted the name "Frisbee" based upon what college students in New England were calling the Pluto Platters. The name came from the Frisbie Pie Co., a local bakery whose empty tins were tossed like the soon-to-be Frisbee.
Walt Morrison said his father is survived by three children. The family is planning a service for Morrison's friends and relatives Saturday at the Cowboy Corral in Elsinore, Utah.
Smooth flight Walter! You will always be remembered!
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