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Yesterday I wrote about the new FTC rules that require us to attach disclaimers to our testimonials stating the average or typical results and even point to the actual data that validates the claim in the testimonial.
As I was at home trying to relax by watching a little tv to numb my mind I was getting bombarded with commercials from 2 different politicians, each calling each other liars and stating opposite facts than what each is claiming.
Yeah, I am having a really hard time with elections this time around…. I have never really followed a party line, just vote for who I think is lying the least and will do a decent job.
But this time… Wow… It is hard… Can we have a do-over and get some new candidates for President of the United States?
First off, race does not make any difference to me at all. I cannot say with 100% certainty that gender does not but in my head it is not playing a role much if at all.
On one side we have a person that I am pretty sure cannot do the job and will follow the same destructive path we have been heading down for the last 8 years. And in today’s world the people running the country at least have to understand technology more than flip the button to turn on the light and again to turn it off.
On the other hand, I do not have any warm and fuzzy feelings for the other candidates and sure do not trust what they say. How many times have the stances on issues changed now? There is questionable things from the past and the VP candidate has a history too.
I think we just need a do-over. I have a few weeks to try to figure out which way to vote. But I will vote. Voting is important for every American old enough to vote. It is the only way that your voice gets heard, even if it is cautiously selecting the worst of the worst.
My rant for the day, in all of its glory, right there.
I am a bit of an iPhone app junkie and from time to time there is one that just sucks me in. Wurdle is one of those new iPhone Apps that did just that. It is a word game like a wordsearch but the letters can go in any direction and you are not given a list of words. You have to find as many as you can in a pre-set time window. The longer the words the more points you get.
I am going to keep this post short because I must get back to my Wurdle…..
Before I get started let me just say I am not into politics but I am a strong believer that everyone that can should vote. You should be heard. And if you do not vote you have no right to complain about the candidate that wins the election (at least until next election).
Now, it begins…. I am one of those people that vote for the person that they like best. I consider myself a fairly educated person and I can listen to each candidate and make a decision based upon the issues of which one I like. I do not proclaim to be a Republican or a Democrat. I truly vote for the candidate that I think is the best.
I know some of my family are probably upset because some of them vote strongly down one party line.
Anyways, the jist of this blog post is what to do if you do not like either candidate? I think this may be the year that I have to face this question.
I have issues with both candidates. Let me first say that my issue obama is not a race issue. I think it would be great to show the diversity that this country has. I have no issue with race or gender for the president.
But it seems one candidate is really out of touch with the world and the other one seems to keep changing his stance on issues which causes a trust issue with me.
So what do you do if when the time finally comes you have issues with both? I disagree with the just don’t vote stance some people take. But voting for an idependant is like throwing your vote away (in my opinion).
Just a little question I am facing this election season.
Raise your hand if you have the new Microsoft Office 2007…. Raise your hand if you hate the new tab based interface in Word and Excel…. Wow, same number of hands!
I am not sure what Microsoft was thinking with this new interface. I have not found one person that likes this new interface. In fact, most people really hate it. It is so much slower to use, not shortcut key friendly and just not the same.
It is harder to find things than before, the menus are gone, it is just frustrating to use. And the other frustrating thing is you do not have a choice. There is no option to go back to the way it was before. I applaud trying to improve on an interface but if you are going to make such a drastic change at least give the option to go back to the old way. I mean this is not just a simple interface change like a new menu or maybe moving a couple of things around and re-organizing, this is a whole shift away from the way we have been using every program since the beginning of windows.
It is so frustrating that I now use other tools more and then paste in the text and tweak it after I get it in. The same changes were made in Excel and Word. I have had this update now for a few months and I still cannot find some of the features that were there before. I am sure they are there somewhere but I sure cannot find them and I refuse to have to use help to learn how to use Microsoft Word. After all, I have been using it for at least more than 14 years. I should not have to use help.
Now, I have been ranting on how bad the new Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are in Office 2007. I must say I really like the new Outlook in Office 2007. There have been some nice additions in there and they did not mess with the user interface and menus like they did in Word and Excel.
Microsoft… Either go back to the old user interface or at least give the option to use the old interface. Oh, and fire the person who designed the new interface!
