In a CNN story about wind turbines John Yancey talks about life staying the same way. He speaks of shadows and noise that upsets his sleep. Get some insulation, earplugs or play some ambient noise. Find a solution instead of bickering.

Listen Mr. Yancey…. for a person that is so tough I lived next to a church that had a loudspeaker play bells for up to an hour every Sunday. Guess what happened after I stopped complaining about them? I didn’t notice the sounds any longer when I stopped bickering.  I’ve heard turbines and the sound I have heard pales in comparison to the speaker system that blasted bells less than 50 feet from my bedroom that was underground. It was louder than my 15″ sub woofers.

If you want your life to stay the same, namely not live in a scorched earth that can no longer sustain life then you should just quit complaining. Your father is doing what is economically, enviromentally and just plain right. I hope my son does not hate me when he gets a small electric car that hums too loud and is not an atmosphere nightmare.

Shame, you hate your father for trying to make money and help save the world. Would you rather have no world to complain about? You sound a lot like Mark Cuban so I have to wonder if you two are related.

Being the obvious fan boy of Google that I am, there is a wondering if I could ever have a need for a 10 million document database. Forget Live search of your own machine… I can’t find anything useful using live.com but Google Desktop helps me find my personal data with a ctrl ctrl easily.

I do shudder the day when I have enough space to hold 10 million documents.

I have been nicotine free now for almost two years. In this time I have helped hundreds of people achieve their own success stories by sharing my thoughts and giving advice on side effects. I have only been forced to not allow one post in this two years, mostly due to the negative tone and the insistence that Chantix had changed them.

Two years later we see a little news that Chantix carries a suicide risk and may cause mental illness. I am not your doctor so you can never take my facts and use them as medical advice. The only thing one can say about Chantix is that it has helped you quit smoking and people who quit smoking go through a lot of problems as they adjust to addiction.

Using Chantix could cause the very same side effects if you used a negative reinforcement method to stop. I have blogged before about the more than 4,000 chemicals that are in smoke. Some refuse to take this one pill due to the media and continue to ingest those chemicals. If you can make it rational that the 4,000 chemicals  in smoke are ok, there is no therapy that I know of which would help you stop.

I would take Chantix again if my blog doesn’t help me to stay smoke free. In these two years there has only been an urge four times to smoke, but it was easily dismissed as not a real need. Will I make it to four years? If this blog is still here it serves as a reminder of all the pain we go through to quit and is a paper weight that helps to stop the years of nicotine abuse from flying into my face.

May you all still read and post your stories, as I had no idea it would serve everyone else the way it has.

So, I have a career in IT that has spanned over 15 years. Recently as some that read my blog may know, I started the path to having a college degree. I chose the University of Phoenix just because it seemed to be the best way to get in right away.

The UoP and the Axia branch are really fast at getting you enrolled. There is no proficiency exams and the pressure to sign a MPN is intense. The enrollment counselor was relentless in getting me enrolled. This does not mean the college is bad alone, just merely that they wish to have as many students possible.

I had a ‘facilitator’ that I could call during classes but only during certain hours of the day. There is an email address for personal and also internal communication. I will note that my last facilitator, Crystal McFall would take vacations during the class and not be able to respond to emails or phone calls. That was the straw on my so called educational back that broke it.

One thing bothered me in my last classes:  proof that the facilitators are real. Just words about their lives and a phone number that was at times even posted wrong. I for one did not let that bother me, I learned a great deal and made a good grade at most of what I did. After I had done several assignments, I had a past teacher read the syllabus and the grading sheet. I was assured it checked out to her academic standards.

I am a Franklin University student now due to the problems that Axia will simply not address. Counselors and even facilitators are not punished publicly since you are not told what the result of any investigation is. Yes, you will not even be told that the employee was punished. Even the local school systems have public meetings to discuss this type of problem and there is no hiding.

In closing, my first Franklin class has already impressed me. I logged in since the classes are available a week before they start and much to my surprise…. a PICTURE of (get this) my Professor!  I was already impressed with the CD material that arrived in which I was getting offline guidance for that class… the University of Phoenix does not do that.

I was happy at Axia until I started to realize that if the problem occurred again, I had no recourse. Switching to Franklin just might be the best thing yet. Axia is more expensive and a whole lot of problems that just are not addressed. Call Franklin if you are considering a degree and then call Phoenix. All my credits should transfer, which is good. What is bad? I do have to attend a couple audio chat or video sessions with my Professor.

Axia facilitators discouraged the use of voice chat in any way due to “overwhelming” students. Franklin does it right off the bat. You decide which one is better.

Feel free to post your comments with how you feel. I do not wish to discuss how you lost money at Phoenix as there is many ways a student can fail and slip through the cracks due to being helped so much to get enrolled.

I know a lot of people don’t think this is really going to work I thought to myself when my friend told me about it. It’s a free way to start yourself down the road of not smoking at all.

Take a rubber band (or many) and produce pain by pulling then and slapping it on the wrist. Hurts huh?

Do it if you even think of smoking. I stopped for three months.

Chuck Norris only plays golf and Russian roulette with God and Stephen Hawking

Chuck Norris killed both of Schrödinger’s cats

It is truly useful to just type in quicken trial 2008 deluxe and just about even visiting intuit’s site, which just did not work. Btw that link for the quicken trial 2008 deluxe is here

I was once a supporter in the Axia branch that is the online classes for UoP. The curriculum appears sound from real people I’ve spoken to that should know what it takes to get into college.  The issue from what I can tell is the administration of the college in general.

In the next few months I will blog a little more about what drove me from attending for a second year. For now, I can say that it is lack of accountability inherent in what they do, the teachers that is. So a word of warning, your teacher can ignore emails requesting information and you will never know one way or the other what happened.

“I told you so” or “Did you read rip off report?” comments will be denied. I learned a lot in a year but the learning is not the issue here and if you want to wait there is a valuable lesson to learn.

It is indeed nice to know that with the new 2.0 update you can help work and home sync together using free tools. Well, I forgot that is with a mobileme subscription. Anyway, with a few careful shares, labels and filters you can have work related email and schedules into the iphone very easily now.

Six second notification of a push? I have to admit that it is impressive in a dismal place where high strength RF is all around but is not available indoors.