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Friday Humour: Create your own holiday cards, or just go elf yourself

Create your own greeting cards


It’s still not to late… the US Postal Service will deliver Express Mail overnight!


The Office Online site has more tips on creating your own holiday and special occasion greeting cards



“Holidays and special occasions are the perfect excuse for getting crafty and creating your own greeting cards. Microsoft Office Online can help you in this endeavor with our many templates and deep assortment of clip art.”


The holiday clip art alone is worth the visit to Office Online. (“Try the egg nog… I’ll be here all week…”)


If you’re more like our family, you are moving to a more digital option across the board. Once again, as we have in recent years, we will create an electronic version of our holiday cards (with pictures of the kids) and email them to people with accounts (hardcopy for those who are technologically challenged). The we take the money we would have sent on holiday cards and we donate it to charity.


Or you can just go elf yourself, and put your own face on a dancing elf. See http://www.elfyourself.com/


My son, the elf

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Friday Humour: the only Penguins we’ll watch

These are the only penguins I enjoy watching these days, aside from the ones at the zoo.


My kids love the “Happy Feet” movie site… You just have to love a site with a live penguin cam.

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Friday Humour: kids & computers

This says it all… my kids have been using computers, DVR and the Web long before they were able to read.



By the talented Dick Locher.


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Article, videos: Linux Linkup for Microsoft, Novell

Businessweek offers their coverageon the Microsoft-Novell announcement., which the WSJ said “makes it easier for customers to use both the Linux and Windows operating systems.



“In a surprising development, Microsoft (MSFT) on Nov. 2 entered into a broad partnership with longtime rival Novell (NOVL) and agreed to provide some support to Linux, the open-source operating system that competes with its own Windows operating system. Linux, which is developed by a community of software developers who share their code, has long been viewed as one of the most serious threats to the lucrative Windows franchise.


“Under the agreement, Microsoft will offer sales support for SUSE Linux, a version of the operating system sold by Novell. The two companies have also agreed to develop technologies to make it easier for users to run both SUSE Linux and Microsoft’s Windows on their computers. “They said it couldn’t be done,” Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, said in a prepared statement. “This is a new model and a true evolution of our relationship that we think customers will immediately find compelling.”  


More info: the Video Press conference on the WSJ web site


Has Novell gotten the memo? See an example of Novell’s humour, which they term as a “public service announcement.”

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Friday Humour: Hero Dog Fills Out Hospital Paperwork

From the wonder of the onion today



“Ginger, a four-year-old golden retriever, saved the life of her owner Megan Walsh, 37, Monday by quickly and efficiently filling out Walsh’s copious emergency-room paperwork…. Ginger could not be reached for comment, as she was reportedly on hold with a Blue Cross-Blue Shield phone representative for 50 minutes.”


I had our cat answer the phone once… Don’t ask. (Sorry, it’s been a busy week)


Full story at the link above. Have a great weekend.


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