ForeverGeek » e-mail http://www.forevergeek.com Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:42:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 All The Right Reasons To Smile http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/10/all_the_right_reasons_to_smile/ http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/10/all_the_right_reasons_to_smile/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:27:06 +0000 Noemi Twigg http://www.forevergeek.com/?p=14183 Smileys or emoticons – whatever you want to call them, they have proliferated everyday communication the world over. From text lingo to chat lingo to e-mail – emoticons are the rave these days. Perhaps because they transcend language barriers, emoticons are use by practically everyone.

Then again, there are those who have had enough of these “cute” little things. I can name a LOT of people who would call you out for using emoticons in your e-mails. I have to admit, though, that I do like to use a smiley or two every now and then; but what do you think of brightening up your home with emoticons?

Take a look at this shower curtain from Bed Bath & Beyond.
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Dubbed the Text Talk 70″ x 72″ Vinyl Shower Curtain, this shower curtain will set you back $14.99. If you think it’s a little pricey, think about the fact that it can give you ideas for emoticons! More so, this shower curtain is made of PEVA material, which is eco-friendly. It also comes with metal hooks – heavy duty, no less (for the life of me, I don’t know why I would need heavy duty shower curtain hooks).

There’s more – check this out.
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These are magnets from Shanalogic, and cost $15 for nine black and white 2.25” buttons. They might just look good on your fridge OR your office cubicle. I think I would prefer the shower curtain, though. What about you?

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I found out soon enough when I tried to send the minutes of the meeting through my Google Apps e-mail. At first I thought that the error I was getting was because of our Internet connection – it does become funky at times. Then I realized that everyone was experiencing the same thing. Pretty soon, I saw proof of the worldwide “blackout” on the Web – Tweets about Gmail were all over the place.

So what happens when Gmail goes down? The world comes to a standstill!

If you haven’t noticed, or you haven’t been keeping track, this is actually the 6th downtime in 8 months! That’s almost once a month of outage! For personal e-mails, I suppose that that is not such a big deal but if your work e-mail is on the line, then such a frequent occurrence is not a very good thing. Google has no explanation for the latest glitch as of yet but it has already been dubbed as “The Great Gmail Outage of 2009.” And great it was indeed – I lost about 2 hours of work time yesterday. What were you doing when it happened? How did you deal with it?

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