The rotating home has been no more then about 5 miles from us for the last few years and finished construction in 2004. Yesterday we finally went to go see it. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a view of the city no matter what room your in?
Who knows which movie this is from?
I am so excited, I have been working on a personal site of mine for sometime now. Its about Borderline Personality and Bipolar disorders. The site features a forum community, articles, recommended books, Q&A section as well as blogs. A lil over a week ago I applied for it and went to make sure that all the qualifications I need to get it were done before they reviewed it which took about a week to do. Yesterday I received my email saying CONGRATULATIONS, and that I was certified. This is a certificate that all major health sites get and I am so happy to know I was able to get it as well. I am still in awe of it when I see the logo at the bottom of the site. I guess that is where the geek comes out of me.
Now in case you are wondering about this site it is www.bpdfriends.com
What is HONCode? – Information below borrowed from http://www.hon.ch/
HON has been created for improving the quality of information intended to both patients and medical professionals for facilitating quick access to the most relevant and up-to-date medical discoveries.
HONcode is the oldest and the most used ethical and trustworthy code for medical and health related information available on Internet.The HONcode is designed for two target audiences: the general public and the web publisher, actively involving the site owner in the process of certification.
The HON Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization, internationally known for its pioneering work in the field of health information ethics, notably for the establishment of its code of ethical conduct, the HONcode.
Introduction
The Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode) for medical and health Web sites addresses one of Internet’s main healthcare issues: the reliability and credibility of information.
The Internet has become one of the most widely-used communication media. With the availability of Web server software, anyone can set up a Web site and publish any kind of data which is then accessible to all.
The problem is therefore no longer finding information but assessing the credibility of the publisher as well as the relevance and accuracy of a document retrieved from the Net.
In many cases, a given Web site provides no appropriate documentation regarding the scientific design of a medical study, nor are studies made available that support given claims.
The Health On the Net Foundation has elaborated the Code of Conduct to help standardise the reliability of medical and health information available on the World-Wide Web.
The HONcode is not an award system, nor does it intend to rate the quality of the information provided by a Web site. It only defines a set of rules to:
- hold Web site developers to basic ethical standards in the presentation of information;
- help make sure readers always know the source and the purpose of the data they are reading.
With my last cell phone it was really easy to use it as a modem for my laptop. I simply plugged it in hit a button on the phone and bingo I was online. While in the Bay Area this past weekend I discovered that it wasn’t as easy to do so with my BB. The actual connection part is as easy as hitting a button on the computer but setting it up is where it can be difficult. Here I will share what I learned. I have T-Mobile so I am not sure if this will work with other providers or with other BB models other then the BB Curve 8900.
To successfully connect to the Internet on your laptop using the blackberry as a modem, you need to have the Blackberry Desktop Manager software installed on your computer, and be connected to the blackberry.
Then right Click on My Computer and go to Manage. once you get to the Computer Management console, click on Device Manager. click on the + sign, next to the Modems icon.
Right-click on Standard Modem and go to Properties. ( if you don’t see the standard modem on the list, you need to create one. leave a comment to give you the instructions)
When the modem property window comes up, click on the Advanced tab and type the following command on the Extra settings window.
+cgdcont=1,”IP”,” wap.voicestream.com”
Click OK and close out of all the windows. Now, right-click on My Networking Places icon and go to properties, when the network connections window comes up, click on Create a new connection.
Follow the wizard. click next on the following window. choose Connect to the Internet on the following screen. choose Setup my connection manually on the next screen. select Connect using a dial-up Modem, and click next.
On the next screen, choose the modem we configured above.
Once the Standard Modem is checked, click on Next. On the next screen type Blackberry Modem as the ISP name. Click Next. As a phone number type *99# on the next screen. Choose to use the connection for yourself only, click next.
On the next screen, uncheck, Make this the default Internet connection, and click next. click Finish on the following screen. As soon as you click on the Finish button, the connect the blackberry modem should come up.
Click on the Properties button on the window above. then click on the Networking tab, then make sure the Internet Protocol TCP/IP option is selected, and click on Properties.
On the following Window click on the Advanced tab. Uncheck Use IP Header Compression under the PPP link option.
Once that is unchecked, click on OK and exit out of all the windows. To connect to the Internet using the blackberry as the modem, go to Start, Connect to and choose Blackberry Modem when the dialing window comes up: click on dial without any username or password.
Original Instructions found here
The past week and a half hasn’t been to easy for me. The reason is because my previous cell phone officially died on me. Thankfully my phone was eligible for an upgrade, I had actually thought I had to wait till September to get one but thankfully it was August.
I picked myself up a Blackberry 8900 with all the goodies such as GPS as well as the thousands of apps you can install such as facebook, myspace and even this wordpress app I found that is letting me write this post direct from my cell phone.