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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A Little Bit of Heaven Wrapped in Plastic

Pre-packaged heaven!

I love Black and White cookies. My parents introduced me to them and I've loved them ever since. Now, you can get them pre-packaged @ Starbucks. mmmm so good!

This is such a great idea because they always seemed to run out of the larger fresh ones. Since these are packaged you can grab a few and keep them onhand. These little cuties were a surprise for me from Mr. Right. Now you know why he's Mr. Right!
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Peace Out from the Easter Bunny

Remember when we celebrated Easter and went to Parrot Jungle, now known as Jungle Island? Remember I blogged this, this and this? Well, I forgot to post this photo primarily because I needed to scan it and was too lazy to do it when we got home. Nonetheless, here it is for your viewing pleasure. Granted a few months later but hey, at least I got around to it right?

The Dayngrous Duo in all their glory, with the Easter Bunny himself.

Can I just add what a ripoff it is to have to pay for a picture with the Easter Bunny inside a theme park that already cost an arm and a leg to get into? Just sayin'.

Following Up On Previous Posts

It's been forever and a day since I blogged and there is tons to tell. First, we had my mom's memorial mass and it was really nice and some of our family members showed up. There is much more to that story so I'll write a separate blog post on it.

Second, Twitter followed took action on the TOS reports I contacted them about. Apparently, I created quite a buzz through the twittersphere too so there is a whole blog post there as well. Check back 'cause I'll be writing that one up soon.

Also, I had tons of photos to post of the Dayngrous Duo from as far back as Easter. I know, I'm a little behind over here but I have a good ~~excuse~~ reason. I've launched the official blog for eMail Our Military and that's kept us all quite busy around here. You can check it out here.

Finally, we took a much needed family vacation - our first in 5 years. In fact, we just got back! While on vacation we celebrated our 5th anniversary and Charlie's 4th birthday and another family milestone that I'll not only tell you about in a whole blog post but there will be photos too!

So, add me to your feedreader, check back here often and comment regularly. I'd miss you if you didn't!

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

New eMail Our Military Blog

Tags: eMail Our Military, eMOM, The eMail Our Military Blog, Troop Support, eMailing Our Military, eMailing The Military, Armed Forces, Dayngrous Discourse

Come check out our latest blog venture, "The eMail Our Military Blog", where we blog all things military and all the things about our military support organization eMail Our Military. The eMail Our Military Blog is the Official blog of eMailOurMilitary.com and we appreciate your support.

At the eMail Our Military blog you'll find stories about projects and campaigns to support our troops that you can do right from the comfort of your computer chair. We'll have lots of good stuff for you to read! So take a minute and add The eMail Our Military Blog to your reader, visit and comment. We'd be lonely if you didn't stop by.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Abusing Twitter's Terms of Service (TOS)

Tags: Twitter, Twitter's Terms of Service, Twitter TOS, Abuse, Harassment, Cyber Stalking, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Fred Wilson, Dayngrous Discourse

Get Satisfaction is abuzz with the topic of Twitter's Terms of Service thanks to @LoudMouthMan and a few others who are thoroughly annoyed with the lack of follow up and follow through. Hopefully, my email to Twitter's founder, one of their venture capitalists and now the question and comments on Get Satisfaction will bring about a satisfactory resolution and get Twitter's to act upon and enforce their Terms of Service.

Check out the discussion here and weigh in yourself.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Thought For The Day

Tags: Thought For The Day, Inspirational, Motivational, Daily Quote, Daily Mantra, Dayngrous Discourse

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born" - Anaïs Nin

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Twitter and TOS Enforcement (Or lack thereof)

Tags: Twitter, Twitter TOS, Terms of Service Agreements, Cyberstalking, Cyberbullying, Online Harassment, Online Stalking, Online Abuse, Online Bullying, eMail Our Military, Mail Our Military, eMOM, eMailOurMilitary, MailOurMilitary, Dayngrous Discourse

This is my personal blog so I don't spend tons of time talking business here or promoting what I'm doing through my company, eMailOurMilitary.com (eMOM). I'm also not one to draw attention to the fruits and nuts on the internet but since we're talking about Twitter and their enforcement (or lack thereof) of their Terms of Service, I thought I'd take a moment to show you exactly what we're talking about here.

I don't think there is any question this is harassment and abuse.

I took the time to show the abuse to Twitter's co-founder Ev and got the following replies:

Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:42 PM
Re: TOS / Harassment / Cease and Desist Request

Hi,

Unfortunately, we can't do anything in this case. While our TOS disallows harassment, etc., we error on the side of free speech when at all possible. We have to avoid playing cop between users who disagree.

Good luck.

Evan

And then:

Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: TOS / Harassment / Cease and Desist Request

Hi,

Sorry for the slow reply. And sorry we can't resolve this in the way you would like.

We like what you're doing and would still be interested in discussing xxx or other projects.

Regards,
Ev

The tweets in question seem pretty cut and dry to me. As I mentioned before, I'm all about freedom of speech. I'm all for discussion, discourse and debate but when someone creates 20 or so accounts for the sole purpose of stalking or posting libelous statements about a company that's where we need to draw the line.

Granted, the guy has zero credibility and it's clear these are lunatic rantings, but the bottom line is that whatever you put on the internet is there for the whole world to see for a very long time and if what's being written about you or your company is threatening, abusive, harassing or libelous it can be found by people that are searching for info. If that search loses you business or damages your reputation then guess what? You can take legal action.

Right now they guy putting forth all the abuse has the following accounts, all on twitter, and almost all of them apparently are being used for the sole purpose of abusing others. If you're a twitter user you may wish to block all of these accounts:

thttp://twitter.com/MediaAnalyses
http://twitter.com/CriticalMedia
http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst
http://twitter.com/Objections
http://twitter.com/TheBlackBook
http://twitter.com/avantgarde
http://twitter.com/artspace
http://twitter.com/artforum
http://twitter.com/TheYellowPages
http://twitter.com/YellowBook
http://twitter.com/YellowPage
http://twitter.com/WhitePage
http://twitter.com/WhiteBook
http://twitter.com/BIGCock
http://twitter.com/HUGECock
http://twitter.com/BIGPenis
http://twitter.com/HUGEPenis
http://twitter.com/TheJesus
http://twitter.com/TheGod
http://twitter.com/QRU
http://twitter.com/Panopticons
http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon

I've included a fair amount here for your review. It seems pretty clear this is a violation of Twitter's TOS. So why hasn't twitter put an end to this? That my friends, is the question. What say you?

noahdavidsimon @Jalapeno never mind the fact that eMOM puts the troops at risk for some crows vanity. this isn't highschool people! 08:17 PM April 29, 2008 from web in reply to Jalapeno

noahdavidsimon @Jalapeno support r troops,but not people who solicit online create communities of clicks. don't care if its color wars,frozen peas or eMom. 08:15 PM April 29, 2008 from web in reply to Jalapeno

noahdavidsimon support r troops,but not people who solicit online create communities of clicks. don't care if its color wars,frozen peas or eMom. stupid 08:15 PM April 29, 2008 from web

noahdavidsimon @Jalapeno u don't have 2agree with me. u can argue with logic, don't use ostracizing behavior like @mailourmilitary n try public humiliation 08:12 PM April 29, 2008 from web in reply to Jalapeno

noahdavidsimon @Jalapeno I don't ask people 2agree with me,I ask them to dialogue n not use peer pressure 2change opinions like @mailourmilitary. net cults 08:06 PM April 29, 2008 from web in reply to Jalapeno

noahdavidsimon offering a free dildo to number 700 for @MailOurMilitary with a big message that says YOU HAVE BEEN OWNED BY AN INTERNET CULT 06:52 PM April 29, 2008 from web

noahdavidsimon @anjrued I am offering a free dildo to number 700 for @MailOurMilitary with a big message that say YOU HAVE BEEN OWNED 06:50 PM April 29, 2008 from web in reply to anjrued

artforum noahdavidsimon: sure takes a long time to run the feed through twitterfeed.... doh @noahdavidsimon: noah.. http://tinyurl.com/4e29sn 01:06 PM April 26, 2008 from twitterfeed

artforum noahdavidsimon: doh! doh! doh! @noahdavidsimon: noahdavidsimon: doh! doh! doh! @noahdavidsimon http://tinyurl.com/5ctnhq 01:05 PM April 26, 2008 from twitterfeed

artspace scratcher noahdavidsimon: @chrisbrogan this is a @noahdavidsimon test from the anti @emailourm.. http://tinyurl.com/5hpdtn 12:35 PM April 26, 2008 from twitterfeed

artspace scratcher noahdavidsimon: @chrisbrogan this is a test from the anti @emailourmilitary network:.. http://tinyurl.com/5k6lry 12:35 PM April 26, 2008 from twitterfeed