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Getting a pet for someone as a Christmas present is never the right move. Often, the giver does this to be a hero to the recipient as a huge gesture. Other times, an individual puts a pet on their wish list without thoroughly examining the suitability of the pet. After the holidays, or more so in the six months following the holidays, shelters are packed with Christmas presents. They arrive either immediately as the recipient is not allowed to have a pet where they live, or in the next few months when the pet is past the tiny and helpless stage and starts to roam around.
Here is a pet that you can really give someone without there being any consequences for the pet. MyFelix is an adorable java based feline that is ready to wiggle his way into your heart. This is a preview, where you can pet Felix. You can share him via email as well. When you download him, you will also be able to teach him tricks. He might even roam around your desktop. Occasionally, he may have a message for you. There may be contests you can enter in or special offers. You will not be asked to register MyFelix or provide your contact info when you download him, which is an added bonus.
To download MyFelix, you need Microsoft® Windows XP or higher. I can preview him on a Mac, but he is not Mac compatible right now. Hopefully a Mac OS version will be developed. MyFelix will have to just hang out on my PC. I’ll go over there and visit him once in awhile. Shh…don’t tell Mac.


Nowadays, website hosting has come way down, so there is little excuse to not be able to pay for a site if you are serious about telling people something, but I think there still is a market for the free site. Not everyone wants a blog site, and besides, what is a ten year old to do when they want to show the whole internet their collection of Pokemon cards? Whoops. Pokemon cards are so out, but chalk that up to my trip down memory lane. At that time they were the big thing. I found out that there is still a place where you can
There are actually few nice features that you can use that makes the old free sites a real far cry. There is a feature where you can disable right clicking on your site. This way, no one can copy your photos onto their hard drive. You may think that it is no big deal, but if you have a personal page with photos of your family, it is a good move. When you get a site, the domain name will have .hpages.com attached to it. While it may not be a good idea for a business, it is perfect for a personal site. Someone can’t randomly type in domain names and find your page if it is something you only want to share with a small group of people. Of course, if people link to it, search engines will find it, but not if no one does. The other nice thing is that you do have access to stats. They may not be as detailed as a paid service, but they are definitely quite adequate for the needs of a smaller site. Of course, I don’t have any stats yet as I just registered to give it a whirl ten minutes ago.
Here’s another cost saving idea for the charity or the individual that doesn’t have unlimited funds (imagine that!). Before you jump into a hosting contract, shop around for web hosting. Don’t just look at the bottom line as far as the actual price, as if you have to spend hours of down time either chasing after a live person in the customer service department, or hours of down time of your site, the expenses of an inexpensive host add up. If you have someone that is extremely committed to the organization, such as a founder, who has unlimited talented when it comes to servers and the internet, then your group is a rare species. You may be able to afford to get a bare bones service. However, what happens if that person leaves?
My dad works for a non profit organization, and often they are lucky to have very knowledgeable volunteers who have retired. They now have time for some honest to goodness brainpicking. However, sometimes, in order to pick a brain, he needs to describe what is occurring. He is really at a loss at how to describe something to those giving him tech support. That is when my phone rings. It usually would involve me saying, “No, your computer didn’t develop a mind of its own like Hal 9000. I can probably help, but I would really need to sit in front of the computer and see what you mean.”
I wrote before on my astonishment that people could sell their Word Of Warcraft identities. You can create a character, gain skills, and then sell them to someone so they don’t have to start out from scratch. Now, I discovered that you can order a 

In the past week, I have caught up with some of my friends at various charities who I have not crossed paths with in awhile. While most of them are at the forefront as far as computer systems go, there are some that are not. A few groups use a computer only when absolutely necessary, and they wait awhile after that. As a result, some of them are wrestling with the Conficker worm that some of us tangled with and beat weeks ago. I was not affected, but I know many who were.
On Sunday, I went to my cousin’s house for Mother’s Day. The adults sat around the table in the kitchen. The “kids” sat at the long table in the basement, and the “little kids” sat in front of the tv. The “kids” by the way, are 25 to 42 years old. The “little kids” are the children of the kids. I know it doesn’t make much sense, but there you go. The “little kids” were transfixed on the video games and the “kids” were eating cake and giving a running commentary of what the “kids” were up to. They were playing Wii, and there is apparently a function where you make a “Mii” which are characters that you use to be “you” in a given game. I don’t think they actually got around to playing any games, but commiserated on “making people” for hours. In fact, they even started arguing about hair color!
The National Geographic Society doesn’t really use Star Trek teleporters to save money, but more importantly, valuable resources on travel. It would have been cool though, right? Instead, they have been using LifeSize HD