Remember
Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot.
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Lottery Kick
I’ve kind of been on a lottery kick lately. I’m not expecting to win a million dollars but playing the various scratch offs are kind of fun, and so far I’ve been breaking even. Last night I bought $10 worth of scratch offs. I only wanted to spend $5 but all I had was a ten dollar bill. So I bought a couple $2 tickets and the rest were $1 tickets called 21 Black Jack. I was getting discouraged but the last one I scratched I won $25.
I’m tempted to try the Lottery Experiment for myself! Maybe next month…
ProBlogger Birthday Bash!
Darren over at ProBlogger is celebrating a birthday and instead of getting presents he’s giving away over $54,000 worth of prizes!
The contests have already started but you still have time to enter if you are interested in winning. Just keep an eye on ProBlogger.net. I’d suggest subscribing to the ProBlogger RSS feed to keep up to date on the giveaways.
NFYB
Seth Godin, a respected author, has a post on his blog today referring to NFYB (Not for your Blog). I’d encourage you to read his post but basically he is stating that with everyone having a blog, using twitter, facebook, etc. we need a way to make certain conversations private.
With journalists this used to be done by saying “off the record”, but I hope everyone knows that when dealing with journalists there is no more “off the record”. Same goes for NFYB. One would hope that the person you are talking to respects you enough and has enough ethics to not publish what you talked about but don’t hold your breath.
It will be interesting to see how much NFYB spreads and the conversations that take place about it.