Do Your Trust Your Weather-Person?

For more years than you and I could ever count, meteorologists have been trying their very best to predict the weather; sometimes they get it right and sometimes they get it wrong!

Weather is so unpredictable these days. A person may not see a rain-cloud in the sky and probably say to themselves, “It’s going to be a nice sunny day.” As a result, they leave home unprepared for the rain; they leave their umbrellas and raincoats in their respective areas, because in their minds, they have no need for them.

Then, later on in the day, it rains as though a storm is approaching and they get themselves thoroughly soaked from head to foot.

From experience, I can say to you that I have been drenched in the rain and then had my clothing dried (with me in it), by the Sun that came out after.

I think that when the weather-person is giving a report, the should say that there would be a 65% chance (or whatever percentage they think it is at the time), that we are going to have sunny weather, etcetera. Some of them are even honest enough to let you know that you can look out for a few scattered showers; I prefer this instead of those absolutes that they like to give; for example: they telling their listeners, or viewing audience, that it is going to be a beautiful sunny day (In my opinion, this can cause the weather-person to lose their credibility when the opposite of what they said happens).

In a figurative nutshell, the weather-person is just a human being like you and I. Although those individuals are supposed to be well-trained in their field of work, I wouldn’t recommend that you take their word as the Gospel truth.

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Just Pondering Part 442

Many of you know that I am a big fan of WordPress and many of you also know that I think that it is the best blog site ever created.

Every so often, I would keep an eye on their competitor, Google Blogger to see if they made any major improvements.

From my observation, I can safely say that Google Blogger poses no threat to WordPress. WordPress is still top dog in the blogosphere.

So, tell me, how does it feel being part of the WordPress community?

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Google’s Internet Balloons

In New Zealand, 30 helium-filled test-balloons were launched into the skies by Google scientists; this experiment of theirs is designed to provide the internet to approximately five billion people across the globe who do not have access to the worldwide web.

Google unveiled the well-to-do project on Saturday in Christchurch; as a result of this, 50 volunteer households started receiving internet signals — signals that were beamed from the balloon to their computers at home.

The helium-filled balloons are said to be 20 kilometres above the ground and are designed to remain airborne for a period of three months.

Google’s project leader, Mike Cassidy mentioned that the engineers intentions are to provide much cheaper internet connections in both developing and undeveloped areas of the world.

Those thin plastic, high-pressure balloons that are afloat over New Zealand, contains: solar-powered panels, navigational equipment, radios and transmitters; they receive internet signals from stations that are located on the ground and then relay those signals to small specialised antennas that are located on the rooftops below.

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Hmmm Facebook Part 30

After the leaked secret about the NSA’s Prism surveillance program, Facebook has admitted that it received more than 9000 requests for data from the US government; which transpired in the second half of last year.

Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s General Counsel, defended the company by stating that it only responded to requests for data, “As required by law.”

He also admitted that the user data requests ranged from sheriffs asking for data that could assist in the location of missing children and police departments looking into assaults, to NSA officials investigating a terrorist threat.

He also went on to say:

“We scrutinize every government data request that we receive – whether from state, local, federal, or foreign governments.

“We’ve also made clear that we aggressively protect our users’ data when confronted with such requests: we frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested. And we respond only as required by law.”

Facebook claimed that they would be vigilant in regards to the protection of their users’ data from unwarranted government requests.

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Just Pondering Part 439

There are some people who need an audience in order for them to blog; if they realize that enough people are not viewing their work, they call it Quits.

Then there are those who couldn’t care less if they have two viewers, or none at all; they blog for the sheer fun of it.

I always say, “Do it for the LOVE of it and those who resonate with the message of your post will follow.”

Also, blogging is a lot of hard work, so I hope that people are not intimidated by that fact.

Blogging is also fun and the longer you blog is the more you will learn about the blogosphere and your very own blogging community.

Whenever you are lacking the zeal to blog, I am sure that there are blogs that you can visit which would put you back into your blogging gear; there are so many inspirational blogs out there and they are not difficult to notice.

But, before you get yourself into blogging, it is advisable that you do some research into it so that you would know what you are getting yourself into.