Week 3 Random Comment Winner!

Congratulations to week 3's winner in my Random Comment Contest. This weeks winner is Jaz for leaving a comment on my post announcing last weeks winner. Unfortunately I cannot get into my dashboard or any other part of the site right now because they are having problems with one of their servers again. I will send you your 100ec as soon as I can. To everyone else, thanks for stopping by and participating. I hope this week I will be able to give you more content to comment on. We will have to see how the week goes. Peace out!

So many things to do ...

My has this week gone by fast! I just wanted to stop for a moment and write a quick post to let everybody know that I have been way to busy to do any blogging this week! It has been a bit of a rough week for me so far, I spent all day Monday at work I do mean all day 8am to 9:30pm and I haven't quite rested up enough yet. Although I did fall asleep shortly after getting home today so I am hoping that I will be able to get a few more posts up over the next couple of days. I know that I will be announcing another random comment winner on Saturday, I am aiming to have another post or two up before that. But I have to run actually more like get some more sleep before work so I hope I will be able to find something to blog about after I finish work tomorrow. Laterz Peace Out!

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Random Comment Contest Winner Week 2

And we have another winner! Sheila from "A Postcard a Day" dropped a card and a comment this week and has won 100ec. I've already sent the 100ec so thank you for stopping by and dropping a comment on me. To every body else who has stopped for a few seconds for a read and dropping a comment a very "BIG" Thank you to you as well. Keep those comments coming and I'll announce another winner next Saturday.

Are We Alone?

This past weekend was a long one for me; here in Canada we were celebrating Victoria Day and lots of firecrackers filled the night sky. During the time between blogging and watching fireworks, I was able to catch some of Larry King Live on CNN which made me wonder Are We Alone?. On his show he had Ryan Seacrest but that was not the part of the show that interested me sorry to all of you American Idol Fanatics that stop by my blog. No, the last part of the show was dedicated to the news of Britain's ministry of defense releasing some of its research into the UFO phenomenon. The British government has a lot of files on the phenomenon and will be releasing the files into their national archives.

I am aware that one of our Canadian Prime Ministers I think it was Paul Martin announced the existence of UFOs to promote more free speech on the subject. Whether or not this was a catalyst to getting the British to release documents to the public I'll never really know. Anyway, the fact that these files are being released; regardless if they will be released over a period of four years is a step towards getting an answer to the age old question "Are we alone?" I've liked science fiction for years but that does not mean I believe there are aliens out there. I do believe it is possible; because it would be an awful waste of space if there wasn't extra terrestrial life.

I've had a chance to glance over one of the documents that were recently released. If you want to take a look at the releases you can find them here. The first thing I noticed was the large amount of black space in the document. Now they have released more than one document in .PDF format I have not had much of a chance to look through them. Mental note, take a look at more of them. I just opened the first one of the releases. After scrolling down quite a bit I finally made it to what would be a UFO report. So far I have not seen any elaborate investigations into the report but I am still going through some of the material.

My preliminary conclusions is that these releases are just filed reports of sightings. As for what this means to Canadians or better yet, everybody is that we now have a source to look to when we are curious about the UFO phenomenon. This certainly means that the flow of information on the phenomenon will certainly increase and sooner or later we will be able to draw a conclusion. However, we still need to keep an open mind on the subject; the phenomenon will never fully be explained until alien visitors make themselves known to the masses. But one thing that I found a little odd was the Pope's astronomer released a statement prior to the release of the files to paraphrase that alien beings are a product of God. Kind of made me think. What do you think of the news?

Source: CNN Transcripts
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Mission To Trade: A Review

About a week ago the author over at Mission To Trade asked me if I could do a quick write up on his one year mission. I was willing to do a quick review of his blog to help spread the word of his mission. When I was asked to write a post for him, Stuart the author of "Mission To Trade" was still working on making his first trade. I visited his blog today and found out that he has made two trades since then. So far he has traded a bottle of Diet Coke for a 12 pack of golf balls; he then traded the 12 pack of golf balls for a Microsoft Wired Desktop 500 Keyboard and Mouse set. His mission is becoming very interesting.

His blog itself has a very clean look to it. The posts are well written clearly explaining his mission, even though he has not made very many trades but the word is still getting out there. The side bars are much more organized then my own something I will be working on within the next couple of months and are free of advertising. I recommend that you stop by the blog and see for yourself the potential his blog has. His mission only has another 355 days left so if you are willing to make a trade take some time to make an offer.

My overall rating for his blog is 8/10. A clean simple template that allows for greater organization is one of the biggest reasons why I am giving his blog an 8/10. Another reason is that his mission is very interesting; who wouldn't want to see what they could end up trading for at the end of a year? Well written posts are also another reason for the 8/10 rating. I would have given a better rating if there had been more content, but "Mission to Trade" is still very new and will potentially create a lot of buzz. There still is plenty of time to make trades, go stop by Mission to Trade and see if you can help him on his mission.

And We have a winner!

This is just a short post to congratulate my first winner in my "Random Comment Contest." Manilenya from Residual Matters has won 100ec just for dropping a comment after dropping their card. To everybody who has dropped a card and a comment, a very big Thank you to all of you. Keep dropping cards and comments and maybe next week you can be the lucky commentator who wins 100ec.