Archive for April, 2008

Email from Tammy Pretto

Posted by johnG on 30th April , 2008

From: Lato, Tammy [mailto:Tammy.Lato@nationalcity.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:21 AM To: john@pretto.com Subject:   Hello…   My name is Tammy Pretto…. I come to this website often trying to find out any info that I can…   A few of our family members have emailed you searching for family information… we have a wonderful [...]

“I wish I could be a fly on a wall…..”

Posted by johnG on 22nd April , 2008

4/22/2008   “Death of the Portal and social network?”   Microsoft is announcing www.mesh.com tonight at 9PM!   I have a glimpse of the future with the rapid growth of sites like:   1.       Twitter.com 2.       Pownce.com 3.       Friendfeed.com   The features of the above sites coupled with web 2.0 technologies like “mash-ups” is creating [...]

Intel Builds 6-Core CPU

Posted by johnG on 18th April , 2008

Gas Prices are “out of hand”

Posted by johnG on 18th April , 2008

Las Vegas Indoor, COED Soccer

Posted by johnG on 13th April , 2008

Las Vegas Indoor COED Soccer Uploaded by quintano 4/10/2008 City League match Rise and Shine vs. Red Rockets They win

Temporal Social Network Patent Proposal

Posted by johnG on 10th April , 2008

Geez, I wrote this last year and saw a saw a blog by Michael Arrington that reminded me of it: United States Patent Proposal Temporal Social Network Pretto July 15, 2006 ——————————————————————————– Method for connecting users in an online computer system based on their physical proximity in a temporal social network. Abstract A method for [...]

Playing around with a Photoshop file

Posted by johnG on 7th April , 2008

I didn’t know that Robinhood was Korean (…and fat…)

Posted by johnG on 6th April , 2008

Ugh, the week after I installed WordPress v. 2.3 v. 2.5 comes out!!

Posted by johnG on 5th April , 2008

A week after I installed Worldpress 2.3 v. 2.5 was released with features that I wanted. I couldn’t believe there was no simple upgrade path. You basically install the new version over the top of the old. Ugh! Today I found An Automatic WordPress Upgrader PlugIn from: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html. 1. Download the upgrader 2. Extact the [...]