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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

German based company SAP promises to hire people with autism

This is actually some pretty cool stuff.. Good work SAP

German based company SAP promises to hire people with autism

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Video: Elderly lady reunited with her dog after Oklahoma tornado

Among so much devastation from the horrendous mile-wide tornado that has ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, there is, at least, some good news as an elderly lady and her dog have survived the storm.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350539

Finally good news

The Moore OK update

So much heartache.. so much disaster. The latest is in Oklahoma, as you may have been seeing if you followed Earth Informer yesterday and other sources as well. Thelatest reports lament 91 dead so far—so many were children from elementary schools that were flattened by this tornado. Winds were 200 miles or more. The spread was over a mile.. And it was one of the biggest tornadoes in history.. The massive path of destruction is now evident..
KFOR is reporting the latest from the ground..
At least 91 counted dead at this point..
A desperate search for survivors ongoing.. But time is running out fast.
Rubble..

A school destroyed..
Chaos..
Life in tornado alley..

When comedy is too quick. Ever hear the comment ‘too soon’ after someone tells a joke? Comedian Lizz Winstead tweeted something yesterday after the tornado saying'This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives'.. this was before the bodies of dead children were taken from the elementary school.. this was before the death toll rose to at least 91.. She was forced to Tweet an apology three hours later..

Monday, May 20, 2013

There are just no words to describe the horror that we saw today with this massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.

I just cannot think of words at all.

This is horrendous

The AP is now broadcasting this to the world: KFOR-TV reports that up to 24 children are believed dead at the Plaza Towers Elementary School and that it has turned into a search and recovery effort

This is a worst case scenario ..
This brutal tornado has now etched itself into the annals of weather history… And with its short presence in Moore Oklahoma it also stole the lives of so many..

Block after block is only debris. Winds cracked and demolished all in its path.. So many lives tonight now undone. So many people hurt. So many killed.

This is terrible and heartbreaking news… May God ease their suffering immediately and keep them.. If he’s there..

A Conversation about poop with my two-year-old son

Me: I smell poop!
Ayden: I didn't poop
Me: But I smell poop!
Ayden: I smell poop too Daddy

Today's main event: The Rumblr on Tumblr

There’s a rumblr on Tumblr..the new billion dollar man is coming to us from the tech world. Yahoo! is shelling out over $1 bil for the blogging service Tumblr.

Some users are concerned.. After all, it seems anything corporate Yahoo! gets its hands on fails or gets forgotten..

Also interesting, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr who dropped out of high school and made the blog service in his mom’s New York City apartment, said he wouldn’t sell as recent as a month ago. But money talked. Apparently talked very loud..

Get out while the gettin’s good, perhaps?

Either way, Karp is about to become the tycoon of the age.

The first of only a few since last century. Oh, and by the way, it was last century that Yahoo! bought another blogging service: Geocities. That failed too. And about two years ago, Yahoo! completely deleted all Geocities sites from its archives and database… leaving users to frantically try to save years of infancy of the internet.

So if Tumblr users think Yahoo! will care about providing a platform for independent thought to flourish and creative activity to occur, doubt that one..Big time.