1. ALWAYS keep a public email with hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc., and check it regularly.
   Occasionally you may drop a domain name altogether, or stop working for a company, or cut partnership with a company. That means, your old email at john@oldcompany.com is no longer accessible to you. Regardless of what email you use as a primary email, you should always keep one email address active through a large public email platform such as @hotmail.com, @gmail.com, @yahoo.com etc. By having one of these emails as the core email, you have 1 email address that you can ALWAYS fall back to. I have my email at @jeffkee.com and on @synchronous.ca, but I always keep my @hotmail.com account active.
2. ALWAYS keep your domains under your name.
   It is not a good idea to let somebody else have control over a domain name. Not even your web designer should have complete ownership and control of your domain. Your domain is your property. Worst case scenario: If you have a fallout with a web designer, and the guy decides to screw you - you’d have to basically pay him whatever ransom he requires to regain your domain, OR go through a lawsuit to recover a domain (if it is an option - based on how your company is registered, it may not even be possible). If you’re curious how your domains are handled, visit WHOIS for domain lookup information. Some domains are privacy-protected. But you can still see which registrar holds the domain information. Contact this registrar to make sure that your name, as well as your primary email (as mentioned in point #1) is listed on the WHOIS contact information. Otherwise, you can be in big trouble later!
3. ALWAYS use your public domain email as your domain contact email.
   On my registration for www.jeffkee.com, there is a contact email address. It would be foolish to have this email entered as anything other than my @hotmail.com account. Why? If I lose any other domains, I lose the key point of contact to manage this domain. Let’s say I registered my email from @synchronous.ca as a contact email. Imagine in 3 years, I got rid of the @synchronous.ca domain after I re-brand. Then, the important domain related emails (especially renewal reminders) will still be sent to the @synchronous.ca email, when I don’t even have that account anymore. For that reason, your key contact email for any of your domains should be a @hotmail.com, or @gmail.com type of an account that will NEVER disappear. This way you make sure that you always maintain contact and control over your precious domains!

Hopefully this gives everybody a clear guideline of how to best manage your email addresses and your domains.

If you have questions about the best way to set up your email addresses on a private domain you just obtained please check out my other post about using Google Applications and Gmail as your primary email and collaboration system.

1. Xtown.ca

Xtown is an extreme sports facility located in Quebec, and they have an excellent indoor track for motocross, ATVs and more. For Xtown we’ve provided web design work, as well as PHP/MySQL programming work in order to allow them to manage members, bookings and payments on the website through the front end and back end. It is an intricate system which is fully custom developed just for this business!

Visit Xtown.ca for Extreme Sports, Motocross, ATV, SNOX and more in Quebec!

2. BrockSmeaton.com

Brock’s website needed a re-design, so we got to it to simplify and clean up the site. The menus were re-designed, and we switched to a side navigation with fixed layers on top and side for a frame-like look, but without the frames. We all know that frames are not good for SEO, right? Also we nixed the landing page, which has been a long tradition among realtor websites (and other industries) to make a grand first impression. Instead we have an index page that is part of the regular design template, with a cool javascript slideshow going through it.

Visit Brocksmeaton.com for West Vancouver Real Estate listings!

3. Alta Pacific Logo and Branding

Alta Pacific - Investing in Canadian Mortgages

Our newest clients, Alta Pacific Mortgage Investment Corporation, wanted a brand new logo as well as business cards designed for their new business. They provide impeccable services in investing your money into mortgage securities, which is a much more profitable, safe, and viable investment in these volatile markets we’ve seen recently. We also did a brochure for the company as well.

Alta Pacific Brochure - Investing in Canadian Mortgages

Visit Alta Pacific’s website for more information on Investing in Canadian Mortgages. We have not designed their website yet, but we hope to do that soon as the company grows!

Years ago when the war in Iraq began under the whole propaganda of “War on Terrorists”, most Canadadians viewed the politics of the redneck President, George Bush, as less than favourable. In fact, the huge opposition towards Bush’s policies made a change in how Canadian political battles and debates were fought. Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of canada was often demonized with reference to their similarities with the Bush administration down South.

The Liberal Party, which is the main opposition to the Conservative Party, often used these types of ads to associate Stephen Harper with George Bush. These type of ads were used in the election before this, when the Liberal Party leader was Paul Martin.

That was the tone with which we referred to the leader of our Southern neighbours. The bad guy. The ignorant, simpleton redneck who is trigger happy and aggressive, and likes to act like a tough guy in public while knowing nothing about the economy. Simpliy put, Canadians were ashamed that our closest neighbours had elected that Texan to President, twice in a row.

Today on CBC, however, things were changed. In a political debate between Conservative and Liberal and NDP strategists, the new US President, Barack Obama, was mentioned, but in a totally different way. The Conservative strategist mentioned that the Canadian public now wanted to see a “non-partisan approach” to the economic problem. The non-partisan point of view is one of Obama’s guns in how he intends to lead the nation out of the economic crisis that they are in, and the Conservative strategist tried to caplitalize on it - by citing similarities of their policies to that of Barack Obama’s. When that was mentioned, the Liberal and NDP strategists gave out a sarcastic laughter, pointing out that the Liberal and NDP has been going towards that approach for months, while the Conservative party kept on feeding the nation lies about the current economic situation.

Bottom line is, all sides were trying to sell to the public that their policies are more in line with the new US President, Barack Obama. Using similarities to the US President as a selling point in political debates was something that Canadian politicians did not do for the past 8 years!

Looks like a lot of things have changed. I consider this international shift of viewpoint to be one of very significant nature, and something that the public and politicians both need to acknowledge carefully and fully. Barack Obama’s election really is a world-shifting event in the eyes of the public at the moment. What the results will be, and how much can be possibly done in 4 years to fix everything is a question that only Obama can answer for us. I hope the answer is a positive one. But all that speculation put aside, the fact that a new leader of the USA being praised and lifted up so much in Canadian politics signals a huge change of scenery, and the way Canada and the rest of the world looks at the USA as a nation.

Perhaps the USA will regain its dignity after all in the eyes of the world. We’ll see in a few years.

In our modern society, most people are accustomed to understanding food as something that is packaged and ready to go at the grocery stores. You go there, pay a few bucks, and you get harvested vegetables, packaged grains, and plastic-wrapped meat. That’s all dandy and neat, and it is part of modern civilization in which the advancement of transportation and storage techniques allowed the segregation of urban areas from rural areas. Why farm on expensive land? Let’s farm out in the booneys, or sometimes, foreign countries, and then bring everything over here to the stores and distribute it - it makes logistic and economic sense.

When I grew up in Korea, I had plenty of experience with nature. I grew some of our own vegetables in the small patch of a garden we had on our 1st floor apartment. I’ve been to a large green tea farm where they grew organic green tea leaves along the mountain slopes. I also took frequent trips to the country side, where there were mom and pop restaurants which grow their own pigs, goats, cows, and chicken, which they butcher on their own farm to produce meat for the restaurant. I’ve gone fishing for my own sashimi and filleted the fish on the boat without waiting to go to shore, and went to sea-side restaurants where they take you to a fish tank and ask you to choose which one you want. I’ve watched a live chicken get butchered (head cut off with a knife, or dipped live into boiling water by way of holding its feet - great way to get the feathers off), and I’ve heard a cow being butchered as well (I still want to see one being hacked away). I’ve watched a live fish getting pounded in the head so it doesn’t squirm, and gutted alive to provide the freshest sashimi and sushi possible. In short, I’ve seen how food is prepared at an earlier level than grocery stores, and I appreciate the way of nature.

You see, I understand food and I appreciate it for what it is. And as I grew older, that subconscious part of me came out more, and I am now more enlightened on making smart food choices in the sense that I appreciate what nature gives me. My bottom line for food is this - if the recipe could not have existed over 100 years ago, I try to avoid it. I’m not a tight ass - if that’s what’s available, I will eat it once in a while. And I’m not anal to keep my diet at 2500 calories a day - I eat a lot when there’s good homemade food with fresh ingredients.

Now, I’ve boasted how I am in touch deep inside with natures way of things, and let me rant about the problems. So many urban people grow up never watching how food is prepared. They see the end result of it, and that’s all they know. I think the lack of understanding of food sources beyond what’s set out at your grocery store is a huge problem for making conscious choices on food. If it’s convenient and it tastes good, many people will just buy it and eat it without giving it a second thought. Without appreciation of fresh produce and meat and poultry, a frozen pack of constituted meat or an artificially made veggie pattie has the same value as the free range chicken or beef that is also available. What’s the difference between the Five Alive juice, which is artificially compounded with some juice and a lot of sugar and preservatives, and the 100% juice that is not made of concentrate? Nothing, if you don’t understand it.

Let’s look at another problem. A lot of people who are completely out of touch with the nature of things as they have been for the last… millions of years, or for as long as omnivores and carnivores have roamed the earth, think that killing an animal for food is “cruel”. Many people grow up to be teenagers and they have never even witnessed a live animal being killed for the process of food. This is so sad - this lack of awareness must stop. And these naive kids will watch one or two videos of slaughterhouses, produced by people who are unaware about nature and are more concerned about being self-righteous and feeling good without knowing the logic of the food chain, will feel grossed out by the killing of an animal, and start pitching to stop the consumption of beef and pork. Believing that consumption of other living animals is a cruel thing is an utterly modern and unnatural concept - a bi-product of our busy and modernized lives, so out of touch with our nature and mother earth.

I understand that urban life is a reality in our society, and most things come pre-packaged, and pre-manufactured, often from overseas. But people need to start appreciating the goodness of nature and how food is grown and harvested and collected. They will appreciate naturally grown, or organic, vegetables more, produced locally. They will be aware that when veggies are shipped in from Columbia or Mexico, there’s a lot of pesticides and preservatives used to keep the vegetables fresh all along the way, not to mention that the transport of such items causes more greenhouse gas via consumption of gasoline. They need to be aware that a cow, or pig, which grew up in sanitary and normal living condition will be the healthier choice of meat, and they will also understand the value of the life which was taken to produce that meat, and appreciate it more.

So here’s a challenge for yourself, or your kids. Learn and understand nature. Learn how a vegetable is grown, and how it’s picked. Learn how it is fertilized (in nature, it is fertilized by other rotting plants, rotting animals, and poop). Learn how chickens and cows grow, and learn how they are butchered. Any kid should feel completely comfortable at the scene where a chicken is getting its head chopped off alive with a butchers knife. It’s natural, and that’s how it is. Kids should be aware that the nice big plumper looking tomatoes may not necessarily be the healthier choice if you realize how it was grown. The smaller ones that seem a bit more faded may be better if they were organically and locally grown. The pre-packaged frozen fish sticks are not just fish but a compound of extra ingredients such as modified corn starch and sugar and salt, and that veggie dog is most likely made of fake food items and glued together at a factory. This is an awareness that will make you healthier, and the world a cleaner place. Keep food simple. Keep foods natural.

God Wanted Israel to be Created?

When I was young, I was subjected, at times, to Christian propaganda, unfortunately. Fortunately, I have grown to be able to logically discern information from propaganda, and truth from mythology and ideology. Let’s just say I’ve grown up to take the best part of religious teachings and apply only some of it to my more spiritual, logical, and realistic view of the world. Here’s how Christians see it, as many preachers and other hardcore Christians have tried to convince me of:

“The uprising of Israel as a Jewish nation has been long foretold in the Book of Revelations, and it is God’s will being carried out according to what the Bible says. This means that the end of ages is dawning closer and closer and we should rejoice in the creation of Israel.”

I don’t need to tell anybody who has brains that this is a big load of shit. The Balfour declaration of 1917 was what initially put the idea of a Jewish state on the political tables in Europe. Perhaps this was motivated through religious ideologies, or perhaps it had to do with the Rothchilds’ connection to Lord Balfour who declared it - I’m unsure of the motivation. Could be both, but based on what I read and intepreted, one thing is for certain, and that is the fact that Balfour was heavily in bed (non-literally) with the Zionists in Great Britain, who would have used many methods of “influence” to Lord Balfour.

Balfour and Rothchild

Palestine was a British Mandate at the time, and I believe this was due to a lack of leadership of the nation following some wars and instability. The British Mandate of Palestine was designated by many to be the new Jewish State (not all of it - just a small chunk of it along the Mediterranean).

After the Jewish people suffered quite an ordeal due to a certain asshole named Adolf Hitler and his possies, in 1948, after the Second World War was well wrapped up, a chunk of land was carved out of Palestine and was designated Israel, the new (and only) Jewish state. The Jews were finally no longer the immigrants and minorities all over Europe and North America. They had their country. All sounds good? Maybe to some.

On at least two different times in history, the British also offered a part of Uganda to the Zionists, but those attempts fell through due to many different reasons. Many Zionists were hell-bent on getting back what they considered the Holy Land, rather than just getting a good chunk of land that is fertile, inhabitable, with a decent climate (which Uganda was, and still is). Ah, yes. Religion and ideology jumps into the equation once again, and voila, we now have a US-backed, Pro-Western Jewish state, right in the middle of Middle East (no pun intended).

Gimme That!

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but if somebody came to my apartment and said “That part of the living room, and this small bedroom is now off limits to you. We’re giving it to these guys who don’t have a place to stay,” I’d be quite upset. Especially if it’s based on the fact that their religious booklet says that it is some Holy Room to them. Because for me, their religion means dick all. Different religious beliefs are the same for me as different preference in food. Just because I like sushi doesn’t mean I expect others to like it. Or, it’s like the Russian Hockey Leage. I don’t know any of those teams, so if I were to watch a game between 2 Russian hockey teams, I wouldn’t care which fans supported which team. There’s no logic behind which team is designated to be the winner or the loser, other than how the game goes that day, and which team has more expensive players. I only know that I am a Vancouver Canucks fan.

So. Palestine, which is obviously an Arab state, was forced to give up a piece of land for Israel to be established upon it, because they had a lapse in their government, and while they were merely a British Mandate (in other words, like a colony), they just had to lie there, face-down, and take it. No wonder they are upset about it, and so is the rest of the Arab world.

Let’s look at the events after the creation of Israel. Heavily backed by Western powers such as Great Britain and USA, Israel continues to exist, surrounded by enemy Arab nations. Yes, they are outnumbered, but they seem incredibly well equipped and armed with M16s and F-series fighter jets. Oh wait, what? The M16 is a standard US military issue weapon, and the F-14s and F16s are also US-made? So now, to make matters worse, we have Western involvement in this land, and the political issues become scathingly large, affecting the whole globe.

Why Palestine?

Apart from the fact that the hard-line Zionists wanted Palestine specifically so they can re-claim Jerusalem, there were some other factors. When the creation of Israel was being debated, and Palestine and Uganda were being contemplated as options, US President Truman heavily supported the Zionists’ movement to set up Israel in Palestine. Also, while all these negotiations were going on, Syria and Jordan had other motives to try and suppress the nation of Palestine, so they had secret pacts or understandings with the Jewisth and Western Leaders so support the creation of Israel. While most Arabs sought to prevent Israel from being created, these alterior motives stopped them from putting forth a unified front to protect their hegemony and independency… a move I’m sure they regret now.

Let’s go back to Truman and USA’s heavy support of the creation of Israel on Palestine’s lands. Up until then, there was no solid presence of pro-Western, pro-USA powers in the Middle East. But as industry was modernizing, the importance of securing oil was important. Also, in a post-war era USA, which got out of the Great Depression by means of entering the War, it was important that the USA be able to keep selling arms and munitions to allies. Creating a pro-USA nation in the Middle East was the perfect thing to do in order to achieve both. Of course there would be ongoing conflicts in that region, and it would give military and air base access to USA in the Middle East. It was perfect. See what I’m getting at? It was a politically motivated move to gain something for themselves. It wasn’t that Truman somehow supported the Zionist movement from his strong beliefs and sympathy for the Jewisth people. We all know how he handled the Korean War, and we can now see that trend in this move.

The Assailant and the Victim, and the Profiteering

The religiously motivated Zionists who saw nothing beyond the inception of Israel were obviously short-sighted. They did not see the potential (or more like certainty) of continued war and violence. The real victims, in my opinion, are the Jewish people and the Palestinians who live there right now. They need to live in constant awareness and fear of a rocket hitting their homes, or a bomb attack, or, in many times throughout history, the prospect of a full-scale war. It is no way to live, and I sympathize for their situations. The instigators of this entire trouble would be the zealous Zionists, and of course, the Americans who sought to take a piece of this action by putting a pro-Western country of their backing into the Middle East, and thus gaining access to air fields and military bases for their own operations, so close to the richest oil field in the world. The USA has profited more than anybody with this whole deal if you ask me. They sold endless supplies of weapons and arms to Israel, while the conflicts and wars went on in the region, making the Middle East a notorious region for constant battles and violence.

Israel - Justified to Exist?

Short answer from me is Yes, but only due to the fact that I can be very realistic. But I cannot blame the Palestinians for bombing Israel on a regular basis. Hamas, in the recent months, seem to be even more aggressive with their constant barrage of random rocket launches into Israeli territories. And unfortunately those are stone-age rockets, which sort of land anywhere in a broad area, which means that civilians are being hit, not military targets. It’s really sad. But considering the circumstances under which Palestine was forced to carve out a chunk of land for the Jewish people, there’s no wonder that Arabs in the region oppose the existence of Israel altogether. What else would you expect, if you have a sane mind? The Zionist belief is merely one belief, not a universal goal. Just like I have no right to convince another person that pepperoni pizza is still better than ham and pineapple, the Zionists, or the American lobbyists and former US Presient Truman, have no right to expect people of a different religion to accept their Zionism theory based on some biblical interpretation.

Then, beyond all logics and morals, why do I insist that Israel has the right to exist? They are people too, and they now have a home there. Just because the wrong decision was made 60 years ago doesn’t mean we can unto 60 years of settlement and growth of a nation and its people. I do not want to see Israel razed to the ground and its people killed or in exile, like some Arab extremists want to see. I want them to live. I want them to live in peace. This goes out to both Israelis and Palestinians.

What Now?

We can’t just lift the nation of Israel and put it somewhere else. Nor can we do the same with palestinians. Continuous war between them is not a favourable option (unless you are involved with the US weapon manufacturers, or own their stocks, etc.). We’ve established that the Palestinians’ anger and assaults have very reasonable ground, and we’ve also established that it was an unwise move for the Zionists to put Israel in Palestine (and an immoral move by the Americans to push for this move).

Quite frankly, it’s much easier analyzing the facts and history of how this happened. It’s much harder to actually try to come up with a solution to this. Why don’t I leave this up to my readers to comment on?

The only limitation I saw with TinyURL was that, it allows for one URL per forward. I saw a friend of mine trying to advertise 2 different URLs at once through Facebook, and it was pretty messy and long. So I thought, “Why not forward multiple URLs at once with something better?”

And then I came up with Krunchd.com. Krunchd is a unique service that allows you to aggregate up to 30 URLs into one short URL, that resembles this:

http://krunchd.com/jeffkee

Once this is aggregated, you can always go back to edit the URL set, using a longer URL that we send to you by email. You can send that URL to your friends or colleagues to allow them to make changes to the URL sets on their own.

TinyURL on Steroids! Share multiple URLs at once.

What initially started out as a “TinyURL on Steroids” concept has now grown into somewhat of a collaboration platform, and now that we’ve introduced the “Top 10 List”, it also serves as viable content that will be picked up by Google, providing you with backlinks to your site.

The concept was simple, and the programming wasn’t so bad, especially with the help from my good friend Jordan Brill, who provided the domain name as well as the design concept.

One big difference between TinyURL and Krunchd.com is that we give you the option to set your own short URL hash. TinyURL will assign a random 6 digit alphanumeric character set. We provide that option too, but if you specify a hash, and it’s available, it’s yours to keep for the rest of your life. So go ahead, reserve your namespace now at krunchd.com.

Here are my front-page settings.

1. My main browser, Safari (which is probably the fastest and smoothest browser I’ve used) will open my company’s Google Applications portal. If you don’t know what this is, please check out this post about using Google Apps and Gmail as your primary solution. Mine’s located at http://portal.synchronous.ca. Jeffkee.com also has one set up at http://portal.jeffkee.com, although it’s not my front page.
2. Because I have the fancy Logitech MX Revolution mouse, I can set up one of the many many buttons to open up the browser to any page I choose. Sadly enough, I’ve chosen Facebook for that button.

So. What are your browser’s front-pages set to go to?

George Bush makes a surprise visit to Iraq, I suppose out of attempt to define his own legacy as he is about to leave his post, only to experience something so bizarre - shoes thrown at his face.

As I watched this delightful video and laughed, this was my train of thought.

1. Wow good reflexes (as he dodges the first one).
2. It would have been quite funny if the guy missed and hit the Iraqi PM instead. (as the journalist takes off another shoe and takes aim).
3. Too bad it didn’t hit Bush the second time either (as the second shoe is also dodged).
4. I wonder what size shoes he wore, and if they were steel toe? (as the security wrestles the guy down)
5. I’m hungry. I should go put something in the oven (as Bush is nervously smiling and asking people to calm down).
6. I wonder, how would I react if I found Narnia beyond the depths of my oven in my kitchen?
7. How come they never make those fantasy movies with an Asian protagonist?

But my point is that… it was a funny and delightful moment and it made my day.

Rough times, and money is harder to find. Let’s look at some of us who are making some good money in this bad time in history. Maybe we can get some ideas!

5. Bankruptcy Lawyers

I don’t think I need to explain this one, do I? Bankruptcy has been going up around the world, including in North America as well as European nations. France is a nation known for its love for fine dining and wining, yet French restaurants are feeling the pinch of bankruptcy. Check out the Google Trends for the search term “Bankruptcy Lawyers”. It’s been rising the last few months it seems.

4. Divorce Lawyers

Tough economic times mean more strains on marriages, and we all know that financial problems are the number one cause for divorce. Divorces involve lawyers. They’re getting lots of business with all those households that are going into financial crisis.

3. Online Fraudsters

According to Symantec, online fraudsters who steal and abuse credit card information and bank account details will make $3.3b this year. That’s a lot more money than most financial institutions will net in profits this year.

2. Loan Sharks in HELOC

HELOC stands for Home Equity Line of Credit, and it refers to a loan that is made with your home equity on the line as collateral. If you default on your HELOC, the loan company can then take your home and sell it off to mitigate their losses in debts. But this in turn, obviously, becomes a huge asset to the loan sharks. In most default and foreclosure cases, chances are, the homeowner will lose a lot of money to the mortgage investors. Foreclosure rates in the US have been going up since late 2007. Of course, if property values drop down a lot more, then perhaps the resale of a foreclosed home may not return all of the money owed anymore.

1. Somali Pirates

This is my favorite one. Forget all the other lucrative recession-time opportunities listed above - check out the Somali pirates. They’ve been more active than ever, hijacking cargo ships full of goodies all over the high-seas. They made $150b this year. That’s a hell of a lot more than what Ford and GM are going to make this year. Sounds like the most lucrative gig on the list right now!

James Bond Jr. is a tv show that aired across the United States and Canada in 1991~1992. It was an old-school cartoon. I’m not talking about Family Guy style cartoon - this was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles type of a cartoon, strictly for kids. With the release of the second “new” 007 movie, I thought I’d pay tribute to the old tv show that I grew up on as a kid. I used to love this old show.

You see, I’m not the average North American - privileged from birth, full of empathy and sympathy, trying to be self-righteous by doing small insignificant deeds of good that only makes the doer feel good while it does not fix the problem. I’m a very realistic person who sees things for the truth rather than idealism. I don’t believe in basics or minimums that are guaranteed by default, and I believe in Darwinism. Even the right to survive is, technically and truthfully, not a guarantee. We have won it as a society, and we also need to sustain it as individuals.

When you decide to cross the street at night wearing a black jacket, you are gambling with your right to life. When you decide to go to war with Iraq, you are forcefully taking away the right to life from innocent Iraqi civilians. In an ideal world, everybody has the right to live. But who said these rights are guaranteed? I don’t understand how these standards somehow became a philosophy. These standards we set are merely artificial human attempts at achieving a higher goal, but really, there’s no law in physics that grants us any kind of rights whatsoever.

When you ditch out on a job and decide to shoot up on heroine, eventually you will lose your right to an income. When you lose right to an income, you lose your rights to food, shelter. You’ll also lose the right to heroine, since money will be scarce. Eventually you will lose rights to live. You will die on the streets. Unless. We encounter the idiots who decide to give petty change to these people, feed them in soup kitchens, so as to grant them the right to food and heroine that rightfully should be taken away from them. It only makes the problem worse.

Some people might be saying at this point, “In some cases, it’s not their fault. They have mental illnesses.” or something of the sort. Once again, going back to the very basics of physics - nothing is guaranteed. Unfortunately some are born without adequate ability to survive. If they have rich parents who are willing to lend them the right to carry on, great. If they found some other talent through which they can obtain the right to live, great (paralympians, for example). If not, who the hell says that we as society should guarantee them basic rights just because they’re human beings? It’s all man-made, and merely an opinion. It’s not a golden standard, unfortunately.

When a homeless person asks me for change, my response is “No. Get a job.” If you are incapable of getting a job, REGARDLESS of whose fault it is, then you lose rights to money, and in consequence, you lose your rights to food, shelter, and ultimately, survival.

You see, if you give these guys change, they’ll carry on for another day. Buy cheap food, and cheap drugs. That doesn’t solve the problem. The only thing it might do is make you feel like a nice smug person who is generous and all. But it doesn’t really help anything in the long run.

I’m a more charitable person than those donating soups and change to the drug-addicted homeless people in downtown and the eastside (I live in Vancouver by the way). Because I encourage them to learn how to fish, so they can find their own rights, rather than borrow rights from others on a daily basis. We as society, thanks to our ancestors, have created this magnificent world of opportunity and wealth. If you can’t grasp even a tiny bit of it, too bad. Darwinism says you will just perish away and nobody will remember you. It’s cold, it’s sad, but it’s the truth.

Just to make things clear - I donate for other charitable causes that involve childrens charities, as well as international charities for Africa and what not. Their economy and way of life has been raided by the influence of Western civilization, the global economy and the currency exchange system that enslaves some of the poorest nations. This is a fact I cannot change because I’m not that powerful. To offset the fact that the wealths I enjoy are trickled down wealths from the global economy that leeches from the poor 3rd world countries and piles it up in the hands of North Americans, I donate for those causes. I just don’t give a single fucking penny to homeless people in Vancouver.

Most hosting companies do not provide an IMAP platform, and the most common email method is POP3. Even worse, a lot of small businesses opt to simply forward their corporate emails to their hotmail or gmail accounts and reply from those addresses. The downside of using POP3 on your hosting server is that webmail access is often cumbersome and awkward (using CUBE mail or Squirrel Mail etc.) and if you have several computers, you have to delete emails or mark them as read emails on multiple platforms, and that includes your handhelds. With an IMAP platform, however if you read the email on your computer, it will be marked as read on your iPhone as well as your webmail platform.

Putting all this together is the Google Apps solution. This is how you activate Google Apps.

1. Visit https://www.google.com/a/.
2. Sign up for either the free or the Premium edition, as it fits you. You need to have a domain, or sign up for a domain on the spot.
3. Verify domain ownership.
4. Configure your MX record on your domain (this is through your web hosting company).
5. Configure your computer, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.

Using the Google Apps platform, your Mail Exchange record (MX Record) is updated so that all emails are routed go ghs.google.com, or a similar address. The emails are hosted on the Gmail platform, BUT using your domain natively. So even though you are on the gmail platform, you are still natively sending emails from your own company domain.

Using this set-up, you can have IMAP access to your emails from all devices, as well as advanced gmail access if you need webmail access while you’re on the road. As a matter of fact, I find myself often using the gmail platform on my portal at http://portal.synchronous.ca (you won’t be able to log in - you must be an employee) rather than Mail on my Macbook Pro. It’s fast, easy to use, well organized, and clean.

Other benefits of using Google Apps as your email and collaboration solutions are these:

• You get a calendar on the Google Apps platform which can be shared (or not shared) between employees, and synchronized to your desktop calendar (such as Outlook, or iCal)
• You get the Google Docs platform, on which you can do word processing, spreadsheets, and more. No more confusion on who has the most recent file of that proposal document. You work on it together online. And the functions are so robust, you won’t miss Microsoft Word or Pages.
• SalesForce is the most popular CRM solution on the market, and Google and Salesforce are partners. They offer an integrated CRM/Google Apps solution that integrate seamlessly with each other. Visit http://www.salesforce.com/googleapps/ for more details.

Using the Google Apps platform, we have achieved ease of use, time saving, easy collaboration and data sharing, better synchronization, and most of all, relaxation. It just works.

Many of you are already aware that I am a Liberal Party supporter, and I support them mainly based on their foreign policies, as well as tax regulations. The Conservative Party has robbed us by reducing one tax and increasing another one. The Conservative Party is also too much in line with aggressive partisan politics of the Republican Party down south.

Many Canadians are supporting a vote that will get the Partisan Harper government out - meaning, they are supporting voters to vote for whichever candidate has a better chance of defeating the Conservative candidate in the riding.

www.voteforenvironment.ca is one of the most prominent websites that promote the anti-Conservative vote. Essentially, these people (and myself) feel that getting the Conservative Government out by any means is a better way to ensure Canada experiences a balanced growth in a peaceful and respectful manner.

But. My opinions are my opinions, and as a staunch supporter of true democracy, I invite you to vote for whoever you wish to vote. Better to vote than to not vote, honestly.

7DayBuzz has a rule that resounds in its name - they will update every day, if not more!!! That’s more than I can say about my own blog, unfortunately. And did I mention the diversity of content already? There’s something for everybody. Here’s some takes on the more interesting posts that they’ve had recently.

Vaccinations: What To Do (or Not Do) - We all acknowledge Vaccination as something we do as a given. But some say that vaccines can cause autism, aspergers, and other disabilities and anomalies. The official recommendation is that children are to receive more than 2 dozen vaccinations, and then there’s the question of what side effects it may have! Read for yourself, and pitch an opinion.

Is America Ready for a Black President? - Let’s say you’re a democrat who supports Clinton (not Bill), and Obama (the potential Black President) wins the nomination for the Presidential Election. Would you rather vote for John McCain to prevent a black man from becoming the US president? Sounds crazy eh? Well, at least by Canadian standards, this is complete bigotry and would not be tolerated in many places, but hey, we never had slavery - USA did, and apparently, some people feel that way! They’d rather vote for a Republican candidate in order to stop a black man from becoming president. Get the scoop!

The Messiah’s Disciples and Their Behavior Towards One Another (MATT 18:1-35) - Redefine a “child” through biblical teachings and meanings. I hear many of you saying “well I’m not religious so…” Here’s the thing about the Bible, the Koran, and other scriptures - even if you are not religious, there’s things in the scripture that can be used as universal learning material, not to mention give you a good education in anthropology and culture.

Yes, as you can see, the diversity of posts are astonishing, and it’s one of those places where you can hang out, chat, sometimes get into a heated debate/argument over politics, and have fun.

I don’t give a fuck if you just took a nap, or if you are sleepy at the moment and are about to take a nap, or if you just had sushi, or if you just went shopping, or if you just fucked my sister. I don’t give a fuck if you just went for a nice drive (maybe I’ll care if you say you bought a brand new Mercedez or something like that), I don’t give a fuck if you just came back from a day of skiing.

Unless you can keep your twittering to valid and interesting information (such as “just saw the newest edition of the iPhone - check it out!”), please shut the fuck up cause I don’t care about the smallest details of your lives.

What’s next? “I just sat down in my toilet.” -> “I just took a big dump and it stinks.” -> “I ran out of toilet paper.”

Well I won’t be the one there to give you a fresh roll of toilet paper, I’ll just hope that out of the scramble and panic you’ll drop your fucking iPhone in the toilet so that you can’t twitter anymore.