We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

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We can make our minds so still like water
That beings gather about us
That they may see their own images
And so live for a moment, with a clearer–perhaps even with a fiercer life
Because of our quiet

~ William Butler Yeats

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Many of us have been shopping online for more than a decade now without a major loss due to insecure credit card transactions.  But most of us also know someone who has been a vicitm of identity theft.  So why then do we keep using our credit cards online?  Because the convenience has outweighed the risk up to this point.  However, with the economy in a slump and electronic credit card theft on the rise, it may be time to rethink that equation.  Or, avoid the problem all together thanks to the wonderful folx over at Shop Shield.

With the Shop Shield Companion browser plugin you can shop online with zero worries that your credit card or banking information will be stolen by cyber thieves.  How? Simple.  Whenever you would normally make a Credit Card Payment you use the Shop Shield Companion Secure Payment Agent (SPA) instead.  The SPA replaces your real payment and identity information with anonymous data that is useless to thieves and can’t be traced to you. Essentially, Shop Shield creates a virtual credit card on the fly that is only usable for that single transaction.  That way there’s no actual account information to be stolen.

But Shop Shield does more than secure your account information (as if that weren’t enough).  Through their Secure Site Registration they also allows you to create anonymous accounts at any shopping site so hackers and thieves can’t even get your personal information like names and passwords either.  How does that sound?

Well if you think it sounds expensive you couldn’t be further from the truth.  In fact if you sign up to pay for your online transactions through your checking account then there will be absolutely no charge for Shop Shield’s service.  And I’m not just talking about the 60-day free trial.  I’m saying it will be free forever!

So we’re talking 100% guaranteed secure online purchase transactions, anonymous accounts with online merchants so no one gets any of your personal information, all for absolutely no cost to you.  If there’s a downside I sure haven’t found it yet.

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While making a late night Ben & Jerry‘s run to 7-11 about an hour ago my eyes were met with an amazing site – carnival rides lighting up Morgan Hill’s night sky!I had no idea there was a carnival in town, so followed the flashing lights, sound of laughter, and smell of cotton candy down another block and over to St. Catherine’s church (across the street from City Hall on Peak Ave.)

It truns out they’ve been planning their annual Family Fall Fun Festival for months now and I simply hadn’t got the word.  Luckily, it will be running all weekend, so there’s still time to stop by and enjoy all the carnival goodness: rides, games, and food of every fattening variety.

Hours:

Saturday – September 19th – 10 am to 10 pm

Sunday – September 20th – 12 pm to 5 pm

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I recall hearing (or reading) somewhere that there is no such thing as a “full” rainbow in nature.  In other words, you’ll be able to see a rainbow arching to the right, or one arching to the left, but never be able to see both sides in the same place.

Well, Morgan Hill had just that at around 8pm this evening.  The first picture was taken from just outside my apartment at Jasmine Square.  Or rather, the first two pictures as I have no wide angle lens, so had to stitch two shots together.

This second shot was taken about five minutes later from the Morgan Hill Kentucky Fried chicken just off of Dunne Ave by Highway 101.  Again, it’s two shots overlayed to give the full effect.

The rainbow(s) only lasted about fifteen minutes in total as the sun was just setting.  Nearly as remarkable as the rainbow itself was the fact that it hasn’t rained here in Morgan Hill for at least a month.  So I’m at a loss to explain just what moisture in the air caused this majestic beauty to appear.

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