If you find yourself in the unenviable path of charging bull, remember the following:

1. Do not taunt the bull.  Making the bull angrier so as to cause the bull to make a mistake is not necesarily your best option.  Bulls should leave you alone unless they are provoked or they’ve had a bad day at the ranch.
2. Find safe harbor.  Quickly look for a safe escape route.  Running away will only help if you can get to safety.
3. If you can’t find safe harbor then take off your shirt, jacket, or red cape…anything that will help you with the next step.
4. Hold still with your red cape or plain t-shirt in front of you.  As the bull approaches, throw your clothing item away from you.  Bulls are primarily attracted to movement, (much like T-Rex dinosaurs).  The bull should attack your just-now discarded clothing.  Hopefully you can find a safe path out of the matador arena before you are completely naked.

Advanced technique:

1. Don’t go where bulls congregate.
2. Never accept a gift from Johnny Dangerously while shooting a Schlitz Malt Liquor commercial.

I hope you never need to sidestep a charging bull but if you do I hope this helps.

Best of luck!

David

Sharks will only attack if they think they have the advantage so you have to do everything you can to make them think they are not safe when attacking you.

In the water:

1. Hit them with whatever you have.  Fists, camera’s, mining equipment…whatever.
2. Go for their eyes and gills.  These are the most sensitive areas on a shark.  The snout of a shark is not as sensitive but if you have no other choice then hit them there.  Remember: eyes and gills, eyes and gills.
3. Hit them repeatedly as hard as you can.

On land:

1. Run away from the shark.  Sharks are notoriously slow runners on land.
2. From a distance, show them you are carrying tartar sauce, (always carry tartar sauce just in case).  The shark knows you mean business if you’re holding a bottle of Hellmann’s.
3. Call Aquaman.  Aquaman has rapport with most species of shark and can save you from embarrassing bite marks.

I hope you never need to fend off a shark but if you do hopefully this helps.

Best of luck!

David

See?  I even edited the copy/paste code to used rel=”nofollow”

Bow to me.
David

Nearly everybody faces financial difficulty at one point in their financial  lifetime. As a result, bad-debt will likely arise.  A person may somehow confront these drawbacks because of employment loss,  separation, bereavement or just plain very poor individual money management.  Small companies traditionally run into these needs in the initial two years of operation.  To blame for a venture failing can extend from greater competition, accidents, loss of sizable account to name some.  No matter the reason, bad-debt could possibly lead to insolvency. But, there are alternatives to bankruptcy that may save your personal credit  or your company credit standing.

Insolvency is regularly defined as unable of a person or a partnership to satisfy monies owed to their creditors. When an individual files, the debtor  (the establishment or you) is required to give up all unexempt real property and assets for cut-rate sale. While personal items are kept, you have to also subscribe a bound portion of your earned income to the creditors based on repayment program. Your credit report scores will be very low for a long time, which implies that you will not be capable to find financing for any private or business stake for a extended period of time.

The headaches and strain made because of these unpaid financial responsibilities can be weighty, to say the least, especially when a thought of filing insolvency crawls in to your psyche. In these state of affairs, it is crucial to realize that you have got choices. It is all important to seek out the options, such as a fiscal advisory who can produce a debt liquidation program for you.

If you are inquiring why a lender will want to work with you to resolve the debt consider that settlement is an alternative for them as well.  In certain bankruptcy judgments a bank holding unsecured paper may receive nothing.  However, when their client works out a settlement they will at least recover some, if not all, of the debt they hold.  Consider also that when you add up the interest that has been paid already along with the late fees and over the limit fees they may have charged, the bank could be money ahead even before the settlement.

Anyway, jump ahead now about a year.  I’m searching all over for a pen.  I grabbed a handful of penography from the mug and sifted them around in my hands.  No pen.  However, there are 2 pen caps, 4 highlighters, 4 whiteboard markers, 3 Sharpies, a broken pencil, an empty pentel, a Windows key from my keyboard, a baby phillips head screwdriver, and a picture of my dad and his cat.

WTF.  Right?

Ok…go do something else now.

David

This is only a test.

That’s part of Rex’s point too; this line summed up Web 2.0 perfectly:

“Web 2.0, which meant anything, so therefore meant — and still means — nothing.”

To this day I’m trying to define Web 2.0.  I twittered the question but didn’t get much of a response. I blogged about it and had no comments.  After I posted a video on Youtube and uploaded a podcast, I still had questions. I checked out a local meetup but nobody could give me a solid definition. I read Wikipedia on the subject but it only had guidelines for identifying characteristics. I give up. I’m headed over to Slashdot.

If you have a few minutes, pop over to Rex’s blog and have a read.

Also, somebody tweet me when they know the answer or when an upgrade is released.

Thanks,

David

PS - sorry, I just felt like blogging even though I didn’t have much to say.  :/

Each bid costs $1 (one dollar), unless you buy bid credits in bulk.

Bidding on PushDeals.com is simple.

1. Sign up for an account
2. Add bid credits to your account via PayPal
3. Click on “Push to Bid” button

That’s all there is to it.  Bid increments 1¢ (one cent).  Each time a bidder clicks the Push to Bid button, the bid increases by a penny and the auction clock resets to 2 minutes.

Where the idea breaks down is when the auction is low.  Somebody who hopes to win a nice item on the cheap is going to be disapointed if you get in auction early and bid often.  At a dollar pop, it can get expensive.  So, basically, you’re hoping other people are going to bid up the item for you so you can grab it at the end.

The X-Box auction took as long as 13 hours and 54minutes to finish…probably less because bidders bid before each 2 minute countdown is finished.  We can round down and say that it was about 12 hours to close the auction.  So, the community basically bought somebody an X-Box 360 Elite for four hundred seventeen dollars.

Still, it’s an interesting idea.  I’m crossing my fingers that bid for 37 cents on an Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device holds up…oh…never mind;  I guess I have to bid again. 

Regards,

David