INDIGO GIRL

‘ve lost count of how many times I have had this email from various addresses and I have reported it countless times. These people must be totally deranged. My daughters and I laugh at the variation of stories that come through and the total lack of knowledge that lies behind them. I guess it makes a little light relief to all those Guru launches that are also driving me mad at the moment!

To whoever writes or circulates the following type of email, all I can say is come on guys get a grip and stop trying to scam people:

—–Original Message—–
From: MR. TERRY DOANLD [mailto:tgoves@amerion.com]
Sent: 04 June 2009 06:36
Subject: OUR BUSINESS IN AMERICA

Re. OUR BUSINESS TRANSACTION
Minerva House Third Floor
London, SE1 9DH
United Kingdom

This letter might also come to you as a surprise but it is coming with the best of intentions and will be of mutual benefit to all the parties involved. I am Terry Donald  the chief security officer to the former LIBERIAN PRESIDENT CHARLES TAYLOR here after referred to as my client I am writing to solicit your assistance to secure funds that are already in the states now! with a security company. The fund in question is a total of $5,000,000 (Five Million United States Dollars) in $100 bills and stashed in Two trunk boxes and was shipped out of Liberia through a diplomatic means by a security company and they are not aware of the real content of the boxes for security reasons.

The boxes are already in The states (USA) and under the custody of a security company.I am looking For your assistance in getting the boxes out from the security company and securing the funds, we will give you 10%of the total fund.

NOTE: There is no risk involved in this project because I am involved as my Client confidant. Please you should keep this transaction a top secret as we are prepared to do more business with you pending your approach towards this project.

I await your urgent response.

Thanks.
Mr. Terry Donald
URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE

As we all know Twitter is a fantastic for social networking but it can be a little hard to manage once you have a few followers. The basic interface is not overly helpful but there is plenty of free help out there, here are the 5 applications that I find easiest to instal and use and that gives the best overall experience:

Tweet Deck – This is my current favourite desktop client for Twitter. It can be fairly memory hungry but it allows you to sort the people that you follow into groups. This enables you to easily categorise people into topics i.e. business, personal, IT or whatever designation you want and then you get the filtered results and are less likely to miss an important Tweet. It also allows you to update your Facebook status, create shortened urls, share photos, share videos, carry out searches and lots more!

Twitterlator – Another devine application for the stunning piece of kit that is the iPhone. You can extend the functionality to a pro application but that isn’t really necessary unless you are a Twitter power user.

photo credit: //amy//

Well the training is under way for my daughters and I. All three of us will be taking part in the Cancer Research UK – Race for Life. We will be running, well jogging, the circuit at Blackheath, London on 5th July 2009.

We are going to give it a trial run this Saturday let’s hope that we don’t have scorching hot sunshine like we did last Saturday or we may get burned to a crisp! It’s a really great cause so if you know anyone that is taking part please sponsor them or take part yourself you can find more information here.

I’ll let you know how the first effort pans out!

An Indigo Girl

It’s funny how you think that things have changed and then it dawns on you that they haven’t at all. A great example of this is my use of the English Language.

I grew up in London, UK in the 1970s. My parents were middle class liberals so language wise I was always allowed to express my views in a colourful manner. They drew a line at the use of imported slang or cultural expletives. Don’t get me wrong there are words that I do not like or use and most of my explitives begin with the letter “B”.

Throughout my life swearing in context has always been a part of the way that I express myself. So common place is it that my mother in law who abhors swearing turned to me one day and said “You are the only person that I know, that when they say that word it doesn’t sound vulgar at all”.  This comment was made to me in my mid-twenties by which time both my parents had passed away and I am sure my language, as a result of this, had taken in some of the newer imports.

Then my children came along and I saw no reason to modify my language. I have always brought my children up to express themselves freely. Imagine my surprise now that my children are teenagers and I find myself censored yet again. I am banned from using certain language and as before it’s not the traditional English expletives that have gone by the wayside. This time though the ban is because I am too old to use such terms and it causes them severe embarrassment.

Some words that currently reside on this list are (yes there is a list), ghetto fabulous, chillax, brapp, groovy, stylee, blood, shucks, rad, rahh, and  there is even some debate currently the word “trippin” although my daughter is at a loss to provide an alternative for this one! Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!