How funny that earlier this month I was talking about this with a friend of mine. With all of the disasters happening lately we were trying to decide where our donated money should be best given. The Red Cross was not one of our choices. The Los Angeles Times has a great opinion article on why not to give to the Red Cross. While the Red Cross has great brand recognition, most money given is not used to help the people most in need, but it is used mostly for administrative costs. Others have asked the Red Cross to share some of the money donated, you no one knows what will happen. If you want to donate, try the Salvation Army. One hundred percent of the money donated earmarked for disaster relief will go to hurricane relief. Otherwise you can try donating to many other nonprofits or local organizations in the effected areas who will better use the money. [Via]
Post-Katrina pics of New Orleans
The Google Blog is reporting that Google Maps has added Post-Katrina images of New Orleans taken Aug. 31. You can now zoom around and view the areas flooded with water.
Time Wasters
Miniclip’s Flash Sudoku and Poom have been sucking up some of my free time lately. Both are free, easy and fun games to play when you have some time to kill. Poom is the most addictive to me at the moment. Just trying to keep the ball bouncing in play can be hard when the tiles keep changing. Have fun and try them when you have some free time. Both were found via Download Squad.
What’s on your Start Menu?
“What’s on your Start Menu?” is a nice meme found over at Neil’s World. In Windows XP, the Start Menu shows most used/recently used programs on the left side. I use a few programs often on my computer and it is nice to easily get to them.
Finally!!
After a year of deciding and waiting, today was the day I planned for along time. It’s blue and has everything I want and much more. Now if I can figure out what all the buttons do. Time to read the manual.