Sometimes I go weeks without dreaming, which is fine by me and then other times I canÂ’t get to sleep because all I do every time I close my eyes is dream. And theyÂ’re not pleasant dreams either. Sometimes itÂ’s things that will happen to people in the next few days (like getting into a car accident or suffering a fall), other times itÂ’s things that will happen farther into the future and that are equally sad. One thingÂ’s for sure, itÂ’s not a restful nightÂ’s sleep.

Well, Sunday night was one of those nights in which I havce one dream after another. No sooner would I relax long enough after waking up suddenly from one of these dreams that I'd drift off to sleep to dream another dream about someone new. Luckily for me though, none of the dreams were tragic. Though some of the dreams were sad, none were of a serious nature to humans, so in my book they really canÂ’t be considered nightmares.

The truly tough part comes in deciding whether or not I should mention something to the person I dreamt about, or whether I should wait and see if the situation will begin to unfold just as I dreamt it. What stops me from sharing my knowledge with each person, well, there's alway that little thing called choice that each of us have.

You remember one of the laws of Physics, don't you? For every action, there's equal and opposite reaction. Well, since my thoughts and actions, whether I share them or not, will have a ripple effect on others, I sometimes wait and see if a person will conciously make choices that will draw them to the scene or event in my dream or whether their choices will take them in a different direction.

If they don't head in a different direction, then there's no sense in me saying anything anyway because the choices they made altered their destiny and the chances of my dream event happening are small to nil.

So tonight, to assure myself that everyone was well, I decided to call on some of those people that I dreamt with and see if any of them should be told about my dream. Well, to my surprise everyone I called was either watching Jack Bauer/24 or about to and so they couldn't talk anyway. Since none of my dreams were life altering, I decided to let things go for now. However, curiousity got the better of me and I turned the show on to see what I was missing. Sadly, it turns out nothing.

To say I was disappointed is to put it mildly. Why, you might ask? Well, not only was I able to figure out an action before it happened, the story line also had more holes in it than a sieve. DonÂ’t even let me get started with the repeated network security breaches that I saw, because in the real world, half of the staff, would either be fired or taken out in handcuffs, whether they were duped or were the culprits themselves. Sorry, but I give more credit to the NSA than this show does. IÂ’ll just leave it at that. Now I think IÂ’ll go to bed and try and catch up on some much needed sleep.

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Sorry for not responding to the excellent comments I received in the previous post, but I've been in court for the past 2 days and there's still a few more to come. Which means that each night we review that day's occurrences and strategize for the following day. It's all stressful, time consuming and makes me glad every single moment I'm there that I am not a litigator. That takes a very special talent which I thankfully don't posses.

I will respond as soon as I'm able. Hopefully by Saturday, till then enjoy life

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1 Well, I didn't leave a comment yesterday, but I'm leaving one now. But.... from where? **ahem**

Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 12, 2006 09:56 PM (MlTWc)

2 Jealous... I wish I could sit in on court precedings.

Posted by: Contagion at January 14, 2006 12:38 AM (e8b4J)

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New YearÂ’s a year for taking stock of the past, so we can learn from it and look forward to the year ahead with a little more wisdom and understanding. Last year I made a few predictions which garnered a lot of criticism and some hate mail from people across the blogosphere. IÂ’m sure this year will be no different. The one prediction (made in 2004) that garnered the most hate mail was "Dan Rather would be forced to retire as a result of his overzealous (and often inaccurate) coverage/portrayal of Bush and his record."

This year I've expanded my predictions to include some items that are Odd & Humorous... so here goes:

Ohh, before I forget... the legalese: The information contained here is a by product of Michele's opinion and research. If you take what's contained herein as Gospel truth, then you should contact me immediately because there's some wonderful illegal outsider information on some bridge shares in Brooklyn that you should consider buying. more...

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They say imitation is the higest form of a complement some one can give you, so here's this chap, who has recently adopted the premise of my blog and publishes his email correspondence.

Though we have nothing in common, especially politics - since he's a socialist- he still finds my site interesting. Well, I'm pleased, Sgt. Hook and Harvey did that for me, and now we've almost come full circle. All that's left is his education (not indoctrination as they do in the socialist movement) on democracy and the principles of capitalism.

Update: After an email discussion with Bou I decided to share with you a decent translation utility from Google that might help you all. Here's the link to the translated site.

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1 Too bad there isn't a translation doohickie thing for those of us that can't read his language! Bah! I'll have to take your word.

Posted by: Bou at January 07, 2006 07:41 PM (iHxT3)

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Tech Tuesday - Live Treo Blogging

Tadaa! I'm blogging straight to Munu from my Treo phone, something I've wanted to do for some time. This will be a work in progress, so please be patient!

Some time ago, when I first got my nifty little smartphone, one of my dreams was for Treo users to be able to blog easily and navigate through sites as if they were using their PC's. In doing so one of my hopes was that it would redirect technological research to expand the horizons of mobile users and the web.

Well, ever so slowly it's coming to pass. I have 2 people to thank for this little post. The first person I need to thank is my blog brother Jon, of We Swear. He and I had a phone conversation, (while he was visiting NY in July) on how he wished he could blog from his PDA about his NY/NJ trip while commuting back to NJ. His major complaint was not having the ability to blog due to the time constraints on him and his limited PC access. When he got home he began to blog less and I thought to explore PDA blogging for our mutual benefit, so that our sites wouldn't languish and become part of the abandoned blog statistics.

I tested a few applications to see if it could be done, after all my Treo was able to handle everything else so far, except make me a sandwich. There were no good solutions for the blogging platform he uses. I however, fell in love with the opportunity to blog directly and seamlessly from my Treo to Blogger and used my camera on my cell to revive an old love of photography. The result was my companion site, NYC Postcards, which has been linked to by About.com, and several major European travel sites. Actually, in the short time that site's been up it's garnered more hits than my .munu blog. Go figure.

But the 2nd, and most important person I have to thank is Eric of Eric's Grumbles Before the Grave. He has helped me to search for a solution and has painstakenly tested out several in the hope of blogging directly to his site. He's gone out and not only done research, but also tested some of these apps on his own time and pocket. He not only came up with the template for Munuvians to use. He also discovered that Google recently developed "a WML gateway. It works in your regular browser OR your [web enabled phone] browser" so that it converts "any HTML page into WML" enabling anyone to view web pages easily on their phone." Just input the following URL and add the URL of the page you want to view through your phone at the end. He put my url at the end so I can easily see it. I have enabled the link so you can see what I see on my phone.

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://lettersfromnyc.mu.nu

In doing all of this he's made all our sites easier for PDA users to read. Now you can put a link on your site so that PDA users can download or email the appropriate link to their phones and view any blog more easily.

I'm very grateful for all he's done as he's made this medium available to those overseas by simply sharing this information. You see in many countries in Asia, blogging and reading of sites is done via a small phone interface. His template has enabled my small European and Asian readership to see/read my site easily and without crashing. They are grateful for his efforts too.

So stay tuned as Eric pushes the envelope of Technology in small ways with big results. Don't believe me... then you need to read Eric's post on Technology and Liberty. He writes eloquently about the importance and role of Technology in extending our freedoms. These are the very reasons I am so passionate about pushing the limits of technology. If there's only one post you read this week, I suggest you read that post!

ps. I went in directly after my initial Vagablog transmission to update this post via my pc. Sorry, had too much to say.

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