Julie Stotler

Wii, The gift that keeps on giving to Nintendo. Last month, Nintendo sold 981,000 of the Wii systems @ $250 each.

That is a total of $245,250,000. Not bad for months work. If you want to find a Wii, you can check BensBargains.net. Bens Bargains are currently tracking: TMX Elmo, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Elite, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS, Apple iPhone, RAZR 2, New iPods.

Meow! How funny is that. Clone the kitty and make it glow.

The AP Reported today that South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays,

What will this mean for the Chinese Food industry?!

I would like to strongly encourage our CIS majors to look into a career in programming and engineering communication devices for the disabled. I know many children and adults who are disabled physically but are incredibly bright.

The young adults who are disabled are just as much interested in chatting, networking, web surfing and communicating with the world as their non-disabled counterparts.

Go to the Rehab Tool Website to get an idea of what Assistive Technology is about. The University of Michigan offers a Graduate Rehab Engineering Program. There are many great graduate and fellowship programs that could use highly skilled techno geeks!!

Yes, I'm Christmas shopping while I blog, watch football and do laundry.

If you want a computer or a combo set for kids. Check out kidcomputers.com.

My 8 yr old princess asked for the Pink PC with the 23" LCD Wide Screen HDTV Monitor also in pink. I think I will just give her pink coal.

A 22 year old man received an $85,000 cell phone bill last week. The man thought he had signed up for Bell Canada's cellular phone service at about 150 dollars per month, with unlimited mobile Web browsing.

He used the phone to connect his pc to the internet and the web surfing and downloading began. Bell Canada adjusted his charges down to approx. $3,000 but the funny thing is Bell Canada has shut his phone off for being $100 over his $150 plan and never said a word about him being $85,000 over.

Lesson Learned... Know what you are signing up for.

Rated by PC World, these are the Top 5 Techno Gadget Gifts for this Christmas Season.

1. SanDisk's Sansa Clip, it's smaller than a box of wooden matches yet capable of holding 15 hours of music, It has a spring-loaded clip. The Sansa Clip plays MP3s, secure and DRM-free WMA files, and Audible books; it's also compatible with Napster to Go, and sports an FM tuner and a voice recorder.

2. The USB 180° Revolving Hub, however, is an ingenious solution. The multicolored dingus looks like a string of children's blocks, with one USB 2.0 port in each of the first four cubes. Cubes #1 and #2 each rotate 180 degrees, so you can plug superwide USB dongles into the top and back, leaving the last two ports free for less outsize connectors. AC and USB power connectors in the fifth cube complete the puzzle.

3. Mighty Ducks Mouse Uncommon Goods' Rubber Ducky Optical Mouse features the familiar yellow waterfowl bobbing in an aqua-colored pond at the base of the 4.5-inch unit.

4. Wi Fi Detector Shirt. Put on Think Geek's stylish black Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt ($30), and you can warwalk. Electric blue bars on the front light up when you encounter a wireless network

Think Geek - Stuff for the Smart Masses

5. USB Mini Fridge: For those of you who just have to do the Dew. USB Mini Fridge draws just enough power to chill one 12-ounce can of soda (or perhaps another beverage of your choice) to about 48 degrees Fahrenheit

According to NORAD officials, the North American Aerospace Defense Command is gearing up for another year of tracking Santa on his annual trip to homes around the world.

Last year, 756 volunteers answered 65,355 phone calls between 2 a.m. Christmas Eve and 2 a.m. Christmas Day.

NORAD volunteers received calls from every state in the U. S., with the most callers phoning in from Texas, California and Florida.

Get your techy kids ready and save www.noradsanta.org on your favorites. You can select the language in which you would like to receive information. Pretty Darn Cute!

So, I"m on the 20+year plan for getting my degree at EMU. I have been a general business major, and accounting major, a managment major and now finally an AIS major. I have a good job, but I really need my degree in order to move around within or externally from my company. Here is the dilemma. If I switch from AIS to Gen Bus. I can finish my degree in 4 classes. If I stay on with AIS, I have around 8 classes to take. My dilemma is that I really like all the techy stuff. I'm not very good at it yet, but I could be if I had more hours.

I wish someone would just pay me to go to school for the rest of my life. :O)

I have a friend who has a very large training manual that he would like to put into an interactive gaming format.

Notes from the trainer:
Here is the story. In a little over a couple weeks I have to be in Calif. for training on Miyachi Weld equipment, share a proposal with them to allow me convert their equipment training manuals to power point training, and to teach them about PLC (programmable logic controllers) from my power point program of 614 slides plus other stuff. Anyhow I think if I can share the presentation with “Merlin” it will be more interesting. I have zipped the power point presentation & attached it for you to look at.

You can find out about “Merlin” at http://www.deskbot.com/ and MASH (Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper). I already downloaded the MASH FULL SETUP 7.5 MB .

I want to learn how to do this because I also want to incorporate it in my 10 training programs, 2 books on World Class Maintenance I wrote and many of Miyachi equipment manuals. You can see my web site at www.bottomlinetrainingsolutions.com

If anyone is interested, please contact me. kochj@umich.edu

In response to Ray, I've got the book. I'll share. It's the least I can do.