Baby Boomers Embracing Mobile Technology

Though younger consumers remain at the forefront of mobile technology adoption, Baby Boomers are also embracing mobile - and their behavior is surprisingly similar to younger users’, according to a new study from InsightExpress.

Approximately 80% of all respondents (2015 mobile respondents contacted in July 2007) reported owning a mobile phone, with mobile adoption spread relatively equally across generations: Gen Y (those age 18-24) leads the pack at 85%, followed closely by Gen X (25-44) at 82%, younger Baby Boomers (45-54) at 80%, and older Baby Boomers (55-64) at 79%.

Other findings from the study:
Over half of Gen Y-ers and 37% for Gen X-ers plan to upgrade their device in the next year or so, and 30% of younger Boomers and almost a quarter (24%) of older Boomers plan to upgrade in the next year.
Although more Gen Y-ers and Gen X-ers have feature-packed phones that allow the user to connect to people and information in a variety of ways, the Boomers are not too far behind:
51% of Gen Y-ers say they have phones that can access the mobile internet, followed by 47% of Gen X-ers, 39% of younger Boomers and 32% of older Boomers.
75% of younger Boomers have text-messaging capabilities, 54% have ring tones, and 52% have camera phones.
Gen Y sends the most text messages (43% text on a daily basis), but Boomers are taking up this relatively new mode of communication as well: 16% of younger Boomers and 10% of older Boomers text daily.
The Boomers are also not that far behind Gen Y in daily mobile internet access: 8% of Gen Y accesses the mobile Internet daily, as do 4% of younger Boomers and 3% of older Boomers.
Gen Y is more apt to send and receive text messages while driving, but significant numbers from all generations do so as well, despite some state laws against such behavior: 47% of Gen Y-ers, 42% of Gen X-ers, 37% of younger Boomers and 28% of older Boomers admit to texting while driving.
Two in five Gen Y-ers (40%) using the mobile internet recall seeing some type of advertisement on their phone, and one in four (25%) older mobile users recall seeing ads on their phone.

Old Song, Same Message, New Lesson

This song is interesting. It just popped into my head a few days ago, and it wouldn't stop playing. So I blogged it to get my head clear. There's a lesson in it. But read the entire song so that you don't get the wrong idea.

Everything you "hide" from children, they'll go looking for later in life.

There But For The Grace Of God Go I
By "Machine"

Carlos and Carmen Vidal
just had a child
A lovely girl with a crooked smile
Now they gotta split
'cause the Bronx ain't fit
For a kid to grow up in
Let's find a place they say,
somewhere far away
With no Blacks, no Jews and no Gays

Chorus:
There but for the grace of God go I

Poppy and the family left the dirty streets
To find a quiet place overseas
And year after year the kid has to hear
The do's the don'ts and the dears
And when she's ten years old
she digs that rock 'n' roll
But Poppy bans it from home

Chorus:
There but for the grace of God go I

Baby, she turns out to be
A natural freak
Popping pills and smoking weed
And when she's sweet sixteen
she packs her things and leaves
With a man she met on the street
Carmen starts to bawl,
bangs her head to the wall
Too much love is worse
than none at all...

Spirituality Is Logical

The brain is a complex computer. Consciousness arises as the by-product of the firing of a complex interconnectivity of neurons, basically a neural-net computer, operating at the quantum level. Meaning that we normally create new thoughts and ideas randomly.

Home Office

My Home Office looks like an Call Center... Lol.

Just me again

You Have To Believe - You Never Know

What are the chances that the little red haired girl one day inherits a
fortune from a forgotten uncle ?
Who's to say that the one guy that failed his final exam turns
everything around and starts a Multi-Billion dollar company ?
After the furtune's been made, who are their friends ? The ones that
they will share success with ?
NOT the ones who didn't believe in them.
NOT the ones that laughed at their dreams.
NOT the ones that wouldn't even notice them.

The friends of these people who succeed when everyone thought they would
fail are the "believers". Nothing is guaranteed, but if you believe in
someone, and they know you support them, there's a chance that they will
eventually succeed, and maybe you can benefit from their success.
Everyone says "money doesn't matter". Until one of their friends turns
up in the winners circle. Then you see the change. Critics become
supporters, and all of a sudden, everyones happy for you. Even the ones
that never helped, or spent most of the time telling you how wrong you
are. Now they say. "I was just joking, I knew you could do it.".

The "Believers" are the ones that lend support, and help if they can,
regardless of success or failure. Because you ner know which way the
ball will roll.

Actual Stupid Questions Asked

The below excerpts appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune. They were taken
from real court records.

Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, in most
cases he just passes quietly away and doesn't know anything about it
until the next morning?

Q: What happened then?
A: He told me, he says, "I have to kill you because you can identify
me."
Q: Did he kill you?

Was it you or your brother that was killed in the war?

The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?

Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?

Were you alone or by yourself?

Q: I show you Exhibit 3 and ask you if you recognize that picture?
A: That's me.
Q: Were you present when that picture was taken?

Were you present in court this morning when you were sworn in?

Q: You say that the stairs went down to the basement?
A: Yes.
Q: And these stairs, did they go up also?

Q: Now then, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

Q: Do you know how far pregnant you are now?
A: I'll be three months on March 12th.
Q: Apparently then, the date of conception was around January 12th?
A: Yes.
Q: What were you doing at that time?

Do you have any children or anything of that kind?

Was that the same nose you broke as a child?

Q: Mrs. Jones, do you believe you are emotionally stable?
A: I used to be.
Q: How many times have you committed suicide?

So, you were gone until you returned?

You don't know what it was, and you didn't know what it looked like, but
can you describe it?

Q: Have you lived in this town all your life?
A: Not yet.

A Texas attorney, realizing he was on the verge of unleashing a stupid
question, interrupted himself and said, "Your Honor, I'd like to strike
the next question."

Q: Do you recall approximately the time that you examined that body of
Mr. Huntington at St. Mary's Hospital?
A: It was in the evening. The autopsy started about 5:30 P.M.
Q: And Mr. Huntington was dead at the time, is that correct?
A: No, you idiot, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was
performing an autopsy on him!