Everyone is looking for a way to lose weight or looking for a way to lose some calories, well.. today I found something amazing. It’s called Truvia, it’s made in joint partnership between Coca-Cola and Cargill. It’s a new natural sweetner made from Stevia leafs, I can’t wait to get the samples in the mail. I’ll let you guys know what I think!

Anyone tried this yet???

That’s how long I had SocialBrowse (a Firefox plugin) installed before I uninstalled it. I installed the beta of SocialBrowse and everything seemed okay for a few seconds and then I was flooded with “follower” requests or whatever they’re called and emails to go with them, and started seeing comments from my new followers without me approving them or anything. No thanks, uninstalled. Feel differently? Post in the comments.

Looks like oil is holding stedy, praise the Lord. I saw $3.67 this weekend, I couldn’t believe it, after being $4.09 last week.

NOTE: This crude oil price shows the most up-to-date price, it has changed since I first posted this.

Today I learned about Plaid Nation ‘08 Tour and how they’re traveling the nation on the West Coat, very cool. I live in Georgia, why don’t you guys come down here? Pretty please, with sugar on top— and bring some of that good Jones Soda (above) with you.

I’ve been attending Columbus State University for some while now and I love it. It’s been a great school, great teachers, great technology, everything couldn’t be better but when it came to Student ID’s they thought “Hey. Let’s make the Student ID cards a credit card. Yeah! That would be awesome”

So our student ID cards look and act like credit cards, debit cards, whatever you want them to do. When we pay too much money or HOPE (a grant by the GA state lottery)  gives us money for books they transfer the money to this card.

It seems like such a great idea, right? Well, my girlfriend got her money back for dropping a class two summers ago and it was $100, and she didn’t know they weren’t going to just send her a check, so over a year has gone by and she looked at her account today and they’ve been taking out $19 a month (since 9 months of inactivity) so now her $100 is down to $55 dollars in just two months. Why would you do that?

The account HAS to stay open if it has $0 or $1,000,000 because thats where the school puts all your extra money, meal plans, etc. - so why charge a fee for letting $100 sit there for 11 months? That’s stupid. Really stupid.

Does your college do this? Hopefully not. I’m sure I’ll have more CSU fail stories this fall.

I’ve been on the internet for years and I’ve never understood one thing. When you’re talking to people on message boards or FriendFeed or whatever. Why do people say “My email address is amyers (at) gmail (dot) com” ??? I get that people think that if they spell it out that spammers can’t get you but I’ve got Gmail and its SPAM filter, add me to your SPAM list, I’d LOVE to be on it. Gmail will catch the SPAM and I will never ever see it, so I think the internet has evolved enough that everyone can (stop) using all the braces. Am I asking too much?

I’ve been using Gmail since it first came out years and years ago. I bought my e-mail address invite off eBay for $20+ dollars because I knew that if Google was behind an e-mail program, I wanted to be apart of it.

I registered and then fell in love. It’s been the best thing to ever happy to e-mail for me, it took me away from my ISP people, work e-mail EVERYTHING.

When Gmail does things for me without me ever asking, it makes me a very happy user. Like today, I got an e-mail that had an e-mail attachment that wanted to take over my computer, so Gmail kept it far-far-away from my computer:

Features like this and the active developments that Gmail is making an an ESP (e-mail service provider) make me a happy customer, thank you Gmail. I love you. XOXOXOXO

Okay, sorry for not posting much. I’ve got backed-up posts due to lack of internet in the mountains. Please let me know what you guys are doing this summer, I’d love to talk. AIM: aaronm313 Gtalk: amyers@gmail.com Email: amyers@gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/amyers FriendFeed: friendfeed.com/amyers … If I’m leaving anything out, let me know. I’m sure I’ve got an account.

I’ve been on vacation since Wednesday, sorry for the lack of posts. If you’ve got any cool news make sure to send it over to amyers@gmail.com!