Monthly Archives: May 2006

Thoughts

Is it me or do these logos look similar?

Just had a look at a new handheld phone review from Engadget Mobile called the Helio Kickflip, and the logo looked very similar to something I’d seen before… Could it be? Well, here they are, side by side, for comparison purposes.

The logo on the left belongs to the phone, and the one on the right is the FeedBurner logo. I’ve been using – and loving the functionality of – FeedBurner for several months now. Photo of Helio Kickflip packaging courtesy of Engadget, and FeedBurner logo courtesy of FeedBurner.

What do you think?

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Hurrah!!! ComeAcross is alive!

ComeAcross is live and well, thanks to a few days of feverish work! I am deeply grateful to my beautiful wife, for helping me sort through all of the content and helping me link and categorize it! Love ya, sweetie! 😉

Those of you wondering why I’m calling this site new when it’s chock full of content, take a peek at this. This is, indeed a brand new site, in many, wonderful ways! So put on a propeller beanie, folks, and sing for joy, because our new, “free for all to use and enjoy” site is up and running! Okay, if you won’t put on the beanie, I won’t mind, but at least belt out a couple of verses from your favorite song. Come on, do it like you’re in the shower!

Here on ComeAcross, you’ll find all sorts of interesting information such as “Pigs in a Polka“, all categorized, searchable, and updated regularly with new, “fresh as the spring air” content. As a matter of fact, I’d be tickled pink if you thought of this site as a source of information from now on, and came back often to see what’s cooking!

➡ Updated 2/17/08: I’ve changed my site’s name to my own since I published this. This site could initially be found at comeacross.info. It is now found at raoulpop.com, which is where you are right now.

This site has been a labor of love for me, and it represents the culmination of years of publishing articles and other information on the web, for various of my sites. I was finally able to put together a great site with a single, large collection of content, where users can interact with each other and discuss the topics presented, thanks to a wonderful CMS/platform called WordPress. It would have taken me several months of coding to get this site going without WordPress, so the amazing capabilities of this platform can’t be underestimated.

Please, pull up a chair and enjoy! If you like it, spread the word! If you don’t, still spread the word, maybe others will! 🙂

Thanks!

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Quote for today

“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” — George Burns

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Reviews

One in a Million (1936)

One in a MillionJust saw “One in a Million” (1936), and was amazed by the harmonica players. Found out they’re called Borrah Minevitch’s Rascals. The movie is worth watching just for them. They play in the party scene, when Adolphe Menjou, as Tad Spencer, throws a party for Greta Muller, played by Sonja Henie, before the Olympic Games.

Don Ameche, one of my favorite actors, sings, then in come the Rascals. Great fun! If you have a chance, watch the movie. It’s also worth seeing so one can compare what was thought of as great skating back then, with what is considered great now. Big difference! The skaters of today have their work cut out for them! Incidentally, I think Adolphe Menjou and Richard Haydn looked very similar. As I watched the movie, I kept confusing Menjou with Haydn, in his part as Max Detweiler in “The Sound of Music” (1965). I kept asking myself how he could look the same thirty years later…

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