Inside the 2011 Search for Miss Teen Canada World Saturday July 9th was a very special Registration Day for at least seventy five participants in the 2011 Search for Miss Teen Canada – World, as one by one teen girls age 14-18 from all across Canada checked their luggage into the sponsor hotel in downtown Toronto to start their week long adventure. One at a time they met each other in the lobby and corridors the massive historic hotel complex at the base of the city. In the antechamber of one of the enormous ballrooms, they found Michelle Weswaldi and lined up there to present her with their head shots, and CDs filled with pictures, videos and audio that they recorded at home in which they demonstrate their acting, singing and special skills for the upcoming talent show. After a brief question and answer with the Pageant Director they went… Read more »
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At the start of this month, Microsoft Corporation posted a five minute video that visualizes the year 2019. Because it’s Microsoft, it shows a lot of gadgets. The irony of the situation for me is that I’m trying to use my Smojoe blog software to embed the video right here in this post, and I have… succeeded! Now I have to erase and rewrite everything I wrote about how technology fails people that are too cheap, dumb and lazy to utilize the software‘s most basic functionality. But the lesson remains – don’t give up. Just keep trying and you will eventually succeed, and perhaps you will get to live the dream presented here: The video was debuted at Wharton Business Technology Conference on Feb 27th, 2009. The media is titled 2019, and now I shouldn’t have to remind you that’s only ten years away. Arthur C. Clarke once said, “any… Read more »