Happy...and stupid :p

Starting this week, Tuesdays and Thrursdays, I'm going to watch Odyssey 5 again. I absolutely love Christopher Gorham (can you tell? LOL) and I haven't seen this show in a really long time. I've seen almost everything he's been in, on and off for the past years, but only seen Odyssey 5 once. I don't even remember what is about. Ok, kidding, I do remember what is about, but pretty much all the details are hazy. So I can't wait to see it again. The only thing I'm sorry about is that I had no idea AXN Sci Fi was showing it again, so I've missed so many episodes. Damn! As a Twitter hashtag says, #slapyourself Crys! LOL

If you love a good sci-fi, you really need to watch this show. If you're in Romania, catch it on AXN Sci Fi Tuesday and Thursday. Enjoy! I know I will!

PS: Blogger you suck for not allowing multiple posts on other pages than the Home page, booo! That's not nice!

The World...Every Day Smaller

I'm sure that if you're reading this blog entry you're basically just like me: spend a considerable amount of time on line, communicate with people in your life on a daily basis ...wait, what am I saying? You can do that even more often, with the help of the small device we all seem to love: our mobile phone, or simply via Internet, in an e-mail, on Facebook or Twitter and other social networks, and on top of that you can take the internet on the go, you don't just talk on that phone, you use it to stay on line. It's overwhelming how the world is getting smaller and smaller and we let ourselves carried away with it.

We take for granted our phones, our computers, the internet...we forget how it all started. We need it, I admit, and we went so far with it! Maybe too far?? Not so long  ago, in terms of history, a letter was the only way we could contact people that lived in another city, country, or even in our neighborhood. And when we sent a letter in another country, we'd have to wait for weeks for an answer. Today, we'd "freak out" if we had to wait for so long to hear from someone.

And to think it all started with the thin can telephone :) or "the lover's telephone", going through the electrical telegraph and finally to the telephone. I'm sure we all remember images like this :

or maybe this switchboard in an old movie:

And of course the old soon to be extinct all over the world pay phone:

Can you remember those times? Or do you need to ask your mother, father, grandmother or grandfather? I live still with pay phones around, but even those don't use coins like it used to be, they use cards. 

I'm excited to see where we're going with all this, split second communication... Are you? Should we jump into it head first? What do you think? 

Being Locked Out of Twitter

Last night I had such a scare. It was late, I was logged in with HootSuite as usual. Suddenly, no more tweets coming. The strange thing is one of the columns was still refreshing, one of my Twitter lists. But the rest, just this: "The Twitter credentials are not valid" or something close. Also advice to update my password in HootSuite if I've recently changed my Twitter pass. But I hadn't done that. So...what the hell was happening? I try to login again, same result.

I got on Twitter's web page to login: username and password not valid. Suddenly I got scared! What had happened? Was my account hacked?? And who in the world would want to hack my account, for what?! I try with Echofon, same, I try with Twhirl, same. At this point I was imagining someone starting to tweet from my account, making sick jokes to my friends or sending spam.


Turned to Twitter's support, letting them know about the situation, and I was still scared. What if they answered too late??? Meanwhile I was checking and refreshing my Twitter page over and over. I was scared of seeing tweets that weren't mine. I know it happened before. A friend's account was hacked a while a go. The hacker tweeted as my friend's mother, supposedly letting us know that she had died in a car crash! SICK!!! Of course, it was just a joke, but such a cruel twisted one!

Checked my mail, and found the reply from Twitter, but surprise, not only that. It seems around the time they locked me out, they also sent me a warning to change my password:

"Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser" and the link followed. I did it and immediately I was back in!

I have to say this was one of the scariest hours on the web for me! Ha, ha, ha! And I have no idea how it could have happened, I'm very careful with the apps I allow access to my account. BTW, I revoked access to all of them, the smart thing to do after this. I'll let back in the ones I trust :p

In the morning I was so relieved to see I could still log in and that nobody had tweeted while I was sleeping! All I can say, you can never be too careful with this! Be careful people, the web is full of wonders, but also of crazy sick people that have nothing better to do that mess with your mind and your web identity!

Little girls, fairy doors and magical dreams

Yesterday was a special day for me, not because of some celebration or appointment, but because of a really nice coincidence. I went to the market, as I usually do. I was checking some potatoes, when a little girl next to me started to shout:
"Mamaie, mamaie, uite, Tilincutza!"
that is: "Grannie, grannie, look, Tinkerbell!"
Her grandmother picked her up:
"What, sweetie, where?"
"Look, look!"
She was really excited and holy moly, I realized she was pointing at me! Her grandmother came closer and I did the same. She reached for my earrings and started to examine them, pulling my ears and saying:
- I like your magical earrings, Tinkerbell! They're very beautiful, and your pink wings with glitter!
At this pont I was laughing, so was her grandmother and a few people around us.
- So you like my earrings - I say.
- Yes!
- Do you want your own magical earrings?
- Yes, yes!
- Allright then, when you go back home, you'll find your own magical earrings there.
- Really?
- Yes.
She was happy and she was clapping her little hands. :) Her grandmother put her back down and I whispered to her where she could buy earrings like mine.
This is the first part of the coincidence. Back home, while on Twitter, Christopher Gorham posted this tweet, a fairy door for his boys, made so that he could bring back home for them a little bit of Ann Arbor. Seeing that, I remembered the little girl again and it made me smile. She made me feel good all day. Wow, how could a child think I was Tink? Haha! I was flattered. And last night, well, my mind combined the little girl plus Chris' fairy door and that's what I've dreamed: a magical dream, with kids, pink wings, glitter, butterflies, and even Peter. But I couldn't see his face, he had the cutest mask on.

In the morning I wanted to go back to sleep again. A little girl+a man and his fairy door+a crazy dream made me feel like child again. And it was so beautiful :))