Brian Hale-Yeah!'s blog

Welcome

My TypePad blog started getting spammed so I'm switching over to WordPress for now. I haven't done too much work on it yet. Mainly, I've just moved over all the old posts. Thanks for updating all your links and bookmarks!

Uh oh

Apparently my blog got spammed. Sorry if you saw the last two posts. I am moving my blog to a new provider anyway. It's not really ready yet but the address is:
http://haleyeah.wordpress.com

It ' s official...

...my parents are old!

They have two kids who have graduated college!

Facebook Empire

You have a Facebook right? It's part of our culture. You here people say, "Yeah, I facebooked them and they are totally fat now!" or "on facebook last night I..." it's amazing. It's taken over. I even heard a guy call it "F Booking" which sounded really crass, but try it, it's much easier to say. 

When I was standing in line to sign up Kiara for Kindergarten I had a "Facebook" conversation with some soccer moms that made me think it's really not that cool anymore. But, until someone starts the next underground social network, it's what I'll use to connect to people with.

Anyway, being the finance geek I am, I subscribe to Fortune magazine and they had this article with the Creator of Facebook and were talking about it's rise. I know that the population has increased greatly in the last century, but these numbers are still crazy to look at. 

This is how long it took some of the major inventions in the last 150 years to reach 150,000,000 users:

 

telephone: 1876 to 1965 = 89 years

television: 1928 to 1966 = 38 years

cell phone: 1983 to 1997 = 14 years

iPod: 2001 to 2008 = 7 years

Facebook: 2004 to 2009 = 5 years

Quick test

Installed a new app on my iPhone. Making sure it works

Test

Yes pos from iPhone

Test from iPhone

Test

My friend... Bogie

  [caption id="attachment_11" align="alignleft" width="450" caption="me and my friend"][/caption] Bogie and Becca came and visited and met Vienna for the first time. We don't have too many pictures together so I had Jacinda snap this one really quick.

what to do...

we're all sitting in our bed right now trying to decide what to do for the day. Our options feel awfully limited with a 5 year old, 2 year old, less than 2 week old and a mommy who is still recovering from massive surgery. 

movies? mall? park? hopefully we can get outside and see the sun for a bit!

My Baby