Meryl's Notes Blog

W00t! I love 8/8/08. Too bad I couldn’t make anything special happen today. So I’ll have to settle for sharing great links instead!

Let the games begin!

• 21 Online Free Web-Based Applications
• The Real Problem with PowerPoint
• 24 Things to do When Stuck for a Topic to Blog about Blog Post Idea Farm…: Personally, best tip is to stock up on entries when you’re in that write frame of mind. I haven’t been in the write frame of mind due to personal commitments and can’t expand on any of the ideas I have piled up.
• Should you write to women differently than men? Admit it… women like emotional words while men like aggressive, matter of fact speak. I attended a conference made primarily of women and a speaker said that women are emotional. The men laughed, but we all admitted it’s true. Look, I believe in not treating pink stuff as girlie and blue stuff and boyish — but after having a girl and two boys (and the boys are different from each other), nature controls some things including gender preferences. I’ve seen many studies show how boys tend to talk with action and girls sit together facing each other while talking with many words.
• Ready for the Olympics? Get ready with 8 Attributes of an Olympic Mind Set — works for any career including writing.

For fun because we’re allowed…

• Smallest solar racing car: I LOVE remote controlled toys. It’s the only thing I consistently played with in my childhood (No dollies for me) and still play in my mamahood. My son received a remote control boat for his birthday and we love playing with it in the pool. Someday, I plan to get a helicopter — not a little one that flies in the house and you can barely control.
• Passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive notes)
• Raising Small Souls’ “Animal School” teaches a valuable lesson. As I mentioned before, my son’s medical program takes up a lot of my time these days and this movie is exactly about what we’re trying to do for him.