http://rosedeshaw.com Bits Of My Life Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:18:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most Facebookers with 5 or 6 friends will never see the message so for their edification, here's what the warning says: "You are engaged in behaviour that may be considered annoying or abusive by other users. Facebook Systems determined that you were going too fast when adding friends. You must significantly ... http://rosedeshaw.com/warned-by-facebook/ Facebook is one of those experiences that will come to define a certain social phenomena in the world that caused a change in the way people think. Facebooks ending will be very hard on many people. At first I thought it might be dangerous. Now I think, 'no more dangerous ... http://rosedeshaw.com/facebook-and-i-midway-in-the-journey/ Woke up yesterday to read about cutbacks for Daycare and seniors The folks they figure who won't speak up. We've GOT to let them know they can't do this stuff.Let's keep the whole world from becoming just one vast corporation, eh? Or at least postpone it awhile. Below is a ... http://rosedeshaw.com/sing-against-privatizing/ Woke up to 2015 friends this morning but it's early days yet. That number seems to be feeding off itself. Funny, I don't feel any different. And how else could I end up with a considerable number of friends in India and other far off places? Sitting down to eat ... http://rosedeshaw.com/facebook-popular-culture-me-in-the-morning/ In the middle of my life, I found I was CELIAC, Thank heavens. What I’d been was sick which got worse and worse. I’d be bumbling along in my life and WHAMO! I’d get pains like lightning hit my stomach. Rolling around on the bathroom floor. They would last ... http://rosedeshaw.com/glad-to-be-gluten-gone/ If you are a lighthearted fiction author, especially Chick Lit or a lover of Jane Austen, please let me know about your work. I am also interested in ideas and history. Not keen on the Drats & the Boo Hoos. Taking the risk of living large, stepping out, encountering ... http://rosedeshaw.com/tell-me-about-your-book/ I’m growing sick of the vampire as reading material. Plus the werewolves, witches and other fantasy folk who think erotica is an important plot point. I’ll do my own fooling around, thank you, which means I don’t need anyone else’s vicarious experience, all of which is simply good fodder for ... http://rosedeshaw.com/buddy-can-you-spare-a-good-book/ I am looking forward to the future when all the facebook mysteries, the tales of misplaced correspondence, the Kicked-Off-Due-To-5 Thousand-Friends, all the separations due to someone’s worlds of communication being shattered into too many thousands of splintered ‘hellos,’ will someday be told. The old days of a small collective ... http://rosedeshaw.com/facebook-and-the-5-thousand-friends/ http://rosedeshaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cut-12.wmv http://rosedeshaw.com/greg-betts-video/   Note- This was about 2 years ago. I am presently bagless but still very much amused and laugh when I think of how it went: The funniest thing that ever happened to me, to date, turned out to be something no one wanted to talk about.  I had absolutely no idea ... http://rosedeshaw.com/other-funny-things-about-ostomies/