Ideas by Millan

Bloom box

On February 21st, 60 minutes had a segment where they presented the Bloom box, a ‘magic box’ that could power a home’s electricity need at a fraction of our current grid-system’s cost. The Bloom box utilizes oxygen and natural gas and is 67 % cleaner than energy from coal-fire plants, and can be 100% cleaner if renewable resources are used. The idea if for homes to generate their own electricity in their backyard.

The most fascinating thing about this segment is that they said that the company Bloomenergy was going to go public on Wednesday the 24th. I was expecting to see a hike in the stock market that week. As it turns out, it has been over a month and the company has not gone public. The concept that could have revolutionized the way homes in America get their electricity has been stalled.

Why aren’t electric company’s the first ones to purchase the Energy Servers? Google, Staples, eBay, Walmart, FedEx, Bank of America, and Coke are among a few of the customers who are already using the Bloomenergy Servers…I wonder why the company has not gone public yet?

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I’ve just created a WordPress theme for public release. IbM Retro. There are a few, very few, Retro themes out there, most of them 70′s or 80′s style.  I wanted to more of a 50′s Retro feel and could not find one. So here it is the one I made.

Retro Theme

In the Admin panel you can input your links for the Social Media Icons, the eight ad spot areas, the Featured Video, the Featured Twitter, and the Photo Gallery.

Feel free to take if for a test drive, let me know what you think and tell me how I can make it better.

Check the Demo and Download Page.

IbM Retro

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Description: A Retro theme designed by Ideas by Millan with Theme Options. In the Admin panel you can input your links for the Social Media Icons, the eight ad spot areas, the Featured Video, the Featured Twitter, and the Photo Gallery.

These plugins are required for the IbM Retro Theme
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If you use my theme please

If you have a computer that does not have Windows XP or its just too slow, and can’t afford to upgrade or purchase one with Windows 7, then Xubuntu (pronounced zoo-BOON-too) might be a solution for you. Download Xubuntu Here. You could buy a Netbook which most of them are in the $300 range and now come with as striped-down version of Windows called “Windows 7 Starter” like this ASUS 10.1-Inch Eee PC. Another option is to just replace your PC (not monitor), but this might also be out of range since the lowest prices are in the low $200 like this Acer or this E-machines, at this price they come with XP Home edition.

The best option is FREE! Use the computer you currently have and install Xubuntu. Now why I’m I promotion Xubuntu, well there’s several reasons…for one, its FREE, two, I have it installed and loved it, and three, I can reuse the old computer I have and save the Environment ; ).

You might think that your computer is too old to run anything, specially if you have Windows ME or XP with less than 512 MB of memory, if it is so then your are wrong. Xubuntu only requires a 300 MHz processor and at least 192 MB of memory (the recommended is 256 MB RAM), and 2 GB of free space.

Here are a few things to know before taking on the task of trying or/and installing Xubuntu:
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There is a website that gives you money for placing ads in your twitter posts.

If you don’t have a Twitter account get one here . Come back and click on this image

to setup your account and start getting paid for your tweets.

Note: You will need your Twitter account user name, and a Pay-Pal account if you want to start receiving founds when your account balance hits $20, otherwise they’ll mail you a check when it reaches $100.

So if you are not in, you are definitely out; and iGoogle is in! At least for me it is. I have had iGoogle as my homepage for a solid month or so now, and it is still not boring. I: How?  A: I have super cool iG gadgets. Now, you may be asking yourself how you can become part of this fad and not be bored with your iGoogle gadgets. Well i have the answer! Use the iG gadgets that I use!!! Here are my personal top ten:

10. This is a horrible way to start my top ten list, why?, because it is technically a game: Hangman. This game is
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