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mikeotastico:

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Two weeks ago, the internet unanimously barely blinked its eyes with the news that AOL had chosen to kill off AIM, the once-prominent instant messenging service. Outside of maintainence, the application’s 40 employees in charge of development have been let go. So while AOL will still exist, no further growth or development will be made.

That’s sad though. What if AIM actually went away? I mean, really: AIM was kind of like our first social network. I’m sure it’s what Mark Zuckerburg was logged into as he crushed code growing up as merely a boy nerd. I’d go so far as to say this – theactivityof AIM helped groom a generation of digital kids, multi-taskers who did homework with multiple chat windows open plus a textbook plus music playing. Homework wasn’t so bad after all – and we expected or hoped for the same from our real jobs. It prepared, or prompted, or inspired us to work for the internet as community managers and developers, with our multiple monitors and browsers and dubstep and all. I suppose I see a lot of myself in that.

Top 10 Things We’ll Miss About AIM..

Ahhh, my last AIM usage: Summer 2009. Nostalgia at its best. Nice Top 10 :)

very true top 10! The good ol’ days.

seanmiikkeee:

Friends, family remember Richmond crash victim

By Karl Fischer
Contra Costa Times
03/31/2010 05:37:15 PM PDT

Genesis Polo crammed more work into a single day than most people do in a week.

The 21-year-old El Sobrante resident worked at a movie rental place, and also at an optometrist’s office….

I miss him. :(

In May, I will be going to Laos with other nurses and nursing students on a Medical Nursing Mission. We will be providing services such as foot care, eye care, and, assessments, as well as pharmaceutical needs to the small villages. We will be teaching the children about health. We will also be teaching nursing students an assessment course, a fundamental nursing skill. In one of the small villages, we will be opening up a new school for the Laotian children.

In order for this mission to be a success, we need to raise money to provide the medical supplies, school supplies, and the pharmaceutical supplies. So I ask you to please donate whatever you can. Every dollar counts. Help me change the lives of hundreds of underserved children.