He won the fight to keep it.

Obama puts his beloved BlackBerry to work

From Associated PressJanuary 29, 2009 6:27 PM EST

WASHINGTON - He won the fight to keep it. Now, Barack Obama is putting his beloved BlackBerry to work. Upon returning to the White House on Thursday morning after a trip to his younger daughter's school for a class presentation, the president walked along the West Wing Colonnade toward the Oval Office while looking down at the electronic communicating device he held in both hands.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said last week that a compromise had been reached to allow the president to use the BlackBerry to keep in touch with senior staff and some personal friends. He did not say with whom the compromise had been struck.

Gibbs said Obama will limit its use, and that security has been enhanced to protect his communications.

Previous presidents chose not to use e-mail because it can be subpoenaed by Congress and the courts, and may be subject to public records laws.

Gibbs said the presumption from the White House counsel's office is that the e-mails will be subject to the Presidential Records Act, which requires the National Archives to preserve presidential records. But he also said some exemptions in the law allow for "strictly personal communications." He did not say how that classification would be determined, but made clear that the device could be used for both business and personal exchanges.

Obama's BlackBerry has been a constant companion, and he had noted publicly that he was negotiating to find a way to keep it despite security concerns and records-keeping issues.

Gibbs said that Obama believes using the device will help him escape the "bubble" that surrounds the president.

Pope gets his own YouTube channel!

By NICOLE WINFIELD (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press

VATICAN CITY - Puffs of smoke, speeches in Latin and multipage encyclicals have all been used by the Vatican to communicate with the faithful. Now the pope is trying to broaden his audience by joining the wannabe musicians, college pranksters and water-skiing squirrels on YouTube. In his inaugural YouTube foray Friday, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed viewers to this "great family that knows no borders" and said he hoped they would "feel involved in this great dialogue of truth."
"Today is a day that writes a new page in history for the Holy See," Vatican Radio said in describing the launch of the site,

http://www.youtube.com/vatican

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How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients

I’m amazed and how people still don’t know how to send email. I can see why so many of us get hammered with spam, it like your best friend is selling your address. I think 90% or higher of the email one gets is just stuff forwarded but No one cleans up or knows how to send or forward email with out spreading and adding to that ever growing list of addresses.

Here is what I do and use to help in not passing addresses of people and friends plus most would like to have some control over who see or get our address. The first thing is Always post any and all addresses in the BBC line of your email. Bcc Means Privacy and Efficiency and Fortunately, you don't have to send individual emails to avoid this embarrassing exposure of email addresses. In addition to To: and Cc: recipients that show up in the e-mail’s headers, you can insert Bcc: recipients.

Bcc:

A Bcc (blind carbon copy) is a copy of an email message sent to a recipient whose email address does not appear in the message. This is in contrast to To and Cc recipients, whose addresses do appear in the respective header lines. Every recipient of the message can see all the To: and Cc: recipients, but doesn’t see the Bcc: recipients.

"Undisclosed Recipients"

Insert "Undisclosed Recipients" in the To: field, followed by your email address in "<,>" braces. • The To: field should look like: "Undisclosed Recipients ".

If you send emails to undisclosed recipients frequently, you can add your own email address to your address book with "Undisclosed" as the first and "recipients" as the last name. Instead of filling in the To: field manually, you can then use the address book entry.

Put all the recipients' email addresses in the Bcc: field, separated by commas.
The Bcc: field could look something like: "my.first.friend@example.net, my_second_friend@example.net, stillanotherfriend@example.com".

Compose your message and send it.

Geo Skier Triggers...

In 2008 the attitude has changed somewhat:

Back in 1929 Financial Crash it was said that some Wall Street Stockbrokers and Bankers jumped from their office windows and committed suicide when confronted with the news of their firms and clients financial ruin . . .
Many people were said to almost feel a little sorry for them . . . . . .