Tweet 10 years ago this morning, around 8:50am, I was bringing the daily commercial logs into the 102.3 WBAB studio and saw the first tower on fire on the TV. They thought it was a small plane that just had an unfortunate accident. I stayed in the studio watching the tower with smoke billowing out…
Tweet Here is a brief excerpt from my latest Patch blog: The Smithtown Patch headline “BREAKING: Two Young Girls Hit by Car on Main Street” grabbed my attention immediately, not only because it involved children being hurt, but at that exact moment, I was just finishing up an email helping to organize a fundraiser for…
Tweet I’m sure you’ve all heard about Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who went completely nuts (no pun intended) after a confrontation with a rude passenger at JFK? He told the woman off via overhead speaker, grabbed 2 beers and slid down the emergency shoot? Below is the footage of his crazy escape…
Tweet Today is National No-Phone Day. The statistics show that nearly 6,000 people died in 2008 in crashes involving a distracted driver and more than a half-million were injured. I will admit it. I used to text and drive. I don’t do it anymore. Especially after watching Oprah’s show today: So, take the pledge….
Tweet In the wake of the devastation in Haiti, Dave Matthews Band has partnered with Music For Relief to help. From the DMB official website: American Rejects, Enrique Iglesias, Hoobastank, Kenna, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Gabriel and Slash for DOWNLOAD TO DONATE FOR HAITI, a recovery effort to aid the nation of Haiti in the…
Tweet Three different Mac users have claimed that Apple voided their AppleCare Protection Plans due to second-hand smoke. According to Ruth, one of the Apple customers who wrote into the Consumerist: I bought an iMac for my son (for school) along with the extended Applecare warranty. A month ago, it quit working. My son took…
Tweet News was just released that John Hughes, writer, director and producer of such films as “The Breakfast Club”, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Sixteen Candles” died today of a heart attack. His publicisist confirmed that he was in Manhattan visiting family and died during a morning walk. Being a child of the 80′s, I…
Tweet It’s been almost 2 weeks since my last blog post and I’ve been itching to get on here, but I have been having major WordPress issues. If you are reading this, hopefully, that means they problems have gone away. For any WordPress gurus out there, these are the issues I am still having: Pics…
Tweet I was going to do this detailed review, but it’s just so incredibly good that words won’t do it justice. So good, that you just need to listen to it. So here. TRACK 1: GRUX TRACK 2: SHAKE ME LIKE A MONKEY The thing I like about you The way you do what you…
Tweet Sorry, I have been so quiet lately. Well, I HAVE been tweeting, so I added a Twitter widget adjacent to my main blog page for those of you tweeps not on Twitter yet. If you haven’t joined, you MUST. I have met so many wonderful people on there from around the world. www.SaveBecky.com has…
Tweet OK. I just went on CNN.com and read about how they are draining a pond in Aruba searching for Natalee Holloway. Here is a quote from the story: “The pond is next to a racquet club and across the road from the beach where brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, told police…
Tweet I’ve been following the Natalee Holloway story because I’ve been to Aruba many times and love the island so much. Deep down, I truly believe that Joran van der Sloot is guilty of something. Whether it was an accidental death and he freaked or he deliberatley killed her, he is guilty or knows what…
Tweet Well the G8 is over. Hopefully many of you signed that ONE declaration. Bob Geldof and Bono, two of the world’s best known Africa fund-raisers, declared victory. However, not suprisingly: “U.S. President George W. Bush had refused to be bound by the 0.7 percent target. The United States is giving 0.16 percent of national…
