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Paperless Post is an online company that allows you to send virtual evites that are absolutely beautiful.  It reminds me of going to Crane & Company or one of the Paper Panache stores in San Francisco.  I used to love love love stationery and fine paper.  Early on in life, I worked for several individuals that were very formal from their embossed notecards to their executive stationery.  My family always bought me stationery for the holidays or my birthday because I used to love to write letters.  I still send out cards every now and again but, with email have lost that ability to stand the wait that it takes for a letter to arrive to send most things out via post.  I’m not even sure that I have a stamp that is current and honestly….not even sure what a stamp costs now a days.

Once you view the note or invitation you click and go to your formal RSVP card which then tracks responses in your account.  Pretty nifty and much nicer looking than Evite (oops sorry Evite but I’m not a huge fan).

These beautiful invites and notes definitely brought me back and give me an options for something very nice, a little different and so pretty I can almost smell the paper.

Sometimes I feel (and sound) like I have a “hard-on” (figuratively speaking) for Google.  I gush about Chrome, well because I do really favor it as my current “flavor of browser” right now although I am known to take booty calls from my ex, Firefox.  And IE, Internet Explorer, is like my ex-husband, I just want to run it over with a Range Rover and unfortunately I just can’t get away from and I still have to deal with IE constantly when designing.

I am very excited about the potential of Google’s OS and even though I haven’t made the jump to Windows 7 (I cower like a puppy that’s been beaten when thinking about new Windows releases), I have been hearing good things (read “Windows 7 Reaches 10 Perfect Market Share“).

Spotted on the Chronium site are concept images of a potential Google Tablet.

I love Skype.  Love, love, love  skype.  Did I mention that I love Skype.

The latest beta version of Skype for Windows supports HD-quality video (1280 x 720 resolution at up to 30 frames per second), which provides a perfect picture.  The equipment isn’t available yet but apparently soon (apparently Spring 2010).  I would love an HD Cam.

faceVision announced products for Skype and their cams look pretty nice.

McDonalds now has free internet and I can go online at Starbucks for two hours a day for free because I’m at a Green Rewards Level.  I’m just not the type of person to hang out in coffee shops online, although I’m thinking I may try to do that more.  Blogging, Twittering and non-design work would be good to do there and at least I’d be getting outside (eeerrr, away from my desk) and maybe even have a life conversation with a real person.   I can’t even imagine being online at McDonald’s but maybe that’s because my son is 20 now and it wasn’t a thing when he was at the Mcdonald’s age.  I used to take him to Chuck-e-Cheese plot him in front of those furry animals on stage in a high chair and sit a couple of booths back with my salad bar, glass of Chardonnay and a magazine (actually it was pretty nice if I remember correctly), guess it would kinda be the same with a laptop instead.

I’d rather find the Bar or Nightclub with free wi-fi.  I always have my AspireOne in my purse and it would be nice to blog, twitter, organize my bookmarks while have

I guess if needing more time online for free at Starbucks becomes an issue I could make sure I went in there everyday for a coffee (since points are based on per purchase with your card, I’ve actually been going in there to buy beans so I’m eating up potential single purchases.  But could I use more than 2 hours online at Starbucks?  Could I sell that time on Craigslist?

I cleaned my desk and office today and went out to restock candles and incense to replace all the holiday crap that I can now get rid of.

I found nice batch of incense (and it actually smells pretty good) to start off 2010.  I hope it works because since the print is so small on the box it made me realize I need new glasses.