Read More...I came across this contest today and thought it was pretty funny as well as a good marketing ploy. Roto-Rooter is has come up with a book of funny/spooky bathroom stories and capitalizing on the fact that two of their own employees are hosts of the popular show Ghost Hunters.
Roto-Rooter teamed up with its army of plumbers, including real-life Roto-Rooter men, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of TV’s Ghost Hunters®, to assemble a funny yet frightening vignette-style bathroom reader about plumbing horrors and unexpected things that go wrong in America’s bathrooms.
Chilling Tales from the Porcelain Seat includes strange but true tales from the general public and the plumbers who have seen it all and lived to tell about it! 100 pages of fun stories and photos to enjoy on your throne.
In a recent episode of Help! My business sucks! I heard about RyanAir’s plans to charge for using the toilets on their planes. My initial reaction was shock, but from what I’ve heard RyanAir has a track record of doing things like that. Nothing is free on their flights, not even a measly drink.
Rather than try and skimp and save at every turn, wouldn’t they be better off 
focusing on PLEASING the customer?! Apparently the only airline that gets what customers want (and gives it to them), is Virgin.
I ran into this in Costa Rica once. I was traveling through several of the cities and no matter where I went I had to pay to use the restroom. Luckily I had enough cash to pay!
So the question is…
What happens if your on the plane and you don’t have any cash, or a credit card on you, and you have to go? 
Yesterday was the birthday of Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code. Google sent out a message to everyone that it is his birthday. The logo is getting a lot of buzz and people are asking for more information about it. Here is a picture of the logo: The logo is slightly off, in terms of Morse code which has spurred many comments at the Search Engine Roundtable. Some folks are a little upset it is not in a single line. However, it does look interesting this way and I think that it is this way to keep the diminsions of the image consistant with all the other themes that Google does. Google did do a special logo for Louise Braille a few years ago on January 4, 2006.
Hal Whiting, KI2U, along with sons Daniel, 6 (left) and Jarod, 10, joined friend Todd Kluxdal in the Arizona desert to check out a plane crash site. They had no idea they would be called on to provide emergency communications support to help an injured woman be airlifted to a hospital. [Photo courtesy of Hal Whiting, KI2U]
The place that I called home for 4 years during my time at Berea College has been officially designated as a “Transition Town”.
Berea joins 133 other communities worldwide that have been recognized by the Transition Network founded in the United Kingdom, for their accomplishments in working to achieve a positive future for their community.
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