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Mikeward v8.0 is the personal website for Mike Ward, the former east coast, now midwest, computer geek/naval officer. It is a place for me to document my random thoughts, ideas, travel tips, sea stories etc... a place for pics of the places I've been and the things I have seen... pretty much what makes me happy. Feel free to read and share...


Archive for the 'd'oh' Category

NKR (not quite right) v.1.0

Monday, December 1st, 2008

While I was mobilized I spent 3 weeks in Malaysia which a Navy colleague refered to as the ‘Land of NKR (not quite right)’. I actually thought it was fine but his title did inspire me start gathering my own NKR moments. Here is the first installment of things I noticed on my recent vacation [...]

Things got lost in the move…

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Good evening…. I just completed moving my website from one host to another and I had to do it in a hurry. Unfortuantely, since I needed to move it so quickly, I have not had the opportunity to work out all the bugs.
I have hidden some of the photos and the Ireland movie for now [...]

The Rise and Fall of a Modeling Career

Monday, August 18th, 2008

A lot of people have asked about the avatar I use for my Twitter profile so I thought it would be easier just to point them here.
Back in 1994 I was working for Midwest Micro, a local company that was competing with Gateway. I worked in the advertising department where I was a manager.
We advertised [...]

American Idol predicts the future?

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

In case you haven’t noticed the similarities:
Archuleta = Obama
Mercado = Clinton
Cook = McCain
Mercado is defeated…. will it be an Archuleta/Mercado ticket up against Cook?
Is it prophecy?
You heard it here first!

1 week, 6 days, 17 hours, and 17 minutes

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

In case you were wondering, that is the amount of time it takes to accumulate 5000 SPAM email messages in your spam folder.
Well, thats how long it took me. Would love to hear how long it takes somebody else.

I am 3 Degrees of Kevin Bacon!

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

It goes like this:
Brian Cesak was in Fandango (1985) with Kevin Costner; Kevin Costner was in JFK (1991) with Kevin Bacon; therefore Brian Cesak has a Bacon number of 2.
Brian Cesak, after his moment in the Hollywood sun joined the Navy. I was mobilized with Brian to Seventh Fleet onboard the USS Blue Ridge in [...]

Umm… vegetarian food…

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

I get an ‘interesting trivia’ email from a colleague just about daily and todays included the following:

6000 hits in 2 weeks….

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

OK, just checked out the stats for my little home on the web and I realized I have had about 6000 hits in the past 2 weeks. Cool, but huh…?

The devil IS in the drink….

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

For reasons I won’t go into now, I was cleaning up my desk at work. Over my desk I have your usual office paraphernalia, a couple Sponge Bob toys, Mr. & Mrs. Incredible action figures (the wife and I bear a remarkable resemblance), and a few plants.

Exactly how big are English livers?

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Stumbled across this Navy headline in The Mirror on Wednesday night;