Should you put your money where your mouth is?

We all know the internet can be a place for big talk, the removal from face to face context can sometimes lead to grandiose claims or extreme trash talk which can be quite entertaining to read. I find myself pondering just how many of these people would follow through if they had to go back and actually be accountable for their online talk.

We are still counting down to the day of reckoning for this gem of a claim, but how many of you would be willing to bet that IMDB reviewer chrismichaeld would not be willing to put his money where his mouth is when he says about the TV Series "Falling Skies"

"Suffice to say if this show makes it past one season I will give all of my money to charity." 

If it ever eventuates that he find himself in the situation where he can't go back on his public statement and actually goes through with it . . . well I'd like to say "I'd eat my own hat", but to tell you the truth I'd be too worried that I couldn't follow through, so I won't!

IMDB Reviwer chrismichaeld doesn't hold out much hope for Season 2 of Falling Skies

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Sample Gallery Now Online

The 'Auki Henry Gallery' - thanks to the power of Google

I finally got around to organising the sample gallery that I send to prospective clients via an easy to remember URL ( gallery.aukihenry.com ) these are usually clients interested in commissioning me for stills photography.

It's not so much the gallery itself that I am blogging about today however but the fact that 99% of this has been put together from FREE Google products available to anyone with an existing Google, Gmail or Google+ account.

The only things that I can't credit Google for here are:

1. The custom URL, registered via Joker.com and served via DNS Made Easy.  I will state however that this could have been achieved via a payed Google service too, it just so happened that I have always had these two services for my other web sites.
2. The hosting of the .JS file that drives the gallery functions is via Dropbox.  You can bet that if/when Google gives me some cloud storage space I will be switching to that too!

Everything else is thanks to Google.

• The site itself is built off a Google Blogger template base.
• All thumbnails and custom graphics are stored via upload to Google Sites on the domain aukihenry.com, Images are embedded directly from the Google+ albums on my G+ page.
• Even the contact form is a custom Google Docs form front end that sends to my Google driven email.

I am a self confessed Google fan admittedly, but it is not through any blind brand loyalty; I'd switch at the drop of a hat if there was a better offer around for me.  It's not even the fact that I earn revenue from Google Adsense ( I still remember my first AUD$155 payment from Google with great fondness ).  What I like most about this is that Google is actually putting a useful environment out to the masses that can be used for free to achieve a web presence, its an email system, a social networking system, a revenue earning system, a personal organiser and much much more all rolled into one big 'always evolving' package.  My guess is that people who aren't switching across just aren't understanding the potential!

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