What Were You Searching in 2011?

December 16, 2011
by Rodney Olsen
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What did the world want to know in 2011?

Every year Google lets us know what the world has been searching to find. They publish the most common search terms in their annual zeitgeist.

The top ten things we wanted to know about globally, according to Google, are as follows:

1. Rebecca Black
2. Google+
3. Ryan Dunn
4. Casey Anthony
5. Battlefield 3
6. iPhone 5
7. Adele
8. (Fukushima I Plant)
9. Steve Jobs
10. iPad2

You can visit the zeitgeist page to see results broken down by various regions.

This year Google has also created a video to give us an overview of the year in searches. Watch the video above to see what we wanted to know this year.



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Beatbox Nativity

December 16, 2011
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What’s the most unusual telling of the Christmas story you’ve heard?

In their article The Beatbox Bible: Rapping vicar rhymes the story of Nativity and becomes internet hit, Britain’s Daily Mail is reporting that a beatboxing vicar has retold the Christmas story in a rather unusual way.

Reverend Gavin Tyte (aka TyTe) was a professional beatboxer before dramatically changing careers and his Nativity video has had more than 15,000 views on YouTube in three weeks.

The 40-year-old vicar of Uplyme Church, in east Devon, raps: ‘Welcome to Beatbox Bible’, before continuing his sermon online to parishioners.

Enjoy watching the vicar’s efforts in the video above.



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Ensuring Unhappiness

December 15, 2011
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Do you want to stay unhappy? Do you want to be dissatisfied with your life?

It’s unlikely … but your actions might suggest that you’re working towards sustained unhappiness. There may be thoughts or actions that are holding you back from a fuller, happier life. It’s possible that you’re setting yourself up for failure and you don’t even know it.

Royal Farris has quoted author, David Jeremiah, in his article List That Will Guarantee Unhappiness.

Here are just four of the ten things that they suggest can rob you of a joyful, happy life.

  • Make little things bother you; don’t just let them, make them.
  • Get yourself a good worry–one about which you cannot do anything but worry.
  • Be right, always right, perfectly right all the time. Be the only one who is right and be rigid about your rightness.
  • Take personally, with a chip on your shoulder, everything that happens to you that you don’t like.

Are you sabotaging your own happiness? Why not read the rest of Royal’s article and then make some purposeful goals for a truly happy new year.



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The Pirate So Delightful

December 15, 2011
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You’ve never heard Christmas carols like this before.

Watch the video to see what happens when YouTube translates carols.



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I Absolutely Do

December 12, 2011
by Rodney Olsen
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WeddingBW.jpgAmongst the frantic pace of this time of the year I’m taking a little time out to reflect on the last couple of decades. It was almost twenty years ago, in January 1992, that I met an incredibly beautiful woman. I don’t know that I believe in ‘love at first sight’ but I certainly believe in ‘overwhelming, all consuming, attraction at first sight’. That attraction was the beginning of the best thing that has ever happened to me.

On a hot December day back in 1992, I married an amazing lady.

Pauline and I met in the January of 1992 and were married on the 12th of December the same year. Once we got engaged, half way through the year, we couldn’t stand the thought of having to wait until ‘next year’ to be husband and wife, so we picked a date in the last month of the year and started planning.

I’m still hopelessly in love with Pauline and plan to stay that way for the rest of my days. I really can’t recall a day in the past nineteen years that I haven’t told Pauline that I love her. I guess there have been a few times when I’ve been travelling and we haven’t been able to talk but we’ve talked on the phone on most of those days.

It still amazes me that such an incredible lady would choose to spend her life with me. She’s clever, intelligent, funny, thoughtful, wise, remarkably beautiful and so much more. Words really can’t describe how I truly feel about Pauline and how I adore her.

On that day nineteen years ago I said ‘I do’ and today and every day I still do.

Happy 19th Anniversary to the most wonderful woman I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing.



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