Miss Mandie

Feel like you need some advice from a expert but don’t have the time to read a book/attend an event/search for a therapist/nutritionist/spiritual adviser? Then this might be just what you haven’t had time to look for!

Maestro Month, has been created by Maestro Conference, the provider of a new platform for teleconference calls that allows everyone to participate and interact with each other and the instructor in the call, rather than being silent listeners. Experts, such as Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch and Jack Canfield, have converged to discuss a range of topics covering health, personal growth, business, spirituality and societal change, every day for the month of July.You can select up to 3 conferences.

You do need to dial a US number, so for those of us outside the US we need to shell out the cost of the call. Skype might make things cheaper. For those of us in Oz – I just purchased a Telstra International Subscription Pack (I have to dial US for my study course teleclasses), which costs $10 a month and gives me $10 credit and 2 cent/per minute calls to the US. That makes a one hour class just $1.59 (incl. connection fee). Pretty good value when you consider our limited access to such high profile speakers that are making themselves available through Maestro Month.

Maybe we’ll meet each other in the conference call world

It seems to be a common conversation amongst my friends these day – just how much has changed in such a short amount time in terms of how we communicate with one another. It was only the other day that I got an email that was joking about the “under-30 crowd” never having to endure such slow communication processes as writing a letter by hand, having to post it and waiting a week or so for it to be delivered to the recipient. Let’s face it, even email is now seeming a rather redundant communication form when we have Facebook and Twitter status updates, all from the convenience of your mobile phone to let all and sundry know of your latest movements.

So you can imagine how much I laughed when I stumbled across a particular newspaper article as I was rifling through some old boxes at mums today. This goes back to a time where using the internet was such an extraordinarily modern act that my mother and I made it into the local newspaper when I used the internet for a school assignment. Now admittedly, we did live in a town of only 1500 residents, so news might have been a bit slow to come by but when you read the article, it is apparent just how “new age” this whole internet was back then. Furthermore, reference is made to using the fax machine to get in contact with someone in England because we didn’t have access to email. Can you imagine that this was also only 12 years ago!!

Hope you enjoy the giggle from this sign of the times as much as I did (to read in full size, just click on the image below):

After unsuccessfully trying to log a comment on Sparkle’s blog entry on the iphone, I am just going to voice my opinion here for all and sundry about the new iphone. In the early hours of my birthday, I had the fun of discovering the wonderful world that is “iphone applications” (courtesy of Jim on Casey’s iphone).

Seriously, if there was one thing that would convince me to get on the iphone bandwagon, its Tap Tap Revenge. This game is like guitar hero for the phone and had me entertained for hours! As I am currently without such luxuries as the newest iphone, I have been reduced to watching other people play Tap Tap Revenge on You Tube to get my fix!