From our "What's Wrong with Hammerica" section comes the following news:

General Motors has issued a recall for 2013 and 2014 models of the Chevrolet Camaro -- specifically, the Camaro Coupe. The recall affects 18,941 vehicles manufactured between June 9, 2013 and September 6, 2013.

If you own one of those vehicles, though, there's no reason to panic. Unlike other recalls involving faulty brakes and fire-prone gas tanks, this one is slightly more bureaucratic in nature. 

A bulletin issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration explains that the Camaro recall stems from a problem with the required air bag labels attached to the sun visors: "If the air bag warning label detaches from the visor, the driver and front seat passenger may not be warned of the risks of air bag deployment, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash."

General Motors sent recall notices to Camaro owners earlier this week. The notices encourage owners to check their visor stickers and explain how to tell if the sticker is in danger of detaching. If it's loose -- or if it's already gone -- owners can take their vehicles to a Chevrolet dealer, who will replace the entire sun visor, free of charge. (Seems a little extreme, but whatever.)

I know I'm getting old and feeble minded, but please tell me how not knowing an air bag might hurt you when it explodes endangers you when you're crashing into it?  Are you supposed to take extra precautions during that 1/2 millisecond between when the crash occurs and when the airbag blows?  What sort of precautions should you take?  Do you really think you will have the time to do much of anything during that time?  I don't think so.

I got this from the Kim Komando newsletter and thought it was funny.  Somebody has too much time on their hands.  Back in 2008, LEGO said that it made 400 billion LEGO bricks, which equals out to 62 bricks for every person on the planet at the time.

Now, with the rising popularity of LEGO characters such as Harry Potter and Yoda, it's predicted that there will be at least 8 billion LEGO figures by 2019, which should be about equal to the population in the same year.

There's always something reassuring about ordering from Hong Kong.  No matter what you order, even with free shipping, they always let you know that they are on your side and your complete satisfaction is their one and only goal.  Take for example this comforting message I got after placing a small order yesterday:

	We are sent from Hong Kong

Hi rs99cool, We are sent from Hong Kong Time is that we have not arrived one week The two customs checks take time The two post offices are very busy place, with seasonal There will be another shipping more weather delay So please, do not easily give us a negative score. Positive is our life, we have any questions, please let me know, thanyou

After toying around with numerous projects trying to bring in a little extra cash, and not being very successful, I've stumbled upon something called oDesk which is actually working!  oDesk was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis. The two friends created an online workplace to allow distributed teams to work together and help instill trust in work happening via the Internet.

The company launched in 2005 and as of 2012, oDesk is the largest online marketplace in which independent professionals and their clients can establish and fulfill work arrangements.  The company’s business strategy, including new pricing, is credited with helping it surpass competition to establish market dominance.

Fifteen years ago, there was no such thing as an online staffing market.  Today it generates about $1 billion in global revenues, consists of over 50 firms, and is growing at high double-digit growth rates. Today, oDesk is the largest of the six major players that account for about half of the total industry segment revenues in 2012.  In March 2013, Staffing Industry Analysts, projected that the "online staffing" segment would grow to $5 billion by 2018.

I was digging around in my old photos the other day and
stumbled upon one that I thought would look a lot better
than Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes), so I started using it on
most of the sites I have that ask for your image.

There's a little bit of a smirk there - maybe the "Mona Lisa" idea? - so I thought it looked just great.

However not being one to leave things alone, I was playing around with it and discovered something in Irfanview that I thought was amazing - it can take an image and split it into any number of smaller images in the same canvas.  Irfanview can do something else that I can't get most other image programs to do, take any image, even ones in black and white, and colorize them any color you like.  I combined these two ideas and came up with this image that I'm now using as my profile picture on oDesk.

I'll probably change it again, but this is what it looks like now.  OK, enough chatter, back to work.  My oDesk webpage is at https://www.odesk.com/users/~017e9d1fdd7bdc24a3.