Happy Earth Day! Today, April 22, marks another anniversary of the modern environmental movement which dates back to 1970. Whether you woke up to clear skies or grey skies with rain, there is always something to make this Earth a bit more healthy.

Earth Day is described as the “largest civic observance in the world.” The picture above is the doodle Google put on their homepage. Every year since 2001, Google has marked each and every Earth Day with a new design.

What did you do to celebrate Earth Day?

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20. Last but not least, have fun!

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On this tragic day, the United States of America lost thousands of people.  I just wanted to give my respects to all those who lost their lives that day and the families who have been impacted.

10 years have passed since this tragic day and it feels like it was just yesterday.  I remember I was in the 5th grade when all this had happened.  I was called out of class and was rushed home by my mother in fear of another attack.  At the time, I lived very close to New York City and I was able to see the smoke and everything happen.  It was very frightening.  Although i was young, I will never forget this day.

Again, my thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been impacted.

My questions for you:

If you could have prevented 9/11, what would you have done?  What were you doing when you found out about the attack?

This is a special addition because Hurricane Irene hit New Jersey. I pretty much just show what I did all weekend and pulled an all nighter. (Almost did).

Please keep your thoughts to those who have lost their lives to Hurricane Irene and for those who lost all their belongings. New Jersey had awful flooding, especially up North.

Due to not getting enough footage of Hurricane Irene, the other video that I was going to create as I mention in this video will no longer be created.  Sorry to get everyone’s hopes up!

Someone please answer Alyssa’s crazy question

Today was a very interesting day. New Jersey had an earthquake! This is something that you don’t feel everyday! First it was a bad winter, then flooding, now an Earthquake, next a huge hurricane…what’s happening! 2012?

I never got much footage of my day, but some footage is better then no footage! Today was a good day but a boring one. We went to the Apple Store for a short while and I’m happy that I didn’t go in debt. The day basically consisted of me waxing my car and attempting to start a business! More details to come tomorrow!

If you are a technology blogger and would like to show off your work, you can now feel free to do so with my blog.  Anything you blog about you can blog about on this site.  If you wish to just cross post from your site then go for it!  As long as all content is yours then there is no problem.  If you wish to be a blogger on my growing tech site, please send me an email:  steve@techjohnson.com

I bet you don’t party like I party! I really wish I got some storm footage for you but the weather decided to change its course. Very disappointing! Sucks for the people who went to see Ke$ha in New Jersey!

Here is the link to my Flickr account.  Click Here!

The 12th edition of the dictionary just proves to all of us that technology and social media have greatly impacted the English Language. Winning this new update has got to be the word ‘retweet’. Who would have ever thought this word would make it to the dictionary in such a short amount of time. Retweet is the act of resharing a message on Twitter. Sexting and woot were bound to be a part of the dictionary at one point or another.

Are you a dictionary user? Are there words that you wish to see in the dictionary that just aren’t there yet? If so, please leave them in the comment section below and explain why you think they should be in the dictionary.