I have been looking for an opportunity to showcase the embeddability (is that a new word?) of Google Voice messages.  I got the perfect opportunity tonight.

My dad is a goober, and I love him dearly.  He lives in Mississippi with my 13-year-old sister Scarlet.  She has no control over him, poor thing.

Anyway, this was the first message he left:

The little thing he is singing is the BC Clark Anniversary Sale jingle (if you click this link, choose the “original jingle” – it’s the best one). BC Clark is a famous old jewelry store in Oklahoma, and you know it is Christmas when they start playing the jingle on the radio. I missed it so much I have the jingle as a ringtone on my phone.

The hippopotamus song he is referring to is “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” which is my most favorite Christmas song.

Then he called back a couple of minutes later and left this message:

(I know he sounds drunk, but he swears he is just sick and getting over bronchitis. I can attest that he doesn’t drink much and is usually just goofy.)

Shortly after that call, I had another message:

I did call and speak to both of them and we had a terrific laugh over his version of the song. This is the actual song:

Voice messages posted will the full knowledge of all parties involved. Merry Christmas, Daddy!

Image via CrunchBase

I am probably (ok usually) the last to know about tech stuff, but when I find something I really love, I want to talk about it. I’ve got two of those things today.

NUTSHELLMAIL
I first started using NutShellMail about a year ago. It’s a service that will e-mail you all of the status updates for your social networking sites, all in one big e-mail at the times and days that you specify.

I currently use it for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn. I get e-mails 3 times a day with the latest information from all of those sites as it relates to me.

Why do I love it? It keeps me from having to sign in to all of those sites every single day. I can keep up without straining myself.

Why am I just now writing about it? Well, today they started a new e-mail format wherein you can comment, reply, even write on someone’s wall right from the e-mail. Before you had to log in to the social networking site or reply to the email to do that. If, like my company, yours has blocked certain sites, you can use this as a workaround. I only wish they had it three days ago when I was trying to win a contest!

OPERA
I downloaded Opera to my Blackberry when I first got it, and haven’t used it much since. It seemed silly to me that the browser window shows a miniature web page and you have to read it in sections.

Last night I finally figured out why that was so useful. I was having trouble making something happen on my laptop in both Chrome and IE, so I tried it in the Opera browser on the Blackberry and it worked like a charm.  It’s very nice not to have to look at a web page that is all scrunched up on the screen, either.

I even downloaded the browser on the laptop and I am figuring out the ins and outs of that too.  I think they call it “Opera” because you sing “ahhhhhh” when you see what it can do for you.

So there you have it, the tech report from a nontech girl.