Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/21/apples_retail_2_0_overhaul_launches_first_in_australia.html

Ming Ming the panda is dead. Giant pandas are among the world’s most endangered species, and this death did not help those numbers. Pandas are one of the laziest creatures on the planet. In 1991, Ming Ming was sent to Germany to mate with Bao Bao, but instead of making love, they smoked weed and ate bamboo pizza.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8518373/Worlds-oldest-panda-dies-in-Chinese-zoo-at-age-34.html

When I was young, I thought my last name was unique. The only people I knew who had the same last name were family members and most of them lived in Arizona. No one accidentally called my name and then said, ‘Not you, the other Michael Montez.’

Then I became interested in computers and computing. With every new online service came the need to create an online username. So naturally, I choose MONTEZ as my username as often as I could. This has worked out perfectly for me…up until recently.

As an early adopter of Google’s Gmail, I snatched up Montez at Gmail dot com (hold your applause). This was back in 2007 or sooner. Gmail was used mostly by tech-savvy folks. The common man was still on AOL or Hotmail.

Now everyone uses or knows about email, Gmail, Cloud Services, etc. Also, MONTEZ, as it turns out, is about as common in Hispanic culture as SMITH is in other cultures. So what does that mean? It means I am starting to get a ton of other people’s emails. By that, I mean, people who have some form of MONTEZ in their name (First Name, Last Name) just have people send email to MONTEZ at Gmail dot com.

Now I am getting a lot of personal email sent to me from people I do not know. More importantly, I am getting chain emails (remember those) from people I don’t know. The newest scam alerts, request for prayers, scheduled calendar events, password reset notifications, the whole nine yards. One particular individual is sending a lot of unnecessary mail to ‘Danielle Montez’ (complete with animated GIFs). So I created a Gmail filter and now all the mail from this person goes straight into the Archive. Here’s how you do it:

From within the Gmail application, you will have a list of email, check the box next to the email you want to filter (you can select multiple emails if you like)
In the top bar, there will be a MORE ACTIONS box, click it. Clicking the box will display a drop down menu. Select FILTER MESSAGES LIKE THESE
A yellow section will appear. Here you can add what types of messages to filter. Once you have all your qualifiers in place, click the NEXT STEP button.
In this section, you tell the filter what to do with emails that qualify in step 3. So you can delete, forward, etc. the emails that fall within the rules of step 3. In my case, I just MARK AS READ and ARCHIVE all emails from this person.
That’s it, no more email for Danielle Montez in my inbox.