Damn. I’ve been a busy bee tonight…
Sadly, I can’t remember the last time I pulled off that much stuff in an evening. All I know is that it feels good to be productive for a change. Perhaps I can manage to keep it up.
If you’ve ever had the idea for a show or video blog bouncing around your head and you didn’t quite know where to start, you might want to take a look at Make Internet TV. The gang over at The Participatory Culture Foundation have done a really great job getting a nuts and bolts how-to guide together. Seriously, it’s enough to make me want to set aside a weekend to start a video blog.
I’ll admit tho, I’m really not sure who would want to watch the ideas making the rounds in my brainpan. Then again, even the stupidest videos on YouTube have at least a couple views… *shrug*
Since I work primarily in support, I read a lot of email day in and day out. After a while you start to pick up patterns. One day, my coworker Mike P. started to notice that an awful lot of folks finished their emails with the phrase “Please advise.” So much so that he started to keep a tally with a red sharpie and a piece of printer paper behind his desk.
Every time somebody in the office would get a message that contained the terse ending, we’d holler a “Please advise!” in the direction of his desk and he’d get to tallying. Mind you, this is a guy who knows perl and has access to our internal database. He could write a script to keep a running tally if he wanted to — but it’s just more fun for us to do it this way.
So in the interest of flogging a dead horse, I’ve gone ahead and crafted the “please advise” shirt. The plan is to wear it into work at semi-regular intervals for a good laugh every now and again. Well, at least until it stops being funny. I guess I’ll have to string it out if I want it to have any staying power.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with all of these left over letters…
Yeah, that’s seriously my cell bill from the last month.
Thanks to Twitter — and more importantly, my Twitter friends at SXSW, BarCampLA and eTech — I recieved a whopping 2185 texts to my phone this last billing cycle. That’s kind of a lot, isn’t it?
Anyhow, I’m really glad that T-Mobile gives me an unlimited text plan as part of my Sidekick services. I’m pretty sure that I’d be turning off notifications right now if they didn’t…
The best part (to me at least) about Apple and EMI’s DRM free deal is the news that full album prices are still going to stay the same. That is to say that the price will remain around the $9.99 mark — but your purchase will apparently net you the DRM free 256 kbps AAC versions of the tracks.
Now I don’t know about you, but that gives me loads more incentive to start buying full albums thru iTunes. Well, you know, so long as I like most of the tracks on an album. That’s still going to be a big deal for me. Still, this whole announcement is a step in the right direction for online music.
I don’t even like first person shooters all that much — but when I swung by the office to drop off my weekly groceries, I ended up getting roped into a LAN game of Quake 3. Despite the fact that I totally suck at first person shooters, I have to admit that it was actually kind of fun.
Why Quake 3? Well, it’s one of the only games that the Mac, Linux and Windows people in the office can all play without too much trouble. If it’s cross platform, who really cares if it’s 8 years old?
I’ll probably stick with my DS Lite in the long run. Still, the occasional pick-up game might be nice to blow off some steam every now and then.
Due to the slightly hectic day that I had at work, I totally spaced on the fact that Cory’s LA book launch was tonight. Shit. I really wanted to go to that…
I mean, I bought a copy of Overclocked so I could get it signed and everything. *sigh* C’est la vie.
Oh. Holy. Crap. After watching this video I’m convinced that multitouch interfaces are the wave of the future. I seriously can’t wait until stuff like this is manufactured and sold with end users in mind. [via]