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Phone Troubles

I’ve been pretty happy with my Nokia 7610, there are a few quirks, but nothing too annoying, and truth be told, I use it more as a camera and PDA than for voice calls…

After about 5 months, the SIM went bad and it just stopped working. Cingular sold me a new one for 5 bucks, which was just slightly annoying since I think it should have been free. Still, it was about 5 minutes and 5 dollars, so not too bad, though it could have been more annoying if I had really needed to make or receive a call.

Then just the other day the memory card (and RS-MMC) became corrupted. This was a little more annoying because I lost some photos, and my applications, and the ringtones I created. I removed and re-installed the card, and tried it in my Mac, but no luck.

Losing the applications and ringtones doesn’t matter too much, I can easily reload from my Mac, but losing the photos kind of sucks… Since I did not have another RS-MMC card lying around I had to order one, the good news is that I had a 64mb card, but will soon have a 128mb card. The bad news is that I have wait about a week for the damn thing to get shipped to me.

I still have a love/hate relationship with these phones…

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Four Things

I don’t usually do this sort of stuff, but Mike at nomadic_audio hit me with the Four Things thing… (As did Aaron)

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

  1. Dish Washer
  2. Serigrapher
  3. Digital Media Specialist
  4. Corporate Lackey

Four movies I can watch over and over:

  1. Lord of the Rings (all of them!)
  2. Star Wars (almost all of them…)
  3. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  4. Office Space

Four TV shows I love to watch:

  1. Seinfeld
  2. Futurama
  3. Arrested Development
  4. Curb Your Enthusiasm

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

  1. Wisconsin
  2. Maryland/Delaware
  3. “Down South”
  4. “Out East”

Four of my favorite dishes:

  1. Pizza
  2. Burritos
  3. Egg and Cheese Bagel
  4. Cookies

Four websites I visit daily:

  1. del.icio.us
  2. Google
  3. Wikipedia
  4. RasterWeb!

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. Hawaii
  2. New Zealand
  3. Outside
  4. Somewhere else…

Four bloggers I am tagging:

  1. Chris
  2. Mike
  3. Drew
  4. Czeltic Girl

Damn, that took a while…

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Olympics + Blog = No Way

I don’t think I’ve admitted this, but I really enjoy the Olympics. I generally do not like most professional sports because I think most professional athletes are overpaid cry-babies and criminals. (The exception is surfing, which is the classic battle of man (or woman) versus nature!) Anyway…

Those control-freaks at the Olympics once again are banning the participants from blogging.

I’m still not sure what they are afraid of…

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Naming del.icio.us

Did you ever wonder how del.icio.us got it’s name?

Joshua explains it:

When .us became available, I wrote a quick script to figure out the shortest prefixes that would allow me to generate the most number of names: 

$ grep us$ /usr/dict/words | sed 's/.*\(....\)\(us\)$/\1.\2/' | sort  | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
    6 aceo.us
    6 mino.us
    7 ario.us
    7 onio.us
    7 urio.us
    8 aneo.us
    8 orio.us
   10 itio.us
   14 icio.us
   18 acio.us

I’ve used /usr/dict/words in the past to find strange and unique words. I’ll really have to remember to do that more often…

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Digg This Paper

We’re all familiar with digg, the web site that lets the readers “digg” or vote on stories, which then get top billing on the front page… Well, check this out:
Wisconsin paper lets its readers choose news:

The Wisconsin State Journal allows readers to go on its Web site every weekday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and vote for their favorite out of five story ideas. Barring late-breaking news, the winning story typically will appear on Page 1 the next day.

Interesting, hmmm?