RasterWeb!

I somehow came across this post titled New Feedster Site…New Features! and since Feedster has sucked for so long, figured I’d give it another try.

I try a search for "rasterweb" and get a page showing 10 results. The first is for a spamblog. The next 6 are old podcasts I did in 2004, but don’t come from my feed, but from a feed named “Med 2 Lecture Test Podcast” that appears to have stolen my feed. Next is an actual link to this site and something I wrote!. We end the page with 2 more spamblogs. Is the purpose of Feedster to show you which spamblogs are stealing your content?

If I had any doubts before, I’m pretty sure now that Feedster is dead.

Latest thing: embedthevideo.com

Background: Easily create pop-up windows with embedded video!

I know Google Maps is supposed to be the bomb-diddly when it comes to finding places, but maybe it’s just because I live in a semi-rural area with weird letter/number combos for addresses, but I’m finding that pretty often the all-knowing/all-seeing Google can’t find things for me, while the Yahoo! Maps can…

In some cases Google is like “Um, no luck, found nothing, sorry. Thanks for playing.” where Yahoo! is like “Dude, didn’t exactly find it, but this is pretty darn close and might be it!” I’m paraphrasing of course, but which would you prefer?

These are problems the big city folk probably don’t have to deal with…

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…

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…