No Music Challenge [Day 4]

Another day on my No Music Challenge. It’s getting quite difficult due to the absolute battery drainage that happens, and for whatever reason, I forget to put my USB cable in my car [my FM Transmitter has a USB port for charging]. Unlike most of the past days I was working in the morning, the prime time for me to listen to my own music instead of the muzak at my unnamed place of employment. [aparently some of it is new music, I just can't stand it, I'm sorry] I attempted to play Last.fm, but I’m guessing the stream bandwidth is too large for EDGE, so instead I listened to my beloved Pandora radio.

My Pandora radio station is called DanceDance, since it has music to dance to on it. The peak of my work day started as soon as I heard the intro to Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” [pictured above]. Somehow, in my mind I became Walken in the hotel. Needless to say, I was the only person in the whole building dancing.

What I’d like to know is: if you’ve been following this challenge, and have been doing it also, how have you been doing? Do you miss your iPod yet?

Zuckerberg and Facebook Connect

Zuckerberg was up on stage today, talking about social media giant, Facebook. Here’s all that I really caught from the webcast. [or just what I really cared to listen to]

- In regards to Apps: they’re going to be less annoying!

- There’s a new layout to Facebook. I haven’t heard too much good out of that, but, like Myspace, you can revert back to the old layout.

- Facebook Connect!

Facebook Connect seems to be quite interesting, actually. From what I understand it’s similar to OpenID, giving users the ability to log into a site using one identity instead of creating a new ID for each site you go onto. Facebook Connect is nifty in that it uses your Facebook security settings, so that people who you don’t want to see you, won’t. Also, it means that friends can see some of your activity, say…if you post a comment on your favorite blog [what? you mean this one? aw, how sweet, but there's no WordPress support yet *sadface*] your friends could then see that lovely comment in their News Feed.

Sounds like fun? It sure does! But first, I’m gonna check my Myspace, looks like I still have more friends on there.

Guest Blog Post Over at DTT

I’ve done a short little guest post over at Daily Tech Talk on touchscreens. As an avid specialKolin reader, you’d probably be smart to add it to your blog roll as well, since I’ll be doing slightly more serious posts for them. Go have a look-see at it.

Second WordPress Post! [a ramble]

ZoMg!1!! WoRdPrEsS!!1!

Ah, my second WordPress post. I’ve gotten quite familiar with this site, although I’ve been distracted most of my day today. Needless to say, my iPhone 3G has finally gotten to the imfamous 20% mark [in the red, if you will], and it’s reporting to me that it has received over 127 MB over EDGE. I somehow don’t think that that is enough.

Tomorrow [this being written at 1am, so essentially today], for me, is another lovely day in the wonderful world of retail. I think I’ll be home mid-afternoon, which could be good so that I might actually produce my podcast finally…however I might do that with WordPress, I’m not 100% sure, but I’m bound to find out the long way [just like I found out about WordPress's greatness...the long way].

In the event that you haven’t seen all of my posts either here or on twitter, I’ve recently upgraded to Leopard on my, at least, 1.5 year old MacBook [which I like to call the MacTop, cause I prefer the term laptop over notebook since I use notebooks regularly to collect my thoughts] and I absolutely am loving it, as any Mac nerd would. The only problems I’ve had is that it’s crashed twice on me, and every time I reboot it, Spotlight seems to want to index the drive all over again, thus killing my CPU. Maybe rebooting it without forcing it to shut down could fix that. Then again, I may have not updated recently.

We’ll see how tomorrow goes…you shall hear from me later [haha, literally]