Real transformers

Is it possible to go too far?

White and nerdy by Weird Al

I love this video!

Blogging Riverbend

Riverbend is getting ready to fixen' to start back up. I'm super excited about it. I love the Riverbend Music Festival so much that I blogged it last year. I had so much fun doing it last year I that I decided to do it again this year. But this time I've decided to have a special blog just for Riverbend. You should check it out.

Just like last year I'm going to have pictures and reviews for each day. I'm even going to add video this year. And if I run into you I might even give you a phone interview!

See you there! :)

I got Engaged!

If you have been wondering why I haven't updated in a while its because I've been super busy with school, work, and now... getting married! Because I'm getting married. Did I mention that I was getting married?
Anyway, I'm now engaged to this really awesome girl and we're getting married on August 5th in Gatlinburg, TN. So mark your calendars, because you are invited, even if you don't get an invitation, come anyway, because it will be a good time... At least I'll have a good time.
Ok, so now your probably really excited, and jumping up and down or wondering to yourself how many times I can used the word "married" in this post... married... married.
But, by now your probalby asking how I purposed to my girl. Well, its kind of a long story, so I'll save it for the next post, but for now you can see the pictures from the special night at my photoblog if you like.

Creating Christmas Memories Game

Here is a fun game. Out of the presents you got this year for Christmas, which do you think you will still be using the most next Christmas. You have to pick just one.

Mine would have to be the 40GB FireLite Portable Hard Drive that Roxie, my wonderful girlfriend, got me. I'm using it to store all my pictures and music on.

So here's the deal, next Christmas we'll look back and actually see if we are still using the stuff that we thought we would. Sound like fun?

You can play the game by posting a comment or by make a post on your blog (if you make a post leave a comment linking to your post).

Have fun playing!

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Tags: Christmas | game

Jingle all the way with Google Talk

So I know I said I was going to talk about that other post and other google related stuff, but I lied. If you want to know more about it, check out these links.

• new gmail stuff
• Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - You really should get this. It helps protect against identity theft through phishing.
• Blogger Web Comments for Firefox - only get this if you are a super geek ;)

But, what I really want to 'talk' about is Google Talk and the recent announcement of Libjingle. Why would you care?

2. Voice calls between mobile devices and Google Talk!
More and more WiFi-enabled mobile devices (including WiFi-enabled mobile phones) are coming on the market. Imagine being away from your PC and still being able to have the same free high-quality calling experience you have today between PCs using Google Talk. I expect to see a lot of innovation here in 2006. - link

Imagine that! Talking with your cell phone!!! So I know for must of you still aren't impressed. But if you've ever used Google talk before you know that the audio is about twice as good a cell phone. It pretty much sounds like the person is in the room with you. Every time that I've used Google Talk in a public place people are amazed at how good the audio is. And if I could have that good of a quality every time that I talked on my phone with somebody then that'd be awesome.
However, its not out just yet. Google just released the tools for someone to do this. It has yet to be done. Libjingle also has tools for file sharing (P2P) and video. For those that thought Google Talk was behind all the competitors, think again. As always with Google they take something that's already kinda cool and take it in a different direction.

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Tags: Google Talk | Libjingle

Are you ready?

Oh I'm ready.

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Google Safe Browsing Test Page

I see you've download both of Google's new extentions :)

If you're reading on this on my blog I'll tell you more about it in my next post.Read more at www.google.com/tools/fi...

The 2 Wizards

If you're looking for a fun christmas lights set to music, you should check out this video on Google Video.


If you are looking for something that will excite the geek in you, you should should check out this article on Free Online Date Storage.
The most exciting of these I think is Openomy. Openomy is a tag based online file stystem, with an open API. The possibilies of this system are numberous. If you have no idea what I just said, all you need to know is that you can store up to 1Gb of stuff online for free. So you can back stuff up if you like. :) Geeks can read more about it, on this wiz kid's blog.

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Is Christmas not a holiday?

So, its been a while since I posted anything, I'm finally done with School for about a month. So, expect somewhat frequent post for about a month, before they start to trail off again...

Over Thanksgiving dinner my aunt says that she read this article in the paper of a guy that went to the local mall and was startled to find that only a couple stores had "Merry Christmas" in any of their Christmas decorations, instead they had it replaced with "Happy Holidays". She proceeded with some of the normal ignorant "taking Christ out of Christmas" jargon that is all too familiar in Christian circles. Considering the timing (over Thanksgiving dinner) my immediate response was that it was too early to talk about Christmas. She agreed with me but after thinking about it some, I've decided that this is not my main objection to this kind of thinking.

Little did I know that the "Happy Holiday" debate had become a rather hot topic nationally as well as locally. When I came into work today there was a company memo by the clock-in station inviting people to the "Holiday Party". The word "Holiday" had been marked out in pen and someone had written "Christmas" in the margin. An addition comment pointing to the alteration saying "God bless". Is it just me that finds this ridiculous?!?

Why on earth would we look to corporate America to define what our holiday name is advertised as? Retail outlets are mostly just concerned with moving from the red to the black. Their main concern is not taking a loss for the year. And why shouldn't they? If they didn't make money then they'd tank. And to this end they are trying to reach as many people with their advertising as possible. They're trying to be inclusive, they don't want to offend Jewish potential customers. So they use the word "Holiday" which is by the way derived from Holy Day, instead of "Christmas". Why is that such a big deal? Do we except corporate advertising to line up with all of our personal beliefs? Does Sears really care about evangelizing the world? And should we expect them to even respect God at all? Why do we expect non-Christians to act like Christians? Could it be because we are doing such a lousy job of showing the meaning of the Jesus' life that we expect others to make up for our hypocrisy?

I tend to lump these Holiday complainer into the same category as the people that point out that "Santa" is the word "Santa" with the letters rearranged or say Xmas is an attempt to X out Christ from the word Christmas.

All this is simply ridiculous.

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Tags: Chirstmas Holiday

Harry Potter and if it was just dancing

What if Harry Potter was only 3 and a half minutes long and was just dancing. Well, find out for yourself. :)

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Bubbles with Color!

Somebody has finally improved the Bubble. In February stores will start selling Colored Bubbles called. They will called Zubbles. I know what you're thinking, 'well that's pretty cool, I'm sure my kids will have fun with that'.However, the technology used in these bubbles might have other applications as well.

"For decades, the color industry has been focused entirely on color fastness. No one has really thought about the potential of temporary color."

"...making things like a Swiffer that leaves a momentary trace showing where you've Swiffered and a temporary wall paint that would let you spend a few hours with a color before committing to it. The dye's reach is so great that there are even biotech and industrial uses being discussed."

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Tags: tech color bubble zubble

Cre824

Check it out. 24 hours, competing to represent the United States at the Olympics, ok so not really the Olympics, but if you win you do get to represent to United States in the world wide website design competition in France. That's right, this weekend they're holding a 24 hours web design competition, in Chattanooga, TN and the winner of that goes on the world competition. Pretty cool ay? I'm not competing, but I am going to watch the participants and attend the seminars and stuff. Should be lots of fun.
I'm also suppose to be about 3 other places on Saturday, so I'm not sure if try and spend some time and learn lots of cool stuff while I'm there.

P.S. Sorry the site looks like crap right now, my other template started crashing my browser from some odd reason. It will be back when I find out what's wrong with it.

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Tags: cre824 tech

Man I hate that

You know what irks me. Cell phones with non-instrumental ringers tones. Ringers with voices, I hate them. High quality phone ringers are great but I don't want to hear voices from my phone before I answer it. Find your favorite song with out words and make that your ringer. I don't need to be sung to by some terrible country artist or yelled at by some hip-hop gangster. Why can't phone ringers sound remotely like someone is calling you?!?! Leave the voices for talking.

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Tags: personal general

Flock the what?

So I'm writing this post in a new type of web browser called Flock. It's build on top of Firefox but it's not meant to compete with Firefox, because it take a completely different approach to the web. Most web browsers let you view stuff other people have written. If you want to do somthing interactive like blogging, using flickr, using del.icio.us and stuff like that you have to use a rather clunchy online interface, unless you download some special add on stuff. For example, if you want to upload pictures to Flickr you have to pick each file individually form your computer and then hit upload unless you download the flickr uploader. In which case it works a lot better but you have to open up another program. Another example is Blogger, you have to use their somewhat useful formating tools to write a blog post, unless you download the Microsoft Word plug in, in which case you have to switch to another program to blog.Well here is where Flock comes in. It is integrated with several web 2.0 companies: Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, del.icio.us and others. Right now its "somewhere between alpha and beta" and will crash rather frequently but the idea is really cool. The interface I'm using right now is defiantly the best I've seen for adding pictures from flickr to your post. I'll let you know more after I've played around with it some more.
P.S. It defianlty has its downsides right now though, for example there is no spell check, so I'm sure this post is littered with errors.

My bookmarklet on the Official Google Reader Blog

Google has made note of the bookmarklet that I made recently. They have a link to this site from the Official Google Reader Blog. I'm pretty excited about that as you can very well imagine. Soon I'll be improving on my bookmarklet even more, so stay tuned. I'm about half way done with it, once I get some free time I'll try and finish it up. :)

Tags: Google GReader GoogleReader bookmarklet

Page Rank is weird

Lately my Google Page Rank has dropped to 1 and I have no idea why. And my posts have stopped being indexed too. Strange. Wow its really late, I should go to bed. I think tomorrow I might write some JavaScript to replace all my :) and :( and ;) with smiley icons using JavaScript. That sounds like it could be fun. Of course that would probably make my site take even longer to load. I should really do something about how long it takes. Does it bother anyone else that it takes so long?
OK, I'm actually going to bed now.

Tags: page rank personal

Google Reader Bookmarklet Version 2.0

Update: Google Reader now works with Xanga so that part of my bookmarklet is now relevant.

I have improved the Holizz bookmarklet/favlet for Google Reader and added a few features. Drag and drop this bookmarklet to your toolbar:
Add to GReader
The bookmarklet allows you to easily add subscriptions to Google Reader while browsing the internet. To use the bookmarklet find a website that has a site feed and click on the bookmarklet in your toolbar. This should take you to a preview of the feed you want to subscribe to. Click on the large Subscribe button in the middle of your screen to subscribe.

Feature list:

• Detects main feed from blogs that link to them correctly (both absolute and relative links)
• Previews feeds before you subscribe to them
• Subscribe to site RSS/ATOM feed that you are currently viewing
  
• If feed is not detected then it will search for one using the title of the page

Special Cases supported:

• Subscribe to older blogspot templates from any page in blog
  
• Subscribe to Xanga sites (note: GReader is now compatible with Xanga, but previously was not)

Eventually, I'll improve on this even more and allow you to select which feed you want to subscribe to if the page has multiple feed.

Note: if you are having trouble dragging the bookmarklet you can try right-clicking on it and selecting 'add to favorites'/'bookmark this link' and putting it in the 'links' or 'bookmark toolbar' folder respectively.

Tags: Google Google Reader Google Reader bookmarklet GReader

He really does exist...

So I was walking down the hall at school and this random dude was like "hey, I know you." He then proceeded to identified himself as Bicx. And then I was like, "cool" and then he was like... yeah this post is starting to sound like I'm a girl so I'll stop all the like stuff.
But anyway, I saw Bicx so that's exciting, and know I know he exist... or was it his evil twin brother...[dun, dun, dunnn]...hmmm.

Moving to Furl

I just finished converting all my Filangy bookmarks to Furl.net. It took quite a long time because I had to do it manually. Filangy does have an export function but not in a format that is compatible with Furl or Del.icio.us or anybody else. So why did I leave Filangy? Well, mostly it was because they were small and weren’t very popular. If it gives you any idea of their size, I was ranked the 49th most popular user, and I didn’t use it that much. I still think Filangy is really cool, but I don’t really care about the personal search thing so much, and compatibility with Filangy and anything else is pretty much non-existent. But why not use Del.icio.us? Pretty much I think its ugly. I know that’s a week excuse, but they do pretty much the same thing and Furl looks a lot better. So there you have it.
Farewell Filangy, hello Furl.

If you use Furl too, I’d love to make you a contact, just let me know what your username is.
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