For the next few days…
If you call my cell phone and I don’t answer or…
If you knock at my door and I don’t let you in or…
If you email me and I don’t respond…
…it’s just because I got Halo 3 today (and it’s awesome).
Life will return to normal…eventually.
Hey, I doubt that this will do much good considering the very limited audience that reads my blog, but I thought I would post a few things that I’m about to sell, just in case there is any interest-
Guitar- 1974 Guild Starfire IV, $1200 Pics here.
PDA - Dell Axim x51v + extra battery, $200
DVDs - CSI Season’s 1-5, $50
Also, I might be selling these two items:
iMac G4 (1ghz, 768mb RAM, 80GB HD), $500
Nikon F100, $250
if you’re interested, comment to this post or email me silentfool [at] gmail.com
Ok, I am officially done with Windows Vista. I’m tired of all the little settings that you have to tweak, I’m tired of the drivers that don’t load, won’t load, or aren’t available. I’m tired of it crashing and not working right.
I figured out today that my computer has been causing problems for about 3-4 months. I attributed it to the router or other things for a while…but I finally decided to do some troubleshooting and narrow down where the problem was coming from. So, i found the problem- Vista. Normally this is the point when I would try to fix the problem, but my attempts only led me farther down the rabbit hole. I was working with the network settings and now Media Center won’t work, which has nothing to do with the network. Then it got worse and currently I can’t hear any audio at all. I’m sick of it.
As soon as OS X Leopard is released or begins coming free with the new Mac systems, I’m buying one. That’s that.
So, I’m feeling a little tech talk coming on. Be warned, all you non-techie types.
First, the iPhone. No, I don’t have one…but, my wife does, which is almost as good. Let me just say, this thing is amazing. All the naysayers that have complaints are frankly, just big babies. It truly is life-changing-amazing. We’ve already had several experiences where it saved us a ton of time, not to mention a few bucks. Google maps is worth the price of admission alone!
Have you got the picture yet? I really like it.
Is it perfect? no.
You can’t replace the battery, EDGE isn’t as fast as it could be, the audio jack is annoying, and it’s pricey. But when you put it up next to every other phone on the market…it kicks major tail. So, pending there aren’t any big announcements from Google or Apple in the next 4-5 months, I’ll probably be getting one too.
*I started this post before the price drop and was ticked for a good 24 hours, but they just announced a $100 kick back for the “early adopters”. more on this later*
That brings me to the second topic, which is related, this site called seeqpod.com. I found this site through a iPhone app search. I was pretty impressed with it and just realized today that it’s even better when you have a full pc and not just the iPhone. I won’t spoil it and tell you too much since it’s fairly self explanatory…but here’s the basic gist - you search for a song, any song…you find it, you add it to a playlist…you play the song…instantly. INSTANTLY. Sure, you’re not going to find every song known to man, but there’s a lot out there…and it’s quick and easy and just cool. So check it out before it gets shut down by the RIAA.
So back to Apple…I am truthfully nearing the fan-boy neighborhood (meaning, i really, really like apple). This $100 rebate is just unheard of in the tech world…and the fact that they’re doing it, makes me want to keep coming back to them, and that is just plain old good business. I keep working with their systems and learning how their stuff works…and with each new line of products I am just amazed. Truthfully, the only thing holding me back from going full out Mac is #1 Price, #2 MS Office is not pretty and #3 no Media Center. Sure I could boot into windows or do parallels and run my MS stuff, but media center won’t really work with TV recordings.
So anyway, I’m really babbling now. I should probably draw this post to a close before I allow you to find out how big of a geek I really am…or maybe it’s too late.