Feeeeed Me

I started accepting signups for my new social network this week. It is called Feeeeed Me (or fe5dme for short) and lets you take all of the rss feeds from sites that you have signed up for i.e. a blog, flickr, tumblr, twitter, and digg to combine them into one page that you can share with your friends. There is also a color wheel to choose colors for your profile and if you know css you can customize the page to show off your style.

Wondering in the world of one liners

Not quite a month ago I got into this thing called twitter and have been hooked. I have finally found a place to keep all those one liners that pop up into my head and then fade out of existence. When I mean hooked, I mean hooked in. With the option to post to and receive updates from twitter via cell phone text message, im, or the web it turns your text and instant messaging into a conference message combining the protocols so that you can be reached by whatever means you deem suitable at the time.

Twitter lets you have control over who you are receiving messages from. You can shut off all messages at anytime by just sending the words "off" and to turn it back on, you guessed it, "on". If you want to get updates from a certain person you just type "follow username" (replace username with the person's username). To Follow all type "follow all". The command "leave" does just the opposite in the same respect (add "username" or "all"). "Delete" or "remove" followed by "username" will remove that user from your friends list. "Get" will get all the most recent updates, add "username" and you will get that users last update. "Nudge username" will attempt to get a update from a user. "Whois username" will give a short bio and a web address for a user and "d username" in front of a short message will send a direct message to someone. more lingo here.

None of that is necessary to use twitter, but it comes in handy when on the go. If you find your way over there I'm at http://twitter.com/artifishall

It wasn't the hard drive

New case
Originally uploaded by countzachula.

As you might have gathered from my previous post, I am the proud owner of a new laptop and in mourning for a old desktop that I built about four years ago.

One hypothesis has been debunked as to why the desktop died. Today I performed a brain transplant and placed my old hard drive into a brand new external case. Now I have all that old data and formated the partition that housed the operating system so that I would have more space.

All my music had already been transfered as I had it all backed up on my iPod. I am making sure of that before I delete it all from the old disk.

Now I'll just have to get a few more external enclosures and some 500GB hard drives to go with them to put all my old flac files on so I don't have to go hunting through a few hundred DVDs of music.

blogging by voice

So I got a new computer last week, I didn't get the Macintosh like I wanted to but I did get a very nice gateway laptop. It is running vista home premium which has given me a little trouble. Vista is an improvement over xp, but in its early stages it has a ways to go. Certain programs have crashed often, iTunes doesn't seem to like the last.fm plug in, and other programs have to be set to run with administrative privileges to run at all. I also had to copy a couple DLL files to firefox's directory so that windows media player will run inside the browser.

On the other hand other programs are running much better, but that might be attributed to the dual core processing and 2 GB ram. One of nice things about vista is the speech recognition. In fact that is what I am using to blog right now. It is a little finicky, partly because I am still getting used to it and is getting used to me. It has a nice tutorial to get started with and is helping me speak clearer. Though it has come up with some interesting errors in my adventure including "Elvis help me." It'll be awhile before I use this dictation regularly. Though I might use the speech commands a little more often.

The gadgets are a nice addition to the desktop, now I always will know what phase the Moon is in, the latest digg news, recent twitter activity, the weather, and what is on my to do list.

So you may ask why I got a new computer. Well my last one died and it was time to move on. I had been planning to buy one when I got my taxes back but this speeded up the process. Luckily I have a caring Mom that put it on her Best Buy card. Now I have to fix my old computer to either sell or use as a linux server, I have already had two offers so selling is more likely (besides I have to pay back my mother).

Quick Update: 3/5/07 Vista just doesn't like iTunes, it has nothing to do with last.fm

This is just Cool: 3d projection "I want one"

I dugg this up and had to share. I have been wanting to see this for a long time. In my head it has already came to life, but to happen in the real world, sweet! HDTV is awesome but nothing could compare to this. Hollywood could pack theaters with this!