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Blogging

The State Of The Blogsphere

It seems that so many people start blogs, make one post saying they are starting a blog, and then never touch it again. It also seems that people stop blogging for months and months and just leave their blogs to die.

One other thing I noticed is that LiveJournal, et al type blogging services don’t easily let their users expose their RSS feeds (if they even have RSS Feeds?)

For someone who reads blogs through use of an aggregator, no RSS means no read.

Also, comment spam is just bad. Everywhere you look. At least now blogger has word verification, but then that turns people off from putting in comments.

The blogsphere seems to be kind of in shambles in some respects. Pretend everyone got 5 acres to build houses, and 30% of people just nailed two boards together and then never went back. Granted, there are some people who give it a good effort and build their house, but with no roof, and they never finish. In any event, all houses get vandalized (comment spam). That is how I see the blogsphere right now.

Categories
Life

Cooperative Gaming

I think one of the best innovations in gaming throughout the years is cooperative gaming. Starting back with Contra for the NES, and recently, Halo for the Xbox, cooperative gaming is just plain fun.

X-men Legends is another fun one, and Star Wars Lego’s. Co-op games are just fun to sit down with friends and play together, you can actually be a “team” and play together. Games like X-men Legends, four people can play together, great times.

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Life

Refrigerator and Socks

WTF is up with my refrigerator (yeah, it is running, and no, I’m not going to catch it). The dang thing leaks water like 3 times a day from the bottom. My apt complex like doesn’t believe me. I step in the water, and then my socks get wet. Seriously I am going to call them and let them know they better fix it or get me a new package of socks, and a new refrigerator!

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Geeky/Programming

ChangeIE

Working on a BHO for IE to mimic the functionality of Greasemonkey in Firefox. I created a GotDotNet workspace here if anyone is intrested. Right now it pretty much is just a BHO , and I have it working with one UserScript, possibilites are endless..

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Life

Science Channel

My new fave TV channel – the science channel. Very cool. Alot of shows on space and things like that. Pretty much any other programs I watch are on NBC. Speaking of NBC, KARE-11, the affiliate for where I am at, actually emailed me back when I emailed them.

Wed, I had a few shows on DVR, but in the Twin Cities there were tornado warnings, etc, and the shows got cut off on DVR. I emailed them and said I was in St. Cloud, and the storms had already passed me by two hours, and they should come up with more targeted weather alerting somehow. Also, they told me when the programs would be re-broadcast (on CNBC). They are lucky Law and Order didn’t get cut off!

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Life

9/11

Four years since 9/11. It was sad day, I remember watching the second plane on TV live hit the tower.

The 9/11 commission has found alot of places that our country is lacking in, and with the current aftermath of Katrina, we can see that we aren’t prepared yet. I think it all goes back to leadership (the lack therof that we have), and you can see how big of a cluster$@#& things are.

Hopefully one day we will get our stuff together and be more prepared..

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Geeky/Programming

Free Ringtones

I know how to get free ringtones from 3gupload.com if anyone is intrested. I really don’t want to post it up here but I can let someone know if they really want. You can get music tones and polyphonic tones, its pretty easy, especially if you are a little techie.

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Geeky/Programming

Linspire

Well, Linspire has made their OS avail for free, for the last 5 days, and it ends tomorrow. I downloaded the ISO and I am actually running it right now. I kind of like it. I will see how long I use it.

Check it out – expires tomorrow so hurry Linspire/Freespire Deal

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Life

New Job

I usually don’t talk about work on my blog, but I figured this is a pretty big thing, so I would post about it. Tomorrow I start my first day at my new job, at freeze.com. For the last 5 and a half years I have worked at St. Cloud Wireless Holdings, the holdings company of Cellular 2000 (Recently sold to Verizon) and Northern PCS, a Sprint PCS Affiliate. It has been a good place to work at, and I have learned a lot. I just am ready for something new. Hopefully I will enjoy my new job, and I am looking forward to new challenges.

Categories
Blogging

Link Blog

For anyone who wants to know, I have created a link blog, where i will post up things from blogs I read that I find intresting.

It can be found here Steve’s Link Blog

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