Category: tech

Random Questions

I’ve gotten a slew of random questions this past week and I figured I’d share here my answers.

1) What happened to “Mr. I-know-who-you-are”?

I don’t know. He never responded to my request for a valid IP address. All talk and no action. NEXT!

2) Are the hidden posts on your blog stories or real life occurrences?

I’ve answered that before however, they are all true. Sometimes I change the names to protect the guilty though. heehee.

3) When did you know you were gay?

I knew as early as 5 that I was somehow different however, a mind that young has no frame of reference for human sexuality. I began questioning when I was 10 and then at age 12 I knew something was very different about me. It wasn’t until just after my 14th birthday I began to really admit to myself I was ‘gay’.

4) I registered as a user but I still can’t see your hidden posts.

Probably because you didn’t reply to my follow-up request to introduce yourself. Email me directly.

5) You never talk about the Bare Chest charity anymore.

I no longer volunteer for them. Call it “creative differences”.

6) I noticed your twitter updates are still functioning. Mine has stopped, help!

I switched to a javascript loader via the RSS feed. The WordPress widget no longer works after one of Twitters’s recent upgrades. Email me and I’ll send you the code to load.

7) I live in San Francisco. I have never seen you out at the bars. Where do you go out?

Uh, I don’t do the bars much unless I have friends in town. I used to go out alot when I worked for several local charities however, my priorities have shifted.

8) Have you ever met Chad Fox?

Yes, and he is a filthy scoundrel and I love him to death.

9) How did you know I worked for [removed for privacy]? Is it that easy to discover?

Uh, because I am very nosy. I monitor all incoming/outgoing traffic on my blog/domain. You visit me weekly from your work address/IP. It is not a filtered or proxy IP so it was an easy guess. And yes, it is.

10) Why are you such a slut? (from a good friend mind you after reading my last entry)

Because I can be bitch. Jealousy is so not your color! 😛

Technorati or Technocrap?

I think I’ve discovered why so many VC companies like Technorati fail about 70% of the time. They don’t give a rats-ass about their user base.

My Technorati feed has been down for well over three weeks now. I’ve emailed twice w/o a response. No notice, no email, nothing warning of the outage. A quick perusal of their forums shows I’m not the only disgruntled user either. I don’t care that it is a free service. If you offer a service to thousands, even tens of thousands of people you at least have an obligation to warn them when it goes offline regardless of the reasons. Hell, if you can sp@m my inbox w/useless news about your staff, you can take the time to send a quick note, “oh btw, our service sucks and will be down while we try to figure out what went wrong“. No, I’m not bitter, why do you ask?

Not a big deal in the scope of things however, it is rather annoying when I’m trying to be nosy. lol

Shout & Scream

First things first, a big shout out to Adam. Today is his birfday. He hasn’t been feeling so hot so be sure to hop over and wish him a good one!

In less exciting news, I got the “ring of death’ on my xbox 360 console last night. I was just sitting down to play the full version of Bioshock when the box suddenly shut down. On reboot, I got the fated death rings. I hate to but Microsoft gets props for having my info correct and on file. After a quick run down of this and that they had my repair order placed. Of course, it was just too be good to be true, the system was “updating” so I had to wait an hour and call back to finalize the order. Almost Microsoft, almost. lol

Anal-who?

So the top 10 search queries people used to find my blog in the last 30 days are…

1. jason statham (yes he is still a hottie and I would worship at his phallic alter)

2. moby sf blog (duh)

3. www.mobius.name (double duh)

4. moby files (triple duh)

5. gay muscle (I’m not sure if that is meant for me or gay and muscle in general.)

6. man thong (Clueless on this one)

7. myspace hillboy8 (Blog link)

8. muscle gay (same as # 5)

9. wardrobe malfunction (doubly clueless on this one)

10. “this boy elroy” bar (He bumped off “gay working man“)

Continue reading Anal-who?

Flickr

As much as I hate to, I joined flickr. I don’t like sites like flickr because it takes the control out of my hands. Sometimes though, convenience out weighs the desire. I can’t get the blog by email function in WordPress to work correctly when using w/an image so I figure this is the next best thing.

I routinely like to upload pics from the phone and would like it to post automatically vs waiting so expect more random photos! Wahooo!

Geek Unbound

I get to yack about my favorite subject today. Gadgets!

My MDA/pocket-pc has been slowly wearing out. Lord knows, I’ve dropped it countless times. Thank god it has a newer plexy screen vs glass. T-mobile came out with the newer version of the same phone code-named Wing.

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I was already leaning toward this one as I really liked the new blue sleek design. Adam mentioned the helio which was very nice however, it would not work w/T-mobile’s network. My phone service has been almost trouble free so if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it is sorta my motto.

It is pretty much an improvement on my existing one. Newer operating system (Windows Mobile 6), faster chip speed, sleeker design, better camera (2 megapixels), blah blah blah. T-mobile notoriously has shitty cameras on their phones however, this one ain’t half bad. I snapped this pic at work and left it in its raw format.

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So far, I’m very pleased. It has almost a soft feel to it. The frame is super smooth and slides right into hand. The shape is not quite as form fitting as the MDA but I’ve already adapted. They added some extra control buttons on the face that eliminates the need to touch the screen. I hate the stylus so try to avoid it if at all possible. They moved things around a bit too. Buttons are in different places. Some a little more user friendly, a couple rather oddly placed. They also added a port replicator. A very useful little feature when you are trying to charge your phone and use the USB option at the same time. Previous models were limited to one or the other unless you were syncing it w/a PC.

T-mobile managed to get me for a 2 year contract however, I used it to my advantage. I’ve been off contract for several years now and they were itching to get me to sign up again. I haggled w/the Manager till he gave me an extra discount. Give me a month to put it thru the paces before I start bitchin’. lol

Oh Joy

The joy of having a broadband cellular card from Sprint means I can sit in the theatre (30 minutes early) for the Simpsons surfing the web!

Oh yes, I am a geek!

The Dark Side

I’m delighted to tell you, I’ve seduced brettcajun over to the dark side of the web 2.0. Heheee! He finally broke down and joined the ranks of twitter this week. You can follow his ramblings here. I noticed he updated the blog to include a twitter widget. USE THE FORCE BRETT! Now, he just needs to start updating it more often. Then he’ll truly know the power of the dark side of the force! Oh yes, Web 2.0 is very addicting.

All joking aside, I support any technology that encourages communication. twitter is a cute service that fast becomes an obsession because you can get up-to-the-minute random minutia on your friends comings and goings. Especially when your friends live all over nation.

Oddball News

I thought I’d take a break from rambling on and on about me for a change and share some really oddballs news stories.

(full story) A NEW York man has sued the makers of a health drink, saying it has given him a permanent erection for the last two years.

This for Boost Energy drink. Can you say frivolous? What a maroon!

(full story) An environmental group asked the federal government Tuesday to ban a class of toxic chemical compounds that are found in industrial and household detergents and are believed to cause male fish to develop female characteristics.

Screw the fish, what about the affect on Humans?!


(full story) Scientists have set a new record in sending information through thin air using the revolutionary technology of quantum teleportation – although Mr Spock may have to wait a little longer for a Scotty to beam him up with it.

Now this is downright spooky. Think about it. Teleportation even in the simplest form just boggles the mind. To think we are already developing applicable theories is amazing. I guess science really does mirror science-fiction.