My phone still hasn’t surfaced. If I don’t find it today, I’m resigned to having to replace it. I’m beyond annoyed at this point.
The odd part is I have GPS program on the phone that uses the cellular gps to tell me where it is. However, the program only works while the phone is on. No luck so far. *sigh* I’m so incredibly bummed right now.
I don’t buy music cd’s anymore. Primarily due to the greed of the industry and their strong arm approach to file sharing. I’d be a liar if I said I never ripped music. What is the difference from copying it off the radio or copying a file? Same quality, same music? Never understood that one. I also see the need for the artists’ to make a buck. What I don’t get is the flat grab for cash that the RIAA has made to prevent online sharing. Their tactics are shameful at best. Beating up your consumer base does nothing to encourage them to buy your product. Duh! To date, illegal file sharing has only made the smallest dent in the music industry’s sales. All their fake studies have fallen by the wayside.
Being a huge movie fan, I’ve been fearful the movie industry would go the same route. This article from Wired mag gives me hope that maybe, just maybe the movie industry isn’t as anxious to squash their only source of income.
“We’re going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with, and that’s to get ahead of the whole piracy thing,” Freeman told reporters at Sun Valley. (full story)
Apparently, Morgan Freeman has joined forces w/some big logos in attempt to make online movie sharing easy. Time will tell I guess but w/more forward thinking and less backward thinking, I think we’ll find a middle ground that is acceptable to all involved.
I often see people post their playlists from their mp3 players so I thought I’d give it a whirl. First, I don’t have ipod. I have a thing for simplicity and even a little synchronicity thrown in for good measure. I use my Ipaq 6315 phone/pda as my mp3 player. It serves as an all-in-one device for me which is perfect!
So anyway, this weeks list:
1. Madonna – Die Another Die
2. Tom Jones – Sex Bomb (remix)
3. Amber – We need to be Naked (remix)
4. Sophie – Murder On The Dance Floor
5. Moony – Dove (original mix)
6. Sugar Babes – Round & Round (extended mix)
7. Elvis vs JXL – A Little Less Conversation.
8. The Tamperer – Can You Feel It.
9. Dina Carroll – Without Love
10. ? – The Ketchup song
11. M People – One Night In Heaven (Oakenfeld remix)
12. Alice Deejay – Celebrate Our Love.
13. Cher – The Music’s No Good W/O You. (my fave)
14. Lio – Rapture
15. Kylie Minogue – Better The Devil You Know
16. 3SL – Take It Easy
17. Jean Jacques Smoothie – 2 People
18. Atomic Kitten – It’s Ok
19. Madonna – Impressive Instant
20. M People – Search For The Hero Inside Yourself (Vasquez remix)
21. H & Claire – DJ
22. Sophie Ellis Baxter – Take Me Home
23. Louise – 2 faced
24. The Faces – I Wish I Knew What You Know (remix)
25. Nora Jones – Don’t Know Why (remix)
I went out and got a new microphone today. I hated the cheesey generic one that I was using before. I don’t sound quite as gay when you hear me now at least. (I always think I sound like such a fag but hey, I am)
What say you? Better or worse?
I’ve got the podcast setup so now what do I do? I haven’t really decided yet how I plan to go about it. Should I only podcast conversations I think relevant or should I podcast my regular blog entries for that extra ummph that is Moby? Shit, I dunno.
For now, I think I’ll randomly do audio for posts from home. But don’t hold me to it.
I got the home page up now. www.mobius.name
I’ve also moved the ”Useful Bits” section to the homepage. It is cluttering up the blog too much.
More changes in the coming week!
Someone found me via a google image today. I didn’t know google indexed blogs. I found a whole mess of my pics doing an image search just using “mobius sf”. Who knew?
I’m in doing some OT at work today. I’m on the fire side so things are nice and slow and I have a chance to work on the template. I redid the 100 things section. It is still in pieces but here is a preliminary glance of things to come. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get the blog to conform but the rest of the pages will eventually all be under the template.
I hate Mondays! I really do. Add to that, I was up until 3:30am playing a new video game and you feel my pain.
The weekend was blissfully uneventful. Mostovic and I took in Star Wars on Saturday. He wanted to go to the beach as the weather was beautiful. However, I was being selfish and was having none of that. Actually, Bobby wanted to go too. I know the weather was great but I just wasn’t in a beach mood. I think mainly due to my crazy schedule the past 2 weeks. Hopefully, after this week the madness will return to it’s normal mild state. There were so many things I needed to get done this past weekend. Of which, only one actually got done.
I’ve often wondered why I get this way. Being a typical Aquarian, I tend to be very spontaneous and free-spirited. I hate schedules and rigidity. On the other hand, life has taught me that schedules and structure can be very good things at times. That doesn’t mean I have to like it. I find when I’m overly pressed for time or scheduling I tend to shut down and rebel on my free time. Any thoughts of scheduling stuff on my free time goes out the window. I don’t know if this is merely my subconscious rebelling or if it goes much deeper as a defense mechanism for the id. (Another topic we can save and crack open later when I’m desperate.)
The weekend unfurled completely unplanned and I loved every wasted minute of it. I did manage to get out Sunday and get a replacement keyboard for work. (I have carpel-tunnel syndrome in my left arm and have to use an ergonomic keyboard.) The downside is no one seemed to have any so I spent the better part of the afternoon bouncing all over town looking for a replacement.
This brings me back to the reason I’m so grumpy today. I never could set foot inside a technology store w/o buying something. And it always ends up being more than what I needed. This time was no exception. A long story cut short, I ended up w/a voucher from Best Buy so I put it to good use and picked up God of War for the PS2. I got home around 9:30 and didn’t put it down until 3:30 in the morning. I had to be at work by noon for the day’s first meeting.
I’m cranky. I wanna go home and play some more!
Another glaring example of how corporations are out-of-control in this country.
(story)
Internet phone providers were ordered Thursday to begin supplying reliable 911 emergency call service after regulators heard an anguished Florida woman describe how she was unable to summon help to save her dying infant daughter….
…Her voice breaking, Cheryl Waller of Deltona, Fla., told the commissioners before their vote that “120 days is seven days longer than my daughter lived.” Julia Waller “died at 113 days old because I can’t reach an operator,” she said.
Waller said she got a recording when she used her Internet phone to call 911 after her daughter stopped breathing last March. By the time she was able to summon help with a neighbor’s phone, the child was dead.
Instead of focusing on issues like this, our leaders are worried about who I’m poking at night or who I choose to marry. Where were the morals of the company exec’s who rolled out this service knowing that it was missing a critical component? Once again, we wait until a problem bites us squarely in the ass before we act. Shameful to say the least.