Daily Clerks

Granted this just came out, I can see some room for improvement. My main gripe with this iPod is that they moved the headphone plug to towards the bottom of the iPod instead of at the top. This may seem trivial to some, but if you are like me, you plug a tape adapter into your iPod and then roll. Having the wires come out from the bottom makes things a bit messy. Albeit, it’s a small irritant, it’s enough to drive me batty. So the first thing I would do is move the plug to the top.

The second this is to increase the memory! I can’t believe they got rid of the mini, which I LOVE. Granted there is a color screen, what they should have done is put that color screen into the mini and increase the top end storage to 8 or 10GB.

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Improving the Treo 650 has been beaten to death both here and everywhere else. But what’s the most fitting inaugural post than to talk about the beloved Treo 650. Yes Palm has decided to bring MS into this with the Treo 700w that will be exclusively availabe on Verizon, but they mucked up. They downgraded the screen to 240×240 from the current 320×320 and they still didn’t include wi-fi.

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I got tired of just writing out my thoughts, so I decided to let it all out in a new section called “Improve This.” This will be a section mainly for thoughts and ideas that will help improve whatever is out there, whether its a gadget or a website, service or a movie. Basically anything that can be improved will be put into this little category.

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It’s been a while since I’ve updated and after this post, it will be a while longer, until I can get my act together. Here’s a quick rundown.

Sunday night. Laptop got very slow. I mean crawling. Any of you that know me, knows that my laptop is pretty much my life. I have everything on there. Business stuff. Personal stuff. And of course pictures. All of my pictures. Especially from Europe and Korea and my brothers wedding.

Monday morning. Laptop is officially dead. Tried to recover everything using Norton Ghost. Doesn’t work. Began to reinstall windows. Left for work.

Monday night. Error. Unable to find some crap. Tried to reinstall windows again. Full format. Took 4 hours to format an 80gb drive. No good.

Tuesday morning. Format complete. Tried to recover again. No dice.

Tuesday afternoon. Left work early. Began tedious process of formatting again, this time installing windows and trying to recover from there hoping to get the data structures up. 4 hours later. Kind of worked. Found a good copy of the norton ghost image in the recycle bin of my external hard drive. Thank goodness for that! Pulled necessary data, like outlook files, images and biz docs. Dumped onto secondary machine. Rebooted laptop. Received this great message upon restart. “imminent hard disk failure. back up your info and replace hard drive. Press F1 to continue.” I press F1…10 minutes later. Still nothing. Hard drive basically died.

Wednesday. Dammit! Dammit! Took the laptop to bestbuy for repairs. Won’t have it back for a few weeks. Gave them a laundry list of crap to replace, hard drive, screen, speakers, heat sink, fans, and the dvd drive. Hopefully they replace all of those things and it will be like getting a brand new laptop. But dang, 3 weeks without my laptop.

Since the only real machine I’ll have to work off of is my work comp, posts will be few and far between.

Peace out!

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When was the last time that you were in a hurry and needed to get to your floor immediately without stopping at every freegin floor? All day every day!

If you need to get somewhere fast and you need to take an elevator to your floor, simply press your floor number plus the close door button at the exact same time, and this will take you to your floor bypassing anyone other requests

This only seems to work with OTIS elevators. Give it a shot!

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Ok…ok…What happened to this show and why was it cancelled? I am sure most of you have heard of a little movie called Serenity, which is based on a tv show called Firefly. Now I just started watching this show and I must admit…it’s not too shabby. Plus their are some yummies on the show. But seriously, it’s not too bad. I hope they bring the show back, whatever channel it was on. I can see this show doing well on HBO, but over all, the show itself is pretty cool.

Bring it back! Bring it back! Bring it back!

Firefly DVD

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There is a lot of news about how Microsoft had this memo going around 10 years ago that stipulates the biggest single threat to Microsoft was the internet. Now today that threat has a name. Thy name is Google. Now that Google is beginning to get onto the desktop and buying all of that dark fiber as well as creating some great applications that are web based such as their gmail, maps, and soon perhaps applications, Microsft is now really shaking in their boots.

Has Google now become evil? The biggest speculation is if they will be offering free wifi and display location based ads. I don’t want to get into too much, but I wouldn’t be suprised to see people calling Google evil because most users will use their free wi-fi service, gmail, regular search, their Google Talk, satellite imaging, Google TV, and of course Google Apps.

Microsoft may then become the underdog for a change. Who knows? All I know is that I’d like to see Yahoo buy a network and really develop out their content and distributions as well as possibly even buy Imagine Entertainment or Dreamworks SKG.

That would help Yahoo! get into some areas that will help them grow and get future revenues. Because not everything that can make money needs to be on the web. What would be ideal is for Yahoo! to buy a cable company and help get all of those great content online.

Whatever. Google. I still love thee.

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Word on the street is that Palm, MS and Verizon are hosting a shindig on Monday where they will announce the Treo 700w. Thats w for Windows Mobile 5.0. The specs are pretty much the same except a better camera. 1 MP, but get this, it will have a resolution of 240×240! What the heck? Why won’t it have 320×320? I guess you give a little and then take a little. I was hoping it will have wi-fi built in and get a memory dump, but to no avail.

I guess I’ll have to wait until the next version, possibly the 800 to get the built in wifi and larger memory.

Way to drop the ball Palm!

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It’s been a bit since I actually updated anything. So here’s a quickie.

My brother got married on Sunday. From what I hear it was pretty good. Why is it that I hear that it was pretty good? Well, let’s just say that I barely got a chance to sit down. For some reason, I had a lot of crap to do, which kept me pretty busy, plus the fact that the guests kept asking me for stuff, like when is the dinner served, when will the cake thing happen, etc. All I could tell them was that it would happen soon, but I really didn’t know. I mean it wasn’t up to me, all of the stuff just happened. Funny thing was,, why did they keep asking me? That was funny. It was pretty awesome though, I’m glad that it’s over, as I’m sure most everyone involved. A few things before you ask…no I did not hook up with any bridesmaids. It would have been awesome, but I barely had any time to talk to any of them. I tried…believe me. But each time I went over to the table where they were, I’d get pulled away by my brothers friends to get a drink or to muck me up. Oh well… I’ll see them again. One of these days. And yeah, some of them were cute. =)

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This week was grueling. Sitting in traffic for 1.5 hrs each way and not getting enough sleep has really taken its toll on me.

I can’t wait for the weekend. Granted its going to hectic as crap seeing how my brother is getting married on sunday. Oye.

I can’t even figure out what to write. I’ll update this again later with some cool stuff, but for now me go to sleep.

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