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So yummy it’s del.icio.us

Jeff — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:13:34 +0000

Don’t you hate it when you really need something and it just doesn’t exist. I always wanted a phone/pda/mp3 player. They are just starting to come to market. Pocket PC based phones will do the job but its still lacking. The phone is just a program that runs on the operating system. What happens if your phone program crashes? Who needs that. This really isn’t what I wanted to talk about.

What I wanted to talk about was del.icio.us. A social bookmarking site that is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. In a nutshell, del.icio.us is a giant community bookmark folder. You put your bookmarks in there and can share it with the rest of the community. There is also a page that lists the most popular links in the network. Every link has tags attached to them. Lets say I wanted to see some links on the new iPod. Just go to the iPod tag and see whats goin down. In the future I will add link to my bookmarks so the viewing public can see what i’m up to.

update: Well that didn’t take long. Please note the del.icio.us link section on the right hand side of the page. Behold dymanic content.

Tanktastic

Jeff — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:16:24 +0000

The fish tank is back baby, you know it. Only one fish died in this weekends filter malfunction. It was one of the Bob exiles, it was gold. We never got close so I never learned its name. Anyway a new and improved filter is in. The Penguin Bio-Wheel 200. (applause) With a flow rate of 200 GPH, it scrubs the water 5 times per hour. Oooh, math. The 4 fish and one snail look alive and happy. And happy to be alive.

Lovin’ the GMail

Jeff — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:50:39 +0000

Its a year since Gmail debut and about 10 months since I started using it. In that time the service has gone from kinda klunky to mostly awesome. Today they upped their disk space from a Gig to 2 Gigs. Its been slowly increasing all day, fun stuff.

I actually got my Gmail account from the defunct gmailswap.com. I traded a guy a dvd for the account. This is when invites were going for five bucks a pop on ebay. I broke more than even doing this in the summer of ’04. Sitting on the back porch with the laptop posting invites on ebay and making money. Ahh the good ole days. Google has now said that paying for invites is against their user policy. The market for invites has dried up anyway. isnoop.net has more than half a million invites in their queue just waiting to be picked up.

Downloading TV

Jeff — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:25:40 +0000

The internet has become my VCR.

Lets go back to the time of VCR’s. Back in the day movie studios tried to stop the sale of VCR’s becuase of copyright issues. VCR’s and VHS tapes went on the make the companies rich because of video sales and rentals. This has nothing to do with my point…

Lets go back to the time when I lived in Queens and had a DVR. It wasn’t a TIVO but it was bundled with my cable box. It opened a whole new world of TV to me. All of Adult Swim was at my fingertips at any hour of the day. Tell it what you wanted and it recorded every show at any time during the day. Never miss an episode. Pause live video, record one channel and watch another. Amazing stuff. Then I moved back to Brooklyn.

Cablevision didn’t offer a DVR and Mr Cheapo wasn’t going out to buy a $300 TIVO. I needed my TV fix. Who’s going to say up till 1am on a Sunday to catch an 11 minute cartoon. Not this guy. I hit the Torrents hard. I had no idea when any show aired, but you could only assume it was the night before it was available for download. A whole season of 24 wont even fill up my mp3 player.

I swear there was a point to this post.