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Sleepy & YouNoodle

I am sleepy and stuff.  There hasn’t been much going on besides that.  I mean there has, but I’m not ready to discuss just yet.

Also, my iPod touch has been having battery problems.  It’s driving me crazy.   The sound on my old computer is randomly not working now.  And I broke my cell phone too.  I am having technology problems basically.

Oh!!  I signed up to be Notified when YouNoodle launched.  Yesterday I got 89 emails announcing their launch with over 100 people’s email addresses on the distribution list visible.  Nice.  We started a google group.   So far so cool.  The people are all involved in start-ups so it’s a fun bunch.

Hatphones, Jiang Yuyan and My Mac

I needed new shoes, so I headed out to the Nike outlet.  My feet are *strange* and the Nike Free shoes are the only shoes that make it so I don’t get foot cramps.  While at the check out they had something called hatphones that normally sold for $55 (now$29.90 at the footlocker link provided), foronly $1.97.  Now, I am pretty sure I don’t have a use for them, but…  Yes. I hadto buy a hatphone.  I should have bought all three of them and sold them on ebay for $10 + shipping and made a profit.

Now then, News.  I am so surprised that there has been no news about the Olympics, at least, nothing amazingly eye catching like there usually is.  No huge McDonald’s campaign with pictures all over the windows… First there was the bars banning black people and mongolians confusion, since the underground crime in China is largely mongolian apparently and they consider mongolians to be black.  Now there is  Jiang Yuyan, the supposedly 14 year old gymnast who is magically old enough to compete because she has a passport that says she is.  I must say, China is making this interesting with all the speculation about what is really going on… it’s just a shame that this is the most exciting thing about the olympics and they are starting in less than a month.

Now, on to my Mac.  I have an iMac G5 iSight.  Needless to say it is old.  However, for those two months apple was making the iMac G5 iSight, it was the best compter they were making.  So, now it has 1.5 gigs of RAM and the updated OS, but still no intel chip.  It is 2.1Ghz, with a 250gig hard drive, etc etc.  It is a good computer.  They still sell computers that are slower than it for $1000… refurbished from apple.  It just can’t do a lot anymore all because of the silly Intel chip.  That makes me… very very sad.  Needless to say, I can’t use the SDK and make iPhone apps… that was to be my hobby for the rest of the year, and now I need to come up with a new one.

Knitting costs too much.

Mac Attack

I have an old and decrepit iMac G5 isight with a 240Gig hard drive and native, irremovable 512 mb of ram… sad I know.   I know.  Anyway, it has been slow for a while and had no hard drive space, and for some idiotic reason I let is slowly but surely turn in to a slowwwwww computer.

I mean, I’ve been happy with it.  It is the first desktop I had that I didn’t build myself in… many years and it has lasted and is still lasting quite a while.  I just never thought to upgrade something as simple as the ram until last night.  So, I got another gig of RAM for only $27 last night at Circuit City.  HA!  So I know have 1.5Gigs of RAM.  I am also in the process of cleaning out the hard drive, and then I think I will update the OS and  maybe have something that runs a bit faster (I hope), and continues to last an be useful.

Inserting the RAM was funny.  Justin has never put together a computer, but he wanted to do it so I let him try… he so didn’t install it right lol.  He was scared to push it all the way in for fear of breaking something I guess.  So then, this weekend I hope to clean out the computer, update the OS, and install the SDK for the iphone.  That is really the goal behind all of this.  I just want to play.

iPhone/iPod Touch

Whooot!! I made my site work with it iPhone/iPod Touch today. I’m also playing around with my favicon. I’m ok with the one I have now, I just think it can be better? So I might try and update it later tonight if I feel up for it… or, it might grow on me. You never know.

In bartering news, I am advising someone I work with on what CMS tool they should use in exchange for dog treats. The dogs seem happy about this, though the three legged one tried to hoard his.

Yes, I think I will play with favicons some more. I made one for work today too. It is really interesting working with 16×16 px spaces. It distorts everything.