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Why I love the internet

While I was working yesterday I received a twitter from Don McAlister talking about Geoff Smith's new album. I headed over to the site and checked it out - decided to download it. I posted a quick message in twitter about getting the new album, and within minutes Geoff Smith himself direct messaged me to see how the experience went.

I got instant feedback from the artist himself - the internet makes direct contact to people you never thought was possible before - while I know this concept is neither new or revolutionary, it's a wonderful feeling when it happens to you. There is more to this story as well...

I had thought I purchased the album, as I settled down after dinner to actually pull the feed from my email and download the album I had come to the conclusion that my paypal transaction had never gone through. So after spending 10 minutes trying to find my RSA keyfob I logged in and purchased the album. I got the standard email but had issues finding the link for the album. Once again I posted a twitter message and quickly Geoff responded.

Because twitter was having issues (normal really) the ability to communicate with Geoff had broken down for the night, But when I got into the office this morning, there were 2 emails, one from Geoff and one from Klaus - both of them asking what they can do to help me. A few email exchanges later with Klaus and the issue was resolved.

I was so happy with the service I received from Geoff and Klaus I had to let everyone know.

Spore Creature Creator

been playing in the Spore Creature Creator lately, uploaded 2 videos and took a few pics, pretty interesting.

Hoping the game will be just as fun and intuitive!

Visiting Browser's

Been playing in Google Analytics looking at various logs for my blog.. found it interesting that the largest browser share is Safari - this is somewhat expected since I blog mostly about Mac related topics... nontheless I found this interesting.

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If you haven't played in Google Analytics, I recommend you take a peak, it's pretty neat!

Thinking of doing a media cast - what is a media cast you ask? It's a mixture video blog, screencast, podcast and blog post - depending on the mood I am in, you might get one of the above... what do you all think? Is it worth the time to explore all of those various medias?

tank pictures

I was playing with my camera the other day and took a bunch of pics of the fishtank

here are a few teasers, the rest can be found in my web gallery here

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MarioKart and Wii-Fit

Been getting a few new toys for the wii - we got MarioKart and an additional wheel. Pretty damn fun game if I say so. I haven't had much time to play with the motorcycles yet... My wife, as usual, is better at this than I am. I've beaten the Mushroom cup and that's about it - she's already working thru the Special Cup races. I haven't had much time to play since work has been real busy.




Also - just got the Wii-Fit - this thing is pretty damn cool! While I don't think it will make me a buff body builder it will,
however, get me to get off my butt and start to work out more. So far the Ski-Jump game is my favorite. The yoga poses are damn hard for me, I have no sense of balance at all.

While the workouts they make you do are simple and could be done without shelling out the $90.00 for it, the way it tracks and motivates you to continue to improve, in my opinion is a selling point of the device / software.

New Laptop Stand

TUAW recently reviewed the Ergotron Neo-Flex Combo Lift Stand. I've been looking for a laptop stand since I usually rock the dual screen laptop and external monitor when I am working in my home office. The current setup I had wasn't cutting it - a simple laptop cooler stand that raised the laptop only a few inches and the monitor stand would not go low enough to make the two screens line up.

I checked the unit out at the site and it looked like it was the answer to all my problems. Luckily I found it on Amazon and it arrived today. I was fairly easy to set up, and the whole thing is very sturdy. The only gripe I have is that both the laptop holder and the monitor holder are set at an angle so that they angle in towards each other, it's very slight and it's something I would naturally do but the mounts are permanently at this angle, other that that all other ranges of motion are adjustable and the laptop plate is very sturdy. Here are some pics.

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