The Rigged-Up Net

Ok, the rising cost of gasoline is starting to get a bit ridiculous… check out this picture and this one from Yahoo.

Apparently, My ***damn rock solid ghetto shiznit name is Rock Hard Kool. What’s yours?

Chris has decided to start some bizarre “business” of some kind… so I figured I’d plug it – go check out RentMyChest.com.

Also… in this past weekend’s episode of MADtv, t.A.T.u. was on singing their song “All the things she said”… I gotta say, these marketing people in the music biz know what their doing… as a single 20-something male, I honestly cannot tell you if I truly like their music or not, but two girls making out on stage sure makes it not matter…

Of course, don’t miss the new Strongbad email for the week.

I also stumbled across this today:

Speaking of All My Life for Sale, I also find FOUND fascinating… (that sounds a bit weird… I find found… bah, anyways) you can found the skinny on it here… go check it out.

Ok so people have been asking me stuff like “Do you use Trillian?”, “Do you like Trillian?”, etc, etc, etc….

I do actually use Trillian… but only for MSN, AIM, and Yahoo!…. My primary IM network is ICQ.

There are three reasons why I don’t use ICQ on Trillian:
* Complete lack of server-side contact lists
* File-transfers via ICQ on Trillian never seem to work right
* Server-queued messages never seem to get delivered on Trillian

I’d probably consider switching to Trillian if I just got server-side contact lists… and you’d think it’d be no big deal since they’re already doing it for AIM. Whatever.

So in the meanwhile, I’m running two IM clients…

Wow, what a long Monday… Drove into Austin in the morning for SXSW Interactive. I had a great time… Met John Freyer of All My Life For Sale . I find that whole project absolutely fascinating – I first found out about it when he appeared on TSS with Leo… pretty cool that I ran into his session randomly.

Dirk spoke around 3:30 about Database Driven Sites which was fun to listen to… I have this huge appreciation for DB-people since I don’t think I’ll ever want to admin any sort of database myself… 🙂

Of course, Pud was there and we heckled the Adult Webmaster panel.

Evan of Blogger.com was around as was Brandon Wiley of Freenet.

I also had the priviledge of meeting Brad of LiveJournal and Cameron of Camworld. (for those of you still curious about the goat, go here)

Aftering the show we all grabbed some Thai… hit the Library and then Speakeay’s and drove home… I think my head finally hit the pillow around 2am… Anyhow, I’ll probably head up again to Austin later on this week to check out the SXSW Music scene – sounds like it’ll be fun.

Pictures here.

Ok, this the very first entry in my own personal Blog… I just got back from GnomedexII in Iowa. It appeared that everyone and their mom (literally) had a blog there… You can see pictures of the event here.