Found out what’s been happening with Mom since the last visit:

Bellsouth shut her Internet down, thanks to a billing dispute between them and some third-party billing company.

Directv is no longer on (thank you God!!!).

She no longer buys milk on an active basis.

…………….

Well, Directv is better off dead, anyway.

But the DSL? Oh hell no!

Just now, I switched out ISP to Earthlink (particularly because its based in Atlanta….I need a job with them). Also, to perk up this day a bit, I finally upgraded this LJ to a free account!

Yay! Check out the new layout!

*sobers down, clears throat*

Well, this was a fine day, a fine day indeed.

I go back to school tomorrow.

Is there a page where stats for Yahoo can be documented? And when I say “stats”, I mean something similar to this: http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml

Or something like this: http://about.deviantart.com/stats/

Or maybe even something like this: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html (although that’s not the point).

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Frankly, all that I’m thinking is a site or aggregation of the following:

1. Age

2. Country

3. U.S. States

4. Gender

5. New Users by Day

6. Popular Interests

7. 360 Posts by day

8. Groups created by day

9. popular groups

10. Populated groups directories

And so forth.

I’m certain that, considering that Yahoo is this behemoth of a computer services company, such a stats gathering as I’ve considered will be as difficult as trying to find out exactly just how big the U.S. Bureaucracy is.

DLed and installed Gaim yesterday.

Yeah, I suck.

Patricularly, I’m using it to see how a P2P file-sharing system could work through this multi-network protocol.

Many people have already compared Gaim to Shareaza in how it logs on to Jabber (having trouble with logging on it as gmail.com), Yahoo, and a few other networks almost simultaneously.

Now if they only allowed search-and-share for multiple folders….

Plus, I figured that VLC isn’t as notable than Media Player Classic for a reason (or two).

Thus, scratch VLC. Media Player Classic will be on top of Firefox in the near future, and media will be bookmarkable; and you can kiss WMP, Real, Quicktime, and maybe even Winamp goodbye.

Now, I know that Yahoo may have come close to this idea…..

P2P through IM.

Search for, download, and Share files from your approved hard drive and web folders with your IM friends, be they on Yahoo, MSN, Google, ICQ, or AIM.

Thus, when you aren’t interested in someone else’s gift of gab, you can still stay connected just to get what they got!

…er, *have*….whatever.

If such can be invented, it’ll provide me with a sole reason for coming back to instant messanging.

Anyway, about to watch Michaelle Jean get invested as Canada’s new GG. Yay!

Remember Real Player? (http://real.com)

Yeah, *that* one.

Well, as much as people hate it for all its worth, I have found my inspiration for the ideal media player (which I dubbed “Windhorse”).

Features of Real which I like:

1. The combination of a media player on top with a web browser on bottom (and library, CD Rip/Burn, Playlist, and Search on the side).

2. Format universiality (plays copyrighted formats from Real, Apple, Nullsoft/AOL, and Microsoft).

3. Bookmarks for both web media and web pages.

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Thus, I’ve decided that the best way to enable the most streamlined web media experience for users of Mozilla Firefox would be to

1. embed VLC Media Player directly into the top (and sides) of Firefox.

2. enable total compatibility for all formats (as long as ActiveX isn’t involved, of course).

3. Enable the bookmarking of media for Firefox.

1. I was stoned for the first time at Chi Phi. Yay me! (That 5th puff, though, shook my lungs up something terrible)

Continue reading OK, a rundown of Friday, Saturday, and early, early Sunday →

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At around 12:00 AM this morning, after coming back from a weekend down in WR, I finally registered for Gmail.

That’s right. I have a cell phone now….and itty bitty one at that.

I couldn’t fall asleep for quite a while this morning. How did this happen so fast?

I’m now one of millions of people who are basically OWNED by Google now.

No offense to Him, but I think that Google is comparable to God in a lot of ways.

1. Squeaky-Clean interface. No clutter, no frills, legal stain resistant.

2. Indexes everything that exists on the Internet, except for those which are guarded by the robot.txt (it’ll destroy those later: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076).

3. Basically owns the Open Source Revolutionary Movement.

Thus, is Google the corporate earthly incarnation of God?

No….it could be the ANTICHRIST!

:-O Oh Noes@!