So, I’m looking at some places to get WinXP Pro. Asked some friends if they had an unused copy around that I could have. (I want it legit).
Windows? of all things you want that?
As much as I love Mac, games like StarCraft just perform better on Windows. And I love StarCraft. With Apple’s BootCamp feature, I get to have the benefit of both OS’ on my MacBook.
Hopefully I wont catch a nasty flu while I use WinXP. If I do, my poor Mac will cry. 
It’s cold outside, so everyone, family and friends are helping out and playing inside. The heater’s turned up to 72 degrees, and the turkey is nearly done.The atmosphere is warm, everyone is in a loving mood and is excited to get started eating.
That’s what my normal thanksgiving day would have been like in America. With a week off of school and with family and friends around you. But in Japan, we do have a day off for thanksgiving, but no one really celebrates it.
Every culture has it’s own thing, but if Japan is going to make thanksgiving day a national holiday, I must say I’m disappointed. Everyone (except for those who lived in America) didn’t even know what it was. Nobody celebrated it. And it’s a national holiday! I can’t believe it.
Well, happy thanksgiving to everyone in America. Have a great night. 
Random shapes really does let you find interesting blogs. I don’t quite remember how I found this one, but I know it was while I was looking through RS blogs. Anyways, Being Five has some entertaining comic strips about a five year old character.
Darfur, Sudan. As far as most Americans are concerned, it doesn’t exist. Admit it, most of us don’t really know what’s out there besides what’s on the news and what’s in the papers. There are a few of us who do travel and see things first hand though.
The Darfur Foundation, which main project is The Darfur Wall, has a neat website. It’s not just neat, but a great idea for raising money.
They pay for everything out of their pocket, that way any donations can go to other organizations that they support. It is a fairly new organization, so I wasn’t quite too sure whether to trust it or not. It does have the proper filing, and it is just $1, so I thought I’d give it a go.
By donating $1, you get to either pick a number or get a number randomly chosen for you. There are 400,000 numbers. Each representing how many innocent people have died in Darfur, Sudan. I think it’s for a good cause, and donating one dollar can’t hurt you can it?
Akamai has been the backbone for a lot of content delivery on the internet. Apple uses them for streaming their videos, AOL uses them for podcasts, Microsoft probably uses them for something too (ugh).
Nine Systems, which I haven’t heard of before, but they “make media work.” Their flagship product, the Stream OS manages content, DRM for the content, and sales/delivery of it.
With Akamai’s acquisition of Nine Systems, I’m sure the new Akamai will become an even better backbone for content delivery on the internet.
The Delicious Generation, i love that term. This new Random Shapes member blog has some really good content. App Crazy! is run by Judson, and he’s got a good feel for what he blogs about. (Psst. I wish I had content as interesting as his. lol)
On another note, this new RS member, Joy, writes about some stuff regarding the question “does a successful career mean unsuccessful romance?”. Check it out!
Text-Link-Ads is a great source of income for bloggers. It’s a win-win situation for both the advertiser and the blogger. And the guys at TLA have been pumping out new features there like RSS advertisements.
Now they’ve done it one better. The new service ReviewMe, provides a way for bloggers out there to review a product, earn money doing it, and for the advertisers to get cheap word-of-mouth and immediate feedback on their products.
I was catching up on my Wired News reading, and came across an interesting article. Started watching some of the shows (each one is only 1-3 min long) and they do build up a nice story line.
When you think about it, there hasn’t really been a show that was created for internet viewers. I mean, sure, networks do sell their content on iTunes, and it’s available over the net, but they weren’t really created to appeal to an internet user.
This video blog is. And I’m sure you’d enjoy watching it too. It has it’s own website, and the authors Youtube page has all of the videos too.
Watched my first feature-length hi-def movie today. I’ve seen trailers in hi-def, and they looked great. But being able to see a whole movie in hi-def is even better!
Into the Blue was the movie I watched. The underwater scenes looked so good. It’s like you were there taking pictures!
So, I’ve seen hi-def content, have a hi-def TV, and I love it. I highly suggest you get one too!
Now we’ve just got to wait until the distribution of hi-def content becomes mainstream. Because right now, it’s either too expensive to watch, or there isn’t a place nearby where you can get your hands on it.
It’s not that often when I don’t feel like writing a post. I actually enjoy writing posts most of the time. But when I get really distracted, it’s hard to write about the things I bookmark just for a post!
Lately, I’ve been hooked on Dark Angel. I know, that TV show came out ages ago. But since I haven’t watched it before, I’m hooked on it now.
And plus, we all think Jessica Alba is hot
The storyline itself is pretty good, I think. Love watching these types of TV shows. You know, the spy/military/sci-fi type ones. But I guess everyone loves it a little bit huh?
I’m done with the first season, and I’m on episode 12 of the second season… Should be done with it this weekend, then I’ll be back to writing about my “oh so interesting” posts 
Filesharing has always been useful. Now, when I say filesharing, I don’t mean bittorrent, or limewire. I mean network storage.
I don’t know if you remember, but a while ago I bought two new 500GB hard drives, and well, today I plugged ALL of my external hard drives into my makeshift server. (My OLD iBook G3 setup as a server).
And well, to my suprise, I have 1,648.07GB total storage, 683.69GB used, and 964.13GB free. (Only 41% of my total storage is used! (I used phpSysInfo to find out that info)
Just thought this was something cool that I found out today.
I know this is kinda off topic for what I write about, but the Guardian published an article about a poll-type thing that Google had earlier.
Why am I bringing this up? Well, one reason is Google is getting really friendly with it’s user base, and another is, well, I didn’t expect the results that came out.
Every organization needs project management software. Whether it be NetOffice, Basecamp, eGroupWare, etc.
37signals is well known as the creator of Basecamp, the internet’s leading project management software. They provide a hosted solution, which means it’s on their servers. The interface is easy to use, and it’s based on a subscription model.
But I think, after some quick usage, activeCollab is probably one of the best. And the plus is, it’s free, and downloadable. It hasn’t reached 1.0 yet, and is still alpha software, but I suggest checking it out, it’s worth it.
Meebo, the beloved online chatting app. recently got an upgrade, and a nice face lift too. I nearly always use it, and now with the new features, I’m probably going to use it more often.
Some of the new features include:
The biggy for me is the ability to pop out the windows. That way I can have the main meebo page in a tab buried with the page I’m looking at, and my chats in another window that I can look at simultaneously.
