Embraced Blogs: Dan

One downside of the internet is that you can hear about things so far in advance that the anticipation can become just downright annoyance.

Take the Splashpad for instance, which allows you to charge your low voltage devices like phones, cameras and PDAs wirelessly. I heard about this beast over a year ago and I’m painfully reminded that it hasn’t released every time the charger on my phone stops working (I’m on my third charger now.

Or how about Allpeers, the forth-coming extension that adds BitTorrent compatability to Firefox (Opera has had this for sometime now, built in).

The internet sure has some really cool things going for it: Up to the minute news, huge sprawling communities for any subject you can think of, a wealth of information that rivals the library of Alexandria. But of these there is one thing that rises above the rest. Online begging. That’s right, I can now panhandle without even leaving my comfy chair. So rejoice with me, and donate a buck or two to help me get Brain Age. It’ll make me smarter so I won’t have to beg anymore.

You can click here to donate or use the little linky in the sidebar.

But I’m abandoning it in favor of CakePHP, which is just more practical since Jeff is already very familier with it. Sorry to let no one down.

In other news, I donated a design to a site called Windjay (it’s not up yet) that does extensions for the up-and-coming media player Songbird.

The Ruby On Rails version of this blog is coming along quite nicley, and I’m really glad I’m learning it. Now I just have to sot tight and hope Media Temple’s Shared Server 6.0 upgrade happens soon.

Haven’t touched Second Life in days, due mostly to the fact that my wife bought me Animal Crossing: Wild World for my Nintendo DS (which she also has for her’s). I feel like we reconnected some long lost teenage attribute we lost along the path to parenthood. Strangley enough, the house has never been cleaner and the kids happier. Could video games be making us more responsible?

Jason Kottke joined The Deck today, a indie ad network that supports other heavy hitters such as Waxy.org and 37Signals. Pretty cool to see these guys playing by their own rules.

Speaking of 37Signals, I’m planning on abandoning WordPress and redoing this blog in web wunderkind Ruby On Rails (No hard feelings WP).

Note to self: check out punchline - fbr

Matt Haughy linked this up this morning and it is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a good long time.

I decided this morning to take the next plunge in online community: Second Life.

If you don’t know what Second Life is, just imagine Myspace inside a 3d-world. I’m sure I’ll tire of it quickly and not have enough time to play it, but heck it’s free and they gave me $250 ingame to play with.

XM Radio’s Hearmusic station (owned by Starbucks) is having a good day today. Rocky Votolato followed by Rosanne Cash and ended with Sufjan Stevens was the best unintentional 3-in-a-row I’ve ever heard.