Embraced Blogs: Dan

Aubrey Jo Diemer was born at 1:46 PM, weighing in at a whopping 9lbs 3oz.

Congrats to me!

• Moola.com - This adfunded web game that is giving my wife something to do online, plus it makes us money (I figure if she earns 22 cents a day on it, I can buy a MacBook in about a year and a half).
• The OLPC set on Flickr - Pictures of the One Laptop Per Child prototype that MIT created that will increase learning throught third world countries.
• Skype - Using it peer to peer is rad, and calling any landline in North America for free is a handy bonus.
• Seth Werkheiser - Not in a gay way, but in a proud way that things are working out. Indie music blogs may pay off just yet.
• The 1Up Yours Podcast - Best theme (next to diggnation’s), great hosts and a fair amount of well placed obsenities make it a entertaining listen. NOTE: Embraced Blogs does not consent or condone the use of foul language as a tool to express emotion, though it does make things interesting.
• The Chevy HHR - It’s my new work vehicle, and its pretty sweet, other then having to crank the volume to make my iPod sound decent. Good design otherwise.
• Silverorange - Cause they rock. Did the redesign on Digg and also for Mozilla.

It must be hard to um…not be Apple.

If I’m reading this right, Austrailia is a land of zombies.

From digg.com

Yes. It is really very, very free. There’s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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What a busy weekend. Alicia’s Mothers Day present (An engraved iPod Shuffle) showed up on friday by the skin of it’s teeth. She cried upon hearing the track of our kids wishing her Happy Mother’s Day. Mission Accomplished.

The rest of the weekend was a frustrating blur as I tried to install a new Microwave/Range Hood that wanted nothing to do with it’s new cabinet home. After a few hours of snapping at my family, I gave up and we visted all the folks. Apologies again to my lovely wife for taking out my installation woes on you.

Here is link to a great article that pretty much sums up my feelings on the Illegals on Strike issue

Tonight’s entry is coming to you from inside the soft aqua glow of a new MacBook Pro. No, I didn’t get one….yet, but my loving mother let me borrow hers for the evening (my guess is so I fiddle with it and find all the stuff she’ll need come tomorrows workday).

I must say I absolutely love it, and am sure to become a bigger Apple fanboy.

Anyway, me and Jeff have embarked on something that has been occupying my mind for the last few days. We’re poised to launch our very own Web App this month and I hope it’s the first of many. Heck, we may even turn a small profit from it, though thats not the reason behind creating it. I’ll be sure to let all 5 of you know as soon as it launches.

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.

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