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If I had a magic phone

If I had a magic phone I would want it to work everywhere... Around me there are a lot of dead zones where my phone does not work at all, and my house goes in and out of service all the time... Instead of adding all these amazing features why not work on increasing the cell service to the world...

I'm not complaining about the features, in fact I am a gadget geek and love them all.

Almost my entire trip up to Cobleskill I am in a dead zone... It would be nice to be able to use my phone if my car breaks down, or I am in an accident or something...

This is the Verizon Wireless Coverage map, there is a lot of dead zones on that map, and Verizon claims to be the service with the best coverage. I would hate to see what other cell service coverage maps look like...

Wall*E or Johnny 5?

Has anyone noticed that the robot from Disney Pixar's new movie Wall*E resembles Johnny 5 from the Short Circuit movies?

Embracing Web 2.0 (Part 1)

I am going to start a series on how I embrace web 2.0 technologies on a daily basis to make my life easier. Today I am going to talk to you about Twitter.



Twitter describes themselves as "Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface."

So whats this mean? basically Twitter acts very similar to your status on Facebook. What are you doing? tell Twitter and you can let everyone know instantly.


So why use twitter if you use Facebook? Twitter has many uses that the Facebook status just does not hit on. I like to use twitter for Micro-Blogging, the Facebook mini-feed makes this very difficult, there are a ton of other news feed stories that you would have to filter through... the Twitter feed will only show your "tweets"(Tweet being twitters word for status updates) and not all that other garbage. Twitter also allows you to place a badge on a blog, or a website showing what your current status is (as seen on the right side of my blog). As far as I know Facebook does not allow for this.

I still use my Facebook status because a lot more people are using Facebook rather than Twitter, so what I do is I take my tweets and I convert them into my Facebook status using a Facebook application known as TwitterSync. It is very easy to use, and all it requires is entering your Twitter username, and they handle the rest. TwitterSync does give you the option to add a prepend verb, such as "is", so your status is grammatically correct.

Now heres where it gets fun. :) I can update my twitter status from anywhere(as long as I have cell service, or internet access). I have set my account up so I can send a text message to twitter and it will change my twitter status which will change my Facebook status!! Pretty cool huh? not only that, but Google Talk allows me to send instant messages to TwitterIM which will change my Twitter status. AIM has an IM bot, but it has been down for an extended period of time, and I'm not sure if it will ever work again.

I most frequently change my Twitter status from my IGoogle page which is set to my home page. I will discuss IGoogle further in a future blog post. I change my status with an application known as BeTwittered.

Twitter like all successful web applications allows for third party applications to be build utilizing the Twitter API. This post from Mashable shows 60+ different Twitter tools that you may find useful.

Let me know how you use Twitter.

In the next part of the Embracing Web 2.0 Series I will discuss Feeds, and how incredibly useful they are.

Long time no write...

Yes I know it's been like 2 months since I wrote anything... It's update time!!

Last time I wrote I had just gotten back from Cobleskill which I attended the Snowball... doesn't seem like 2 months ago, time sure flies...

Since my last post I really haven't done all that much... I have been searching and applying for any jobs in my field... The local job outlook isn't looking very bright... I think I will need to uproot myself and move elsewhere for employment.

Since my last post I turned 23...

Since my last post I visited Cobleskill the day of the dairy fashion sale. I went up there with Jeremy, I hung out with him for about 20 mins when I got there, and I didn't see him again till I left. I spent most the day in Prentice hall watching Kevin Prentiss from Swift Kick give his Dance Floor theory lecture... That was a good time... I had never seen the entire lecture, I had only seen about 2 hours worth at APCA... later that day I visited Grove, and Lee's house... That night I went to the Pasta Bar in Middleburgh NY with Lee, Silva, and a bunch of people I met that night... then it was time to go home...

I decided I need a job whether it's in my field or not... I put out applications to the Villa Roma, Bethel Woods, and Pecks Market. I heard back from Pecks the next day, and I had an interview this past Saturday in which I was hired to work in produce... I started this job on Tuesday... I really hope I find something soon... The job at Pecks will eat my soul, I was told my first day by another employee to slow down not work so hard, this seems to be the trend all over the store... I am really hoping I hear something from the Villa Roma... I would have better hours, and better pay if I got hired there...

I will try to update this more often, and a shoutout to Shano who I see is now blogging!!

I'm a Rock Star

So this weekend I went to Cobleskill :) yeah wasn't the greatest weekend... but Saturday was a ton of fun!!!

I played Rock Band for the first time!!! it was AMAZING... oh man I wanna play it again REAL SOON!!!


I rock out with the guitar, and I think I did very well :)



Too bad Rock band is so expensive... I don't even own a 360 which also isn't cheap...