1-My ISP is Verizon FiOS

2-I moved from St. Louis to Tinton Falls in 1998

3-I never went to Kindergarten

4-I hated my 1st grade teacher

5-I am a horrible speller. I do not know what I would do without spell check.

6-I am the community admin of zentendo.com

7-I use OSX, Windows 7, and Linux (openSuse and Mandriva)

8-I cut my hair only 2 or 3 times a year.

9-I am starting to become a fan of Anime.

10-I love elevators… just can’t help it.

11-I’d like to get a Scion tC

12-My house is over 50 years old (and it shows…)

13-I don’t get out much.

14-My last vacation was in 2001

15-Both my grandmas have passed away.

16-I had to put down my cat on Thursday because he got cancer.

17-Steve Jobs is my hero

18-I am very interested in Japan and would like to visit there some day.

19-I had to goto speech therapy in 2nd grade because I couldn’t say anything with the letter r. Oh man did that take a while…

20-My GPA is currently a 4.7

21-My cell phone is an LG VX5400

22-Starbucks is my favorite coffee store

23-I have an N64, GCN, Wii and NDS

24-My DS has been sitting in the box for months because I never play it anymore.

25-I have a LEGO city in my room that has been there for years (I lost count)

Rest in Peace Fuzzy. You were a great cat that went way too early. Cancer is a bitch.

Ever since I updated QuickTime this morning, nothing on my computer seems to want to work correctly. Not only did QuickTime break my appearance preferences, it broke every other god damn one I have stored on my Mac. And no, I am not bullshitting that. I’ve been working the whole day to try and fix the damage. Everything but my theme is back to normal. I just don’t get how updating QT could break my theme program, Shapeshifter from Unsanity. I’ve had no problems with it until 7:10 this morning, after my computer rebooted from installing the QT update. Now finder and a bunch of other random apps are no longer themed. My other programs are showing up as they should so why the hell isn’t Finder and iTunes and iCal (just to name a few)? I’ve tried reapplying the theme and rebooting multiple times and even that won’t seem to fix it. I’ve checked to see if it’s the theme and it’s not. I’ve rebuilt all my chase files – not that either. Startup items, nope. Now I’m stuck seeing the butt ass ugly Aqua 10.4.11 theme randomly on applications. And incase you couldn’t tell, I’m pretty damn pissed off.

If anyone has any troubleshooting ideas, please, please, comment. I almost threw the keyboard at the monitor an hour ago.

Update: Finally got the son of a bitch working again. Now time to sleep.

As a Mac user and fanboy, it’s not easy to say this but Windows 7 is pretty damn cool. For a beta it’s remarkably stable and feature rich. Installation was unnaturally fast for a windows os – 30 minutes. However, add to that another 8 to download and install missing drivers. So far everything is showing innovation and an impressive amount of thought from Microsoft. Take for example the boot screen; it’s simple, it’s animated in full color, and it’s fast – even on a system that’s at least 3-4 years old. Microsoft is pushing simplicity with windows 7 in hopes of covering up the Vista problem, and they are doing a very good job at delivering it. The icon only taskbar was a particularly smart move in addition to those quick start menu things select programs have and what I consider to be most important, a drastically improved system tray. Remember how cluttered it could get in XP (and likely even more in Vista)? Well Microsoft has made a smart move in making icons only show up when a user explicitly states they are allowed to. New tray icons are banished to the more arrow, never to appear until they are granted permission to.

You may be wondering why I’m testing Win7 if I have a Mac. Well it’s because Windows still dominates the market and so therefore, I still have to use it daily at school and therefore wanted to get a first look at what’s coming. I also wanted to see if the guys up north are finally catching up to Apple and what osx can do. Microsoft is getting closer, but they still have a very long way to go. That said, Windows 7 beta build 7k gets a 8.7 out of 10 (hit hardest by the terrible control panel UI).

People value new ideas. How do I know? Well, you are reading one but in all seriousness, there’s a few. For one, think about the last advertisement you’ve seen. How did it get there? How did they come up with it? What’s it for? The answer to all three: a new idea.

Now just take a look around you in general. How many things are not how they were yesterday? The weather doesn’t count. But in all seriousness, did you ever think it was because someone had an idea?

Maybe you noticed a poster in a different location today. Why could that be? Was it because a new poster is there? Maybe out of wall space? Or how about because it looks better in it’s new location? Who knows, but an idea could’ve plaid some part.

Perhaps you’ve realized it and perhaps you haven’t, but there is an idea behind everything. Sometimes it’s even more than one. Even you are the result of an idea… and I think you know what I mean.

So at school we have this thing called Honeywell Instant Alert. I think they meant Instant Fail – epic fail. It sent a Saturday detention notice for everyone in the school. Yep, whole school got a Saturday. Well a few minuets later “We have experienced a bug in the system. Please disregard any other messages you have received from us today.”

Smooth Monmouth. Real smooth.

It’s actual name is Classlink and it is the biggest piece of crap I’ve ever had to use. What is it? It’s an epic fail piece of crapware that allows remote connections from home to the network at school. Oh and I meant “connections;” it hasn’t worked for a week. So I’m pissed as hell because the school newspaper is now like a month behind publishing. I thought since it was back up at school it would be back up at home too. That’d make sense right? Wrong. So I decided to finally call them about it. Well, if you though Microsoft or Apple had the worst phone support on earth, think again. The assholes at Crashlink hung up on me. No reason, just answered and hung up. I’ve had enough. I’m talking to the school Business Administrator about this because it’s gone on far too long.

Classlink, go burn in hell.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, we pay $18,000 a year for it too.

Today is Blog Action Day 2008 and this year it’s time to take action against poverty. What is poverty? Poverty is the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. It goes without saying that living in such a state is not easy. If you though your life was hard, think again. You’ve probably heard about poverty overseas in places like Africa but poverty exists everywhere. Don’t believe me? Go visit a major city and take a look around – outside the shiny downtown part. If we ever want to accomplish the idea of world peace, taking care of poverty would be a good place to start.

So why not go volunteer your time? There’s plenty of ways to get involved, and some of them take only minutes. Checking out the Blog Action Day site is a good place to start. You can also get the facts about poverty here along with other resources.

Actually, this one I’ll be using quite a bit. My school’s looking into setting up email for the students. As one of the editors in the journalism class, I get to be one of the first testers. About time we had some kind of email access at school. It’s actually a pretty good system too.

I’ve already signed up. It’s not too late for you to do so too.

Join us as we fight this year against poverty.