Lost, But Making Good Time

No, Gap, I'm Not A Woman

Success! Finally! After, seriously, like two years of always getting female-oriented Gap emails, they finally know that I'm a man! I don't know how it ever got stuck this way, but today was the first time I've ever been able to signup for their newsletter and state my gender. I don't guzzle beer, and watching sports seems kind of silly to me, but seriously, was that my punishment?

Oh, and what's with the 3-4 weeks to make the changes? I can write the database INSERT sequence if they're really struggling that bad. (Same deal with telemarketers. I call them, I immediately say "TakeMeOffYourCallingListPlease!" and they say, "It will take 6-8 weeks to process this. How? Is this just so they can call me more during those last two months to squeeze they extra drop of annoyance out of me?)

Apache Install Successful

Okay, maybe I was the only one that saw it, but I went to Typepad.com and got the Apache, you've installed your server correctly! page.

Scared the crap outta me.

An AOL Veep On Blogspot?

A Blogger's Big-Fish Fantasy:

But Susan Mernit, a blogger in San Francisco, is actively trying to increase her readership from its current average of about 50 visitors a day. "I value hits highly," said Ms. Mernit, a consultant for nonprofit organizations and a former vice president for programming at America Online [my emphasis]. "I'd like to see my traffic increase by 10 readers a month."

She really needs to pony up some money when TypePad comes out. For her blog and mine, too. I'll give her some traffic. Promise.

Grahamimation

Because I am, of course, a follower, not a leader in the weblogging world:

You don't want to see this extended entry.
Really.

Awww, Shucks, Yer So Purty

Because I'm a big anal dork and a control freak and a nerd but I don't care (breath) and I don't want any double-directories or double-artists or double-ANYTHING in my new 15GB baby, I spent a good portion of last night fixing the ID tags on my MP3 albums. I found a great File and ID tag renamer freeware program (from Nonags, the PC freeware resource); it's called MP3Tag. Less than a meg to download, and a pretty simple, user-friendly system. Anyone know of anything better?

Ironically, I can't use my computer at home with it, because it doesn't have a Firewire port. Or USB 2.0. Just another reason to upgrade.

TypePad Updates!

TypePad's now got a list of Updates and Directory. Sweet. (via Anil). PS: If you haven't seen the Directory before, link back. Like I did Anil. We're trying to see how quickly we can spread a TypePad meme!

Dennis Kucinich

Big deal. Howard Dean has a blog.

Dennis Kucinich has a . (Ooh, ahh.)

Lazy TypePadAlpha Web, It Is Thee I Invoke!

Since my computer has started to make noises like a dying giraffe, I figure it's time to really start looking at a new one. I've had a desktop all my life, and I'm going PC either way, but do I go desktop or laptop?

I'm going to med school next year, and the med school is wireless-enabled. Plus, I'll be in the Bay Area, so I'm assuming lots of places are wireless, too. There are two main things keeping me from getting laptop: screen size and hard drive size. I still want to Photoshop and web design in med school--is it a pain to do on a small screen, even at high resolution? And I've got 3 hard drives now, totally almost 60 gigs, and that's almost full. Most laptops are averaging 40 gigs.

And then there's the question "Will I really use the laptop and study off it? And if I do use it, will I just use it as a distraction, and not to study?" "What if it gets stolen?" "Or I drop it?" (I'm a klutz.)

Any suggestions, people?

Blah. Blah.

Who woulda guessed? I tried to enter a fake book and author for a book list, so I use "Blah" as the title, "Blah" as the author. But see, there's already a book called Blah. Then again, there's that book called How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?, so nothing's too out there anymore.

For the Birds

I saw Winged Migration last night at The Music Box--it was pretty good, but I had drank two-thirds of a bottle of Fat Bastard, so I was a little sleepy toward the middle of it. I would have liked to learn more about the birds--there were only about 10 lines of migration and each bird got about a sentence of subtitling explaining its migration pattern--but it was breathtaking and amazing to see the shots flying with the actual birds. There's even a bird that flies from the Antarctic to the Arctic twice a year--the Arctic Tern. If you don't see the movie, at least check out their website--it's a great use of Flash, even when I generally can't stand Flash-only websites.