Today I saw a couple of the first signs of the apocalypse. That’s right….. The Four pointy sign dancers of the apocalypse. As legend goes (as best I remember it) the Four pointy sign dancers will dance through the land spreading propaganda and scaring small children.

Well, that’s exactly what happened. I saw 4 scary looking people with horns (or perhaps they were headphones… I was driving) all with pointy signs trying to direct people to a location, where they could no doubt pillage and plunder their money. One of the scary pointy sign dancers even sat unaffected as a little girl started crying.

Then I stopped at a gas station to catch my breath. Surely it was a coincidence. I went into the gas station and saw 7 Garden Gnomes (or perhaps 8, but gas station workers are not the best to follow orders), AND there was trumpet music playing!!!!!!!~!!!! I mean have you EVER heard trumpet music playing in a gas station???? and by 7 (or so) Gnomes???

Surely you can all connect the dots. I mean before today I had been sick, perhaps from the diseases that are spreading through the land (or maybe from overwork and alcohol). I mean all we need now is for the avian flu to hit here and the 3rd world war will break out and were all doomed then.

And look at the chaos going on around me? Expensive car problems, missing ipod, work actually considering giving me 5 days off at end of the year, bad internet connection (which went down again AS I WAS WRITING THIS..) to which you are now screwed as to when I will be able to warn you about this pending doom as quickly.

Be weary people, The Apocalypse is Near

Ok, so I only get so many days off in a week. More specifically: ONE. Having this short amount of time, I tend to try to be nice and work on my website during some of that time. Well guess what. If I can’t get online, I can’t do all that much.

Well my problem starts here. Right now I am writing this crap in a notepad that when I CAN get online I will post. Why can’t I get online? Because Cox Suck. No, I didn’t say Suck Cox, I can’t see that being enjoyable for anybody.

See the little light on my modem that says “cable” keeps blinking. That light means there is a problem with the………. cable………. yes, I know that’s a hardcore concept, but try to keep up. It shouldn’t blink, it should just be solid on.

Why can’t I call and bitch at them then???? Because it’s not my account and my landlord just said “give it a couple more days, sometimes it sucks for a few days and then gets better….” AH…. A COUPLE DAYS. Um, I don’t have a couple bloody days to just stare at some blinking lights!!!!

I told him to add me to the account, but that seems to be part of his give it a couple days thing… Grr, I’m not happy.

Ok so I just ordered some crazy-cool shit for my ipod the other day. See after taking it in the rear on the mini cooper I have decided to just make the best of it and pimp out the car to be something I love. So seeing as how the aux-jack in the car wasn’t good enough for me for ipod usage (thought great for xm), so I purchased a Dice Ipod Integration kit. It will allow me to control my ipod through all the thumb controls on my steering wheel, as well as the radio and also see the titles etc.. on the screen. It also has a video output in case I down the line decide to pay 400 to get the video source module (that will allow me to use my nav screen for input from dvd, ipod etc..).

Well after ordering that and a couple other things I lost my ipod. I have only a couple places that it could be. In my pocket, In my car, or in a pile with my car keys, wallet etc.. If it’s not there then it’s gone. After looking through my car, pocket, and pile area very thoroughly I was totally stumped. I for a moment thought I could of left it at a customer’s house, but I could not think of a reason I would of done that.

I doubted it had been yanked from my car because I keep it locked and even if I left it open for a minute there was plenty of other things in there worth taking that had not been touched.

So I was slightly freaked out. I mean man would it ever suck to spend money to better integrate my ipod into my car and then not be able to do so because I am missing the most important/expensive piece…..

So where was it? in my thoroughly searched car. It turns out there are many places that things can hide in there if I ever need to prevent people from finding them. This one that it found it’s way to without help was on the passenger’s side, slightly under the seat. Not within visual range at all until I slid the chair. Not sure how it could of gotten into this spot, but very thankful it found it’s way there and not into somebody else’s car.

Ohhh, a fancy new contact page… In making it though, I realized that google thinks my house is 1 block further down than it is!!!!! So instead of marking it by address, I marked it by the actual coordinates! I then spent 2+ hours trying to make a really cool new contact form, with validation and all sorts of things. I got the validation to work, however in doing so the emails were not sending?!? I know I can get it, but now it’s ah… 3:20am and, of course I have to work in the morning.

Oh, I got ask-a-smartass to work on both browsers again, using google’s reader. Right now it’s just archives, but that’s because I don’t have time to sift through 8 retarded emails just to get to a couple good ones.

I also added back a shrink and enlarge mode to sega/nes this morning.

meh, whatever, the site is starting to come together.

So yesterday I was getting a sandwich from Tropical Smoothie’s and all of a sudden this old guy gets up and starts mumbling about a joke and then touches my ass!!!!!!!!!! I was freaking out for a second before I realized that there had been a sticker on my ass. Yes, that’s right. Because I have to markup the cost of parts that I sell for work, I removed a sticker that said “Price Reduced: $28.48″ and threw it in my car.

I did not realize that I had then sat on the price reduced sticker. Yes, that’s right. I was for sale, and sadly my only offer was a creepy old guy who grabs first and explains later.

Still a little creeped out, I said thanks just to try to make it a little less awkward. I do believe that though it was a nice thing to do by removing it, it would have been nicer if he just came up in FRONT of me and told me that there was a sticker on my ass and that I should probably pull it off.

I once predicted that wifi access would cover the globe and then everybody will use VOIP based cell phones and make free calls instead of paying some bastard cell phone company for a 2 year contract and a ton of moola each month. I said that it would be google that blanketed the earth in wifi first. If google does it, it will be free, because they will find a way to sneak google ad’s in (though others would find a way to block them out).

Well folks, it has begun. Tonight I read in my Maximum PC about 2 Mobile Skype Phones. If you don’t know what skype is, you haven’t been on the internet this year. It gives you free phone calls to the US, Canada and Mexico.. and though it primarily works like an instant messenger where you have a buddy list and can text or call people on your list, skype offers you the option to get an actual phone number for your account. Doing so allows everybody on earth to use their normal phones to call your computer’s skype phone.

Well now there are little wifi based cell phones for skype by netgear and other companies. Now they cost as much as a normal cell phone and at this point I would still consider them pointless since google has not yet blanketed the world in free wifi (though they have portland and a few other places…), but it too shall happen…. and THEN no more $125/mo phone bills for me.

Muwahahaha

Yesterday I discovered some bloody fantastic software called MojoPac. The theory here is that you can take any usb storage device (memory stick, ipod, psp etc..) and use the extra space you have on it to create a virtual pc profile. Only this is way more hardcore, since it leaves no traces on any computer, is launched by one file and though it uses the hardware of whatever computer you plug it into, it doesn’t interact with it. You can copy data back and forth by going to the Host PC and copying files to the usb device. However the point is not to just have data transfered between it…. Nope, point is that you can install ANY windows xp program inside your mojo and then run it on whatever computer you sit down at.

That eliminates the need for a laptop, and since it leaves not traces you can say plug your ipod into your work computer, library, cafe or something and instead of being stuck with their crap, you can just switch over to your desktop and run your doom 3 game, or you can play your mp3’s on winamp and then switch to the host pc and you will still hear the music playing.

I don’t know if I can better explain it, than to say that I am doing a 30 day trial right now and I AM going to pay for it. Right now it’s $29.99 for intro period, and then they will be making it $59.99. Yes, I am sure that there will be ways around paying for it eventually, but this is such a fantastic find.

Ok so I plug my ipod in to pc and either autorun/open mojo file > Open my firefox browser that is pimped out with all the stuff I like including a new plugin that lets me see and edit my utorrent program from away from home by hitting alt+u, so I can control what my computer is doing that way…. OR I can open the VNC Client on my mojo desktop and use it to remotely access my computer at home (thereby having a desktop, in a desktop, in a desktop). I don’t need to do this at all since mojo can have as many files on it as I want, but it’s nice to know that I can get at my 2.5TB of hard drive space (ok, that’s counting the usb terabyte which I have turned off most of the time since it’s a little bit unstable) on my home pc.

Check it out at mojopac.com.
They have a video demo if you want to see it running.