Retiring from this blog.

Time to change things up again. I'm going to be leaving this blog for my shiny new Wordpress self-hosted one. Please update your feed subscriptions, bookmarks, tags, etc. as necessary.

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DIY mirror project. v1. essential for bending streams
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A new name for my poor neglected blog. I do intend to eventually migrate this to a custom Wordpress setup, but for now this will do. Just configured blogger to point to one of my existing domains.

With that I welcome you to infinitely meta.

I'll explain the concept behind infinitely meta in a future post.

Disqus or Intense Debate? Anyone care to comment?

I'm just getting back into the habit of posting here, so please bare with me as I dust off the cobwebs. I'm trying to figure out if I should give Disqus a shot for richer comments than what Blogger natively offers, but some are complaining that it doesn't support comments syncing with your blog and that it's an all or nothing kind of thing. Some have suggested using Intense Debate, which I have not yet taken for a test drive.

For me that's not as important, as I don't get much traffic and I have no problem "starting over." I know that I should migrate my blog to WordPress and host it myself, but I'm lazy and don't have the time to set it all up. That's why I came back to Blogger after not having posted for a year or so.

This will be my first post where Disqus comments are enabled (if I've done everything right). Will see how it works for now and then maybe try Intense Debate later. Will also keep watching Friendfeed and Summize to see what others are saying.

Testing Disqus comment integration

Just testing to see if the new template I just uploaded to Blogger works for Disqus comments.

10 things that currently frustrate me.

OK - I've been thinking about this for a bit and thought I'd toss it out there for the blogosphere to digest.

1. Not being able to capture thoughts, todo items, and having an effective way to manage them. jott is my latest attempt to bring order to the chaos that is my brain.

2. Getting 1x EVDO signal on Verizon's 3G network in my home, while I get 5 bar EDGE/GPRS from Cingular.

3. My cable internet, voip, and hd cable provider. Service is quickly going down hill and getting less and less reliable. Also can't stand the increasing cost after 6 month promotion expires.

4. Not being able to control my HD DVR from my phone. I've heard that Tivo has a solution for this. DirectTV here I come??? If what they say is true, I look forward to the days of having complete control over my DVR and a hundreds of HD channels to choose from.

5. Staring at my terabyte Yellow Machine storage device sitting next to my crappy Motorola HD DVR that only has a 250GB drive. Not being able to archive my HD content in an easy and efficient manner sucks or being able to expand the storage capacity of said DVR.

6. Being able to capture an hour of video on my phone, but only being able to send 15 sec clips over MMS / email from my LG VX9900.

7. Being locked into 2 year contract with my Verizon EVDO PCMCIA card that I hardly ever use.

8. The state of my NCAA brackets.

9. Not having the bandwidth to attend some of the interesting web2.0++ events going on right now.

10. Not having the time to get my blog off of Blogger and onto a home-hosted Ubuntu / Wordpress soln.