Claim Something.

Above you will see a banner from a new site (to me), not sure the usefulness, called Jyte. You sign in, make a claim like I did above, and people I guess agree or disagree with you.

I think votes up, votes down, or no votes, I'll win.

Drivemocion

I bought the 5-message one. Very happy with it, although if my VW Beetles back window was any curvier the suction cup would not be able to attach tightly. It fell down the first time I set it up, but I set it up again yesterday and it's still up there.

It's better than a picture of Calvin pissing on something. (Disclaimer: I had a Calvin Sticker that said "Internet Whiz" on my old Impala. Calvin was pissing on the Internet.)

Out of 5 stars I give it a 4.999995 Stars. I wish it wasn't infrared controlled, maybe radio would be better, but it still works great.

So start the bets, how soon before I get pulled over for giving a cop a SMILEY? Ok, now how long before I'm shot in the back of the head for giving someone the "Idiot" message for honking at me? Either way, fate will find me easier with a big red light like this in the back of my car.

Lol.

You can get it here.

My Rio Karma Is Dead

My Rio Karma Is Dead
Originally uploaded by jeffdiogenes.

R.I.P. April 2003(???) To Feb 08, 2007

You were a trusty hardy Mp3 player till the end.

-Emotionally involved, Jeff

CC Mike- Hey well I guess I won't be sending you this to replace your stolen iPod.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Look, I Sold Out

Top of my site has Google AdSense stuff there. I don't actually care about making money on this site though. I'm far too aPathetic to try. However even the aPathetic can dabble in something they really don't care about, and still not care about it in the end.

I was just trying the book thingy I added on the left. Again, I really don't expect money, I'm just trying all this out so if I'm ever asked I can say "I done that."

Twitter

So....from what I can gather...this is a site that allows me to do all the stalk-work for my friends. I can let people know what I'm doing! Wow! Who the hell would even wanna know that?

I'm already setting up a txt message template that will shoot off an update on what I'm doing. It will say:

"Nothing!"

STALK THAT!

One thing I would suggest they add is a way to tie multiple Instant Messengers into one account. I don't know about you, but I have to have them all because everyone I know wants to just use the one they have. The things I do for people....
Anyway heres my alibis/self-initiated stalking badge. I'm going to throw it into the gutter on the side of my site like every other little thing I tried out and forgot about.

Oh, back to Twitter. It will remind me when I haven't sent a self-initiated-stalk-me message containing my status. I'll use that to help remind me I have a blog I should update.

Useless Account

"You are Useless Account member #5129"

Woo!

http://uselessaccount.com/faq/

Instead of Watching What I Want....

I'll share some links since I can't find Prince's Super Bowl Halftime show on YouTube:

http://search.universalstudios.com/query.html?col=all&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qt=prince+superbowl

If this link works for you and says something let me know. I hit refresh 3 times and I get:

The connection has timed out
The server at search.universalstudios.com is taking too long to respond.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Which means that Universal Studio's Search is broken or lame.

But wait! You ask why am I even bothering? It's for my wife, and I personally don't care for the Super Bowl. But, even tho:

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=prince+super+bowl+video&btnG=Google+Search

Shows like a million videos available on YouTube, I go to pages and I get:

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Publishing Group"

So "Ahh" this is why I search for this video on Universal's Webpage.

The lawyers are quick to claim copyright on a public (commercialized) event that millions upon millions watched, loved, heard about, and hated.

But my wife can't see Prince on YouTube.

Break the law and go look for the torrent? Is that breaking the law? My wife wants to see it. Also, as I write this I think of going to NFL.com...maybe they own their SuperBowl BigGame TheGame Performance.

Sadly, no.

Hey I think someone just uploaded the first part of the performance....I better get this one before it dissapears too.

I think the answer to this all is just get more servers in the budget for whatever 2008's halftime show conglomerate is in charge. So this goes out to Univeral apparently, but basically to every other company where the lawyers are paid to find things to pay themselves with. Universal what I'm saying is you get the movie removed, a bad name, and a bill from the lawyers. But really this goes out not as a threat to Univeral, but as a promise for other Viacom-like entities:

Leave YouTube alone and we'll save you a query on your overtaxed servers. Or, if you don't stop we'll hold the whole internet hostage with Bittorrent downloads of the HD version. Don't forget to blame the consumer.

Thanks for making me hate the entertainment industry.,

Sincerely,

Time's Man Of The Year
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html

^---- I think that's pretty cool. I now have a profile that contains all my profiles! Go get yourself one.

Jeffdiogenes' page about Jeffdiogenes' pages.

http://jeffdiogenes.googlepages.com/home

I was just playing around.

Lyrics Advisory

Ok, this is a rant post. In the midst of it being Dec 23rd, Psycho Christmas Joy and Drive The Other Guy Off The Road Day I made my way and spent my lunchtime at Best Buy earlier. The store was packed with all the kids that have the day off school and it was pretty busy. Not to the point people were pushing me over to get a PS3 or anything, but pretty busy. I checked over the new album releases and saw Ghostface Killah (member or w/e of the WuTang Clan)'s new album. I picked it up off the shelf and headed to get Castlevania for Nintendo DS. Made my way thru checkout lines, you know, the ones that always contain some tough guy that is standing well within my alloted "personal space" most humans recognize. His wife seemed to not be as close to him as this guy was to me. I gave him a quick look of general dissaproval by the way, but refrained from asking him if he was gay and stating that I wasn't, and to move the hell back because yer too close, cowboy. But thats not enough to make me fire up the ol blog.

No? Well then, what is enough for you to fire up the blog? Well I found out when I put the CD into my PC's CD drive and Media Player told me:

LOLZ NOOB U BOUGHT A CLEAN VERSION OF GHOSTFACE KILLAH!

Now my thoughts go like this:
Crap!
Shit!
..God Damn....
....F'n clean version... (Yes, my mind says "f'n", the irony, I know)
Maybe I can take it back...
...Aww they didn't let me exchange it the last time this happened to me...
...I'm stuck with this copy....
...Why didn't I notice this, being this is the 2nd time this has happened to me?....

I don't even want to listen to this CD now. I know my initial impressions of the album will consist of a bunch of blanks spots or worse yet a dog bark or a car screech everytime theres a dirty word. Now I can sooooorta see value in a slow rock song with one or two words blurred out, I'll still likely get the impression the artist was going for anyhow. But not with rap. And especially not Ghostface's. The rap lyrics I'll argue are 100million% more important to not censor because theres a FLOW that must be maintained and a dog barking does not rhyme with "rich." It really really makes the whole experience worthless.

The other thing is I bought this at Best Buy because I know going to Walmart, K-Mart, K-FedMart is going to get me the censored version. Thats why I go to a store known for having the "real" albums. I go to new releases, I don't expect there to be clean versions mixed in with all the ones labeled with the Parental Advisory sticker. Maybe thats a foolish expectation. But its one I have.

Here's what I need to happen....
Don't sell rap albums that are [CLEAN]. At all. If you must, send it to Walmart and leave it the hell out of Best Buy.
Or if I missed something and Best Buy is required by law to have [CLEAN] versions of all their CD's then I propose we put in big bright happy dayglo colors something like [CLEAN] or [BUY THIS ONE FOR CHURCH] or [LYRICS ADVISORY: MESSED UP FLOW] on the CD. Just like the Parental Advisory, but make it stand out so I'll damn well know I'm picking up the 10 year old schoolgirl version of GHOSTFACE KILLAH's latest album.

Really tho, we need a sticker warning us that we are about to buy an album WITHOUT censorship. Now you know what I'm going to have to do? I'm going to have to get on the file sharing internets and illegally download the album I wanted because Best Buy won't take back an opened CD. Or maybe someone I know picked up the non-censored version and I can copy theirs. In my mind that seems fair, but I'm sure its technically illegal.

I need them to know that their [CLEAN] crap is invading my [EXPLICIT] space, and move the hell back, because yer too close, censor.

aPathetic Blog OUT OF BETA!!!!

Joy is...

...watching the man in the manly S-10 truck that cut your VW Beetle off, get cut off by a Pepsi Trailer because he's not smart enough to know all trailers have to make wide right turns.

Extra Joy comes from him looking in his rearview seeing me smile, mouthing out the words "Dumb-ass".

Pants

I thought this was an interesting way to advertise pants.  See if you agree.  I lol'd.

 

http://www.haggar.com/gs/ads.html

All I Have to Say

This blog less healthy than water, but more refreshing than lava

I just took popped in my blog's address into the blog-juice calculator. I scored:



Welp. Thats a day hard at work, I was shooting for 0.1 and I guess I doubled my expectations.

trying some things out, again

This time, I tried Gcast. Oddly, if you are going to make a call-in podcast website it must begin with the letter G and end with cast. I wonder if Gcast and Gabcast ever get mixed up. Anyway, the most bang for my free buck is Gcast. Why? Well I do like the feature of conference calling handled by Gabcast, but my phone has 3-way calling so its not like I'm losing a feature. Something I didn't like about Gabcast was when they gave me the code for my web page, they forgot a tag somewhere near the end. If you weren't able to read computerese, you probably wouldn't know how to fix that.

As far as let-downs go for Gcast, there doesnt seem to be many I care about. I don't think I can link to a specific episode, but that's, ok. Clicking through to their page for me on their site you can listen to separate episodes. Their little flash player you see below only shows the latest podcast. Gcast also adds a step between recording and publishing, but I think that's only a minor inconvenience. I just tested browsing to their website from my phone, and was able to successfully login and manage my account from it, so that saved that inconvenience from being a showstopper. Seems I can also upload el-random-mp3-from-my-phone. Neat. However, they should make that page a little more mobile friendly in my opinion. I hate scrolling on a small screen. Gcast also allows me to make the player a number of different styles, which should earn it some points for those who need things pretty.

So I'm going to use Gcast, despite the fact I'm not a G. (I think G stands for Garage, this place is run by Garageband.com, a mp3 podcast site.) Also, what I like is that I can upload an MP3 to this in lieu of my voice, which I may actually do when I get a rare or weird song to share with y'all.

In other news, I downloaded the new Firefox 2.0 RC2-something-or-other. I like the newish buttons, and as I write this, it's spell checking for me. It's also handling RSS feeds/Live Bookmarks better than before. That's pretty cool.

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Trying some things out

This was done calling in to a 800 number, putting in my channel #, a password, and talking. This place also lets you do a conference call podcast, so like, I could call this, have Myra call this, then record our extremely exciting conversations (hey, Myra is exciting enough for both of us to appear exciting)...and then slap it on our blogs.

I will be doing the same with another free provider to figure out which works best and which I like better. I might even tell you which one wins.

And yes, my first ever podcasting into the internets is me babbling almost non-coherently. Mom would be proud! Win!

Gabcast! apathetic recordings #1

80k

80k, originally uploaded by jeffdiogenes.

Good? Bad?

Heh,



Jeff Sieggreen

On Sprint PPC6700 Phone.

What I do sometimes

For those not in the know of what 60SMN Solo Capped ENM means: There's a game out there called Final Fantasy 11 Online. In this game I play a Summoner job. This video is me doing a solo battle capped at level 60 (out of 75) with no subjob. This is also known ingame officially as the "Pulling the Strings" battle. Your objective is to beat the human (puppet) that is the same job as you and not touch the Goblin puppetmaster. Summoners get the added joy of summoning a strong pet helper, but so does the opponent. Anyway, this is me playing here, I made this video in July:

Google Video - Tic vs. The Puppet

How Becca Needs To Be

...in class.