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ThisNext.com is sort of digg for shopping. Its based on recommendations. Seems so far that the people making the recommendations have taste. Teh people recomending seem to either be in the design or tech sector. That could change. Digg.com went from an all tech/geek community to a more youtube/myspace crowd sort of. I seem to have to sift threw more meaningless bullshit on digg lately. Then the apple section over at digg seemed to be iphone driven a few months ago. It went from 4 or 5 new posts a day to dozens a day and all iphone related.

Ok back to ThisNext.com. I was fascinated for about 30 seconds with their. “Watch people shop” page. Google map masup of peoples purchases. First one that popped up was someone in WA state buying an inflatable church. I can’t make this shit up people. Check out the inflatable church here.

I noticed I didn’t make the links in the posts a different color than the text. They are all now orange. Also the Notorious MGS post broke the page a bit. I’m hoping I can be lazy and just wait for it to drop off the front page to fix the issue.

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Seems to be a firefox issue. Safari and IE don’t break with that post. I ran firefox to check the changes to the link color. I forgot to empty my cache on Safari since it would let me see the changes till I did.

I just got finished replacing my internal notebook hard drive. In the process I upgraded to a 250 GB drive from the stock 100 GB one. Taking the notebook apart was a worry of mine till I did it. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought. I would not have wanted to dig any deeper into it. If I had had to take the motherboard out I would have been worried. I used a guide over at ifixit. Heres the actual guide I used.

For the most part I don’t need to lug around one of my external 250 GB drives around anymore. I just leave them on my desk. As a side benefit of having a hard drive fail I can now be mobile and have all my music and video with me with about 100 GB of room to spare.

Most of you know why. I’m not going into details. This person does not deserve further discussion or attention.

Went with a black one this time. I also upgraded my lastfm list on the sidebar to a flash. You can hover over tracks for the album art and hit the tiny play button to listen to the song. Sort of have to use the side scroll thing to scroll down past 4 songs fora totally of 10. Also has a view my profile button.

Try needle point. Cross stitch for someone you love.

patterns here

I got on a Stones kick when I watched the last episode of the Sopranos and they played Moonlight Mile. I chose to get Exile on Main Street first and forgot to get Sticky fingers. I was reminded of Sticky Fingers again when fred played bitch from the album on the Stern show yesterday. Man what an album. Moonlight Mile was a lot easier to learn on guitar than I expected. The intro is just a little hammer on then its 3 and 4 Chords thru the verses. All the samples at amazon and last FM fail to play the intro which is my favorite part music wise of the song.

Songs you should remember form the album are Bitch, Can’t you hear me Knocking, Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers and Wild Horses. I’m fully burnt on Wild Horses, plus the Mazzy Star Version is way better. I’m sure even Mick would agree.

Moonlight Mile:

“When the wind blows and the rain feels cold with a head full of snow
with a head full of snow
In the window there’s a face you know Don’t the night pass slow
Don’t the night pass slow
The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind Just another mad mad
day on the road
I am just living to be lying by your side
But I’m just about a moonlight mile on down the road

Made a rag pile of my shiny clothes
Gonna warm my bones,
gonna warm my bones
I got silence on my radio
Let the air waves flow,
let the air waves flow
For I’m sleeping under strange strange skies Just another mad mad day
on the road
My dreams are fading down the railway line I’m just about a moonlight
mile down the road

I’m hiding sister and I’m dreaming
I’m riding down your moonlight mile
I’m hiding sister and I’m dreaming
I’m riding down your moonlight mile
There I go now coming home now baby
Yeah, there I go now coming home now baby Yeah, I’m coming home ’cause

I’m just about a moonlight mile on down the road on down the road,
down the road”

I don’t know what to say except watch the video and check out their site.

Notorious MSG site

Just found out hes Swedish. I’m guessing his family immigrated there at some point. I’ve been listening to his New Album “In Our Nature” for a few weeks now and loving it. Great acoustic guitar work. “How Low” and “Killing for Love” both sound like they are right out of a Wes Anderson movie.

More Jose Gonzalez on youtube. He does a great cover of Joy Divisions “Love will Tear Us Apart”

I have bought all my shoes from Zappos.com for a few years now. I love the return policy and the selection. If you want to be uplifted by a sweet story about an internet company and their customer service then read this

I just bought a few months ago for $100. I wasn’t about to buy another one. The cord must have got smashed or cut a bit in my luggage on the way home. So I took it apart and replaced the cord. I was not looking forward to doing it since USB wires are small. I only had about an inch to work with from the plastic connecter at the board in the mouse. Striping wires that small is never fun. Lucky for me my dad have some heatshrink tubing around the house which made it easy to reconnect and cover them. I doubt I could have taped these wires up.

The downside of cracking the case was the fact that I found out that it uses the same plastic switches for the buttons as my old Logitech. I have been replacing my old Logitech trackball mice every 6 months due to wearing out the same plastic switches. I’ll see how long these switches last me.

I got in Late Sat.