One Life.

So my new band is almost complete, with the exception of a kick ass singer.  If you know any really strong singers, send them my way.  Man, I need to just use Twitter for this blog.Â

Oh man, I know all my friends are gonna have one comment or another about this, but once again, I’m looking for musicians.  Ryan and I have been writing music, and still have the music bug, so why not — we’re putting together another band.  Its not the Action Item, a d we might still play some of the old songs, but the goal will be to write new music.  So yeah, its fun and exciting for us, and hopefully we’ll find some good people to make some great music with.

Last week I spent some time with Lauren’s band, “Mirror, Mirror” and helped them record a 3 song demo.  Here’s a link to their stuff:

http://www.box.net/shared/mw94lqp8og

Let me know what you think!

Yey!  The hard rockin bartender from montucky did it!  He beat out child prodigy David Archuletta for the win even though the judges gave it all to Archuletta the night before.  Archey just wasn’t real enough — totally a product of his father’s constant meddling in his life.  Anyway, its late, I’m tired, but congratulations David Cook!

I bought one tonite for the gym, I put it on, and my arm looked puny.  Granted, I don’t have huge arms, but strapping an iPhone to your arm just doesn’t work.  They should discontinue them.  It’s like wearing luggage as a backpack.  It doesn’t work.  Hear me Griffin?? 

Watching showtime at the Apollo last nite, lauren and I discovered a fresh new talent. All you gotta do is google the phrase “google me baby” and laughter will ensue.

Prompted by all the videos of orphaned African children, some born with AIDS, who never even had a chance, I decided to make a $20 donation.  You should too.  Click here to give back.

Being a devoted MSN Messenger user, I clicked to upgrade to the latest version tonite, and I got prompted to install some additional programs.  I didn’t feel like adding a bunch of junk to my computer, but one did catch my eye — Writer.  An app to post to your blog from your desktop.  That sounded good, so I installed it… and within about 2 minutes, I’m writing my first blog from it. 

Its got a pretty good looking UI, and even though I’m still using XP, it has that Vista chrome.  It also seems to have additional tools for more extended HTML editing, like adding tables to my post.  Lets see…

Pretty cool!  What else does this do… hmm, its got an HTML Preview of my post, within the blog context, before I submit it.  Nice!  It also seems to have a better, less intrusive HTML code editor.  And it looks like its got a bunch of Web2.0 stuff, like tagging.

Hmm, interesting.  And I can insert a map!

That’s Disneyland using bird’s eye view!  (That one’s for you Ben)

And it looks like you can manage multiple blogs from this thing!  (That one’s for you Kent)

Ok, so we’ll see how this whole thing turns out in the long run, like if I’ll be using it regularly to post to my blog, or if I’ll revert back to the web UI, but so far, its pretty promising. 

Lately, as in for the last couple of years, I’ve been plagued by spam.  Its probably because my web conferencing company lists our emails on our website, a practice which should no longer be encouraged (always use the info at companyname dot com method), but either way, I’ve been looking for a good solution for my spam problems. 

I know a lot of people who use Gmail and they’ve been telling me that their spam blocker is really good, and then Eric tells me that you can actually use them as your mail server!  So I checked it out and its true!  In fact, you can have Google Apps do a whole lot, including host your mail, host your website (not super sure of this), calendars, documents and lots more all for free.  I’m going to experiment using one of my web conferencing affiliate sites to see if their email hosting is good, and I’ll post the results on here.  It could turn out to be a really good, free solution to spam — and I’m hoping thats the case.