Three people today admitted that primary email address in their profiles is not read or directed to spam, then they complain if they don’t hear from me! Am I the last person in the world who uses real email and can give people the expectation that I will read what is delivered to my life-long email addresses?
Category Archives: Technology
I’m already tired about hearing about the Ipad!
I’m already tired about hearing about the Ipad! I’m glad there’s a new gadget out there that everyone has to have and it does make sense when I’ve seen the GPS-enabled device to have something better than a phone to look at to stream video and music, but it just isn’t that revolutionary in my mind.
Fan pages for people on Facebook who have no particular following
My favorite “Mommie Dearest” quote is “Because I am not one of your FAAAAAAAAAAANNNS” There are some excellent remixes of it on Youtube.
I have lots of friends on Facebook (almost the maximum, even though I’ve had to rebuild the profile several times) and other venues, but those numbers pale in comparison to the number of people I actually have in my computer’s personal address book. I pretty much have kept track of everyone I have worked with, done business with, went to school with or socialized with at least my second year of law school (1996). I’ve used the same basic electronic tool to do it, too (Microsoft Outlook), which I’ve customized the hell out of. I should have database expertise on that alone.
However, I still can’t fathom having a fan page for myself just for the sake of having one. If I reach the maximum number of friends on FB, then I will weed out the ones who have been evasive or who have incomplete profiles. A fan page to me, would require that I have some special title or elected position that warrants admiration from complete strangers. Perhaps some day I’ll be a well-published author with books on various subjects and will have actual “fans” but for now I’d really rather just have friends.
Those who have invited me to their fan pages, whether or not I’ve met them in person or not, should not be offended if I don’t join. If I really like someone’s art work, I’ll join their fan page, but media whore that I am with all of the times I’ve been on TV and in print and with all of the columns I’ve written and articles I’ve self-published or formally published, I still can’t imagine myself crossing into the line of self-proclaimed celebrity without a body of work that stands on its own.
Windshield wipers finally fixed!
So my brother fixed my windshield wiper gears with a twist-tie! I guess the chewing gum (actually superglue) I tried to use wouldn’t hold. Of course that now means that it won’t rain for at least twelve months.
Today of all days
Had a perilous commute into work today (usually, of course, I take the train). I was trying to get to work two hours early for a special project, but didn’t make it until one hour later than expected because of traffic, but what made it so treacherous was that it was still very dark at that hour (which was not helped by the cloud cover), there was an intense rain storm and while I was defrosting the windows, the driver’s side windshield wiper completely stopped working right before entering highway. I pulled over and the wiper portion basically came right off, but the arm had stopped moving anyway. I had to sit in a precarious position to see the road and changing lanes was scary. It was almost a blessing that traffic came to a standstill far sooner than usual because of the backup at the bridge, but then of course there were high winds and the problematic S-curve which is currently on the Bay Bridge during the reconstruction. The garage attendant said all I had to do was pull up the windshield wiper from the passenger side and pop it in the driver’s side, but I don’t want to risk having no windshield at all when I drive home today!
Sick of Throwback fad already
I hope the kid/childhood photo fad as one’s primary picture on Facebooks ends damn soon; weirdos with no other public picture are trying to add me, and that’s just creepy and screams insecurity. Like I don’t have enough time wasted by closeted people expecting me to spill my guts to them without having another excuse to avoid showing themselves accurately? It’d be one thing if they had up-to-date pictures publicly posted as well, but I really don’t want to have to walk around with my phone ringing and texting from people who look like kids. Someone’s going to think I’m a pedophile if they see me communicating with kid photos, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing was started by one!
Protected: Gripe about the kinds of invites I tend to get
Doesn’t anyone else besides my friend Rick Storrs and me have parties in their homes anymore? I’m starting to get a complex that the only thing I get invited to are bar nights promoting people’s friends and DJ’s and other things that I don’t relate to. Maybe I’m just getting old. And this isn’t just a Facebook phenomenon. This has been going on for quite a while. Maybe it’s a California thing?
My family, of course, invites me for no special reason all the time, but I’m beginning to worry that many of these so-called friends are just opportunists.
New Technology at work and home
So my firm is providing me with a MacBook for cross-training, and we’ll be getting Fusion and SnowLeopard 10.6 as the operating system. Should be cool using a Mac on a regular basis for the first time in about 15 years.
I’m LOVING WordPress! I’m so glad my co-worker told me about this. It will improve my life and my personal site and now I’m just using Dreamweaver for Quality Assurance. Every day I am learning new things about how to use the many features and it’s going much more efficiently than I could have imagined, without the need for reinventing the wheel.
On a more frustrating note, Pidgin.im was upgraded today, but before and after the upgrade, none of my AIM or ICQ accounts seems to be working!
New look for Haydennet.com thanks to WordPress
I’m very excited to learn about this new program. Make sure to check back for lots of more easily navigable content and updates in the coming weeks!
When I get requests on FB for fan pages (even from people I know) I can’t help but think of my absolutely favorite scene from Mommie Dearest.