Whenever I call customer service I hate having to deal with “press 8 to….” or whatever. I’d rather just talk to a person. Here is a cheat sheet that you can use to get to a human on the phone quickly.

I was waiting for a compile to finish (like my excuse?) and came across this article/blog entry about geek tv. It’s about online distribution and consumption of TV content. Very interesting stuff.

Here is my one idea for the week:
The iPod needs to support record scratching when you’re listening to music.
How badass would that be? Like Run-DMC badass.

Since getting my new phone that came with a so-so camera, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with the camera. I decided to be like everyone else and make a moblog and post pictures as I take them.
Flickr.com has a nice site that allows you to upload pictures by phone (among other ways) and provides nifty utilities to organize your pictures. There is even a set of tools that allow you to retrieve your flickr pictures programatically and put them into your normal blog – like this one. I’ll have to do that later.
Until then, my pictures are going here

My new phone takes pictures and sends them to other phones or email addresses. Each shot is $.25, which is kinda a rip, but what can you do? Here’s my first picture looking out from my office/cube at work.

I just got a gmail invitation from a friend, so now I’m a proud owner of hippos (.) are (.) evil (@) gmail (.) com. If you’d like your very own gmail account, they’re giving them away on this site: isnoop.net. They don’t always have invitations, but if you keep reloading the website and see they have invitations, quickly enter your current email address and you’ll get one of them.

If you ever get tired of having to create a profile to log into a website for it’s content (a la nytimes.com), check out bugmenot.com. You just enter the website URL that you’re needing a profile for and most likely there already exists a login and a password. Or if you create a profile and want to share, that’s good too.

I came across this site that has a cool animation that shows the most commonly used words in English. Now you can say that “mandate” is the 37377th most used word in English.

The Cassini probe just reached Saturn this week, and along with sensors and along with the Huygens probe a DVD of signatures was sent. Why is this cool? Cos my signature is on that puppy! I’m one of 600,000+! (And my forged signature of my buddy Sara’s too.)