http://www.joped.com Movie reviews, product reviews, rants and more Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:42:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fairly random and not that exciting, decided to do some sky diving in WoW.  Just flew up as high as I can and jumped off.  Yes, my graphics are turned down since I am boxing. http://www.joped.com/2008/08/wow-sky-diving/ Not sure why I didn't post this sooner, however I have moved to using Twitter instead of identi.ca.  Although identi.ca worked well, it was missing far too many features and none of the iPhone apps tie into it.  There are so many twitter applications that its hard to ignore. At some ... http://www.joped.com/2008/08/using-twitter-now/ Most of the code on Linkped is pretty much in a prototype state.  Many of the tables are fairly unoptimized and are hard to work with right now. So, I started a complete rewrite a last week.  However, a few days into the project I realized I am trying to do ... http://www.joped.com/2008/08/linkped-code-refactor/ I just finally got checked into my hotel and its been an adventure already.  Except for my shuttle not showing up and taking a cab, the trip started out ok.  However, when I got into Vegas I knew something had to go wrong.  Yep, US Assways lost my bag.  Its ... http://www.joped.com/2008/08/in-las-vegas-for-defcon-16/ I _tried_ to buy a track from Amazon and it was the worst experience. Not only finding the track that I wanted was a pain in the ass (compared to iTunes). I had to download an application, that doesn't work with Firefox. (I didn't fiddle around with it much) So, ... http://www.joped.com/2008/08/amazons-music-store-pretty-much-sucks/ Stephanie introduced me to Pandora Radio on the iPhone.  This application allows you to search for music you like, then recommends music based on your vote of the music.  The voting is a very simple thumbs up or thumbs down.  However, pay attention to the information of why you are ... http://www.joped.com/2008/08/pandora-radio-sweet-application/ After all the shit that happened to me this week, I finally get a glimpse of what I have been looking forward to for ages.  I am really pissed I didn't see it in the theater, but at least I get to see it :D 1080p Terminator 4 teaser http://www.joped.com/2008/07/finally-we-get-a-glimpse/ I just spent the past month totally rewriting Jokeped.  I procrastinated it for a few months then started on accident.  I moved the code base from a generic framework that I put together over to CodeIgniter.  I started out my venture by laying out the new models.  I quickly realized ... http://www.joped.com/2008/07/finally-pushed-jokepedcom-rewrite/ Normal blogging doesn't work out well for me since I hate to type large amounts. I am lazy, what can I say.  However, I am going to give this opensource alertnative to twitter a try. http://identi.ca/joped Lets see how long it lasts for me, I will need some iPhone 3G support this ... http://www.joped.com/2008/07/microblogging/ I don't watch the news these days, its generally pretty depressing and its a good thing I didn't.  I found out this morning that the great George Carlin has died.  If you are a big fan of George Carlin you will know he died and didn't pass away. George Carlin is ... http://www.joped.com/2008/06/very-sad-day-rip-george-carlin/