Random Musings

…And I can be done with the semester. Althought, with the end of the semester comes the seemingly inevitable late nights and even longer tests. I guess the good thing is that I only have two or three tests on finals weeks, and I can be out of here towards the beginning of the week. I’m also looking forward to see two other friends of mine that will be home from college for the first time since the left.

I may have found a bit of a problem with Netvibes. For some reason they don’t seem to support a “Forgot my Password” function like everyone else has — or am I missing something. Needless to say, because of this I now have to try and remember all of the feeds that I had on the start page. This has, however; forced/convinced me to move to a desktop RSS reader. Netvibes was getting a little long to have to scroll all the way down to see all the feeds.

To jump a little off topic, why does it seem that nobody will allow you to cancel your account. I have a Yahoo! account I don’t need, a Xanga one seeing as they don’t want to send me the password I forgot, one for Tagworld — the MySpace of Web 2.0 it seems, potentially horid layouts and all — and probably numerous other accounts I have forgot about over time. It’s not like they contain sensitive information that I don’t want to be in databases, I just don’t need them anymore and I don’t want them out there. It just ….annoys me.

And to round out the rainbow of topics on this blog…NPR has streams of concerts prefromed at the 9:30 Club in D.C. For the most part they are good, and have really cool bands, but some of the streams stop giving me a error saying that the network has problems. Other than that, really cool stuff there.

So I’ve been surfing around, trying to find some things of interest to bide my time since I have nothing else to do I what do I discover; why it’s a website with a listing of current public beta and alpha sites. There can be some interesting things in here. I really like Streampad, which I am currently trying to listen to. The interenet on this campus sucks, it keeps on having to buffer so all I get is a note or two and then silence while it buffers. That get’s old real quick. Anyway, from the site.

Streampad is your destination for music on the web. You can listen to your own library streamed from home, live concerts*, and other great music from around the web… Inside you’ll find mashups with del.icio.us, google maps, amazon, and the internet archive.

So far I’ve listened to parts of a Jack Johnson and Ben Kweller concert and the quality, as far as I can tell, it quite good. I’m looking foward to downloading the client and seeing what it can really do.

I also signed up with Tagworld and have been looking at that as well. Needless to say, I’m not very happy with it. I don’t like the choices for the layout, the ads that are REALLY obtrusive, or the fact that I have to side scroll on almost all of the pages I visit. Combine this with the fact that this is really just another MySpace or Xanga, except that it supports Flickr and tags; well it’s just not really needed.

Well that\’s all for now. I’ve got more I could write, but that would lead to a really long post that I don’t feel like writing right now. Some other time I guess.