RSS…or point me to a good, easy to understand web resource for it? Thanks.

There once was a girl (ME) who loved to take pictures…and take pictures she did. She has a Canon Powershot of some sort and loved the camera to death. She was oft found carrying it with her just in case a kodak moment arose. Then said girl got “jealous” because her friend got a new SONY camera that was FIVE MEGAPIXELS…which was way better then the paltry 3 that her Canon had. She saved up and bought said SONY camera- giving up her beloved CANON to her brother who didn’t have a camera of his own. Sony Camera worked ok…but she didn’t like it. It didn’t have some of the features her canon had…and it just seemed to disappoint her in that she had to take more pictures to get the ONE SHOT she wanted. And the thing had a horrendous DELAY (you know the delay from the time you take the picture to the time that the camera actually decides to take said picture…when everyone has moved around by then). She liked said SONY camera…but didn’t LOVE said SONY camera. She longs back to the days when she owned her CANON. Finally she decided that enough was enough and went out this weekend and bought a new CANON. A Powershot 630. It isn’t the world’s most expensive camera….but it works just fine for what she wants it for…and it is sooo small. So far she loves it (the new CANON) muchly.

Moral of this story:
Don’t covet thy neighbor’s megapixels.
Don’t give away your old camera unless you are damn sure you love your new one.

Ok…I love my iPod…and I love iTunes…this we have established.

I am asking for my fellow iTunes users for some help:

I have approximately 1000+ songs in my iTunes on my iBook. I am going to be getting a nice…fully stacked Gateway…(flat screen monitor…1Gb ram…a killer graphics card…etc) because the price was irresistable (i.e. free).

My question to you is…how can I move my tunes over from my iBook to my Gateway without burning a buncha cds? Anybody got any ideas? Thanks.

My co-worker got a evolent vertical mouse. Of course I was jealous so I asked for one too.

It is a bizarre experience. If you can’t tell from the above picture (click on the link)- the mouse forces you to hold your hand as if you are shaking hands- instead of traditional mouse/hand posture. I have only been using it for about an hour or so but I can definitely tell you it will take some getting use to.

Yes Badgroove was down all day.

Why? My Pete Says it best…and Pete rocks…just in case you didn’t know.

I may or may not have accidently deleted your ability to choose my STATUES Skin in this webpage! I am working on getting this fixed…but who knows what I did…I certainly don’t. Hopefully the pete can figure it out…so if you had the statues skin and you don’t now or find that it is missing don’t be alarmed….hopefully it will be coming back!

Is there anything worse than having to work on the Friday that (most) other people have off?

Yes, Virginia, there is. It is having to work on a Friday that most other people have off, arriving at your office, sitting in your nice chair only to find that your brand spanking new work computer is dead in the water and that you have a backlog of work that you can’t do because the applications that you need to run to complete your tasks are only PC applications…(egads I love thee- iBook! Please don’t ever ever break- you are my little workhorse).

Our campus has been hit hard with virii, worms and problems with critical windows updates and blah blah blah…and now? Now- I can’t get either web browser to launch on that machine- my outlook is seemingly fubared- my campus email- will not open. Basically- all I can do is sit here and look at the pretty pretty wallpaper and wish that I was still snuggled all warm in my bed with a snoring beagle at my feet. Except not because my iBook is working - obviously - so I can at least return email and pester technicians about coming to fix my brand spanking new computer that isn’t so spanking after all.

May I take this moment to express to you how vitally important it is for you windows users- ESPECIALLY you windows XP users who use high speed internet- to:
1. Have active virus removal software that you update at least once a week if not more often.
2. Have active spyware removal software (I recommend Webroot Spyweeper) that you update at least once a week if not more…
3. RUN YOUR FREAKING WINDOWS UPDATES!!!!! Egads is this one important because these updates (especially the critical ones) FIX the holes in your Windows operating systems that allow worms into your computers.
4. Back up your important files to alternate media (back up hard drives, servers that are regularly backed up, cds that are kept in a safe place) just incase you need to reformat.

Now you may be wondering- well if she has all this wonderful advise for us- why doesn’t she practice what she preaches? I DO. My virus definitions were updated yesterday. Same with my spyware. Both of these programs are set to scan and sweep my computer EVERY DAY at 1:00am. My windows updates here at work are delivered through our patch management system…so I don’t have to worry about those- they should be updating by themselves. Technically- my computer should be fine. But it isn’t. This is my second virus this week and this one is much more malicious than the first one.

So for those of you with the day off…have a good one- and practice safe computing and have a happy holiday and all that stuff! For those who don’t have the day off- have a good weekend.

Update 10:22 am: I am no longer down- thanks to the hard work of a technician that I hunted down and tied to my chair - I am now up and running.

I don’t know what is going on…but ever since I got my new work computer my firefox is not behaving…and I can’t figure out why. I am sure it is some stupid little setting in Firefox…but I can’t for the life of me figure out why it isn’t saving my cookies. I have to log into all my favorite websites…the remember me? function…works only during the session that the browser is open…but if I close FIREFOX…I have to log back in again…

I can’t figure out what is going on…anybody have any ideas???

Update Thanks to Billy R. I got it figured out and it is now all better!!! Whoo hoo! I knew it was something stupid I was overlooking…it would have bitten me in the face if I sat any closer to my monitor!