hello! yoshi

This morning seems like I’m rushing here and there and here and there. I get around to greeting my peeps, and first, what happens, I get an email from Katie telling me I dropped from the world. WTH? I’m right there, logged on GTalk. Then I get another message on Yahoo from Melanie: Hmm. No, I don’t see you online. WTF? What’s up with Google this morning? So I then notice that Katie is “offline”. Then I message Jules and sure enough I get the stupid error box : Cannot send your message bleah bleah bleah. Damn Google. what gives?

So I’m restarting apps, restarting browsers, going this way and that, rushing rushing rushing. Life seems like it’s a big rush sometimes doesn’t it? Anyways, finally after all this time, Google wakes up and now I can reach it.

Of course, I’m sure it could have been my connection to Google too. But you know what, it’s just easier to blame them. Danalyn and I say it all the time, “Google sucks”.

So tonight I’m struck with the Insomnia bug yet again. I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. I lay down and I’m wide awake. It sucks. Insomnia blows.

You might notice that the top graphic has changed away from my mac. It was a masthead made by Colin who said I had won it from last years Blogathon. Yay! It’s awesome isn’t it? I Love it.

In other news, my angelic, better half Meesh has Acute Bronchitis. At least it’s not Chronic Bronchitis which is supposed to be rather painful, or so I was told by her. We’re coping though and I swear if she’s not feeling good tomorrow I’ll have to detain her here at home. She’s feeling guilty that she’s not at work and thinks she should go. She’s so nice, she puts tears in my eyes I’m telling you.

In even more news, if you’re looking to find out what’s going on with American Idol, there’s really no need to wait or watch the actual show. Spare yourself and stop by Pandora’s or Daniel’s to get a good idea of how the show went down. As a matter of a fact, I prefer either one of them over Ryan Seacrest. Perhaps they should try out for host next year? You never know!

cybr is in Malaysia right now, and got sick after drinking some water at a local restaurant. Which is too bad because he’s in Kuala Lumpur and I could think of a lot of things better to do than be sick in bed! Wish him some good thoughts and take a visit over there.

I think I’m just about done with the link pimping on this episode of “Yoshi’s Insomnia attack”. If you’ve made it this far, please don’t forget that tomorrow is Free for all Friday and you’ll be able to make a post on this site to talk about anything! There will be a “sticky” post when the form is available to use! Get ready to pimp your own site! No spammers please, those will be deleted!

Ok, so thanks to Colin, I was able to get a preview of Wordpress 2.5 (username:admin password:demo).

First impressions: Looks cool, I can see how they made the menu a bit easier, and make more sense. You now have “Write - Manage - Design - Comments”. Off to the right, you have “Settings - Plugins - Users”. So already, the important stuff is glaring out at you on the left side, and the semi-important things are in smaller text to the right.

Not much has changed functional wise that I can tell, and I’m pretty sure that’s been stressed before, except for the looks in the dashboard. I certainly hope the plugin developers get a preview version of 2.5 so they can plan accordingly. Although I believe wordpress has it covered in the Migrating Plugins and Themes page. It’s really different!

On the write page, I’m not particularly keen on having the categories go underneath the entry. I do like how they have made it easier to tell the status and time of the post, however, I liked the categories just where they were. I’m also betting because it’s still Alpha that the “sections” will still be movable just like it is now. i.e. you can click and drag the order of the boxes on the right. I really like that option. Then I can move what’s important to me where I want it.

I do, however love the layout for the new widgets. And they do compensate for multiple sidebars very well. I’m using 4 sidebars on this site, so it gets kinda wacky because of the page position and such. Sometimes I have to drag things to one bar to get to another. The new system is much better. I like that.

All in all, I’m highly anticipating it. I just hope the plugin developers will be able to keep up. I’ve got enough plugins to where I won’t be able to upgrade very easily.

With the elevation of iTunes as the #2 music retailer of the United States, how long will it be before music CD’s fall under the status “classic” and joins the shelves of vintage vinyl? Many of us might remember going to Sam Goodys, Musicland, or Tower Records and looking for CD’s and tapes. Some of us might even remember being able to go to the store and find nothing but vinyl records and tapes. Those were the days. We would hit the malls and look for music all the time.

Nowadays, kids don’t have to go anywhere to buy music. They just jump onto iTunes and download music via their iTunes gift card. And they have the option to only download songs they want to. No need to download the entire album, just get the songs you want.

It seems wrong for someone like me who had to buy the entire tape, album or CD, and had to live with the bad songs, and end up making a mix tape with all the songs I like. I guess the kids nowadays are spoiled in that regard. They don’t have to make a mix tape anymore. They just download all the songs they like to their mp3 player.

So how long until the music CD format dies out? Next year? Five years? What do you think?

I’ve been noticing a bunch of new people visiting this site. I just wanted to say hello! to those lurkers out there, and invite you to stop being a lurker, or even be a part time lurker and say hello once in a while.

I know that I’m quite the lurker on many blogs, and never say anything because there are so many regulars out there who comment all the time and such. But I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say that any “regular” around here would welcome any lurkers. Unless you’re going to criticize everything I do. But that’s ok, everyone has a voice on my site. :D

You may also have noticed my password protected posts. (Ok, I only had one) Regulars usually get the password mailed to them. If you’re a lurker, you’ll never get to read those! I have to admit though, that it’s not always interesting, but you never know. Just saying.

Everyone, go wish happy birthday to Pandora! Happy birthday, yay! And Pandora isn’t the only one I know in the blogosphere having a birthday, it’s Tad’s birthday too!

Birthdays are always fun and you guys share it with:

Johnny Cash
Michael Bolton

There are more but thought I’d stop at 2. \^o^/ Anyone else having a birthday?

Normally, I wouldn’t do a meme, but as everyone knows, sometimes I succumb to things. This week, Topical Tuesday is about the Oscars, and well, I just couldn’t resist.

What are some things that are bothering me about the Oscars this year? The fact that Brad Renfro was not mentioned in the memoriam. Not sure what’s up with that, but of course the Oscar mentioned that they only had a limited time, and could not mention everyone. Why was Brad bumped out? It couldn’t have been anyone else right? It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that he died because of a heroine overdose could it? I hope not, because that would be some kind of discrimination. There are a lot of rumours out on the Internet. Who knows why he was bumped. It’s probably true that there’s no particular reason, and they did it because they really didn’t have any time. Ok, that’s cool.

Then it brings me to another thing. During the montages of all the hosts of the Oscars, did you get to see Whoopi Goldberg? You may have watched the View or seen all the news about it on the Internet. They totally did not include her in the montage, but did they show all of them? I think that it’s really awful they didn’t include Whoopi, I love her to death, but I think she may have overreacted. Although a part of me agrees with her when she said, “Undoubtedly, I pissed somebody off once again.” Although I have no idea why. She’s funny as hell!

What do you think? Opinions? Conspiracy Theories? Bring it!

GFS3 alerted me to an interview he did with Kim Harrison at Dark Party Review. 5 Questions about: Kim Harrison asks some really great questions, and if you’re a Kim Harrison fan(atic) like myself, then you’ll probably enjoy this as well.

Check it out!