Archive for April, 2008

My free Gmail account allows me to have a 64 bit password.  If you can crack it, you deserve to be able to read my email.

Well what about the important stuff, like my online bank accounts?  My banking account you say, funny you should ask.  My bank limits my password to 20 characters.

One of the smartest things I have done was to decide to try and listen to books on CD during my commute back and forth from work. I absolutely love it. I love it for several reasons and I am about to tell you why.

The first reason is taking the pressure and stress off traffic. I live south of Atlanta, the asshole of the world, and I have to commute into the city every day. Atlanta traffic is horrid and you would do better to ask a homeless man to cure cancer than ask everyone using the interstates heading into or out of Atlanta to pay attention and JUST DRIVE STRAIGHT! There is however, no better feeling than being stuck in traffic and not giving caring because you are so wrapped up in a book you can’t wait to hear what happens.

Another reason is it allows you to listen to books that improve you. You can listen to books that help your career, make you a better parent, or any number of topics you would like to improve. Anything is better than listening to absolute crap ( IE The regular FM stations that pollute the radio dial. If you are in Atlanta fire up star 94 for a taste of the biggest idiots to ever pollute the airwaves. Those people make Howard Stern seem like a good counselor). Cut the FM cord. It is worthless and will never help you.

Just sit back and look closely at the amount of time you spend in a car. An hour a day is a lot of time that could be better spent either entertaining yourself or improving yourself.

UPDATED: Canceling My XBox Live Gold Membership

It came time to cancel my Xbox 360 Live Gold Membership tonight.  I have no problems with the service or the cost of it, but I just don’t use it.  I haven’t played my Xbox 360 in months much less logged on to play someone else.

So, I log into my game console and look around for the cancel button.  I went through every screen on the account management tab but nothing.  I couldn’t find it anywhere.  Me being a naive Internet user ( 16 years and counting) I assumed Microsoft would make canceling the service as easy as it was to start.  I mean it took me 2 minutes and a credit card to start my account right on my Xbox 360.  Why should canceling be so hard?  We know why they make it so hard, but damnit I am ranting here.

So anyway, I hit Google with “how do i cancel my xbox live subscription” and about the second one down was the number I had to call to cancel my membership.  So I dialed it up and after 4 Indians, 3 Holds, and 2 reference numbers I finally got it canceled.  If I gave out a weekly you suck ass award, Microsoft would get this weeks.

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In the middle of my redesign, I decided to go in a new direction. I came across WP Remix and decided to buy it. It is really more of a content management theme than specifically for a blog. The versatility of it is why I purchased it. It is a great base to build upon and includes several different homepage options. The design you see here is completely stock for the blog. I haven’t gotten around to customizing it yet. The profitable projects get priority.

The funny part is, after finding and buying WP Remix, I found WP Premium which is a free theme offered by the same author. I downloaded it and have it running on my music blog. After some customization, I am really pleased with the way it looks. It is exactly what I wanted, 1 main column and 2 sidebars together on the right. Excellent theme and you can get WP Premium here.