Jay McGavren's Journal

Akismet is doing a good job blocking blog spammers, but now and again I’ll get a registration from a .de address or someone named “Nataljia” or so forth. I’m getting so I automatically delete these users without a second thought.

It must suck to be an Eastern European geek… You try to post an honest question, and everyone automatically assumes you’re a spammer…

Jotted this dream to myself in the wee hours of the morning...

The baby woke me up about 2:40 AM, so I can recall the dream I was having… Diana, Judy and I are all living on some kind of air platform with a whole city-full of other people, and the bottom level was about to fall off. I was scrambling to get my company’s data backed-up to CDs, including data for some game a co-worker was working on, so it wouldn’t be lost.

So I’m at the gas station and on top of each of the pumps is an LCD TV, it looks like 720P resolution, provided by pumptoptv.com. It looks a little bit hardened against vandalism, but I can’t believe that it’s not going to get trashed within a couple of weeks. It shows advertisements and local traffic and stuff, the traffic at least is cool. But I’m not sure who accepts the repair bills, whether it’s PumpTop TV or the gas station.

Got a phone call from my Mom this morning to let me know the photo of my niece wasn’t visible - to everyone besides me. Guess I had a little too much faith in Flock; I thought it would save the image and then upload it to Wordpress, but it just linked it from my GMail account (to which I have access but no one else does). It’s also crapping Technorati tags all over my entries instead of using Wordpress categories. I may be reverting to Firefox soon.

Who Needs Nozbe?

So I experimented with Nozbe for a while and then discovered that its main benefit was the next actions list, which could just as readily be replicated with a next tag in Gmail.

So I’ve got everything I can do as a next action on the Next tag there, and my Nozbe account sits unused. Guess I don’t need to spend that $5 a month.