20 Oct 2001
What was with the TiVo visibility on primetime this week? On Friends, there were several closeup shots with Monica and Chandler’s Sony brand TiVo in the background. And on Ellen, the TiVo was featured heavily in the plot (though it didn’t look like Ellen was actually holding a TiVo remote, nor did her TV make those fun little noises us TiVo customers have come to love).
16 Oct 2001
Smallville
Smallville. Sure, the show is incurably sappy and terminally lame — but what is it about The WB and hot guys? — Michael Rosenbaum, who plays Lex Luther in the new Smallville (and who I thought was cute way back in the pathetic Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane), make my pulse race. Must be the chrome dome.
And wouldn’t you know it? I’m not the only one to pick up on the homoerotic flavor of the premiere episode. The slash fiction websites are inevitable…
15 Oct 2001
Handspring Treo
Handspring Treo. This is exactly the PDA that I need. I could care less about having a cell phone, but I want wireless web access beyond what most cell phones have today (so I can check email and turn my apartment lights on and off) and I don’t want to have to carry around a awkward attachment for my Palm.
I could care less about the high price tag — sadly, I live out in the boonies where there won’t likely be local service plans available.
14 Oct 2001
Selling my soul to the credit card devil. My assistant Patrick got a new American Express Blue Card in the mail the other day and I fell in love with its translucent simplicity and beauty. So I foolishly filled out the online application form myself — visions of secure online payments dancing in my head.
I’ve since been called by American Express three times in the past 3 days (I’ve never been called once about my Discover or Mastercard). And checking their website leads me to believe that I won’t get a free USB card reader like I thought I would… At least there’s no annual fee (for now, anyway)…
12 Oct 2001
Boom Box
Boom Box. “The new technology from Tivo and replay provides the ultimate in television convenience. It will also spy on you, destroy prime time and shatter the power of the mass market.”
12 Oct 2001
I love Google
I love Google. Ever since Google started indexing weblogs daily, my search request hits from them have sky-rocketed. And I keep ending up higher and higher on their results list.
Case in point, when searching on the simple term “miss,” my website is #6 behind Miss America, The University of Mississippi, Missing Children, Miss Universe, and Miss Saigon.