is that guy that wishes you're 2010 reveals the happiness you seek and the good fortune you deserve.

is that guy that's thankful to all of you that have made 2009 one of the most memorable years ever. Happy Holidays!

is that guy biking 20 miles today

is that guy whistling around with the santa hat on

is that guy that won't cop out when there's danger all about

is that guys that's cybering his monday

is that guy with the dolphins jersey on

is that guys that's tryptophanified

is that guy that's as innocent as a dove and as shrewd as a snake

is that guy that'll always say yes....unless no is required

is that guy that has a funny way of ...

is that guy that apparently had his information sold = 22 different catalogs in the mail today.

is that guy that really needs to get there. that's precisely why he's not driving like a jerk.

is that guy that really needs to get there. that's precise

is that guy that would rather seek than hide

is that guy that tells you he loves your costume even though you're not wearing one.

is that guy that's been overwhelmed with southern hospitality

is that guy that can say "toy boat" three times fast

is that guy that immediately thinks Ghostbusters whenever anyone asks "Who are you going to call?"

is that guy that was told to do it for the show

is that guy that dont use tissues, or his sleeve, he dont use napkins or any of these....

is that guy with a toothache

is that guy who's off for a day of biking

is that guy who's off to the Hard Rock Hotel for the 1st annual beerfest. come over.

is that guy that's going to have a remarkable October!

is that guy looking for a freelance technology journalist. are you one? pm or dm #journalist

is that guy thats not here to make frenemies http://bit.ly/2Wz9My

is that cap'n shiverin ye timbers, Arrrr!!!

is that guy that opened that door for you

is that guy that hums random tv theme songs

is that guy that couldn't care less about what happen on MTV

is that guy that believes in his President.

is that guy that wears white after Labor Day

labor day means you work double than usual, right?

hoarse voice, pounding headache and exhausted. yup, had a great time last night!

off to dm tonight. excited!

is waiting for the night to come

is football fun time. whu-ah!

yeah, there are some things that i gotta do, fix, repair, work harder on, leave behind, think about and address, but overall life is AWESOME

sleeps

"My flight lands at 9:30 on Sunday...You want to watch what? What the f**k is mad men? I'm a mad man if you don't pick me the hell up."

you keep using that word.....i do not think it means what you think it means.

is off to the beach!

is achoo

is ready for some couch time after a fun and busy weekend

okay friday night...im ready.

my girl makes typhoons with as much rain she makes!

is having one of those thursdays that - for no particular reason - just doesn't seem to fit right.

is getting whats left of Ana today.

wishes his loved fiance a fun, happy and all around wonderful birthday!

is rolling over a fantastic weekend into his work week. take that, Monday!

is UGGGGHHHH!.....off to the gym!

NASA estimates 20K asteroids and comets in solar system are potential threats to Earth & only know where 6k are. Make today count.

is gymified!

August 2009

1. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (4:30)
2. Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected (2:39)
3. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (4:03)
4. The Thermals - When I Was Afraid (3:01)
5. Wolf Parade - Language City (5:02)
6. Incubus - Black Heart Inertia (4:19)
7. Death Cab For Cutie - Little Bribes (2:46)
8. The Arkells - Ballad Of Hugo Chavez (3:01)
9. The Sounds - No One Sleeps When I'm Awake (4:23)
10. Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way (4:03)
11. Morrissey - All You Need Is Me (3:12)
12. The Takeover UK - Ah La La (2:46)
13. Placebo - For What It's Worth (2:48)
14. Green Day - 21 Guns (5:21)
15. The Gaslight Anthem - Old White Lincoln (3:14)
16. We Are Scientists - After Hours (3:52)
17. Great Northern - Houses (4:18)
18. Miike Snow - Animal (3:36)
19. USS - Laces Out (2:34)
20. Plushgun - Just Impolite (3:47)
21. The Limousines - Very Busy People (4:00)
22. Jack Johnson - Gone (2:10)
23. White Lies - To Lose My Life (3:09)
24. Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds (3:59)
25. Mariana's Trench - All To Myself (3:09)
26. Kings Of Leon - Notion (2:59)
27. The Fray - Never Say Never (3:52)
28. Theory Of A Deadman - Not Meant To Be (3:32)
29. Taylor Swift - You Belong with Me (3:55)
30. Erin Mccarley - Pitter-Pat (4:21)
31. Lesley Roy - Slow Goodbye (Main) (3:50)
32. My Bright Diamond - Feeling Good (3:53)
33. Adele - Right as Rain (3:19)
34. Kate Voegele - 99 Times (3:28)
35. James Yuill - No Surprise (4:43)
36. Moby - Go-2006 (4:22)
37. Bow Wow Ft. Johnta Austin - You Can Get It All (3:38)
38. The Dream Feat Kanye West - Walking on the Moon (4:02)
39. Calvin Harris - Im Not Alone (Deadmau5 Rmx) (8:11)
40. Niels Van Gogh - Dreamer (Deniz Koyu & Micha Moor Rmx) (8:02)
41. Ferry Corsten feat. Maria Nyler - We Belong (Muzikjunki Full Vocal Mix) (9:06)
42. Depeche Mode - Wrong (DIM Vs Boys Noize Rmx) (5:10)
43. Thievery Corporation - The Shining Path (3:38)
44. Travis - Friends (3:23)
45. Fleet Foxes - Sun It Rises (3:11)

if you feel a sudden gush of wind, its probably just me whooshing through this tuesday

question for men: whats the best razor you've used?

waking up to a bsod is just not the right way to start the day

is still a little nauseous from that nasty tasting mix1 he had. ugh.

is creating and sculpting a pretty nice lookin sunday

is saturday

restless

has a feeling he needs to keep a close eye on his tuesday.

is rollerblading .....as soon as the clouds go away

go, DOW, go!

is half awake

wishes his fiance and friends a fun and safe trip to boricua nation. enjoy the coqui, stay away from the snakes. :)

is bicycling in biscayne

is celebrating his 30th day being tobacco free

is really really really really really really really really really really proud of his spectacular fiance!

dedicates this beautiful day of weather in so fl to all his family & friends. unless it rains. in which case, nevermind.

is kayaking

didn't know you felt that way

why was six afraid of seven?

is not going to stop till i get enough

reminds others that go to the gym: putting away the weights where they belong is part of YOUR workout (even if you found them in the wrong place).

wonders if its just me or is it that the world really is getting to be just a bit more scary than usual

wishes you all a safe and happy independence day.

appreciates his life a bit more today than usual. hope you will too

appreciates his life a bit more today than usual today. hope you will too.

is frustrated that half of his extensions do not work with the firefox 3.5.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

believes no matter how crazy he may have been, he was much preferred alive than dead. i'll miss you, mike.

likes that accomplishment feelin'

Newsgroup Spotlight: About Microsoft Newsgroups

With a new search engine - Bing, a new free anti-virus software - Morro, further integration with Facebook and a new operating system due in October, Microsoft seems to be dusting off any negative perceptions that they may have received by thinking they were slowly crumbling. A great example of this growth is the new height of activity Microsoft newsgroups have been receiving.

There are currently over 2,000 Microsoft newsgroups NewsDemon.com carries dedicated to discussing Microsoft products. If you have a problem with a Microsoft product - from a smartphone, spreadsheet, or music player that you can't solve, chances are you can find an answer on a microsoft related newsgroup.There are many valuable newsgroups on USENET on nearly every available topic and in many different languages. Regardless of your problem, chances are someone on a newsgroup can help. For example, if you can't figure out why a formula in your spreadsheet produces errors, asking someone in a newsgroup can often help troubleshoot your problem.

With thousands of IT pros visiting on a regular basis, Microsoft newsgroups offer an incredible amount of support for techs that use Microsoft products. With USENET access, you can freely access and participate in the constant discussions.

Newsgroup Spotlight: About Microsoft Newsgroups: http://ping.fm/5Kb6U

looks forward to a fun weekend ahead

is busier than an iranian election official

's back is whacked.

is counting on you to be the best you can be today.

is being played off by the keyboard cat.

is visualizing a happy monday

finds it difficult sometimes to make all the pieces fit.

is sometimes misunderstood

is not, however, good at fixing his shifter when it suddenly breaks.

is now on win 7

oh! a piece of candy.

just discovered songbird and is in love.

is starting his first day on Chantix

has a case of the mondays

is 20,000 ft in the air heading back home after an incredible four days

is in a state of joy.

is being completely wow'd constanty..very very happy!

is bw

is riding airplanes. wee!

is looking forward to the days ahead in south carolina with friends

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop a look around once and awhile, you could miss it.

made it a great day

is sundaying with the family

is making indoor games fun while the rain pours down

is going to the gym again to make more things sore

time to make the dougnuts

had a good florida style weekend

is already sore from todays workout

is Ille qui nos omnes servabit

is wondering what happened to ALL google services???

wishes a fantastic and pampering day to all the moms

is livin the dream.

is interwebless. :(

is �aribba! �aribba! �andale! �andale!

is off to a day at the gym

is mentally exhausted

watch this: http://ping.fm/rb8s6 ---- Then, click here
http://ping.fm/9WRI6

wishes Tuesday would cooperate with me already.

+ sleep = now

is family fun times at epcot

is ready for a great weekend getaway

wishes it would rain already

Gimme a break I sure deserve it, it's time I made it to the top. Gimme a break, I’m looking forward. Get behind me pull out every stop

and wednesday too

believes he may have stepped on Tuesdays foot.

is having a fuel injected nitro superblast monday

is at panthers vs capitals - go fl!

How To Install Joomla On Your Windows Machine XP Vista WAMP and XAMPP

Here are the steps you need to install Joomla locally on your Windows Machine. The following have been tested using Vista/XP:

XAMPP - Installs Apache server on your local machine alongside options for SQL, FTP and Mail

WAMP - Is the same as XAMPP, but just has more features.

What you'll need:

* Joomla 1.0.x (meaning latest version in 1.0 series)
* Wamp5 grab it from http://ping.fm/7jvdV
*


Steps:

* Install Wamp
* unzip joomla into your wamp's www folder (eg C:\wamp\www\joomla
* start wamp
* open a browser window and go to http://localhost/joomla
* follow the on screen prompts to install joomla


On screen prompts and what to enter in the boxes

* Host Name = localhost
* MySQL User Name = root
* MySQL Password = blank (don't put anything in this box)
* MySQL Database Name = anyhting you like (eg joomladb)
* MySQL Table Prefix = jos_ (this is set as default but you can change it)
* Make sure that install sample data is ticked
* Click "next"


step 2:

* Site name = your site name


step 3:

* VERY IMPORTANT!! Change the admin password to something memorable (as this is only for testing locally I'd suggest setting the password to admin or password or similar


step 4:

* Remove or rename BOTH of the following: INSTALL.PHP and the installation folder (eg C:\wamp\www\joomla\installation\)


step 5:

* in your browser window click on either the "view site" button or the "Administration" button


Voila!! you now have a local copy of Joomla for testing purposes

To download and install XAMPP:
1. Download the xampplite-win32-1.5.5.zip file from the website
http://ping.fm/O30oI and extract it on the
local drive. The directory xampplite is created.

2. Open the setup_xampp.bat file from the xampplite directory. XAMPP makes no entries in the Windows Registry and sets no system variables:

3. Now you can start the server. PHP starts automatically as a module. Open [Drive]:\xampplite\xampp_start.exe. A command-prompt window opens, which indicates that Apache has started.

4. Open your Internet browser and enter http://127.0.0.1/ or
http://localhost/. You should now see the XAMPP start page. Click
on the English link

The document directory of your website is [Drive]:\xampplite\htdocs. This directory contains all of the pages that are accessible by a remote computer on the Internet. Read the included readme_en.txt file for additional information about the necessary passwords.
To uninstall the package, close all current servers and simply delete the
xampplite directory.
Or, if you're lazy or these steps don't work for you, AND you have $10.00 to work with, try JSAS, which has WAMP configured with JOOMLA preinstalled.

is really digging XAMPP

Why Trillian Sucks Compared To Digsby

I had been a long time fan of Trillian. In fact, my oldest chat history dates back to 2001. Got tired of it though as version 3 had seemed to be never ending over the past few years. Went with Pidgin for awhile, then to Miranda and wound up back to Trillian by default as they still did not have some of the features that Trillian represented. Trillian Astra, which has been in beta for what feels like a decade, has been completely unstable and even if I wanted to use it, the Beta Signup never let me in.
Instant Messaging is crucial for me. As an essential aspect of my business, an Instant Messaging client is expected nowadays to be more than just for chats. Between the crash issues with Trillian and the resource hog it has always been, I had hoped for something better from the supposed king of multi-protocol clients. More frustrating, the lack of real competition from other clients.
Enter Digsby. I found this client back in November, and it has satisfied almost all of what I have wanted an instant messaging client to do.
Here are some performance/feature issues of Trillian that has made Digsby stand out:
- Slide Left Option? - Cannot change the orientation in which profiles or mail accounts appear (default: right) on hover. Running on a second monitor, I need to slide left instead. No option, no way to do this. Digsby allows this option, but automatically floats left by default, which I think would be the best way considering on where most people usually place their main window (Right corner)
-Access Mail - Mail accounts do not allow you to view emails like Digsby does by giving you a preview and allowing you to directly access the message. Unless if it’s Gmail. And even then, you can "see" the messages, but cannot perform actions such as view, preview, mark as read, delete, etc. as Digsby does.
-Understand My Identities - Does a poor job of signing you out of an account and into another like Digsby does. For instance, if you are logged into one Gmail account, and you click on a message from another Gmail account from within the chat client (or in Trillian's case, you can’t hover on the message, but can only click on the actual email account itself), Digsby will automatically switch your login status to the account in which the message is received from. Trillian does not do this.
-Preview emails - With Digsby, despite whatever email account (i.e. Yahoo, Live, Google), it will preview all unread emails with a hover ability to preview the contents of the email (usually the first paragraph). Trillian just tells you that you got a bunch of messages, but only gives you the option of clicking the account to open a browser to view the messages.
-Online accounts - So you're computer crashed, or you are at work, and you have no idea what the 20 usernames and passwords are to your chat identities are when you are installing a client. No worries. Install Digsby; put in your master user and pass, and bam, you got all your stuff set up - Identities, Mail Account, Categories of Peeps. Unlike the whole set up process you have to redo with Trillian Astra. Why even have an online Trillian account if it does not do this? Wasn’t this supposed to be one of the new key features of Astra?
-Social Networks - For business, this has been an increasingly important aspect of a chat client. Both Digsby and Trillian support the largest - Facebook, Linked In, Twitter and MySpace. If you have a chance to compare on how these are implemented and presented, there is no question that Digsby has this beat by far. For instance, if you are signed on to Facebook with Digsby, it automatically creates a category of contacts that are online on FB/LI/MS. Trillian not only does not have this feature, it makes it more frustrating. For instance, Trillian gives you the last 10 tweets and last 10 posts from FB. Wanna see more with the "View 10 more" link? It will take you to the page versus than keeping it in the chat client. The whole purpose with these feature is to keep actions solely on the client, not by opening a page. Kills efficiency and also kills the page you were on as it rather use the existing page you are on to open the 10 more rather than opening a new tab.
-Remember my order, damnit - Sorting your contacts is an important aspect of chat clients. I want to migrate my AIM, GMAIL, YAHOO, ICQ, LIVE and JABBER people to be part of universal categories (i.e. contacts from each of these services should be able to go to "My Faves" category created). Although you can do this with Trillian, once you close it out for the night, and re-open it, bam! Not only is the sorting gone, but the sorting that WORKED for Digsby is now all messed up. Massive fail when you have over 400 contacts.
-Preferences - I've been in the tech world for over 12 years now, and I'm not easily intimidated with set ups. But if you go through Trillian's preferences, it looks like they had no idea on really how to tie everything together to make it easy to perform what you want to do with it. Not only can it be condensed significantly, but even the menu options leave a lot to be desired. Trillian, I don’t want more anymore. I just want the basics to work right! Sadly, it fails here too compared to the straightforward options of Digsby.
With this rant, it’s not that Digsby is perfect. Rather, it’s just less imperfect than Trillian.
This is where Digsby can do better :
-Chat history is important. And the ability to search and view timelines of chats on Trillian is still far beyond what Digsby delivers.
-Facebook integration is still not 100%, as it often times does not keep the connection alive, as well as the fact that it has the issue of not logging back on when disconnected.
-Another online version - With the way that Digsby saves account information, there should be no reason why it should not be able to expand to offer an online messaging system such as meebo. It is something expected though as it enters the larger market.
All and all, there is a reason why I feel Digsby is gaining tremendous momentum. Its solid, support is very responsive, improvements are constantly being made and in less than a year, it has surpassed the stability of the 3 year old beta of Trillian Astra.
For me, as displayed by this rant, is really about the logic in design. Digsby has a strength in this area by the fact that it’s not trying to do 329749374 things at once by offering features and whatnots that only appeal to some. Instead, it's refining and putting importance on the core of what a client should be.
Don't get me wrong...with as long as I have used Trillian, I'd really like it to succeed and offer something great. However, if this new Trillian Astra beta is the representation of 3-4 years of development....well...it’s just sad.
I hope before they turn the system on and leave the beta stage behind, Trillian will address most of these issue and hopefully it won’t take another 3 years to produce these results. Until then, I choose Digsby.

is monsters and aliens in 3d this morning

enjoyed a round of bowling and is now cheering on heels

is Saturday with the boys

tips his hat to a beautiful friday afternoon

is diggin college basketball

is Going Green

is getting better in the hospital

only asks two things from you: your obedience and submission to my will

DON'T PANIC

is on his way to the 93Rock Beerfest.

thinks more of his friends should be using last.fm

thanks google for the mail import feature

is keeping busy

is upgrading Stella

thinks Lost is going a little too far.

had a magical disney birthday weekend.

doesn't think that word means what you think it means

is glad to see a florida win

is again making better time management his goal for 09

was deeply disappointed with 'Twilight'

likes blue crayons