All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

I just found this function today in iTunes: Remember playback position. I tried this on my 3G iPod with MP3s, but it doesn’t work - only within iTunes. Boo. Do I need to get a new iPod to take advantage of this feature? Do I need to manually convert the audio files to AAC, then rename the extension to M4B? Garbage.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released

Lifehacker’s guide to weblog comments - great read.

You know you live in 2005 when…

It’s been about a week and a half since I swapped my iPod battery, and it’s great! I hover around half with fair use. On work days, I use it on the commute and in my office. I also used it for two lectures, for an average of 1.5 hrs of voice recording with my iTalk. My battery life didn’t plummet like it used to! I’m extremely happy about it.

Whoa - Opera Software removed it’s ads and licensing fee for their browser. I need to find some commentary or reasoning behind this. In any case, that’s awesome! I think I’ll install Opera now and see how it bodes for a few weeks. It won’t kill me to try something new, especially if it’s better, right? If you didn’t like Firefox, how about Opera? (Golf clap: The Blog That Should Not Be)

I just came back from seeing “The Exorcism of Emily Rose“. Scared? Yeah, but it’s a lingering fear. Does that even make sense? If you’re thinking of seeing it, don’t expect it to be like “The Ring 2“. You’ll be creeped out for awhile.

I don’t know what happened to my hard drive, but it wasn’t being detected a few hours ago. I tried to boot into Windows, but I had no such luck. I was running Knoppix 3.3 off a CD for a bit, thinking I was doomed. I had some data on that hard drive that I haven’t burned onto CDs yet. (I do have another hard drive in my system, split into two partitions in case my primary one fails. However, it only runs at 5400 rpm.) Luckily, I got home after coaching, and found upon trying again that it was just fine. I ran both standard and advanced IBM Fitness Tests, and both checked out okay. My question to you is…what am I supposed to do if nothing shows up like that?

I’d hate to revert to personal stuff blogging right now, but that’s all I can really do right now. I haven’t been keeping up with geeky-type stuff.

• I think I’m going to use my ATM/debit card less and just withdraw money instead. It’s been harder for me to keep track of my checking account balance. MyCheckbook is great and all, but it’s been tough to reconcile every other day.
• GTD-esque - Write things down all the time. If you don’t already, carry a few index cards with you held together with a binder clip. You never know when something will come to your head, or somebody will say something that strikes you immensely. A book was mentioned today, and I think I’ll buy it my next trip to Borders.
• Don’t buy too much stuff. If you’re a parent and your home is tight on space, please do your child (or children) a favor by trying to be as minimal as possible. For me, I’m helpless when my mom loses something and is thrashing around through the apartment. Along those lines, I think I read in a book something along the lines of putting a sticker on everything you touch in a month, then sifting through the things that don’t have a sticker on them to consider purging.
• If you carry a bag of some type around with you, consider a bottle of water as essential. At the Friday-night high school football game (it’s past midnight), playing in the pep band was tiring and I didn’t have a drink on hand. I’ll probably buy a case of water bottles in the morning.
• I need a new business card. Logo, design, whatever. I’m only doing computer-related jobs on the side, but I’m still getting quite a few people needing me again. Granted, some of them are current customers that need maintenence (no charge), but there’s a couple new ones that are brand new. It’s embarrassing that I didn’t have some on hand.
• If you get an inkjet printer, make sure the print heads are disposable along with the ink cartridges. I have an Epson Stylus C84, and I’m paying the price. In short, the Cyan nozzle is all messed up. The head cleaning solution didn’t work, either.
• You usually don’t realize how much awesome something is until you lose it. Personally, I’m talking about my iPod case, but I can mean other stuff. I’m definitely seeing how I miss some relationships with people, where they’re not the same as before.

I just found out that my friend’s dad, Robert Bray, just started a WordPress blog at Blogsome. At least it’s free!