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• Did Billy Mays really die? #
• @brimston3 whatcha working on? #
• @strages how did things go? in reply to strages #
• http://twitpic.com/8dlrt – I spy a jelly belly factory #
• http://twitpic.com/831y2 – And butter! #
• I dont exactly know where i am but i have found breakfast. Next im going to find sleep #

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• Damm you digital tv switch. You have screwed me out of watching tv im a lemo. #
• Thanks american airlines for the $15 charge for one checked bag. Jerks #
• http://twitpic.com/7yubp – Watching th Dixie Derby girls #
• Got my iphone back and got upgraded to 3.0 w00t #
• IGNORE ME #squarespace #
• I had to research xkcd today :/ still don't really understand it #
• I went to movie spot today and got a few films I've never seen. Watching Faith in Chaos right now #
• @EFF wow that's crazy! in reply to EFF #
• @svonnah why are you out in my neck of the woods #
• @brimston3 don't you mean #squarespace in reply to brimston3 #
• I knew it, I'm not the only one! http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/movies-we-love-josie-and-the-pussycats.php #
• seriously @sevinnyne6126 if you keep posting pics like this http://twitpic.com/7g2y1 I'm going to have to follow you I don't want to! #
• This weekend I will immerse my body in water. Anyone have a recommendation for a suitable location to perform this activity? #
• @wyrmis I was already singing that song in my head before I finished reading your post, then I felt stupid I couldn't remember who sang it in reply to wyrmis #
• then I saw a bumper sticker that said "Yes. I'm out of bananas". I almost followed the man until I could get a picture #
• Ok that mans shirt said KFC Security. What is that about? #
• @crashcartpro you might like this http://www.wreckamovie.com/ #

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• lol, twitter doesn't like me updating from my chair #
• seeing how twitter likes this #
• damn what a long day, made $$ for #makerslocal at a picnic, tried to hack my xbox360 will have to continue work after a new sata card #
• @nwarner hey, any way i could talk you out of your account. I would like to move to something more like my name #
• does anyone know anything about xbox360 modchips? #
• @TwitterFox I still have terrible rendering issues on Linux in reply to TwitterFox #
• @domainr yea thats a lot to pay for a domain name :/ in reply to domainr #
• @domainr do you really pay $500/year for your domain? #
• @bendodson I installed it this morning, its great! The new widget page is awesome. I have been updated things all day in reply to bendodson #
• Just played with the pre for a few minutes. Very nice #
• @bagder @nholling seems as though I need to give it another try, your not the only ones you have informed me of this in reply to bagder #
• awesome blueman is in sid now, no more backing to get bluetooth things working…..hopefully #
• @Me00w what is this you speak of?? in reply to Me00w #
• @wyrmis give http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php a try in reply to wyrmis #
• @greekshow @EWAusielloFiles posted a clip from next weeks episode, looks like its going to be a good one in reply to EWAusielloFiles #
• !decide be mean or just ignore #
• omg! i hear music, and I don't think its just in my head this time #
• powerwalking sucks! #
• @brimston3 http://bit.ly/HNEYr #
• @wyrmis oh, its cool I was just letting you know, I just noticed I hadn't seem any updates in google reader in reply to wyrmis #
• @wyrmis hey man I think you have some issues with your rss feeds haven't seen a blog update since "7 Reasons I Hate Twitter" post #
• @savannahjfoley how about a pre party on the elevator to space! #
• Tried to rely on twitter for WWDC news and guess who failed me? #

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The other day I noticed my iPod was almost filled up, but should have only been about %50.  So I decided to give Rockbox a try, and manage my own music directory.  I figured it would be easy to just use rsync to synce the Music on my computer with the music on my iPod.  Installation was easy as pie and after a reboot I was using Rockbox.  I immediately went to look for a podcast menu.  To my surprise there was nothing in rockbox for podcasting.  After doing a little Googling I ran across a way to insert a menu into the batabase section.  Which gave me a listing of “All Podcasts”, “New Podcasts”, and “Old Podcasts”.  This was kind of cool, I was able to modify the interface to my liking.  But when I clicked on “All Podcasts” saw about half what I was suppose to.  This was because some podcasters don’t modify the ID3 tags correctly.  After modifying the tags accordingly I still didn’t have all of them.  This was because the database had to be updated.  All this and I finally got podcasts to show up, only to find out bookmarking only works on playlists which I couldn’t get working, other than the dynamic one, which consists of my current directory.  GAAAA!!!!!!!!

List of Suck for Rockbox

• No podcasting support out of the box.
• Bookmarking works on playlists, though I can’t verify that because I wasn’t ever able to save a playlist and go back play it again.
• Battery didn’t seem to charge while plugged in and syncing.
• Rockbox can’t sleep, only turn off, so you have to wait for it to boot before it can play your track.  Though you can make it continue on start up, which is nice.
• Every game/app has a different way to exit, and doesn’t ever tell you what it is.

Basically if you want to just play music, you might find this useful.  Though in my weekend of playing with it, I found it to have a huge learning curve.  I’ve gone back to gPodder and gtkpod.  That is until my iPod breaks, in which case I will look for a different podcast device.

• Come on Facebook, you have had this OpenID thing for about a month now, and you still haven’t fixed the delegation part.  It’s like one of the basic parts of OpenID.  How could you even go live with this broke, little alone spend a month not fixing it?
• Screw you gtkpod.  What does “save selected as playlist” do for me, if I can’t pull said playlist back into my iPod!  While I’m at it, screw you Apple!  Why do you need to make everything more difficult?  You use tons of open-source software, yet you still say, “Use iTunes if you want to manage your iPod”.  I’m about sick of iPods, and probably wont get another if I find something that works better under Linux.
• I’m confused by acquaintances/family that want to be friends on Facebook.  I post to twitter all day and they get displayed on Facebook, I’m not sure how I feel about these people seeing these updates.  I mean they are open to everyone, but I don’t want to accept these people as friends, then it’s like saying “Yes!!! You are my friend, here is everything about me.”  Where as if they would subscribe to my tweets, I probably wouldn’t even know it.

Sorry all these things kind of came up at once, and I needed to write them down.  The iPod thing has been pissing me off for about a week now, I even tried Rockbox and hated it (post coming up about this).