My birthday is coming up (August 10th). Consider this your friendly reminder.

Wondering what to get me? Well there's my Amazon wish list.

I'll supplement it here:

• A (small) cell phone (maybe Nokia's 8200 or 8800 or Motorola's ST7868W, ST7897, or 270c).
• A Blackberry
• A new computer. Not a new system. Just a new motherboard, chip (something fast), and a video card.
• ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder (32meg+ please)
• Any laptop. I haven't gotten picky yet (but the Vaio's are nice).

[11:32:11 PM] []

From H2NO:

Olive Garden restaurants, like many other Casual Dining locations, were facing a high water incidence rate. They wanted their restaurant crews to emphasize the broad array of alternative beverage selections available, with the hope of reducing tap water incidence. Olive Garden's goal was to influence customers to abandon their default choice of tap water and experience other beverage choices to improve their dining experience.

Emphasis mine.
[7:31:17 PM] []

New markets opening up, BlackBerry maker says. If they want to open *my* market up add voice capability to the new GPRS unit. I don't want a handset, just give me a mini-jack plug for my headset. I'd own one in a heartbeat.

The other day I actually spent an hour and made a spreadsheet of my cell phone usage to determine the answer to the Rogers vs. Bell price plan debate. I think Bell's plan is better suited to my calling habits. Of course Rogers has a year of historical data on me and what do I have to do? I have to input it by hand since they don't provide the option 'what is the optimal plan for my habits' since it'd probably cost them too much in lost revenue. However I believe that to be very short sighted. I haven't replaced my cell phone yet because of this 'optimal plan' problem. And happy consumers just spend more damnit!

And I don't even want to replace my cell phone with a cell phone. I want a voice enabled Blackberry!. And RIM, if you're reading this, don't price it like you've been pricing your other Blackberries. Your unit cost is way too high and if it's holding me back it's sure to be holding others back. My rule of thumb is for an electronic toy, i.e. digital camera, mp3 player,.. the price should be $200. If it's software/full album of music/ebook then the price should be $5 (use the Big Mac rule).
[1:33:42 PM] []

Natalie has a request. If anyone has Tori Amos' album 'Little Earthquakes', Air (soundtrack from Virgin Suicides), The Beta Band or Le Tigre she'd appreciate it if you uploaded it to ftp://bluemeanie.mattgoyer.com (email me for a username and pw for access to my 2000+ mp3 collection).
[10:41:53 AM] []

I installed Andromeda on Bluemeanie. It's located (temporarily) at http://bluemeanie.mattgoyer.com/Webpub/mp3z/. Check it out. It's very cool. Very easy to use. It sucks my bandwidth so I'll probably see about moving my MP3s onto our real server (Tomato).
[10:10:58 AM] []

Fun with SirCam!

View a collection of files that I received as a result of SirCam.

I was so insipired by Slashdot's discussion on Confidentiality on Virus Sent Docs?

So you're warned. If you send me a virus I think I have the right to do what I want with it. Even if it contains your 'Pre-Booty Call Arrangement' document.
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