Jeffrey Powers Bloggins

I am working, working, working some more - then when I’m done, I work some more. With FAWM being this month, I have to add the 14 songs. I really enjoy doing the work, but it’s piling up: Big Time.

With Frank helping out on Geekazine, that makes things a little easier. I still am behind. There are a ton of videos that are going up on the site and I have new products come in to review daily.

Organization will be my next task. You should see my work room right now! It’s really a mess.

I also have been called for Jury Duty this month. I have to call in next Thursday to see if I am being used for court. If that happens and I’m in a high profile trial, that can really affect things.

OK, enough of this. Time to get back to work.

I am in search for a new Mac. My G4 has gone past it’s prime, so it is time to find something faster. Therefore, I am asking the audience if they have one to give, or trade for service - even a sponsorship on Geekazine or Dorkazine could be arranged. If you would like to help out, please let me know.

Just a note that #PodcastWI meeting will be on Tues. Feb 3rd. at 7 PM. Location TBD - Madison, WI. We’ll be discussing how to record your first podcast or videocast.

Well, it’s 3 days since I got back from Vegas and I think I’m finally catching up. Oh wait. Nope, I’m not.

Just cleaned out the fish tank. The fish look happier and the tank looks cleaner. Also got all the laundry done. YAY!

This cold is really a drag. Concerned about Alex - he looks somewhat depressed. He needs a good place to run around, but with this weather, it’s tough to take him out. I think we’ll take a walk once this cold spell snaps.

Although I wished I would have been in Vegas during this cold snap, it’s still good to have CES over. It was a great experience and I met a lot of cool people. I am still going through all the contacts.

This Saturday I will be joining Andy and Todd on the Roundtable talking about CES. I am going to discuss emerging technologies. Will be a good roundtable.

Finally, I am uploading the pictures to the Geekazine MySpace page. Just added the Techpodcasts videos to that part.

More later…

Sitting at HP’s CNTR-STG working on a HP HDX Premium Series laptop. They have a pretty good line here and I am really impressed. We are a short while away their major announcement, so we’ll post what is going on.

So far Vegas is awesome! I entered a cab and the driver just happened to be from Madison. We got to talk about many different things locally.

I walked from the South Hall back to Monte Carlo. It was a 1 1/2 hour walk but the sights were great. I saw ICE, the club from a reality TV show that aired for a year.

We will be heading over to Digital Experience a little later, shooting tons of channel news and getting home late for an early wakeup.

After all, who needs sleep?

Sitting in the Hotel right before my NYE Gig. Hotel has Kick-ass hot water, but it’s a Hotel shower. the room is awesome otherwise.

I just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope this is a safe and Prosperous one for everyone.

I would like to thank everyone that has visited any of the sites - Geekazine, Dorkazine, WIBands. We have some great plans for 2009 starting with CES. Please stay tuned and check out all the cool videos we’ll be doing.

That’s it for now. Be safe out there. I’ll see you next year.

Oh yeah. Don’t forget to celebrate the New Year like this:

10…. 9….8….7….6….5….4….3….2….1….1…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I had to walk into a bar today that actually was smoking. I ended that habit a couple months ago and haven’t really thought about this because I frequent bars that are non-smoking due to the city bans. Then I got sick and wasn’t out at all.

Now I’m in a bar working on a computer for that establishment. When I walked into the Bar, I could smell it. In the bar, in the bathrooms, even an area that is a “non smoking area”.

There is a guy to the right of me smoking menthol cigarettes. When he blows the smoke out, it shoots right in my direction.I am a little bit perturbed about that. When I did smoke, I always made it a priority to blow smoke up in the air - so the majority of the time the smoke would go up and away. Therefore no-one else would get a puff of 2nd hand carcinogens.

However, I don’t and will not chastise the person smoking. I really think in this day and age where businesses are wondering if they will be around tomorrow, we shouldn’t be putting a restriction on something that is suppose to be legal to do. I said it before when I smoked, I’ll say it again - it’s the land of the Free and the home of the Brave.. except for smokers.

I am happy I am here. I thought I might be tempted to have a cigarette. I am not. I still have a long way to go on that, but I think I will be able to sit in a smoking area without wanting to do so.

Yesterday I completed my travel and hotel itinerary for the Consumer Electronics Show January 8th through the 11th in Las Vegas NV. No, I won’t be gambling on anything but getting new contacts and making tons of content for Geekazine, Dorkazine and the TechPodcasts CES channel.

I will be landing in Vegas at 11 AM PST Jan 6th and heading out on Jan 12th at 6:30 AM. I can now get a CES schedule going. Still looking for sponsors, so check out the page on Geekazine.

Luck be a Jeffy tonight!

Don’t you hate it when you go to grab a napkin and the holder is stuffed which makes it difficult to take a napkin out? You end up taking out 10-12 napkins just get the one. You don’t feel right putting it back, so you take it with you and then throw away 8-9 unused napkins.

Yes, I could leave it on the table. It doesn’t make a difference though - someone else will just either throw it on the floor or pick it up and throw them away unused anyway.

Maybe someone should invent a better napkin holder that allows only one at a time. And not the “Toilet paper” approach because that gets me into an entirely new rant.

There is a lot I need to learn about this program, but when I catch a break on something, I feel oh so good. Case in point - I had a couple sites that had issues with Permalinks. A Permalink is where it changes the way the links look. For instance, this site has an “About” link on top. The permalink (in the address bar) used to say something like ?cat=2. Now it says /about/.

There is a file called .htaccess. It’s a file that helps with permissions on a site. Long story short - this file needs certain code in it to allow the permalinks to resolve /about/. In very laymans terms, it’s converting French to English.

So now my sites are working the way I want them to. Cross another item off the list…