Waving from a Wave with my Wave.

So I was reading the Google Wave Blog when I saw a link about 6 Google Wave "Game Changing" features. Of course I had to read the article.

My God... It's full of Chrome!

I've been using Google's browser Chrome for a few weeks now. And other than the occasional "this page don't werk rite" moment I've been very pleased. It doesn't have all the addons that Firefox has (yet) but it's very fast. Not only fast to load pages, but fast to load in general. It has two features that I really like and use often.

The first is the ability to "pin" webpages on the tab bar. What this does is make the tab smaller so that only the favicon shows up. This frees up precious tab space when you've got your favorite pages open all the time (read: Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Wave, etc).

The second feature allows you to create a "program shortcut" out of a webpage. For example, if you wanted a link that went directly to your Gmail, you can make a shortcut on your desktop, quick launch or start menu. When you start it up chrome creates a window just for that page, sans navigation bar and option menus.

It feels like I'm living in the cloud already.

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

I put a Twitter gadget on my blog. It is not my timeline. It is someone elses timeline. That is all.

You're in for a Surprise!

At the Target that I currently am employed at there is a team member (read: employee) only bathroom in the front of the store. Now this bathroom is for boys and girls and of course it locks from the inside and usually smells like poop, which is good because if other parts of the store smelled like poop we'd have issues.

Anyway, on several occasions while I was making a deposit someone came up the door, I'm sure with the intention of using it, and turned the handle followed by a knock. I of course did not respond and they were on their way.

First of all, why knock at all? You already turned the handle, you'd be half way into the bathroom by the time the knock was over. Also, what am I suppose to do? "Hello!" "Come in!" "Sorry! Making Fudge!"

Secondly, I never knock. I turn the handle, if the door doesn't open I know either someone is in there dropping off the kids, or the door is broken and I can't go in anyway. I have decided though that one day, if I go to open the door and it does open and there is someone using the bathroom I'm going to yell "SURPRISE!" and close the door real fast. I don't have to worry, because if they shit themselves they're already in the bathroom.

Looking for the crest of a new Wave

I woke up this morning after sleeping off my retail weekend of hell (aka Black Friday) and was happy to see that I was invited into the Google Wave preview. Info on 'da wave can be found heyaw. Essentially what it is is a hybrid of everything that is web 2.0. You've got your emails, your texting, your IMs and your social networking sites all smashed into one convenient site that is part of the Google cloud and all updated in real time. There's a video on the site that will make any net nerd drool, so you can understand my excitement.

I may be afraid of those ghosts...

So we spent our first night in our new apartment and everything went well. Well, everything but Zaiden waking up hungry at almost midnight. When I got back from picking up the old ball and chain I found that Zo had gotten up and went to be on her own. She's a good girl.
While I lay there last night, falling asleep I thought to myself, we never asked if the apt was haunted. I'm slipping up in my old age. 30 next month. My foot is warm with an earthy embrace.

A Place to Call Our Own

It has been several months since we moved to NY but we've finally got our own place. It's not much, an upstairs apartment in Champlain, but it has enough space for us all and the price is right. Continuing on the positives, our phones work great here so no need for a land line!
The kids are already adjusting well. Zaiden is fast asleep and Zoey is currently working on it. Earlier she was running around, enjoying all the open space.

I'll get there VIA the Caffine Train!

As some already know I work at the Starbucks in our local Target. And as I'm sure the majority of humanity knows that today is the launch of our VIA ready brew.
So far reception has been great. Its fun to see people turn their noses to the concept of instant coffee only to be not only impressed with but proceed to buy our VIA.
I'm looking forward to getting some myself.

And without any further ado...

My first real post. "But good sir!" you say, "you can delete your test posts!" Funk that noise I say!
I've decided to move my blog from Live Spaces for doppio reasons; one because Microsoft's programs are awesome when all you use is their stuff and two, because almost none of their shat works with my Blackberry. So I now reside on the blog forums of the good fellas at Google, who make all sorts of stuff that works with other people's stuff.
Here's to good times, good laughs and maybe some education. Little bit of life lesson... Probably not.

Updating via Emails... Oui?

Here's the email version. SMS is overrated.
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

So...

Not a big fan of the SMS posting. Where's my title!? The nerve!

So here we go. Giving the mobile updates a try. May end up just using the mail2blogger feature. Stay tuned!

Busting a Net all ovah the Web

So I've decided to try moving my blog over to Blogger. Let's see if I can get my BB to work with it.