OMG! I WANT ONE!!! (Or admiting I have a problem is the first step, right?)

Chumby.

I want it...

I need it...

I must have it.....

A Chumby of my own....sigh...By my bedside, keeping me company during the long, lonely nights....Mmmmm...
Chumby...

I know I am a electronic gadget junkie. I want one of everything. If I can turn it on, it can turn me on (ok that sounded worse than what I intended - LOL)...Its a sickness...

Taken from the Chumby web site: "Chumby takes your favorite parts of the Internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. It's a window into your Internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets."

Iron....

Mmmmm...metal...

My love of Google has met with my fear for privacy....While I've been loving cruising the net with my shiny new browser I've also been learning more about the not so GooglyGoodness of Chrome's privacy issues. There is something kinda Big Brotherish about the Omnibox (Chrome's address bar) as it sends back the keystrokes you type - EVEN if you DON'T hit send...Hmmmm....This triggers some of my massive conspiracy fears which clashes with my devotion to Google....

There are ways to prevent the data from going anywhere - apparently if you turn off suggestions and/or don't use Google as your search (yeah, right, like that's going to happen) then the information is not sent. And supposedly the Incognito setting will also prevent the dissemination of your information.

But if that is not enough there is another route to go - Iron. Its a version of Chrome without submitting your user information. Among Iron's features are no Google updater and no crash information is sent to Google. I personally have not tried it yet - I'm still weighing my options (how much to I really care that people know I'm searching for Vin Diesel pictures?)....Get Iron by visiting: http://www.srware.net/software_srware_iron_download.php

i've been Chromed...

So continuing on with my Google obsession i am employing the use of Chrome more and more. My love affair begins with its speed - wow! Sometimes a girl likes when things move a little fast - i love a take-charge kinda browser. And i love seeing the little screenshots of my most recently visited pages....Sigh...I like its auto-completion address bar - which also offers more than just URLs. Mmmm...multitasking....And the drag-able tabs...and its incognito feature...a browser with mystery... :) Get chromed!

Lively + Chrome = Ooops!

If you know me, you know that I like new things and I like shiny things. And you know that I am in love, head over heels, with Google...

Over the weekend during my many, what I like to call, "Sanity Breaks" I discovered Lively. I know its geared to the teens and twentysomethings but I simply cannot help myself. Its a virtual world comprised of various user created rooms. But ultimately its a chat application. And a highly interactive one.

I spent an inordinate amount of time stuck in a single empty room walking my little virtual self back and forth wondering why I couldn't, for the life of me, drink the cup of coffee that was taunting me on the table - even my virtual self was jonsing for the joe...sigh....Anyway...So I played around on it on and off wishing we (work) had the technology to produce something like this. I know we're not chat focused but its not just about the actual chat but just the ability to produce something of this caliber...I digress. Basically, this weekend I discovered Lively.

Within the past month I have been getting myself used to using Chrome too - the wonderful new browser from Google (He's so fickle, I can't get him to commit. He's into the whole "open relationship" thing. One day he's all about "chimpanzees" and the next "large hadron collider" - so instead I've had to settle for this rather tawdry affair. Ugh. I won't go into the sordid details). Anyway, so on my lunch hour I decided to use Chrome to get to Lively... And what do I find? Chrome is not compatible with Lively. This is so ungooglish. And it just seems a little odd - to have your service not work with your other service. Uh...Hmmm....Needless to say I was disappointed. Never did Lively at lunch - settling for some Chrome browsing and a blog posting instead.

I think Google is going through something. I think he needs a hug. And maybe a kiss. Or two....

The Mother Ship!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, during my daily surf I found this:

http://spamusement.com/index.php

....and I felt as if the Mothership had landed.

"Oh how I've missed you, Mother!"

There are more freaks like me out there who are plagued by high-larious spam messages that conjure up such bizarre and amusing images (not to mention the sheer poetry of some) - AND LOVE IT......sigh......I haven't delved very deep but I think I am in heaven.

I can't believe it. Its like home. I think about omprellas and Dora who wrote "in my tyrannosaurus" all of the time.

I've been spammed by Susan T. Approvals, Burlap K. Notebook, Payloads L. Trivet and Engender P. Flagship and Pantyhose C. Kwangju....And I take such pleasure in it! Thank you Pantyhose (may I just call you Panty?).....



(Soon, I'll move my Spammish information over to the new site. Spammish is the language of the spammers. Some friends and I had been working on a Spammish to English dictionary but I'll go into more detail about that later.)