Well after some thinking I've decided to do a follow-up on my previous article, which basically slammed the iPod Photo for not having more features. I want to clear some things up.

In a sense, the iPod Photo replaces the common shoebox of picture slides. If you connect the iPod to a projector, it's almost the same as a slide viewer. In that kind of sense, it's cool. If you meet your long lost sister on a bus and show her photos, that's cool.

What isn't cool is that you have to connect the iPod to your computer first. If there was a cheaper solution to the Belkin Media Reader, the iPod Photo would be great. Unfortunately, there isn't.

The iPod Photo still has potential. With a cheaper media reader (the iPod Photo is expensive as it is), and/or an attachable camera, the iPod Photo will be great. It's just not being used to it's fullest right now.

Wow, what a great shot this is. It's worth checking out.

Apple came out with the iPod Photo today, which is basically the iPod with a colour screen and photo viewing capabilities, 20GB more, a lot bigger, and a lot pricier. Here is why I think the iPod Photo kind of blows...

First off, who is going to go to the trouble of syncing all their photos with the iPod just to view them on a tiny 2" screen? I know I wouldn't. In fact, my photo library is fairly small. If the iPod could sync photos directly to a camera without any accessories, it would be good. If someone developed an attachable camera for the iPod (hello, Griffin?) that would be awesome as well. But right now the iPod Photo is pointless. My cellphone has a camera built in, with photo viewing capabilities and a LOT more (minus the hard drive). I have to admit though, the colour screen on the iPod could lead to a lot of great things.

iTunes Canada in November. Woo-hoo!

I have just uploaded a truckload of new photos to my Flickr account, so go check it out. The pics are assorted from both my phone and my 4MP Camera.

Speaking of which, I can't say enough good things about Flickr. If you're in-tune with my life you'll know that I developed the official Flickr Uploadr for Mac OS X, which is really useful for quickly uploading photos. Flickr is a photo service that, when upgraded to a pro account ($60/year) allows 1GB of transfer per month, and unlimited photo storage. That's one heck of a lot better than .Mac. The site itself is eye candy too, the pink and blue color scheme blend in well with Ludicorp's excellent use of CSS positioning.

Anyways, check Flickr out if you haven't. It's filled with lots of cool features, and I am even posting this from within the Flickr website. Cool, eh?

With November coming up, snowboarding season has almost arrived. One of the great things about vancouver is that the mountains are only 30 minutes away from downtown.

My favorite mountains are still going to rock this year, but I might go to Whistler this year too - which isn't somewhere I go a lot. Whistler is really really crowded with tourists most of the time and the only two lane road there isn't exactly fast. I'm pretty sure they're fixing that road for 2010, but that isn't happening any time soon.

I noticed last year that easily over 50% of people on the mountains are snowboarding over skiing. I think that eventually skiing will just become a thing of the past. Skiing is NOT as much fun or as popular as snowboarding, and people know it. Just a few years ago lots of mountains banned snowboarding. This will be my 6th year snowboarding.

So, here's a pretty simple question. Ski or snowboard?

If you've been keeping up with Mac rumors you've probably seen this:



Firstly, it looks really cool. But I'm not sure it fits in with the rest of Tiger. I'm welcome to changes, but the new Mail seems really out of place. Especially the list on the left, that's just weird. It like jumps out of the interface. Comments on this?

Was playing this at school today:
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Apprentice/games/apprentice_game.shtml

If only Trump knew about this though:
On the floors with the tiled walls, you can walk up the left side like you can a staircase. This makes the game really easy to beat. Owned.

Developer: YOU'RE FIRED.

I went and saw Team America: World Police today. It was uh, interesting, to say the least...

I think Roger Ebert puts it best:

Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, [Parker and Stone] don't have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible.

First off, very good puppet work. String puppets are things that haven't been in movies much before, and they make a pretty cool effect in this movie. They even had puppets controlling puppets. Also, the puppets themselves were at least 50% of the humor, aside from the oral jokes.

This movie had LOTS of puns on the middle-east, Korea, and even France (which is to be expected in a movie like this). There was also many jokes involving famous actors, we'll see how far this goes without a legal bash from Hollywood.

Anyways, I'm not going to sit here explaining and spoiling the movie though (actually I'm just lazy). If you like South Park and you're not easily offended, this movie is for you.

http://www.somethingdirectory.com/

Really funny. I would have posted it before but I forgot about it, and watched it again recently the other day.

Watch for the changing posters (thanks Syco).

One of the most popular genres today in music among teens and the like is the new Hip-hop stuff. You know what I'm talking about - the big black guys with 30lb chains around their necks, basketball jersey, sideways hat, colt in mouth, etc...
They see themselves as pimps, players, and popular people.

The only true thing unfortunately is that they are popular. And I don't know why. Hip-hop these days is mostly mixed with rap. Rap can be good if done right and mixed with rock. Examples: Chronic Future, Beastie Boys (their old stuff), Linkin Park.

BUT let's look at why Hip hop blows chunks of meaty goodness, I mean, badness. Most of the stuff is based on being a gangster, being a pimp, blah blah blah blah...
The music itself...is performed by a hired group which is mainly composed of a few things. Here's the 6 step recipe for hip hop:
STEP 1: Get lots of bass. It doesn't matter how you get it. Get as much as you can and cram it into 5 minutes of ear-thumping action.
STEP 2: Add a cheesy drum riff and mix it in with the bass until your ears are completely numb.
STEP 3: Find a dirty bum off of the streets, make him jibber jabber about his boring life, or the life he wants to jibber jabber about.
STEP 4: Add in some even cheesier tambourines or triangles...have them play once every 10 seconds or so, just to make sure the music is always annoying.
STEP 5: Give yourself a title. Find a random word and letter out of the dictionary and compose them with a dash. Examples: C-Squash, R-Toilet, Q-Molestation...
STEP 6: Get some dumb-ass record company to sign you and your music and have it play on Much Music and MTV 5 billion times until people get sick of it. Then make a new single, smoke some weed, and repeat.

There you have it. Hip Hop/Bad Rap in a nutshell. If you have any questions about the steps, or need clarification, leave a comment! Peace out.

I put up a new design again, it's pure CSS now, and made by hand.
I'll add some other content (portfolio, photos, etc.) soon.

A half-decent picture I took in Stanley Park with my phone, posted with the wonderful Flickr photo storage service.

Halo 2 was officially leaked on the internet today. And that sucks, because I know some news cock will get ahold of it and spoil the story for everyone. Why can't Bungie freaking keep their security tighter? Only a few weeks left too, bah.

But I've decided to re-open this blog. Hooray.

First off - new template! I like it a lot, but there are a lot of things I freaking hate about it too. I'll be modding it when I get some time.

Love Pokey The Penguin? I do. Infact, I love it so much I need it wherever I go - so introducing my latest 5 minute website: Mobile Pokey!!! Okay, so it's not quite up to par yet, but it's designed to keep your data usage costs down, and your laughter rate high.

You knew it was coming, why on earth would I make a Mobile Pokey website if I didn't have a cell phone? Well last week I bought a Sony Ericsson T610 with a plan from Fido (who in my opinion has the best prices and services). The phone itself really rocks, and I keep finding new things in it every day.

To be continued...I need to do homework. FAREWELL.