Day In The Life of Baz

For those of you who love the iPhone, please ignore this lil’ rant. I’m one who has always been against overpriced electronics (overpriced anything for that matter). But regardless of what I think, and regardless of how cool the iPhone is (I must admit, it is cool. So’s the iPod, but I didn’t feel the urge to run out and buy one either), there are some facts that you can’t ignore:

• There is no SD card or other form of expandable memory for the device. It’s 4 GB or 8 GB, that’s it. You better make your choice right, because there is no going back.
• For all its cool internet support there’s no GPS. Come on now, really.
• There’s no instant messenger. I don’t get it. But I suppose you can always go on the internet and use Meebo.com or something.
• No 3G support. It only relies on EDGE and WiFi. Edge is terribly slow and WiFi isn’t everywhere.
• Only has a 2 MP Camera, no flash, no zoom. I’ve seen crappier phones with a lil’ bit of flash.
• There’s no video recording. Again, I don’t get it. Is it that hard? I mean with all what it already does.

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Here we have another one of the “Get Paid To Blog” family: Smorty. It is quite similar to most of the rest of these services: they serve to connect Advertisers to Bloggers and make a lil’ bit of commission on the side.

Signing up was a breeze. You enter your blog details and boom, you’re in. Well, not exactly. There is a short period of time that your blog has to go under to be reviewed. Your blog has to meet some minimum requirements, or else everybody would be doing it and soon enough the service would become a joke. Your blog must be indexed by Google and Yahoo, needs to be active for at least three months, etc. If you can’t meet these requirements, frankly you have bigger problems.

After you’re approved, you sign up and start blogging away. That’s it. One thing that is interesting, is that there’s something called a “Smorty Rank”. This consists of your Google PageRank, Alexa Rankings, return rate of given tasks, approval/decline ratio of completed tasks and the number of completed tasks. This is interesting, since most of the other blog for money sites go solely off of Google’s Pagerank and we know how Google gets flaky with Page rank every now and then.

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It’s 1:37AM. Why can’t I sleep?

• Am I stressed from work?
  No. Work is done till Thursday, couldn’t care less.
• Am I so excited about my plans for the 4th of July?
  Nope. Sorry, I just plan on staying home to sleep?
• Am I just not tired because I slept too much the night before?
  Actually, I went to bed about 2:30AM yesterday and I was looking forward to an early retiring tonight (last night, whatever)

You give up?

My bed popped. As you know, I have very little furniture in my apartment. Ok, none. And I was relying on an air bed. The thing worked fine for many months. I had no reason to get a real bed, until now. I got off to put a book away, put a knee on to climb back on and heard a quiet poooooffff and felt the rushing air. My knee practically went through the thing. There’s a huge gaping hole through the blasted thing. I’m pissed. Can’t even return it to the store.

Oh well. And this couldn’t have come during a worst month. I guess that’s what emergency savings are for huh?

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Guess what new toy Google’s got under their belt. Well if you can read the huge title above, you know what I’m talking about. Google has purchased GrandCentral.com

What Is GrandCentral?

If you aren’t familiar with this wonderful service, GrandCentral proclaims the whole “One number to rule them all” premise. It really is a nice service. You have one, that’s it. It’s meant primarily for those of use with multiple phones (Home, cell, work, friend’s house, etc). The idea is that someone calls your GrandCentral number and all your phones ring at the same time. It’s not as bad as it sounds people, it’s not like all the phones are in the same room, remember? If you’re home you don’t have to kill your cell phone minutes, if you ran to the store, but you’re still waiting for an important call, you wont’ miss it. If any of your numbers change, you go to the accounts section and change the number there.

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I meant to mention this some time back, but I lost track of it. Washington is now the first state to ban text messaging while driving. While I understand the premise of this, I have to wonder, why do we need another unenforceable law? Really a cop pulls me over for texting? How does he prove this? Talking on the cell phone is hard enough to enforce, but at least a cop can see the phone. How is a cop, minding his own business, going to see someone texting under his steering wheel?

And when you do get pulled over, you say you were turning the phone off, or your were looking for a number. Oh well, I guess it’s time to think up some excuses.

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