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Unlimited Music Coming For iPods?
2008-03-19 23:11:00 The Financial Times is reporting that Steve Jobs , my future husband, is in talks with the major music labels over a premium fee attached to Apple’s iPod/iPhone line that would allow customers access to an unlimited amount of music via the iTunes store. No details of how exactly the deal would work are available yet ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Unlimited Music Coming For iPods?", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/19/unli mited-music-for-ipods/" }); More About: Ipods
Information? FAIL!
2008-03-18 21:09:00 Back in January I talked about how I feel like I am suffering from information overload. To the right you can see my unread item number form Google Reader just about 3 minutes ago. Daunting isn’t it? That’s just today’s haul, not a couple days, just today. Since I obviously consume so much info, I always ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Information … FAIL!", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/18/info rmation-fail/" }); More About: Writing , Blogging
Why I Blog
2008-03-17 17:58:00 Luis from Blog D left a comment on my three year anniversary post that just set up another post too perfectly for me to pass up the opportunity. Congratulations! I know exactly what that?s like! To be honest, I hadn?t been keeping track of your progress, so I was taken by surprise when you announced that. As for ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why I Blog", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/17/why- i-blog/" }); More About: Blogging
Thoughts On The iPod Touch
2008-03-17 05:51:00 Okay, a couple days of use, and I have some thoughts. - Why no search feature in contacts? - Can someone please come out with a keyboard you could plug it into for when you have a lot to type up? Or how about the ability to put them into categories like “Friends”, “Work”, “Family”, etc? - They ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Thoughts On The iPod Touch ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/16/thou ghts-on-the-ipod-touch/" }); More About: Technology , Gadgets , Ipod
Success Breeds Resurrection?
2008-03-16 01:45:00 Isn’t it amazing what some success can do? Back in 1998, Rob Thomas created a series for ABC called Cupid. Jeremy Piven played the title character which was a man who believed himself to be Cupid, the Roman god of love. He thought he was sent to Earth to bring together 100 ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Success Breeds Resurrection ?", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/15/cupi d/" });
Yes, I Now Own An iPod Touch
2008-03-14 23:29:00 Yes, I now own yet another iPod, an iPod Touch to be exact. And, yes, this is the same device that I said I didn’t understand who this was built for back in October of last year. What changed? A couple of things. - My work at Mashable has me writing more and more about applications for ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Yes, I Now Own An iPod Touch", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/14/yes- i-now-own-an-ipod-touch/" }); More About: Ipod
Should We Go To Just One Time Zone?
2008-03-13 17:37:00 Time is an odd thing. It’s a man-made concept that keeps everything from happening at once, and is made only so that we had a more convenient way of saying where the Sun was. Would you rather say, “the Sun is at a 45 degeree angle from the horizon”, or “it’s 3 PM”? ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Should We Go To Just One Time Zone ?", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/13/time -zones/" }); More About: Business , General , Time
Three Years
2008-03-13 05:14:00 Well, I made it… 1,096 days, or three years (remember… leap year), of non-stop blogging of at least one entry per day. True, I wonder why I do it some days, but it has become more like breathing at this point, I just do it so naturally now, I barely think about it. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Three Years ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/12/thre e-years/" }); More About: Blogging
The Power Of Sex
2008-03-11 23:21:00 When are people in the public eye going to learn? If you are a well-known person, someone in power, someone famous, there are always going to be those that enjoy watching your fall from grace. True, in the case of Governor Elliot Spitzer, the sting was set up to go after the call ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Power Of Sex", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/11/elli ot-spitzer/" }); More About: Government
Garfield Minus Garfield
2008-03-10 09:53:00 In what has to be the oddest turn of events, I have become a huge fan of the Garfield comic strip. Well… more to the point, I have become a fan of Garfield Minus Garfield. It started showing up in the shared items my friends sent me on Google Reader, and at first I thought, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Garfield Minus Garfield", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/10/garf ield-minus-garfield/" }); More About: General
How Not To Handle Your Critics
2008-03-10 03:25:00 The SXSW conference, a music/movie/interactive conference held once a year in Austin, TX, is happening at the moment, and, as always, it’s filled with all sorts of Internet goodness. Most of it boring to the masses, exciting to the web 2.0 crowd. Normally a keynote address sets the tone of a conference, most of ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Not To Handle Your Critics ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/09/how- not-to-handle-your-critics/" }); More About: Journalism
Cheese
2008-03-09 06:37:00 Why, or why, must cheese lure me in like a sailor, crashing against the rocks to the Siren’s song? I have been trying to lose weight for a little over a year, and while I have lost 50+ pounds, slimmed up quite a bit, lost several pants sizes, toned up, and drastically changed my eating habits… ... More About: Cheese
Buffy Season 8, Issue 12
2008-03-07 19:38:00 ***MAJOR SPOILERS*** More About: Review , Season , Buffy , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Issue
The Cost To Become President
2008-03-07 03:16:00 As long time readers of this blog will attest to, I try to avoid politics. I am not a political blog, and venturing into that blog space could be a dangerous thing for a neophyte. One subject has popped up that effects everyone involved in the race for President is money. Whatever happened to ... More About: Government , Cost
Some Conversations Make My Head Hurt
2008-03-05 20:47:00 While playing Call of Duty 4 last night, I had a conversation that made me actually question humanity. Sitting in the lobby, waiting for the next round to start, we got notified the next map we’d be playing on would be “Bloc” - a set of decaying apartment buildings in post-nuclear accident Chernobyl. This isn’t ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some Conversations Make My Head Hurt ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/05/some -conversations-make-my-head-hurt/" }); More About: Video Games , Xbox , Xbox 360
My ?original? writing career
2008-03-05 02:02:00 I’ve hinted before to my writing career of the 1990’s, but have never gone in to great detail about it. So… why not now? In the early 1990’s I was running a lot of ads in Toy Shop magazine to advertise our mail order toy service. The publication was put out by Krause ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My “original” writing career", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/04/my-o riginal-writing-career/" }); More About: Writing , Original , Blogging , Career
Handy Switch
2008-03-03 09:50:00 Who buys this… er… “stuff”? Obviously someone buys it, I just want to know who! The Handy Switch is the latest offering from my favorite huckster, Billy Mays. The idea is you plug the receiver into the wall socket, plug the lamp into the receiver, and when you throw the switch, the light goes ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Handy Switch", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/03/hand y-switch/" });
Here Comes WordPress 2.5
2008-03-03 06:27:00 Jo pointed this post out in her post this weekend, and boy am I excited for WordPress 2.5 now! It appears they are finally taking into consideration that those of us who had to install WP by hand may be getting a bit tired of installing every update they release in the same manner. Speaking as ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Here Comes WordPress 2.5", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/02/here -comes-wordpress-25/" }); More About: Wordpress
Oops? That?s What I Get For Posting While Tired
2008-03-01 16:17:00 The last post, Sometimes Bad Taste Doesn?t Even Cover It, is no longer password protected. I accidentally typed in the “post slug” in to the “post password” box. It’s been removed now. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Oops… That’s What I Get For Posting While Tired ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/01/oops -thats-what-i-get-for-posting-while-tired /" }); More About: General
Sometimes Bad Taste Doesn?t Even Cover It
2008-03-01 08:29:00 Sometimes you come across things on the web that make you wonder what someone was thinking, and then other times it just makes my jaw drop, and I star in awe. I got this image from a friend’s shared RSS feeds, and long story short, it seems to have originated here. (I’m a ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sometimes Bad Taste Doesn’t Even Cover It", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/03/01/some times-bad-taste-doesnt-even-cover-it/" }); More About: Bad Taste
A New Coffee? In Beta
2008-02-29 10:43:00 Adam Ostrow over at Mashable.com was the one to bring the “beta” coffee offer from Joffrey’s Coffee to my attention. The idea is simple in that up to 10,000 bloggers can go to their site, fill out the form, and not only will you get some free coffee, but you’ll also get a link back to ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A New Coffee… In Beta ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/29/a-ne w-coffee-in-beta/" }); More About: Life , General
Can Someone Explain The Cult Of Oprah To Me?
2008-02-29 03:02:00 Before I even begin this, let me stress that my dislike of Oprah Winfrey has nothing to do with her being African-American. I bring this up because the last time I made an off-hand comment about Star Jones, I had to spend the next day explaining how my dislike had nothing to do with her ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Can Someone Explain The Cult Of Oprah To Me?", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/28/can- someone-explain-the-cult-of-oprah-to-me/" }); More About: The Cult
I Think I Have Officially Become Old
2008-02-28 00:49:00 It happened the other night, I was watching Big Brother After Dark on Showtime 2, and I realized I have officially become old. As regular readers know, I have been a faithful viewer of Big Brother since season 1 (though I skipped season 2 as I hated the format change), and each season I complain about ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I Think I Have Officially Become Old", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/27/big- brother-9/" });
Microsoft CEO Calls iPod Owners Thieves
2008-02-27 05:12:00 Steve Ballmer is a moron. I’m not sure why Microsoft allows their CEO to ever interact with the public because all he ends up doing is embarrassing himself or the company. This time he decided it was a good idea to imply that iPod users, such as myself, are nothing but thieves. While at a gathering ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Microsoft CEO Calls iPod Owners Thieves", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/26/micr osoft-ceo-calls-ipod-owners-thieves/" }); More About: Music , Technology , Ipod
Pakistan Takes Down YouTube
2008-02-26 03:38:00 No matter what you may think of YouTube, the idea that Pakistan could take down the site globally is frightening in it’s ramifications for the Internet as a whole. The whole debacle started on Friday when Pakistan ordered access to YouTube be blocked due to videos including the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that caused such ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pakistan Takes Down YouTube", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/25/paki stan-takes-down-youtube/" }); More About: Youtube , Technology
GrandCentral Rings All Your Phones At Once
2008-02-24 21:20:00 As I’ve mentioned before, my company warehouse is only 300 feet from my house. That being the case, I have a tendency to wander back and forth during the day, which makes it difficult sometimes for people to guess which location I’m at, and hence which phone number they should call. I’ve often thought ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "GrandCentral Rings All Your Phones At Once", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/24/gran dcentral-rings-all-your-phones-at-once/" }); More About: Technology
Top 5 Mafia Moments On Film
2008-02-23 23:48:00 The Mafia has had a broad history in film and on television, and one thing that has always bothered me is how fans always seem to focus only on the violence in the stories. True, the mob life is a violent one, but there is so much more to it then just that. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Top 5 Mafia Moments On Film ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/23/top- 5-mafia-moments-on-film/" }); More About: Movies
My name
2008-02-23 04:55:00 What exactly is my name? Well, it’s Sean P. Aune… not Sean PAune… which I get a lot due to the domain name and my email addresses. And the “P.” is for “Patrick”. I’m used to people screwing up the pronunciation of my last name, but it’s when people screw up my first name ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My name", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/22/how- to-pronounce-sean-aune/" }); More About: General
Parents Television Council Gets Busy Again
2008-02-22 03:58:00 The Parents Television Council is back… oh how I have missed them. Mind you, my true love is the American Family Association, but they have been oddly quiet lately. (Call me? I miss your nuttiness) For those unfamiliar with them, the PTC is one of those groups that is convinced they know what’s ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Parents Television Council Gets Busy Again", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/21/pare nts-television-council-gets-busy-again/" });
Toshiba Says ?No Refunds? To HD DVD Early Adopters? Good
More articles from this author:2008-02-20 22:40:00 While it’s not clear if anyone has actually requested a refund for buying an HD DVD player yet, Toshiba is making sure every one knows it’s not going to happen. They also said there won’t be any “sweetners” because the equipment still has an “inherent value” in that it can play CDs, DVDs, and ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Toshiba Says “No Refunds” To HD DVD Early Adopters… Good ", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/02/20/no-h d-dvd-refunds/" }); More About: Technology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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