web-goddess

Month: September 2010

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Holy crap. Angry Birds just updated, and it’s got Game Center support. IT’S ON.

    But will Facebook Places award me badges for running like @runkeeper does? I think not. I’ll stick with @foursquare for now.

    @rhagern Are on you Game Center?! I don’t think I have you friended. Add “webgoddess” 🙂

    @ozgamer What are you doing there? That’s where my friends sockvictim and @mrs_sockvictim work!

    RT @kunaal84: OMG! Terry Pratchett is coming to Sydney! … www.ausdwcon.org . // Paging @redambition & other Pratchett fans! (like Snook)

    @redambition Ha, I must have missed it! Are you telling the costume or is it a surprise?

    @squozen I use mSecure. Mac + iPhone is about $20, I think. http://bit.ly/c29pE2

    @squozen I just use the iPhone version; didn’t bother with Mac. It can email encrypted backups. Saved my ass last weekend. 🙁

    @redambition @kunaal84 Rodd is asking me if it’s okay if he goes as Cohen the Barbarian. Opinions? (I am not a Pratchett geek.)

    @Kat13v So wait. I have to PAY $150 so he can walk around in a loincloth? No way.

    @titus_atticus I sent @thezedmiester links to your WoW Armoury pages. You’ll never live it down.

  • Refund!

    CALL OFF THE BOYCOTT! I am happy to report that the manager at the Chinese grocery refunded my $10 this morning. That was nice.

  • Star Wars in 3-D

    George Lucas, you are officially dead to me.

  • Runners Round Table

    Runners Round Table episode 100 isn’t live on the blog yet, but you can go to the Talkshoe page to hear me and JayDub talk about our Sydney WWFoR event!

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @titus_atticus I’m annoyed with them. The branding and all is great, but really, it’s just pizza. They make it seem like it should be more.

    @titus_atticus It’s mostly hipster wank, is what I’m saying.

    @titus_atticus You think? I’ve had better. There’s a place in Darlo that does certified Neopolitan-style.

    Just because I might be depressed doesn’t mean shit doesn’t objectively suck. So frustrated. I’m going to bed.

    @witty_knitter Just wrestling with technology for 16 hours a day when none of it does what it’s supposed to do is really draining. 🙁

    Being interviewed on the Runners Round Table podcast with @JayDubRunning RIGHT NOW!

    @kunaal84 VOIP. Man, VOIP sucks.

    @drkknits I haven’t looked yet, but I’m usually underwhelmed by the new Knitty.

    It’s amazing what a coffee at 6am can do to your outlook. And having the Britney episode of Glee to look forward to tonight. 🙂

    @kunaal84 Well, one anyway. 🙂

    @AusVintageGrrl Huh. I still haven’t even checked. I am stubbornly loyal to Tweetdeck.

    Got my $10 refunded this morning at the Chinese grocery. Yes! Kris: 2; Universe: 0 so far today. 🙂

    Just saw ad for “Dr Zhivago – A New Musical.” Immediately thought of “Oh, Streetcar!” from The Simpsons. Heh.

    WAIT. Glee was last night? And I missed it due to my rage blackout over a mis-purchased calling card? GAH. Thank heavens for MythTV.

  • So frustrated.

    I feel like my pre-verbal nephew who can’t enunciate what he feels and is reduced to caveman-like outbursts of rage. DAH! DAH DAH DAH!

    • I tried to buy an international calling card at the Chinese grocery near my house tonight. I spent like 10 minutes reading fine print on stupid posters and flipping through brochures and finally found the one I wanted. I spent $10 on it, walked back to my house, and realised it was for recharging mobiles, NOT using with a landline. I ran back over, expecting them to exchange it. They refused. Policy of no exchange on phone cards. “But I was here 2 minutes ago! This isn’t what I thought it was! I didn’t scratch the PIN off! I SHOP HERE ALL THE TIME!” They told me I could come back and see the manager tomorrow. I said I needed the card for a call at 6am in the morning. No go. I finally threw it on the counter and told them I’d never shop there again. Tomorrow I’ll stop in just long enough to tell the manager the same.
    • Okay, so having wasted $10, how am I going to connect to the RRT show tomorrow at 6am? I could ring on the landline, but obviously it’s the principle of the thing now. So I just spent a goddamn HOUR trying various ways of doing it via VOIP. I tried the stupid ShoePhone. I tried using Google Talk. I tried it with telephone. I couldn’t get any of them to work. At best, I’d get choppy audio that sounded like it was coming through a fan. I’m going to have to suck it up and pay to ring in.
    • I used to have several cron jobs that did useful things at this site, like processing Moblog posts (emailed images from my iPhone) and updating my podcast download stats and posting my Google Reader items. Sometime in the past few months, Quadrahosting changed something and they all stopped working. I spent a couple fruitless hours with the Snook trying to fix them. No go.
    • Earlier this week I spent $60+ on Moneywell for my Mac and our iPhones. It’s personal finance software that’s meant to sync to your phones. Yet the first evening, we couldn’t get the sync to work at all. One phone would work; one wouldn’t. Sometimes neither. Then today suddenly without changing anything, they’re both working. Until they stop.

    WHY DOES EVERYTHING SUCK? If supposedly smart techie people like me can’t figure this crap out, how the heck is the rest of the world?

  • Evan Dando was so dreamy.

    The Lemonheads to tour Australia with It’s a Shame About Ray. My inner 16-year-old just went SQUEEEEEEEEE!

  • Penny Flooring

    Wow. Using pennies for flooring is a thing? I actually kind of like it. Nickels look nice too but, man, you’re getting more expensive…

  • Korean food!

    Cooking Korean Food with Maangchi. Awesome! Just found this Korean food blog courtesy of Eva‘s Google Reader.

  • Runners Round Table

    In case you missed it in the podcast, me and JayDub will be special guests on the next episode of The Runners Round Table! We’ll be talking about our Sydney WWFoR Get-Together. If you’re planning to run with us, please let me know…