Today, Rachel Ray makes the point for me (these are old pictures, and you’ve probably seen them before):

Ok, you might have seen the widget on my profile page. Here it is again:

Twitter is hard to explain. It’s sort of like an Away Message for adults (as Merlin Mann described it). It’s the Next Big Thing in Web 2.0, which is a title that can be applied to a different web thingy every day. But Twitter has legs.

If you want to get an idea of what it’s like, check out TwitterVision. Seriously, click on it right now.

I don’t always communicate well with my friends, and I’d really rather just post a Twitter message and let everybody know at once when I’m going to be in Wheeling.

I like it. Everybody should be using it. Be an early adopter, people!

According to this story, Megatron is going to be voiced by Hugo Weaving.

That’s incredibly awesome casting. Too bad the movie is going to suck.

Link: Watch Out For Falling Prices (and Trees)!

That’s ONE DAY.

Ugh.

[note: Since I post over at Metroblogging Pittsburgh, and because I don't want to double post, I'm going to link to my posts there. Look for the MetBlog tag in future blog titles!]

Link to my most recent blog entry.

I posted this video on another blog, but it merits posting here, too. It’s interesting, but as I said in the subject, pretty sad. I’m sure Mr. Hydrick went on to better things, and I’m glad that he was exposed for what he is, but it’s not a great time to watch a man be exposed as a liar to a national audience.

Title should read: Brokaw Broadcast Entertaining For Approximately Ten Minutes

It’s one part catchy tune and eleven parts YouTube.

It’s been making the rounds for a little while now, but I rediscovered it.

Barenaked Ladies recorded a song, “Sound of Your Voice,” and for the video they recruited the perpetrators of some of the most famous YouTube videos ever. I say I don’t like the Barenaked Ladies, but that’s not an expression of dislike. I just don’t know them very well, mostly from that one famous song they did a few years ago. I didn’t like that famous song, but I like this one.

It’s a great video and it has Barats & Bereta in it.

Yesterday morning, the lovely FedEx man delivered my brand-new iMac.  It’s not the best one that Apple makes, but it’s close – it has twenty inches of screen real estate, and a big hard drive and lots of juicy, delicious RAM. 

It comes with pretty much everything that a new Mac comes with, which is almost everything a growing boy needs.  I have an older iBook, which has been my home base for the last few years.  It has my life on it.  I want my new Mac to have my life on it, too.

Thankfully, Apple has a program called Migration Assistant.  You connect your computers with a firewire cable (which most Mac users already own), restart the old computer and let it boot up while holding down the T button.  Within minutes, my new computer was transferring everything from my old one to my new one.  After a couple of hours (that’s 40+GB of stuff to move), I could log in to my iMac and have everything (even the mouse settings and iTunes/iPhoto libraries) right there waiting for me. 

After automagically updating the system so Daylight Savings Time doesn’t make it explode, I had the burning desire to try its midrange graphics card.  I ran World of Warcraft, cranked the graphics settings, and oohed and aahed as it rendered Ironforge at a steady 70+FPS. 

I also installed a new copy of Windows Vista. 

Yeah, I know.  I had to.  I won’t go through the boring specifics here, but I have a few games I like to play that only exist in a Windows format.  Since iMacs run Windows beautifully (thus erasing the last good reason NOT to buy a Mac), I purchased and installed it. 

Of course, it runs fine.  Even the iSight camera on the iMac is supported.  I give Windows a pat on the head for this – it’s made to run lots of disparate hardware configurations, and even its old rival’s notoriously proprietary hardware runs right out of the box. 

Vista itself is quite lovely.  I purchased the lowest possible variety of Windows Vista, which does not support all the pretty extra stuff that every other version fo Vista supports, but that’s ok.  It’s purely a frontend for my games. 

This Apple ad is actually quite accurate. Vista is constantly bugging me about various things that Windows is trying to do.  It’s not like it matters, though – even if a virus or a worm were to compromise my system, I merely have to drag the little Windows icon to the trash. 

Vista is essentially a decent sequel to a crappy movie – it exemplifies the few good things about the original, adds a few new special effects, and chips away a bit at the bad stuff.