Upon the conclusion of every year, I find it integral to reflect upon the events that have transpired over the past 365 days. I have chosen to remember 2007 based upon the cultural facets that it defined for itself. I announced the categories nominees for my 2007 in review awards yesterday, and today I am proud to present the winners.
An asterisk (*) denotes a second-year winner; due to the fact that the award categories and their nominees have changed significantly over the past three years, there are no third-year winners.
See the winners after the break. Continue reading ‘2007 in Review – Winners!’
I’d give anything to rock with her. “Through The Glass Darkly” is my anthem right now. She’s my new obsession.
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For the fourth year in a row, here it is: my “year-in-review” post. The format for this year is going to be a little different; I’m getting rid of the Greatest Ally/Enemy categories because they seemed to cause more harm than good. Where applicable, nominees are linked (a “#” denotes a link to a blog post about the nominee).
See the nominees after the break. Continue reading ‘2007 In Review’
According to Russel Shaw (and countless others), ripping CD’s is not the actual crime; storing the ripped tracks in shared folders on your hard drive is the offense. When I originally read that the RIAA opposed ripping CD’s to your hard drive, I, like every other person in the blogosophere, was in awe. This, however, makes sense. Shaw writes:
To put it more directly, storing your ripped MP3’s in, say, your “My Music” folder would be OK. But installing Kazaa, eDonkey, one of the torrents, or another P2P utility that can fish these files out and set them up for swapping is a bad bad thing.
So to stay out of harm’s way, don’t make infringing files “available.” Don’t install file-sharing software that can be triggered to exchange any infringing music files you have on your hard drive. If you have such software, delete it. And if you must continue to keep this software for whatever reason, disable its file-swapping capabilities. #
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On Christmas, I found a copy of MacLife Magazine in my stocking, and this month’s issue had an article about optimizing your Mac and making it run more smoothly and quickly. It was actually a really interesting spread, and it motivated me to clean up my computer. I’ve spent the morning re-organizing my file hierarchy and getting rid of files/songs/movies/etc. that I know I’m never going to open again.
I’ve already gotten rid of almost 18GB 26GB of old stuff! The majority of it is old iMovie projects (I have all of my vlogs saved as iMovie documents, so I’m exporting them to .mov’s to save time…seriously, I’m never going to edit them again, so why keep around the raw stuff?), but it’s still an amazing accomplishment. I still want to purchase an external HD for all my music/photos (My iTunes library is almost 27GB, and my iPhoto library contains 8GB of photos) so that I can free up more space on the actual HD on the iMac, but I’m still broke from Christmas shopping/self-indulgence (I spent almost $100 at Old Navy buying clothes the week before Christmas…oops).
Here’s a link to the article…tips #6, 8, and 20 have so far been the most helpful. Oh, and regarding tip #18, why spend $30 to use iClip when you can use Jumpcut for free? ;)
Continue reading ‘Winter Cleaning’
Instant Star Executive Producer Update:
…we have had ongoing discussions with CTV and The N with this in mind. And the decision has been made that in fact Instant Star will end at the end of Season 4. There will be no Season 5. We have let the cast and crew know this. We have let them know how enormously proud we are of them for having been part of the creation of one of the most innovative and original tv series in television history. And they have responded with thanks and congratulations—not many series get even four seasons, and Instant Star has been an enormous success in over 120 countries around the world for exactly that!!!
source: CTV.ca
Sign the petition…hopefully, we can pull another Jericho!
iPOD TOUCH = ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTELY AMAZING!
Oh my lordy. I am in love with this thing! I’ve only had it for fifteen hours and I’ve already run down the battery twice…hehe (in the picture above, it’s charging :P ). Everything about it is just…stunning; words cannot describe it. The touch screen is amazing. This is the first device that had a touch-sensitive screen that I’ve owned, and I love it. The user interface is amazing…it’s simple and elegant and everything that I would expect from Apple. Although the touch keyboard is taking some getting used-to, I’m starting to adjust to it and it’s becoming more familiar and easier to use.
One of my favorite features is the built-in WiFi and Mobile Safari. Checking email and IM’ing and reading feeds and blogging AND watching movies and listening to music all in one device? Heck yes! I love how it’s the “full” internet, too, not the garbage that they labeled “mobile web”. It’s also awesome to have 2GB more of storage space than my mini had, although I’m finding that my TV shows and movies have taken up that extra space (and more!).
Other than my iPod, I got a sweatshirt, some chocolate, and a 2008 Page-A-Day calendar that counts down the days until Georgie-Porgie Bush is out of office! My aunt gave me a gift card to Hollister, too. It was a good Christmas. :)
I still can’t get over how fast this holiday season went…it feels like Halloween was last week! When we were sitting down to have dinner and my mom brought all the extravagant food to the table, I thought to myself, Didn’t this just happen, like, yesterday? and I still feel like it was just Thanksgiving. Frankly, I’m disappointed that it’s all over (I don’t count New Years Eve as part of the holiday season…more on that tomorrow!) and it still doesn’t feel very much like Christmas. Although I am going to miss the festive atmosphere and the fun of the holiday season, it’s going to be nice to have a slow few months coming up. Yay for relaxation!
So, guess what. I’m posting from my new iPod touch! It is super completely, ghetto-fabulously amazing! I’ll write a more in-depth post later. Merry Christmas!
Way to take a kick-butt Alexz Johnson song and turn it into a 1999 teeny-bopper train wreck!
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Alexz Johnson
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Crapstreet boys
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asfghqwerty!!!!