What Be Your Nerd Type?

Yeah. This one's kinda obvious to anyone who knows me.

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Gamer/Computer Nerd   You enjoy the visual stimulants of a video game, chatting on AIM, or reading online comics. Most of these types of nerds are considered dirty who lack hygeine, of course they always end up being the ones who make a crapload of money. And don't worry, that's just a stereotype; I'm not calling you dirty. ^_~
Anime Nerd
Literature Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Musician
Social Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Drama Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type? Quizzes for MySpace

I gotta stop browsing this stuff when I'm supposed to be listening on a conference call...

What American accent do you have?

OK, this one's just spooky. I got the link off of Steve Bass' newsletter, and he said it picked right up on his Brooklyn accent. I'm thinking "Yeah sure, that's an obvious one - but I don't have an accent! I'm Californian, but not a surfer dude! And that was so long ago anyways..." So I take the quiz. Just asks for how words sound to me, alike or different. And the result?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West   Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Best. Quiz. Evar.

Updating my Wish List...

One day I may amass enough money to upgrade my aging gamer platform. Crazy Harry is getting a little long in the tooth. Granted, he's no slouch with BF2 or WoW, but BF2142 still seems a little slow, and newer games like SupCom that practically require dual processors are positively painful to play... Currently running an AGP 6800GT and an AMD 3500+ on him, so we're talking video card, motherboard and processor upgrades:

EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail $279.99

ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $139.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 Conroe 1.86GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail $168.00

Sigh... $588 spare change seems just as impossible as it did a year ago...

Pidgin 2.0 Released

Posted on Slashdot 2007.05.04:

After nearly two years of development, Pidgin 2.0 has finally been released! Originally called Gaim, Pidgin is a powerful and robust open source instant messaging client that supports many protocols. Pidgin 2.0 features a completely redesigned interface with attractive new icons and and a new status management system that was designed for optimal usability. Pidgin 2.0 also adds support for universal buddy icon management and smooth-scroll functionality for conversation windows. A comprehensive review at Ars Technica explores the new features in Pidgin 2.0 and demonstrates how to use the new D-Bus bindings with Python to make Pidgin's status system send updates to Twitter.

W00t, time to upgrade my Gaim...

Cartoons of the 80's

If you grew up in the 80's watching cartoons, take a half hour out to relive them. Here's 30 mins of 80's cartoon Openings:

Pic of the Week 20070507

All the blogging I did Friday and I forgot to do a Pic of the Week. Ah well, better late than never.

MySpace

Sigh. OK, I finally did it, I updated my MySpace page to be something more than a placeholder. I had it there just so I could log in to comment or check on other peoples pages. But then I came across the WoW MySpace page linked off of WoW Insider, and it had skins (themes). So I figured, what the hey. I could have an orc on my page.

And there you go.

PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers

Wow, this came out of the blue. I'm a long-time subscriber of PCWorld; Slashdot on Thursday May 03 noted a story of our modern journalism world gone very wrong:

Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken quit abruptly today because the company's new CEO, Colin Crawford, tried to kill a story about Apple and Steve Jobs.

The link discusses that the CEO was the former head of MacWorld and would get calls from Jobs. Apparently he also told the staff that product reviews had to be nicer to vendors who advertise in the magazine. The sad thing is that given the economics of publishing in this day and age, I doubt anything even comes of this even tho it essentially confirms that PC World reviews should be thought of as no more than press releases. I know that's how I will consider links from them in the future. But congratulations to anyone willing to stick to their guns on such matters.