April 27, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Just got an email from Coldplay.com telling me that they’re giving away the band’s new single, “Violet Hill,” as a free download beginning Tuesday on Coldplay.com. The free download will be available for a week.
The new album is called Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, and (as you can almost see on the image at right) it has some artwork with a half-nekkid woman on the front. So, not exactly the most fan-friendly album cover when you have a 10-year-old at home who likes Coldplay.
I’m really curious to see what this album will sound like. I’ve been a fan since their first album, but didn’t find the most recent album all that thrilling — it was almost like Coldplay-by-numbers. I’m looking for something that sounds different, something new. They need to find a new path and explore it. With Brian Eno producing, I’m optimistic they’ve done that. But we’ll see…..
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April 27, 2008 at 5:48 pm
This squirrel pretty much begged for my attention while I was walking around the Northwest Forest Conference Center near Houston last week. I ended up taking maybe 15 different pics of him (her?), and this one might be the best.
He just sat on the branch posing for me as I took shot after shot….what a character!
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April 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Last week in Houston, when every speaker (except me and Stoney D.) at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference said the word “twitter” at least 25 times, I made a simple promise to everyone telling me to sign up: as soon as I rank #1 in Google for [last person on twitter], I’ll sign up.
Easy enough, right? Anyone that thinks I should sign up just needs to link to that older post with the exact anchor text as above, and in a matter of days, I should be number one.
I keep checking every day, but I’m not there yet. I keep bouncing between #3 and #4. Right now, I’m No. 4:
I’m quite content not having a Twitter account. I use FriendFeed and still get to see everything my contacts are sharing, so that’s cool. But really, if you’ve been bugging me to sign up, follow through and point a link with the correct anchor text to that old post that’s currently No. 4 for “last person on Twitter.” It’ll probably only take five links to push that post to the top….
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April 26, 2008 at 12:08 am
This past week was all about airports, hotels, conferences, and speaking gigs … so it was pretty light on the blogging side of things. Here’s all I managed to post since the last recap:
Small Business SEM
U2 Diary
West Richland Real Estate Blog
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April 18, 2008 at 10:51 pm
And like every proud owner of a new set of wheels, I’m going to show it off:
Ain’t she a beauty? Say what? Yes, a Suburban. Oh, noooooo. Not that kind of Suburban. I mean a Schwinn Suburban.
See, the missus has been working out at the local gym for a while now (and is looking fine!, I might add). And since I work from home now, I get absolutely no exercise. At least last year, when I worked half the month in Seattle, I would have to walk a couple blocks back and forth to my car, and I could go out and walk around downtown at lunch. But this year? No exercise at all.
I’ve been planning to join the gym, too. Except I’ve been traveling way too much since the start of the year, and have never gotten around to it. And then when I started researching prices, I wasn’t too thrilled.
So, I had this crazy idea to buy a bike. I thought I was gonna spend maybe $100 for a nice 12-speed or something like I used to have in my younger years, except they don’t make bikes like that anymore. (I’m so freakin’ old.) After a little shopping around, I decided on the Schwinn Suburban above. And it has all kinds of levers and controls and things that twist and turn on the handles, and I have no idea what any of them do. So, I read the Owner’s Manual and realized that right there is problem #1: It comes with an Owner’s Manual.
When I was a kid, bikes didn’t need owner’s manuals. This one needs it, has it, and I don’t understand it.
If the weather is nice tomorrow (it’s not supposed to be), I’m going to throw caution to the wind and pretend I’m 12-years-old and just go riding, Owner’s Manual be damned. And if something goes wrong, I’m going to take it back to the store, and then go buy a real Suburban.
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April 18, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Between work and play, I’m currently writing at almost ten different blogs … and if you’re shaking your head over that, me, too! What on earth have I gotten myself into??! I’m going to try to post a recap once a week here on MattMcGee.com of all the blog posts I’ve written elsewhere. Hopefully I’ll remember next Friday, too.
U2 Diary
Small Business SEM
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Richland Real Estate Blog
West Richland Real Estate Blog
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April 16, 2008 at 12:03 am
Here I go again, forgetting to do this often enough. One of these days I’ll get my act together…until then, here’s what I’ve shared on various social media sites in the past 24 hours (or so).
digg
mixx
Sphinn
Kinda busy day, all things considered…
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April 14, 2008 at 12:43 am
So, now that the missus and I are both running Windows XP on our Macbooks, seems wise to get some anti-virus software installed on the PC part of things.
Any suggestions?
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April 11, 2008 at 1:12 am
My wife is a real estate agent. Real estate agents rely on the MLS system to look up house information for buyers and sellers. In the Tri-Cities, as in many areas, the MLS system runs only on Internet Explorer, and only on a PC. (So 1995….)
Until now.
This is what arrived at our house today, and it’s all in the name of making Cari what we think will be the first Mac-using Tri-Cities real estate agent. Here’s what we got:
- Macbook - the low-end Macbook, which I expect will offer more than enough speed and space to do the job. It’s a 2.1 ghz Intel processor and 120 mb hard drive. That oughtta work just fine.
- Brenthaven shoulder case - this is a copy of the case I use. These are pretty expensive, but worth every penny. They’re custom-sized specifically for the 13″ Macbook, and have all kinds of padding to keep the machine protected. And there’s plenty of storage space, too.
- Extra battery - just to be safe. She’ll be using the power adapter most of the time, but it’s good to have an extra battery in case of an emergency.
- Memory upgrade - two 1gb memory cards to replace the 256mb cards that are pre-installed. So we go from 512mb of RAM to 2gb. Gotta have the extra juice to run Nos. 5 and 6…..
- Parallels - the software that will let her run a full version of Windows on the Macbook. Easy to install, too!
- Windows XP - I wouldn’t go near Vista if you paid me. No way, no how. And last, but not least….
- Speck plastic case - another one that’s somewhat spendy compared to similar items, but worth every penny. It’s a tight-fitting plastic case to protect the Macbook from dings and scratches. It’s see-through, too, so you keep that Macbook “cool” factor going. I have a red one. Cari went with the blue, as you can see.
I’m about halfway done all the setup to get her going. I’m sure it’ll work just fine because I bought my own copies of Parallels and Windows XP a couple weeks ago and used my laptop to make sure this’ll fly. Took a bit to get the MLS web site to work (Explorer really sucks), but eventually got there on my laptop. We’ll get there on hers and she’ll be an original of the species: the first Mac-using real estate agent in Tri-Cities, Washington.
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April 11, 2008 at 12:36 am
This may never happen again. Gotta document it.
Check it out! I’ve had a single “Top 10″ badge before, on a couple occasions, but never have I had four flippin’ badges on the same day! How cool is that?!
My Mixx’s Secret Upgrades article has one of the Top 10 badges, and my submission about Last.fm got the other Top 10.
The TL badge is for “Thought Leader”, thanks to my Mixx article getting the most positive votes during the day Thursday. And then the C badge is for “Curmudgeon”, because I voted down the most number of stories — there was so much spam!
Pardon me while I bask in the glow of a fun day on Mixx….
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