custer

I can't post this in a comment apparently - it has to be its own post, so here it is:

My original 805 area code telephone number to my first cell phone dates from 1993, back in the era of L.A. Cellular, where it was first created. It was then moved to ATT when they bought out the service.

I moved it for the first time myself when I transferred to T-Mobile when ATT started charging too much. Then for awhile I had no cell phone at all, and that number moved to Vonage, where its been since 2002.

Well, I'm cutting back on services, so Vonage was just taken out. To my surprise I was able to move my number yet again to Net10, where it will soon live on one of those pay as you go cell phones. I'm really surprised that worked, especially them mailing me a new sim card to enable it for free. On one of these. So I will still have that number. Conveniently I never got around to memorising the old one.

Time was I spent every minute I was on the internet playing ‘Second life”. Well, the game finally lost its attraction and I’ve left it behind. I am now re-discovering the rest of the internet, including the social networking sites that have emerged while I wasn’t paying attention.

1. LinkedIn: This seems to be the only professional networking site I can find. Nothing entertainment related on it at all, it is intended purely to maintain professional contacts. So far I am impressed, I now have contacts at USDA and the state vet board and I’ve only been on it a week or so. This is probably in part due to the fact I have an actual veterinary license at this point, setting me apart from the untrained teenage girls you find in just about every vet clinic. This site looks like it will be very useful professionally. I’m actually going to put my linkedin address on my business card.
2. Facebook: About a month ago all of my vintage music & dance friends made a mass exodus from Myspace for Facebook. Facebook is cleaner and simpler to use, but for some bizarre reason it only comes up in one resolution optimized for an 800x600 screen. The 14 year old monitors I just threw out did 1024x768!. It does seem to be the premier social networking site for events & social contact though.
3. Myspace: Still best for bands, it seems to have been supplanted by Facebook for everything else.
4. Friendster: This site was in serious decline before I ever got an account on it, and seems to be pretty much dead. The only contacts I have on it are completists who also have accounts on everything else mentioned in this post.
5. Plaxo Pulse: A late entry to the social networking field, plaxo used to be a great site for keeping your outlook address book synchronized between various computers until they decided they wanted to be facebook. They suck at it, and I use Google for mail now anyway which is all web based so there is nothing to sync.
6. Tribe.net: Seems to be oriented towards local events, but with a lot of adverts and a clunky interface. Haven’t found anybody I know on it that isn’t on all the other ones, like friendster.
7. Gaia Online: Seems to be for children. I got an account on this when someone signed up using my hotmail address to avoid spam I suppose. I suddenly got invited to a lot of events for Canadian teenagers.

I just re-installed flock, and I noticed the new version of it incorporates links to a whole bunch of related blogging & networking sites.

Then I updated Plaxo, and noticed that it does the same thing - and will even cross synchronise all of my dates with MSN, Google & Yahoo (well recurring appointments don't work on MSN, but they never really did, its Microsoft)

Seems like all these independent websites are synchronising with each other.

Then they will all merge

Them it will all be owned by Microsoft.

At least I don't have to worry about privacy issues - once Microsoft owns it all it will cease working.

My account was showing as having been inactive for 124 weeks. I guess you can blame SL for that. My account date is 2002 and I guess that makes me one of the deviant art serious old timers. I'm just glad they didn't delete it. Naturally, I'm "custer".

I had five people listed as "deviations" though that doesn't really equate to a friends list like LJ has. No memory of who they were or why I was watching their stuff, which looked rather boring. Perhaps they added me somehow, I don't know.

So I deleted all that and added the only two people I currently know who are in there, Tracy Butler & Thornwolf.

and ruggels is right, its a truly arcane navigation system.

Since I still have three TiVo's here, originally gotten for the purpose of recording competing TV shows, I figured I would give it another go. Turns out "Greys Anatomy" is actually pretty good - I'll give "scrubs" a look too - all three shows are on at the same time, and with my current schedule allof them are on after I'm usually about ready to goto bed anyway.

Sort of feels odd. Been sitting at home watching the rain, cleaning house & such. So drinking a lot ot tea as opposed to Coffee, which is better for me anyway really.

martes Sirius radio is starting to show signs of hard use, and it something of a trick to operate. We decided on the way back from FC that we needed to replace it.

And so I made two discoveries, first that Sirius has a perfectly acceptable basic model on sale for $20. The second was that anyone with a sirius account can now tune the Howard Stern channel over an internet connection as well as over the radio.

Originally this was not the case - only certain generic stations were tunable over the internet, and so I had pretty much forgotten that feature as being useless. But now you CAN tune Howard 100 & 101 over the computer. This means the new satellite radio won't be subject to the abuse the other one had as once its mounted in the car it can stay there.

Yesterday I had detailed plans for cleaning my entire house - which were postponed when I got a series of phone calls that started at 9:30 in the morning and lasted past 5PM. martes used to say I didn't spend enough time on the phone (since I have a big phone collection) Now perhaps I talk on it a bit too much.

This week and next week anyway - after that I won't be home very often. School starts back up 5 days a week, starting 10 days from now.

EDIT - Appaarently Pocket LJ doesn't work propery with the recent changes - while that uploaded OK,it sat in here as a draft until I noticed it almost a half month later.

Since I am amazingly undistracted between study chapters, I've been rediscovering that there was actually more to the internet than one single simulator program. I got back on Flickr and Used my monthly space allocation up.. A lot of what I uploaded were SL pictures though.