Edwin Soto’s Blog

Andrew, at one point, had gotten into a very entertaining conversation with a spammer.  I thought it was hilarious (we had also read some online).  I VOWED to wait until I got one through to my personal email account, and it has!  BEWARE LINK IS A GOOGLE NOTEBOOK LINK TO PORN! The email follows:

From: Galen Eaton
To: A crapload of People
Subject:Take her to the seventh heaven grow

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Galen Eaton <gesn24@gmail.com> wrote:
not house cheer smell floor.

http://www.google.com/notebook/public/16006380139427268822/BDRcoQgoQ2Ly8z90j/?gravewerzspmaitpewtyr3he

I decided to have some fun! Here’s my reply:

Dear Galen,

I really like your haiku!  I was trying to interpret its meaning.

“Seventh Heaven Grow” sounds like a garden that you would like to take your significant other to (may I suggest Strawberry fields in Central Park, NYC?) and “not house cheer smell floor” tells me that you are unhappy with her housekeeping duties? Taking her to a garden sounds like a great idea to get her motivated with housework.  Kudos to you!

I noticed you included a large group of us here.  I’m glad to see that you are making more friends.  Although be careful, I hear there are a lot of creepy people on the Internet.

I clicked on the link you sent me.  Is that a picture of your wife or girlfriend (whom I bet inspired the poem) naked?  I might add - she is LOVELY and the photos are very tasteful.

I noticed you use google notebook. I LOVE Google notebook. The link your page took me to required a credit card to sign in.  As I’m sure this is an error, I hope you provide me with some credentials to view more pictures of you and your family.

So how have you been?

Best Regards!

–
Edwin Soto

I’ll let you know if I get a reply back.  *crosses fingers* HERE’S HOPING!

We all grew up with an assortment of musical styles and have developed our own taste at or around our teenage years.  I have been haphazardly throwing around the word scrobble in casual language not realizing some of you have no idea what I’m talking about.  Frankly, just over a year ago, I didn’t know what it was either.

At first, when Andrew mentioned the idea behind the scrobbling service, Last.fm, I was curious but ultimately not interested in any of this whatsoever.  Honestly, I just didn’t see myself seeing any benefit to me.  Obviously, I have changed my tune (no pun intended).  I have used other cool services, such as Pandora, Playlist, etc and was just not excited about the prospect of this idea of scrobbling.

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The following video is brought to you by my iPhone.  Think Different.

This picture (my stumble upon settings) made me realize I may be a tiny bit geeky:

I couldn’t stand seeing the site in sandbox mode - so I decided to work on it OFFLINE.  Hope you like the new theme: its pretty nice and simple. The link for this theme (Blass) is on the bottom of the site.

I truly didn’t know what was in the update and was a bit out of the blogophere, but here’s what iTunes conviniently gave me:

iPhone 2.2 Software Update

This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

• Enhancements to Maps
   - Google Street View
   - public transit and walking directions
   - display address of dropped pins
   - share location via email

• Enhancements to Mail
   - resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching  of email
   - improved formatting of wide HTML email

• Improved stability and performance of Safari

• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)

• Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops

• Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages

• Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen

• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard  Settings

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone

• iPhone 3G

Some of these are “convinient” but others are WOW - I’ll finally get the share location via email, and finally get to get podcasts over the air.  These are pretty sweet.

I just changed my theme to a sandbox theme that I will be modifying from time to time.  I got this idea from Ken, who I ‘think’ is still doing this?

So if you visit the site from time to time and see it change, I’m probably working on it!  I encourage you to use RSS anyway, and if you don’t know what RSS is check out this very cool video describing how to use RSS:

…add this to my dictionary at work? On a side note: Ubuntero was added for some reason =/

As much as I love BSG, I hate to think that other horrible shows are on this network.  This clip shocked me that a show would have such little tact - I wont even spoil it for you….enjoy ‘Scare Tactics’

This reminds me SO much of that Dave Chapelle Skit ‘Zapped!’

Zapped - Funny video clips are a click away