Now with Tweetbacks
I think I got Tweetbacks working on Pulpconnection. What’s a Tweetback? It’s a Twitter link back to a blog post and is better explained here.
I don’t get much traffic via Twitter (or so I think) but kinda fun to see what happens.
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Ow, This Is Hurting
So far, moving Pulpconnection from Blogger to WordPress has been painful with regards to site visits. Here’s stats from Sitemeter showing the change from December 10, 2008 to January 9, 2009.
I started making changes on December 23. Starting in 2009, things really went downhill. Hopefully, this WordPress migration starts paying off soon.
A Clearance on Bromance
After the near Bromansis, I came across this at the local library. Maybe Bromantic novels aren’t all that after all?
While You’re Waiting to Read Twilight…
While you’re trying to get your hands on the Twilight book, why not pre-order the DVD movie? Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the flix, and the DVD will cost you $23.
Here’s my review and observations of the Twilight movie. At $23, I don’t think Summit Entertainment took my suggestion of cheap, aggressive pricing for the DVD.
Twilight Shortage in Hawaii?
From what I’ve heard from the literary grapevine is that Twilight, the first book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, is pretty much sold out in Hawaii. I haven’t confirmed this and find it hard to believe after seeing stacks of Twilight previously (okay, the pic shows stacks of Breaking Dawn).
After the success of Twilight the movie, maybe the book sold quickly during the Holidays? Or maybe it’s posters like this urging literacy?
No Wonder I’m Tired
That’s why I’m tired! I’ve run 200 miles and burned 17,700 calories in 2008 according to Nike+.
Pretty cool use of the stat tracking of Nike+. And here’s my sickly looking Nike+ Mini. I got to fix him up a bit.
Hella Tired
Don’t know exactly why but I’ve been hella tired this past week. Maybe it’s the festivities of the Holidays catching up with me. Going to work is a physical struggle, being sleepy behind the wheel even while drinking my morning coffee. Driving home is the same as I make the trek in a zombie like state.
Daily activities suffer as well, especially blogging. It’s been awhile since I’ve felt the excitement of one butt cheek blogging. I still get ideas to blog about but instead of percolating in my mind, they coagulate instead.
Enough whining… for now.
My Top Music for 2008
Looking through my iTunes library, here’s my list of most played songs that I added to my collection in 2008:
- Discipline CD – Janet Jackson
- Satellite – Dave Matthews Band
- Clocks (live version) – Coldplay
- Decode – Paramore
- Clocks – Coldplay
- Damaged – Danity Kane
- The Scientist (live version) – Coldplay
- Devil Wouldn’t Recognize – Madonna
- 4 Minutes – Madonna (feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland)
- Giggling Again for No Reason – Alanis Morissette
- Viva la Vida – Coldplay
- Violet Hill – Coldplay
- Love Lockdown – Kanye West
- Don’t Stop the Music – Rihanna
- Viva la Vida (New edit single) – Coldplay
- I Kissed a Girl (Nevins Rock Funkrokr Extended Mix) – Katy Perry
I wouldn’t have guessed at some of these selections, but iTunes is telling me otherwise. For some reason, Janet Jackson’s Discipline CD outplays the other songs by far, but I think I left it on repeat one day. Hmm, I listen to lots of Coldplay.
Crisis in Bromance Averted
Wow, that was a close one, a real close one. As 2008 came to a close so could have many of Hawaii’s television channels. You see Viacom was in a tiff with Time Warner (Oceanic here in Hawaii) and was threatening to pull its television programming at the start of 2009.
That would have mean no Bromance! MTV would have been one of the affected stations, and all the Hawaii Bromantics would have been at a loss. Just think of all the Bromantic interludes we would have missed, all the Bromantic novels that could have been penned. Makes me shudder and thankful that the situation was mended and a Bromansis (Bromantic + crisis = Bromansis) was averted.
Relax, Team Jacob Is Alright
Team Jacob fans of Twilight, breathe a sigh of relief. Did you get the email saying that Taylor Lautner will reprise his role as Jacob Black in New Moon? Wow, that weight’s now lifted, and I feel so much better!
Taylor and I could be bros!
Starbucks No Ka Oi!
Is it me or has Starbucks adopted the No Ka Oi color scheme with its recent cards? Starbucks Red, black (and gold), and white.
No Ka Oi!
192-kbps MP3 vs 128-kbps AAC
The MP3 versus AAC digital music format reminds me the days of Intel x86 processors versus IBM’s PowerPC chips. Each camp would argue the benefits of CISC and RISC architecture and throw in rates like processors speeds to confuse things (aka the Megahertz wars).
Same now with music files. Does an MP3 sound better than an AAC music file? Now throw in encoding rates. 128kbps, 192kpbs, 256 kbps? What’s the best bang for the buck? Does it really matter any more?