Technology and the Internet never cease to amaze me. Today while looking for GPS and triangulation info on my new phone, I found this site called GeoURL. What they do is associate your website with a latitude and longitude so you can find neighboring weblogs. Here’smy neighbors … no blog hotties yet, but I’m still searching.

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I realized today that I’m living a contradiction. With the addition of my new phone, I’m pretty sure I fall into the category of being uber-connected. Unless I’m sleeping, you’re guaranteed to reach me over landline, instant message, mobile phone, SMS messaging, wireless email, regular email, and of course in person. I can remotely connect to my home computer while at work to check that realm of communication, as well as post messages to this site via web browser, IM, email, SMS, etc … If I need to view news, get movie show times, check email and all that jazz, I have no less than four or five ways of doing it.The revelation came when I realized that I don’t like talking to people all that much. I’m pretty content sittin around by myself watchin TiVo and drinkin a beer. I hate returning calls, and as my friends will tell you, I only send emails when I’m drunk. So, the million dollar question is, why do I have to keep myself from freaking out when I do get disconnected from the rest of the world? If only Thoreau could see me now.

After an agonizingnight of sifting through tons of websites, I think I’ve finally decided on a cellphone. I love my current one so much, but I really have a hankering for one of thosecamera phones. I know I’m going to hate myself in a year when everyone has one andeveryone’s is better than mine, but I’ve gotten used to being an early adopter. Ihappened to be one of those poor saps that bought a 2x CD burner for $350. Yours probablycame free with your computer and burns CD’s in under 10 minutes, but I can enjoy thesatisfaction of knowing that I owned one first while I wait another fifty minutesfor my CD to finish. It’s hard to justify buying a new burner when I have one thatworks perfectly … just at twenty times the pace of new ones. But anyway, I digress… TheSanyo 5300. I like because it has double the resolution of any other camera phoneout there, and it has an awesome 65K color screen on both the inside and outside.That way, when I wear it on it my hip like the tool that I am, I can show off my picturecaller ID when The Captain calls. (or doesn’t call) The only part that I’m not sohappy about is the service. Since it’s a CDMA phone, it only works with Sprint’s network.The con is that their rates start at $55 and since they don’t use GSM, you can’t sendthe pictures as an attachment to an email. What is good is that you get unlimitedinternet access, which means that you can upload as many pictures as you want. Ona GSM network you’re limited in size and each one will cost you roughly .50 to $1.So Sanyo 5300 and Sprint it is. I guess.

I keep facing the same conundrum with this site … Usually I’ll put it up for a few months and then get bored with it because I never really do post anything. It dies away and then I have these grandiose ideas of truly putting some effort behind it. Hence, here we are with the fifth attempt. The inherent problem is that you can’t really write about the goings on in your life because someone somewhere is bound to get upset. (especially with me because I almost make a hobby of bitching and moaning) And if I were to write about aforementioned goings on, would anyone really care? This thought passes through my head at least once daily, and I always end up posting the dumbass FridayFive or Saturday Scruples instead.The other difficult part is dealing with my own ineptness at forming compelling, coherenttext. Stories seem so effortless and elegant in my head, but in text they read likea technical journal. I’m thinking (and hoping) that all it will take is one leap.One time to say “here’s my webpage, it’s all about me and only me, I make no apologiesfor it’s content or compellingness, take it or leave it.” just to get over that initialhump. But again, this all begs the question … Does anyone really care what I hadfor lunch today? ps - I had a Big Mac and fries for lunch today. They make fun ofme because I cut it in half and eat it off a plate while I do my daily crossword inthe kitchen.

Whoa, this thing called BlogMatcher ispretty cool. What you do is enter your site (or a site that you find interesting)and it finds other weblogs that are similar to yours. (the similar weblogs must pingweblogs.com in order to get indexed) It makes the comparison based on what pages youlink to and assumes that if two sites link to the same articles then they have somethingin common. I discovered this site when I found that I had a reference from BlogMatcherin my logs that paired me up with cheesebikini.