Do you use picasa and flickr both? How do you use them? Let me know, and help me figure out my issue. 

One of the biggest products at this years CES was 3D HDTV technology. For some reason, people find 3D appealing. In order to take advantage of 3D though, you need to spend money. For starters, you will need a 3D capable HDTV, thats not going to be cheap. If you want to watch 3D blu-ray movies you will not only need the new TV, but a new 3D capable Blu-ray player along with HDMI 1.4 cables. I am sorry, but this does not seem cost effective to me. Oh, and did I mention you have to wear stupid glasses while watching the 3D content? Well, you do. 

Sadly, ESPN is jumping on to the bandwagon and promises 3D broadcasts this year! If every traditional content provider decides to go the 3D way for TV, then I will be saying goodbye to my TV habits. I barely have TV habits at this point any way. I watch mostly DVD, Blu-ray, Stream web content to my apple TV, and watch movies from iTunes on my HDTV. So if 3D is the way to go, then count me out!

Recently there has been a tragedy that has stuck Haiti. All over the world people have reached out. I am fine with that. What I am not ok with, is this country, America, is facing tough financial times from all aspects. We are struggling with keeping companies in business, keeping ourselves employed, and struggling even making ends meet. Yet, so many americans get a kind heart and are donating money, helping out overseas. Why is this? If we can't even help out our own during one of our countries worst natural disasters Hurricane Katrina, why are we all of a sudden able to help out people that aren't even american? Were was all this support when hurricane Katrina happened? It was no where. Sure there was some compassion, but not this much. 

When we help out in other countries, this is our people and our country showing its arrogance. We pay for our arrogance. We paid for it in 2001, and we will probably pay for it again. It is time we stop being arrogant and stop trying to be the heroes all over the world, and be the heroes in our own country!

Over the past 6 months, I have been playing around with new formats for the show. I have never wanted to stray from doing tech news, however, sometimes there are some slow news weeks. Since I don't really try to cover the big breaking news, that also poses a problem on some of my stories. I find myself more and more covering those breaking stories. I mean, I pretty much have to. I have though, started playing around with "one" topic episodes of the show. These tend to do better as a whole for me listener wise. I think people enjoy hearing my opinion on these one topic shows be it they agree or disagree with my opinions. 

I have decided that for many of my "one" topic episodes I want to start having a group discussion. Having a few friends on and other people to discuss the topic at hand. The first show that I want to do is on facebook. I already have people planned on being on it, it is just trying to find the time where every one can do it. 

With all this said, what is your opinion of the "one" topic podcast with a group? I think it really opens things up for a nice little conversation and having several thoughts and opinions, I think is a good idea. 

Let me know what you think!

Then later this afternoon I started tinkering around and found that their video service was still around, but was now under seesmic.tv. Either way this is all odd to me. When did this separation happen? Why not just have it all be the same site? Or why not name your twitter client something else? There may be people out there that are confused like me. Ok, so probably not. It is really my fault for not using the site and therefor not noticing the changes. I hope this hasn't happened to any other sites I forget to go to. 

In years passed I have always had the "hope" factor to bring me through my depression. Heck, the last couple holidays I have been close to having a girlfriend. But I screw it up every time by being to cautious. I really attribute my depression with me being alone. The main reason is my depression worsens during the holiday seasons that are about family. Sure, I should be fine since I have a nice sized family, but I am also the black sheep of the family. I am nothing like any member of my family. There for I don't really bond with them very often. No one in my family has the same interests as me, most my family is religious, outdoors people. I am a geek, I like my tech, I hate camping, fishing, hunting, off roading, and the such. The other thing is I am jealous of a lot of my family in many ways. Every one in my family is married, except for Me, and a few of my cousins, and most of my cousins are too young to even be dating. 

I am 27, I can't keep a job, and the ones I can keep I don't want. I am single for over 4 years now, I have no children, I live at home, and a majority of my friends are spread all over the world. To top things off, my best friend in the entire world, I haven't seen since 1994, and I still miss her every single day. 

I know I will get through this once again, but I just had to get all this out there.

Now that I have the HTC Hero, I am experiencing an open world. My phone is "me" I am the only one with a screen like it. I have qik, with no hacks. I have widgets on my phone to make it even more "me" and more usable in my daily life. I am finding myself using services that I have had for over a year, but have never had an easy way to get to them. I have google voice running natively on my Hero. When I make a call using the built in phone app, it asks me if I want to make a call with or without google voice. But even better yet, I have expandable storage. If I want to add more storage, I just copy my old Micro SDHC card to a new bigger one and pop it in the phone and I am set. 

I still love my iPhone, I will probably always have an iPhone. But having a truly open phone can be a lot better in a lot of ways. Android makes it better. My only hope is that apple will do something new with their next iPhone to make me want to make the iPhone my primary phone again. If they don't I will lose even more interest.

Since that time I have had minimal back issues. I even returned to wrestling 11 months after my accident. Now fast forward from 2005 to 2009 and I am feeling the same pains. I went to a doctor today though, he says so far it looks like just a strain of the muscle in my back. Again, I am no stranger to muscle strains given my wrestling career. He aslo stated though that this could be that I was properly diagnosed with spinal stenosis before and it is now starting to do it's own thing. I am to give my back another month to heal while on a cocktail of pain pills and muscle relaxers. In December if the pain is not gone or at least dropped in magnitude, I am to go back to my doctor for physical therapy and more testing for spinal stenosis. 

At this point I have to play it all by ear, I am hoping that my back issue is just a strain and it heals. After my back heals, my goal is to lose weight to help prevent the severity of back pain in the future.

This is just something I have always dealt with. My parents have just learned to live with it after a while. But when I lost my job in March 2009 I started cooking for the parents. Well, it did help that they were paying me for it. But since I have started cooking, I have really opened up and started being less picky. Sure over the years I have relaxed on my food touching, But cinnamon toast still has to be made the same way. But lets get back to me cooking shall we. I have never been one to eat cooked vegetables. But now that I use them in every thing just about, I am fine with them. I have never liked Pot Roast. But now I make one and eat it about once a month. But the biggest change in me has been with "country" food, more or less vegetables. A few weeks ago I tried zucchini for the first time in my life. But why? It was in a meal I had planned to help my dad eat a bit more healthy. It wasn't too bad either. I was surprised. Then tonight for dinner I made Eggplant Parmigiana. Again, I have never had eggplant in my life. It was pretty good though. A few years ago if you would have asked me to eat these two vegetables, I would have said "No Way". But now I am really open to new foods. I am even thinking about starting to cook with fish. By the way, I hate fish. But we shall see.