Paulie at InsideThePerimeter brought up a very valid point today, something that has been on my mind for a while, the explosion of blogs in atlbloggers.net. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great site to catch up on the comings and goings of the APWBWGTTD but the front page is becoming a bit chaotic, and the feed isn’t much better…

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t read that many blogs… My Bloglines account only has 40 blogs in it, and some of those havent been updated in a long time, and out of the 54 Atlanta blogs, I only read 9 or 10 on a regular basis so, like Paulie, I wish there was a way to filter the wheat from the chaff (so to speak).

Maybe I’ll mention it to the powers that be at the next meetup next month.

Driving at 55 on I-285. Some crazy kids decide to go by the speed limit on I-285… For those who don’t know, I-285 is the perimeter that circles Atlanta, and in Atlanta the speed limit posted is merely a suggestion, we just usually drive at speeds according to what interstate we’re currently on… 75, 85… 285. [via]

Watch all The IT Crowd episodes online. Handy as Channel 4 shut out us non-UK residents, I’ve only watched a couple of episodes so far and it looks promising. [via]

Blackberry manufacturer, Research In Motion, wins a stay of execution in the court case against NTP meaning the Blackberry service stays online for the time being. Ahhh, another patent gone wild, how long until the USPTO gets the right idea and revamps the patent system?

For the last few weeks now, I’ve pretty actively been looking for gainful emplyment while I wait on the immigration status to move forward, and after applying for a position at a large company (I’m not naming names right now) I’ve got a fair amount of positive remarks back from them in a very short space of time. And today was to be the much dreaded phone interview, so I needed some inspirational music to pump me up while I waited on the phone to ring…

Robyn chose stuff that she thought would be good, but in this situation only one thing will work… The Rocky soundtrack!

How can that not pump you up? Shit, even writing about it makes the hairs on my arms stand up…

But it gets better…

Good god, how can Bill Conti wrap so much emotion into a song under 3 minutes long? Follow this up with any orchestral theme (see, Wagners “Ride of the Valkyries” or Ryuichi Sakamotos “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”) and you’re good to go… Alas my interview was postponed at the last minute, but I’m prepared for next time.

Balthaser Online, Inc scoop up what could potentially be the patent of the future of the Internet as we know it after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted it a patent for the design and creation of rich-media services over the Internet. Balthaser apparently intends to license the patent to companies that deliver rich-media services over the Web using technologies such as Adobe Systems’ Flash, AJAX and Java.

Yes, Netflix throttling is in full effect here, thankfully an abundance of TiVo’d programmes has made me nearly forget about the small (read 16 items) queue I had waiting for me…

Before you say, wow, they’re throttling you with that small queue? I share it with Robyn who has a bajillion items in her queue and only 3 movies at home… We usually get 5 at a time, 4 for her and 1 for me (I’m not really a big DVD watcher really). Still my last one was Robots, that was sent back on January 30th.

I just want to see the Corpse Bride dammit!

Rangers 2 – 2 Villarreal. A cracking game to listen to, full of thrills and spills, Løvenkrands goal sounded like an absolute screamer. Now just to sneak a 1-0 in Spain…

The 2006 NBA All-Star Dunk Contest. You know what, with Nate Robinson’s 74 missed attempts edited out, it was actually not that bad… Andre Iguodala was still cheated out of the win though. [via]

Bode Miller laments on his Olympic failure, “If things went well I could be sitting on four medals, maybe all of them gold.” You know, if things went well for me I could be sitting on 257,985 medals, maybe all of them gold too… [via]

I like Google Mail, but I don’t use it as my main email account. I only use it for mailing lists and things I don’t want my main mail account to touch, but now it’s become a bit obtrusive… Before I begin I must say I do use Google Talk, not very often, but often enough to warrant it open alongside MSN for most of the day…

Now I’m not so sure ever since Google added the Talk part to Gmail, even if I’m not signed into Gtalk, Gmail will do that for me, against my wishes, even though I just opened Gmail to delete a spam email. If I wanted to be marked as online and available to chat, I would have opened up Gtalk, so I consider that a shade obtrusive.

Mark O’Sullivan has had the same thought as me it seems…

This GMail thing has me spooked. As soon as I saw that people from Google Talk were there in my sidebar, I wanted to sign out immediately. I’m actually not a fan of messenger tools at all. I prefer using Email because I can do it in my own time and no-one expects an immediate response. But if I’ve got a group of people signed into gmail who can see that I’m also signed into gmail, they might want to start a chat with me, and I honestly don’t want that.

No offense to the people in my buddy list, but I love the anonymity of a web browser. I love that I look at things online, but there aren’t people looking right back at me through their web browser. I don’t mean to get into a semantic discussion about IP tracking and using cookies to monitor web activity. I’m talking about a simple, “Oh, hey, Look at GMail: Nav’s online.”

I never really thought about it til just now when I tried to find a way to stop it (there is a link placed way down at the bottom of the page in a pretty small font). This kind of thing shouldn’t be active by default, should it?

As a quick follow up to the cigarettes in the last post, Robyn tried to buy a pack in Publix yesterday (before you ask, she left the pack I bought in the car while it was getting worked on) and she was carded, but a bit of confusion left her drivers license at home… So they wouldn’t sell her them.

At this point I’m sitting in a nearby Starbucks when the phone rings and she is absolutely mad… Good thing I had my passport (something I don’t usually carry around) but seriously, I know the law is the law, but that’s just incredulous really. I was having a good laugh at it of course, it was pretty ironic after me writing the last post, and I told her she should find it a compliment that they think she doesn’t look 18, but no… She’s all like “Dammit, I have a million and one credit cards! I’m married! I have a freaking mortgage!”

Just to prove a silly point, I went to buy them and would only produce photo ID if absolutely neccessery… Which it eventually was. I’m just happy that Publix employees think a fat, balding guy with a beard looks under 18.

And yes, I know it’s not their opinion and they just need to enter a date into the checkout, but still…