Well, as most of my readers are likely aware (both of you, even), I got a gmail account. I finally had to give up on hotmail because the quantities of spam were getting out of hand; and I was too lazy to retool my filters.

Anyways, this morning I had a brief discussion w/ my office mate that I found humorous, because he is against gmail, but not because it's another method by which google is achieving World Domination. (He agreed w/ me that Google is a benevolent dictator, and at least better than Microsoft.) His complaints with gmail are summed up here:

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

Since I've never considered email to be a form of communication that offers anything in the way of privacy (unless encryption is used, and even then I have some doubts... which i won't go into detail about here) and i was surprised to learn we supposedly have ANY rights at all w/ regards to the gov't reading our email, none of these things particularly bothered me. As far as I'm concerned, the gigabyte of storage is a boon. I really really hate the way Lotus Notes (which i'm forced to use at work) deletes my email after a coupla months; i can't tell you how many times I've gone back to look for an email about an issue that resurfaced, only to find the email had "expired" and been automatically deleted. As far as email goes, i would really prefer to never have to delete any of it, ever.

I could say more on this but i have to get to work.

Ok, just have to make this quick post because I just discovered something cool. If you sent flowers using ftd.com, you can get NorthWest WorldPerks. I used it to send flowers to Inga-Lill, in Sweden (aside: isn't it cool that I can send flowers to SWEDEN? it's SWEDEN!!!), and I got 740 miles out of it!! how cool is that?!?

So, henceforth, no more 1800flowers.com- for me, it'll be FTD.

On a related sidenote, I have enough miles now for a free round-trip ticket (within the domestic States, Canada and Alaska). I think i'll prolly use it to go to Toronto and visit my people up there. You know, so as to get the most out of it. Or maybe i'll just save it for a time when i want to make a last-minute trip and the ticket would be really expensive. hmmm...

Well, I'm at work so I don't have time for a real post. I just wanted to post a link while it was on my mind to a site my brother told me about in a voicemail from last night (when my phone was concealed deep inside of my bag, and apparently its ring could not be heard over the sounds of AFI playing on the stereo as I spent like an hour and a half in the bathroom highlighting my hair. It proved a worthy exercise, since doing it myself only cost me about 11 bucks, as opposed to spending at least as much time (if not more) had I gone and paid somebody $80 to do it. but I digress...). it's this site about camera phone art, a method of digital art of which i have to consider myself something of a pioneer, if an amateur one at that. i've never been much of an early adopter, but i was the first person I knew to get a camera phone, and i continue to encourage others to pursue this media for creative expression. So, without further ado, here is the link:

http://www.sentonline.com

You can submit your own camera-phone images (so far i've sent in 2- maybe you'll get to see one of them. Also, my brother, JP, sent it the picture he took a few weeks back of a dude walking his parrots. i sent in a pic i took of the inside of the Guggenheim museum in NYC, and an image of my friend Brad sprawled artistically in some bushes.)

have a ball.