Warning! Some of the video content contains graphical violence that may offend some.

When Twitter was in its prime and everyone was arguing its usefulness, I specifically remember someone asking me, "well if Twitter is so great, then what's next?" And for the life of me, I couldn't answer that question. It's as if I was looking down a narrow tube of thought and I couldn't get out. I wasn't seeing the big picture. Then I realized that's it's never been about Twitter's usefulness. It's about how we communicate, period. Twitter, like it's predecessors (email, AIM, Myspace, Facebook,) is nothing more than the evolution of communication. Then along came Google Wave.

As communication evolves throughout time, some things make huge impacts on society and some are just blips on the radar. Google Wave is no blip. Google has found a way to take, not only real-time communication, but real-time collaboration to anyone, anywhere in the world. Head on over to Google's site which gives a nice description on what Google wave is all about. If you've got a little over an hour to kill then check out the video below.

Don't you love it when you call people out for a challenge and you forget to show up to it?  Yea, yesterday I initiated a "blog-a-day" challenge for the month of June and I've already missed day #1.  My bad.  After reading some other blog posts, it seems I'm already being vilified for doing so.

So what to blog about?  I was thinking about discussing/ranting about my abusive neighboring coworker but she might retaliate so I'll hold off... for now.  I've got an entire month.  In all seriousness though it's tough being forced to think critically.  And yes, I am fully aware that I am the one forcing myself to do so and I have no one to blame but me.

So, let us begin the challenge.

I'd like to give credit to Allan Gyorke for showing me this at the B.S. Breakfast.

About two week ago I upgraded from Windows XP Media Center over to Vista in an effort to set up a wireless media streaming server. The Vista box is sitting in my HOME office running PS3  Media server and Playon Media Server (for the Hulu & Youtube content.)  Both these apps allow me to stream all my multimedia to my PS3 in my living room.  However, a few days after installing Vista my entire networking connection went haywire. By haywire I mean, both my LAN and Wireless connections kept randomly dropping out. My first thought was that my router finally bit the big one (<---gee can I write that here?)  So, I replaced my router (DIR-655) with hopes that it was just a hardware issue.  After hooking up my new router (DIR-628) I still kept receiving the same error which now had me worried.  I was concerned that it might be my PC's networking port and I may end up having to buy a new motherboard having to somehow sneak a purchase from Newegg without my wife knowing many details. So, while reading Newegg's reviews etc. online about new motherboards and Vista I stumbled across, what ended up being the solution.  It seems that Vista IPv6 does NOT like home networks. So before buying a new motherboard, I decided to hold off and see if disabling IPv6 fixed my issue.  

So, I took a reprieve from blogging the past two weeks to see what, if any, impact it has had on me.  While I must admit, I do miss blogging, I am still stuck on things to "blog about."  

Good morning.  

This latest installment of Safari touts some pretty interesting new features and it looks like Apple has found a a way to incorporate the Cover Flow into it (even if it is a tweaked version.)