Slacking on my postings.

Okay, its been awhile since I posted to my blog. What's up with William, you (lack of people who read my blog) may ask.

Here is what I been doing lately that has made me a slacker:

• Playing lots of World of Warcraft. I started playing with Venk, and moved my characters over to the Lightbringer server. My cartoons: Cursacerdos and Pallaton . It's weird playing on PvE server now, I don't get jumped and every time I see an Alliance player I almost instinctively want to attack them.
  
• Reading and Programming from "Essential Windows Communication Foundation" and "C# 3.5 in a Nutshell". Really love how WCF has improved the way of communication. It is also interesting reading some of the interesting ways (==) is not the same as .Equals and the complications of DateTime vs. DateTime Offset.
  
• Watching TV, hoping for something that isn't a repeat. Unfortunately the only thing worth watching is The Daily Show, Lost, Biggest Loser, and Eli Stone.
  
• Listing to tons of Podcasts. My favorites so far are:
Grammar Girl , Math Grad , Math Factor , Diggnation , 60-Second Science . I keep slacking off listing to the Japanese Podcasts.

Zune

So, I finally bought myself a new MP3 player. As you can guess it's a Zune. I bought the small 8gb red, thinking I can buy a arm band and use it during my workouts later.

Moving to the Zune has many benefits.

1. Don't need to worry about batteries, at least not for the next 2 years.
2. Podcasts - the Zune software is really nice when it comes to podcasts. Just subscribe to huge list of podcasts and tell it to download the newest content when it becomes available. The next time I connect my Zune to my computer it deletes already watched podcasts and uploads new ones.
3. You can also view videos, listen to the radio, and save pictures onto it. There is also a wifi feature but need to find someone else with a Zune to see how "social" works.

What I miss a little:

1. There is no current time and date. Not really a big deal as long as I have my cell phone.
2. Equalizer.  I can live without, but they should add one.

What would be cool:

• Visualization: if they added a visualization for the screen when listening to music or the radio. This should also include the possibility to download others so we can customize.
• Streaming: if a wifi connection is available, maybe the option to listen to a streaming site like an online radio station or television. 

 

I am so far having fun playing with my new toy. I keep subscribing to new podcasts. <^_^> Visit my Zune profile to see what I'm listening too: http://social.zune.net/member/avgbody

 

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