Tags: +Narcipost+

I’m sure everyone out there has heard of the “Free iPod” scams, right? Well, I’m here to tell you that AT LEAST SOME OF THEM are *NOT* scams, and I have proof. You see, I just made my first $25 dollars through PayPal from a “Free iPod” style site called AnyGift4Points.com. Now, any of you out there who are somewhat ‘net savvy will notice that the URL above containes a little addition beyond simply the marker for the site (The site URL is missing the ?ref=774 that my above URL has). The ?ref=774 is a referance to yours truely, and it’s how AnyGift4Points.com knows that I sent you (so I can collect my bonus points, rewards, etc. for sending you). Now, I too was a skeptic when I first found this stuff. REAL skeptical. Like, I almost didn’t do it. But after perusing a website with forums dedicated to the subject, I thought to myself “Hey, self, I bet you can find find one that gives you money and doesn’t cost that much to try”. And that’s where AnyGift4Points.com came into the mix. See, they don’t require other people to sign up under you (though you earn bonus points if they do), and it’s all points based, not offer based. Some give you more, some less, but for every 250 points I get, I can trade that for $25 bucks of pure paypal cash goodness. For the record, 250 points is rather easy to rackup. Just one tickle test nets you over 280 points (though it does cost $10). So far, I’ve grossed $25, and profited $13.97 (Paypal takes out a fee for recieving cash). I’m going to keep persuing this, and see where it takes me.

If you’re interested in checking this out, I would say that at least BROWSING AnyThing4Free.com is a requirement. You’ll see a list of sites orginized by how good they are (”A” rank is the best, and it goes down hill from there). If you do, you’ll find me as TrueVox (anyone supprised?). And the owner of AnyGift4Points.com is known as Benjette. Remember, though. This isn’t me asking all of you to join up for my benifit. I can do what I need without referals. It helps, but it’s far from required for what I’m doing. I’m offering this as a way for you to make some (small) side cash, or a few minor prizes. Oh, and you might just wanna make a new email that can be forwarded to your current one, just so you can turn it off when the spam hits the fan. If anyone’s intrested in Gmail, you all know I can give you invites.

So, go check out AnyGift4Points.com. It’s free to look, and who knows, maybe you’ll find something that speaks to you. Oh, and the economics of this are sort of explaned in the Wired Article I linked to in the title.

Thanks for reading!

Tags: +Technology+; +Narcipost+; +Digg+

Cool! Google put up it’s new geoci… er, Google Pages site! So, of course, I HAD to make one, just to see how it was.

I’m impressed. It’s the best WYSIWYG web-based html editer I’ve ever seen. Go Google!

Check it out. I think you might need a gmail account to try it, but if so, just leave a comment, I’ll hook you up.

Sound interesting? Just digg it.

Tags: +Art+; +Parkour+

This is something I’ve thought was cool for a LONG time, but I didn’t know what in gods name it was called. Turns out it’s a french thing (wow, first Legal P2P now this!) called Parkour, AKA Urban Running. The core idea is to move as smoothly as possible, while still overcoming what ever is in your way ASAP (Hover Over Me).

Here’s a great demo video (again, from our good friends over at Google Video) giving a good idea of what Parkour really is (to Super Mario music, none the less!):

Oh, and if you wanna check out a bunch more videos, just check these out!

Tags: +Technology+; +Narcipost+; +Hacking+; +Maintenance+

Good golly, I’m sorry I haven’t been around for a while. I’ve been busy with college and I’ve been busy with work and THEN there’s our beautiful baby boy Matthew, so as you can see I’ve been a bit busy.

As I write this, I’m not using the included word processer in Blogger, but instead a much better replacement to Notepad, called Notepad2. It’s just as quick, almost as small, and (the programmer in me LOVES this), it supports Syntax Highlighting. Coolness. Oh, and I THINK it’s OSS to boot. At the very least, I KNOW it’s freeware. Good stuff.

Now, I know many of you are looking for more pics of Matt-i-chew. Well, I assure you we have them; I just gotta put them up.

So, how about that Xbox 360, eh? I have GOT to log more time on that bad boy. It’s sad, but about all I get is five or ten minutes a week (no joke!) to fool around with one of the Arcade titles (such as Marble Blast Ultra or the ever uber Geometry Wars). 3 processers, half a gig of ram, 20 gig HDD, and what do I do? I play a glorified Marble Madness.

Family life is fun, if stressful. I swear to god, I don’t know how single moms do it. I’m not even a mom, and I’m going insane. It’s crazy. Pure and simple.

I dream sometimes of making a game. It’s never going to happen at this rate, but it’s still nice to dream about it. I can’t help but wonder where I’ll be in five or ten years. I hope I’m filty rich and no longer working.

Gah. MUST UPDATE BLOG MORE OFTEN!!!

Found a neato little visual style for XP. Doesn’t require a program to install, but you DO need a hacked version of the uxtheme.dll file found in (assuming you have your main Windows install on your C: drive) “C:\Windows\system32\uxtheme.dll“.To get the patched version, just google for “patched uxtheme.dll“. After you have it, you can just copy it over your old one (I’d make sure to save a copy of the old one though), and reboot. Oh, and Windows may mention that a system file is being overwritten or something. Just “OK” it when it comes up.

All that work for a cool theme! It’s the Crystal XP Milk visual style. I REALLY like it. It’s a free download, and I think you’ll be pleased too. Check

Have I ever mentioned how huge of a fan of Gmail I am? I REALLY like it. Now they’ve gone and made it EVEN MORE COOL! They have a great new service where they’ll be rolling out Google Talk funcionality RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX!!! I, for one, think that is UBER SWEET! Anyone who want’s a gmail invite, just lemme know in the comments (or follow my email link over on the side of the screen). I’ve got a butt load to give out!

Wow. This is weird. I went to log into blogger, and someone, somehow, had posted spam as a actual blog post in MY BLOG! I’m not sure how (I use an alphanumeric password over 6 characters in length), but that is WEIRD. Has this ever happend to anyone before? It was saved as a draft, and it’s clearly Spam (though I’m not gonna post it, becuase I assume that would only make whoever it is happy). The listed email in the post is to HowdSeamGr@aol.com. Huh. This is weird. I’m gonna have to start hosting my own soon, maybe…

UPDATE: Ok, I think this happened because blogger has this feature that allows you to update by email, and I think some spammer just got lucky and spammed the email address I had set up for this site. Thank god I didn’t have it set to autopost . At any rate, I’m calling this case closed!

Ok, this has been long enough, I think. I’ll end by saying that when I hear anything cool about anything, I’ll try to make time to post. Oh, and I’ll hopefully be posting MUCH more when I’m finaly out of college, but we’ll see.

Thanks for reading!

Tags: +Technology+; +Narcipost+; +Xbox 360+

Ok, my faithful readers out there may remember me posting about how I won an Xbox 360 a while back. Well, it’s here (proceeded by the promised “Party in a Box” that was only useful for the t-shirts and the free 12 packs of Dew)! I’m thrilled with it so far. Set up is flawless (except the Live! servers seem to be getting slamed, so I can’t log in), and execution is exceptional to say the least. It came with Kameo and I’ll be recieveing the game I picked when I entered the contest (Need for Speed) next week. I got the “real” pack, that is, not the “Core Xbox 360″ but the “Xbox 360″. Headset, Hard Drive, Wireless controller, the works. Even a remote!