“Music, true music, not just rock ’n’ roll, it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones, vast scenic rituals and angelic choirs in your brain. It’s a place apart from the vast benign lap of America.” – Lester Bangs

I think it’s safe to say that music plays a big role in my life and a big part of my life involves work. I am constantly listening to music, if it’s not on the studio media player it’s on my headphones at my workstation. With this in mind I decided to list the 10 albums that had the biggest impact on me in 2008.

Let me start by saying that the 10 CD’s in this list isn’t necessarily from 2008, I mean, the one CD on this list was released in 1967! Just because it was new to me doesn’t mean it was new to anyone else.

So in no particular order, here they are:

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I like to think of it as a sunrise on a summer morning.. a new design!

There are still one or two things I want to “fix” and change, but for the most part, this is it!

I am not a designer so this took a while to do and I cant even begin to start to say thanks to my buddies (defaulterror, phreek and mocoloco) who helped by making sure I stayed on track.

Just to give some idea on some of the more technical stuff.. scripting is now powered by jQuery and so will the new modal boxes be once I implement them. I also upgraded the WordPress and the blog is now running on the awesome new WordPress 2.7. I also made sure that the pages validate under XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Well that is pretty much all I have to say about the new design..

Hope to see you here again soon!

OK, so it’s no secret that Gmail is probably the best online email provider out there.. I use it every day and so does millions and millions of other people..

As I signed in this morning to go check my mail I notices that the normal layout looked slightly different.. and after inspecting my settings I found a new “Themes” tab.

I wouldn’t normally mention something like this… but the fact that they have a ninja theme simply made my day.. check the attached screen shot… this is AWESOME!!!!!

OK.. Its been 2 weeks.. and today I’m sharing my experience

OK, so I decided to try something new…

Going without the social sites is one thing.. I can probably get on easily without that, but messenger is quite a big chunk of what I do… so we will have to see.

Luckily this is only for two weeks. After the that I will make a video that will give some feedback on what I experienced by making this change.

(This is day one, and I already miss my online friends)