Ive been busy with other things than writing the blog lately and haven’t been posting much. Sorry there hasn’t been much new. I’ve been really active on Bookmooch and have been reading a lot. I completed my project to convert all my CDs to MP3s that I mentioned a while back. I’ve also been downloading from iTunes and listening to a lot of new artists that I’ve found by way of Pandora. A couple times when I couldn’t download a song I liked (like Ryan Auffenberg’s Things You Say, But You Don’t Mean) I’ve bought the CD through Amazon.com‘s sellers market. I like Amazon’s partnerships with small dealers because it benefits both the mom-and-pop corner book or music store as well as internet businesses run out of someone’s basement and give the consumer more avenues to make a safe, online purchase of used, rare, or obscure items.  I’ve also been using the Mac alot more lately. I built a dozen Macmail stationery templates for Maggie to use. I’m thinking of putting together a package and selling them, but for now she has the exclusive.  I have been keeping track of different topics, sites, etc. to post and will start going through my list and posting a lot more frequently to catch up.

Netdisaster.com is goofy site that bills itself as an “absolutely useless” site that “simulates the destruction of the target-site by a disaster.” The methods of “disaster” range from spilled coffee to worm infestation, and even paintball gun attacks. Just enter the URL of the site to view, select the method of distruction and have at it. If you select the auto mode, you can still click on the hyperlinks on the displayed site and enable the method of attack on command by pointing to it. Any options including the URL can be changed in the filter frame at the top of the web page at any time and the help sections are detailed and well written.  Note that blog engines use the same kind of filter frame and will most likely conflict and disable Netdisaster, but there is an alternate viewing method that will work in some instances (use the Alt button or read the FAQ information specifically about this kind of problem).

http://www.netdisaster.com/