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I know this is way old news, but it’s new/old to me. Confused? Yeah, me too. So here’s the deal: I got XM (satellite radio for anyone living in or under a rock) shortly after it came out, when the second generation Delphi receivers were the top o’ the line. I got a Delphi Roady2, a nice little radio, for $50 bucks at BestBuy. It comes with everything needed to use in the car (mobile antenna, cassette adapter, DC power adapter) and even has a built-in FM transmitter for those of us without cassette decks in the car. For (I think) another $30, I got the Roady2 Home Kit. This included an AC adapter, larger Home antenna, and a nifty little remote control. As for content, there’s more than any one person could possibly want, and this is not a bad thing. There are now 4 24/7 comedy channels, whose only downside is the 5 minutes (or so) of annoying commercials per hour. Evidently all the music channels are commercial-free, but some of the talk/comedy/etc channels have commercials. Not a large problem though, all you have to do is change the channel. Anyway, I like the comedy and classical channels best, so I stuck those on my presets. Very easy interface overall, and there’s 30 presets available, like 8 backlight colors, and a neat little song recall function. When you hear a song you like, you hold in the OK button for about 2 seconds. It then saves the song’s info, and the next time it shows up on any channel, it notifies you, and allows you to go to the song with the push of one button. This feature might be the coolest thing about satellite radio in general, as it allows you to monitor all 200+ channels for your favorite songs. This radio now sells for less than $50, and there’s also a little conversion kit that turns the Roady2 into a mobile radio, including a battery, headphones that act as an antenna, and an FM tuner for when you can’t get the satellite signal (which is almost never). Really a superb piece of electronics at a tiny price.

Additionally, there’s a promotional code you can use when signing up that waives the activation fee and the first three months of service, as well as letting you purchase a year of service for 77.00 instead of the 12.99 monthly rate. Based on the amount of time I spend using the radio and its quality of sound and content, I think the 12.99 price is too low. But please don’t raise it XM

Thanks for reading,

Corin

If anyone is interested, I can invite them (you) as a viewer of my ongoing work, a parody of Harry Potter. It’s (imo) utterly hilarious Anyways, I don’t wanna post it here because in a few years this thing’s gonna make me a billionaire like J.K. Rowling.

Come to think of it, I better know you if you wanna read it because it’d be very easy for you to steal it

Anyway, there’s that.

With all the shopping that I had to do this week I haven’t had time to post anything, apologies. Tomorrow’s the first day, and after that I should have time to write a little more about Canada. I got this awesome new backpack from the Swiss Army, a new car (more on that later), and a new graphing calculator after having mine stolen last year. The backpack is about the coolest backpack ever created, in my opinion, and I think if I tried really hard I could fit my entire house into it. Hehe. About the car, my dad got my grandpa’s ‘99 Honda Accord (which I love) and so I got his old ‘96 Volvo 850. I love this thing. I went from a ‘93 Nissan Quest with no air conditioning to a CAR (not minivan) with a/c, XM, a stick shift, good gas mileage, and it’s blue! It’s been a good week. All I’m waiting on now are my awesomeo House-like Nike Shox. Then I need to get some money together and buy a cane

Until tomorrow, Cyas.

After a long 10 days in Canada, I’m back. I’m not going to chronicle the entire trip in detail today, but I will in the near future. It’s roughly a 12 hour drive to the cabin where we stayed, and boy were my legs cramping. It was bearable though, and we arrived at like 7 in the morning. We had breakfast at a restaurant called the Maple House or something, which we called the Sugar Shack. It had great pancakes and stuff, and a large selection of souvenirs and stuff. Out back of the restaurant there were goats which you could feed corn to. Good times. We got to the cabin, and immediately set off on what I thought would be a peaceful nature walk of some sort on a path through the property. What followed was one of the best anecdotes I brought back from the whole trip. Not only was this not a “nature walk”, it wasn’t even on a path. We were pushing through trees, over rocks, through streams, etc. Not my cup of tea. There were many marshy areas where my shoes made sucking noises. I was told to avoid these patches of black mud, and I honestly did my best (hint: not good enough). My foot went down a few inches on one particularly bad patch. After we had gone maybe half a mile, which to me felt like around 30, we decided to turn back. On the way back, we hit a large patch of black mud with only two small branches to aid our crossing. Everyone made it across. Everyone, that is, but me. I slipped about an inch, and the next thing I knew, the patch of black mud had swallowed my leg up to just above my knee. Took Andrew (I’ll introduce the others later) about a minute to pull my leg free without losing my shoe, and he did it wonderfully. Anyway, that traumatized me for the rest of the day I had a great time the rest of the week though, and I’ll share more tomorrow or something.

Thanks for reading,

Corin

Well, in about two hours I’m off to Canada. I’ll post about it as soon as I got back. Peace.

Well it’s finally up, Chellberg.Flphost.com, and I’ve got WordPress installed with a nice looking theme, but I’m not moving yet.  I posted over there about it, but basically, I like getting the traffic from WordPress, I’m not thrilled about it being Flphost.com, and plus, I’m on vacation for the next week.  I’ll be back on Sunday, and I’ll probably have made a decision by then.  Installing WordPress was very easy, and once it was running I imported this entire blog with a few clicks.  Very simple.  I also added a little icon to my page, the one that appears next to the URL in your browser and bookmarks It’s a little picture of Einstein. 
Anyways, that’s the news about that.  I’ll probably do a few more posts today, and a few tomorrow, and then I’ll resume posting on Sunday.

I think that due to how great WordPress has been, with a number of hits (amazing) and the immense ease of use, I’m going to keep the blog here until I get a real domain, and use chellberg.flphost.com (whenever it propagates) to hone (learn) my skills regarding web design.  If I somehow accidentally got something to look really really cool, I might decide to move to chellberg.flphost.com, but I kinda doubt it.  This current setup is just too nice to walk out on until I get my own domain.

My other option would be to start some other kind of website with chellberg.flphost.com, besides a blog.  I thought of making a forum for my entire high school once, but come to think of it, it’d be next to impossible to moderate without 30 or 40 dedicated moderators (my high school has ~4000 students) so that idea’s out.  I also thought of making a forum just for my friends, to put funny stuff or interesting stuff or whatever, but then I realized, *doh*, Facebook already did that.  So I’m sorta running low on ideas…but I’ll think of something.  Using it to practice web design isn’t a waste at all, really.  So yeah, that’s the update for Technology tonight.  Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have something interesting up on chellberg.flphost.com to show you. 
Until then, good night, and good luck.

Hehe.  Always wanted to say that.

I know this is very unprofessional, but I’m going to discuss something I heard on BBC Radio last night without providing a source.  I just googled it but I couldn’t find anything… Anyway, sue me.  (Please don’t) It was about 6:30 GMT last night - 2:30 AM EST, and this BBC reporter was interviewing the Undersecretary of State (or something) about Iraq, and the U.S. government’s plan to arm Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in return for their support of Iraq and enmity with Iran (as far as I can tell).  After the Undersecretary (or whoever) avoided answering the reporters questions directly, he said something that I thought was hilarious.  Although again, I don’t have the actual quote, what he said was, ‘What Iraq really needs now is a friend.”  Sure, this point is actually valid in that allies in the area can help to stabilize the country, he made it sound like despite all the violence that occurs in Iraq everyday, all we need to do to fix it is to find Iraq a playmate.  Once we do that, Iraq will calm down and play nicely in the sandbox like the rest of the Middle East.  Anyways… Probably not a great topic to be my first political post, but there it is.

I’ll do more careful research in the future, honest

Thought I’d try to post pictures of the themes right here, just for kicks.

I spoke to Gnomish (guy who’s giving me the domain) today and everything seems to be set up properly. All I have to wait for now is the subdomain to propagate (realize it’s pointing somewhere else than it is, basically) and I can start. I’ve decided to install WordPress, and I’ve already uploaded all the necessary files such that when the subdomain is ready all I have to do is begin the configuration. I haven’t picked a theme yet, but I really like Darkwater 1.0, Dark LiquidCard 2.0, and Sca4ered 1.5. If anyone has an opinion about these, please let me know, or else I might become indecisive for the next month and never get anything done.

Installing these things seems to be very easy. All you do is modify a php file with your SQL db information, upload it, and get started. Might be harder than it seems though… I’ll find out