The Best of 2006- Books

 So now that Christmas has come & gone, it is time to look forward to the new year. Not so fast, my friends. A little reflection is required, don’t you think? This week I am listing a few of the favorite items I have consumed this year, starting with my favorite past time, reading. Submitted below is a list of the books that have changed me with life application or changed the way I think and see. Sometimes they are for just enjoyment. This is not an exhaustive list.

  1. Freakonomics

  2. The World Is Flat

  3. Never Eat Alone

  4. Naked Conversations

  5. The Long Tail

  6. Blink

  7. The Tipping Point

  8. On BS

  9. The Well-Educated Mind

  10. Life Of Pi

  11. Blue Like Jazz

  12. The Abs Diet

 For some internet fun to track your book consumption, try Shelfari, to create your virtual bookshelf. So, what is on your nightstand?

Audio Mojo Podcast Grabs 9100 Subscribers

So I was doing a vanity check on the internet and remembered loading Muddy Waters’ song “Got My Mojo Workin”, (yes this website is the same title) as a test for a netcast. I checked back in on it today and discovered over 9,000 subscribers to just this one podcast! All of these people are encouraging me to resume planning for “Audio Mojo” for the Mojo Franchise, but the content/timing/format is still elusive.

Will 2007 bring in the Mojo’s first netcast? Any tips/tricks/suggestions?

Windows XP Media Center Edition

I don’t know how I have missed it but until tonight I did not realize the potential of MCE. When I pulled the new PC out of the box this summer, I split and then hooked up the internet/tv cable to the tuner card on the back of the tower, programmed the channel settings and watched television live on my computer. With the remote control provided, I scanned the channels and found something to record. I have a DVR in the living room but THIS was something else. I could relax in my study with tv in the background for news and such.

In my internet surfing, I stumbled across a website called “The Green Button“, a website dedicated to all things MCE. The green button is a reference to a Windows’ icon in XP for the Media Center. I then discovered I could burn the recorded tv to a DVD for storage and later consumption because these programs eat up about 3GB for an hour of programming.

So with this knowledge and the season break of Battlestar Galactica, I was able to record season 3 (so far) and view on DVD. Neat. Now what else can I record…suggestions?

Techno Mojo in HD

Techno Mojo in HD

Originally uploaded by Mojo Denbow’s Photo Studio.

High quality Mojo. Now if the content was just as quality as the resolution…

Sylvania 26″ flat panel LCD in High Def purchased from Amazon.com’s Customer Vote program. I was one out of 500 lucky winners.

Doubling as a computer monitor.

“It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recomend you pick one up”. – Ferris Bueller

So Soon?

birthday-cake.gif December 7, 1972 is known as “the second day of infamy” because I was born on Pearl Harbor day. Yay me. The past few birthdays away from extended family members has been labeled as “just another day” for me. Wonderwife goes all out, make no mistake, but it would be nice to celebrate with other folks, too.

Thursday night will find me grilling filet mignon and eating way too much home made birthday spice cake with cream cheese topping, having a nice relaxing evening with Wonderwife opening her gifts and gifts being shipped from Oklahoma.

We’re also thinking about celebrating this weekend at the Bottletree but not on Thursday because of the entertainement line-up (MEDIOCRE LOCAL COMEDY NIGHT WITH MIKE McCALL AND HIS SUPREME WHITE SUPREMACISTS FEATURING LEFTY THE WELL-HUNG LESBIAN)

So what do you think of the Bottletree? Any other birthday bash suggestions? Oh, and don’t forget about my Amazon.com wish list. 🙂

Enjoy your day too!

PS: My cell mate behind me, Traci is celebrating her birthday today (6) Happy birthday!

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Techno Mojo Hijacked

For the past week I have been unable to update to the tech site for reasons unclear. When logging on to my website, I receive the following message: “You do not have sufficient permissions…” WordPress support forums show that multiple users are going through the same thing. So, I cannot post an article, delete the 294 (and rising per day) pieces of spam in my comments section, or change any settings. I was able to make a backup and download it. Maybe I can take it all down and reinstall. I may just wait and hopefully WordPress can shake it down. Very upsetting. Photo Mojo and Go Mojo are using the same software and server host and are not suffering…yet.

In the meantime, I will probably host a few articles here on top of  personal insights.

Anyone out there have similar experiences? Tips/tricks/help?

Whats In YOUR Wallet?

…or more to the point, what is in your backpack when you go on your excursions to the great outdoors?

MUST-HAVES in the Mojo’s backpack include:

  1. water
  2. sunscreen
  3. insect repellant
  4. First aid kit, including aspirin
  5. camera
  6. both a spare long sleeve & short sleeve shirt
  7. a book
  8. Not in the pack, but a hiking pole

So what are your must-haves? What else do you carry?

Christmas Decor

Have you started/finished decorating for the holidays yet? Family tradition was to always wait until December and maybe even around my birthday (12/7). Wonderwife will probably attempt to change my stocking again this year. I have had the same one since the early 70’s and it shows. Sentimental, I know. But why? I don’t own anything else that old except myself. Why a stupid stocking?

I think we’ll go ahead and decorate this weekend.

What holiday traditions do you have and would share with us?