Mugshot Tips

As I continue my research of the social-networking world I've noticed a few things with mugshots and I thought I'd offer my opinion on them.

First of all, what is a mugshot? It's the picture people place on their profiles. While there may be a better name for these I'll call them mugshots for clarity.

Married people and those in committed relationships
Place a picture of yourself with your significant other. This solves a couple of problems:

• Women - This should hopefully keep guys from hounding you. If they see you with your man in a loving photo they probably won't bother. Why waste their time with an attached woman when there are plenty of single ladies out there.
  

• Men - This will keep you from looking like a sex fiend on the prowl for chicks.
  

Single females
A photo of only yourself. You'll confuse guys as they try to figure out which one you are. Besides, they really don't care that you have friends because guys are just different that way.

Single males
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put up a photo with you hanging out with friends. When you only have a photo of yourself you look like a psycho pervert freak. A pic of you and your friends, preferably some of them women, makes you look safe and less like you just got out of prison.

Facebook sucks!!

So why does Facebook suck, because it's addicting! I was supposed to be doing research for a social-networking application, RockingBull, I'm working on but the more I research the more I get addicted to customizing my profile and exploring all of the different applications available. Opening up their website to programmers was genius and turned them into an operating system for the web, like Windows XP is to the desktop. I can see why Facebook is so popular because it sucks you in and you keep wanting more.

Saving electricity with virtual PCs.

Like most hard-core geeks I have a network of PCs running all the time. A friend of mine got bit by the electricity-saving bug and one thing he discovered was that it was costing about $20/month to run his small network. So how can you cut down on electricity without tearing down your network? Virtual PCs! My plan is to rebuild my workstation with 64-bit Windows server and load it up with RAM. It'll be my Primary Domain Controller, DNS server, and SMTP server. I'm then going to run VMWare and host an image of my current XP setup. Another host will contain Vista, and another host will run a Linux image. Having one machine act as 4 computers shouldn't be too tough for it because it has two processors and since the base OS will be 64-bit with 8GB of RAM I'm hoping performance will not be bad. The reason I'm going with VMWare instead of Virtual PC is because VPC doesn't support USB and I absolutely will need my XP image to be able to use USB.
I'll write another entry in the near future once I've made the migration and can successfully power down 3 computers yet have them running on only 1 computer.

Trash Mobile

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Originally uploaded by atapaz

Now come on people, is it that hard to throw out trash every once in a while? The car was filled with trash except for the driver's seat. The driver apparently like 4Bucks, aka Starbucks, because there must have been atleast 20 cups of Starbucks on the passenger side.