I can’t believe it took me this long too figure out what bluetooth and T-Mobile free GPRS data could get you.

It means this. The quick summary is, I paired my bluetooth enabled laptop to my bluetooth enabled phone, and set bluetooth dial-up networking on the laptop to call *99***_#. It connects at 115Kbp/s or so. Feels a bit slower than that, but the good news is, SSH works!

Came across epitonic.com thanks to slashdot user justkarl. Lots of free and legal mp3s for download. Most suck, but with that catalog some are not bad.

The award for retro news headline of the day goes to this story from the Reuters entertainment news feed: “Miss America to Showcase More Skin, Less Talent”

I’ve been feeling massive urges recently to buy a ton of gadgets. I really love gadgets. If I went nuts, here’s a list of things I’d look at to buy:

• A new digital camera
• A new mp3 player (perhaps an ipod or Rio Carbon)
• A cell phone like the nokia 6820
• A sidekick II (they’re sold out!)
• A Gameboy Advanced SP

It would of course, I think, be bad to buy more than 3 of these at the same time.

So the other night my girlfriend and I went out and had a real fun time, played some miniature golf. Afterwards, we stopped into the arcade to burn some tokens. Like most sizable game rooms these days, they featured a couple DDR systems. I’m horribly uncoordinated with my feet outside of anything other than running and jumping, but I gave it a go. In fact, we gave the machine three goes. And you know what? It was tons of fun. At the same time, it made me feel awkward, but I barely cared. I’m always concerned about my appearance around other people, and it just kills me trying to understand how others are thinking of me. That’s what makes things like that such a fun experience for me (haha, quiet to those of you saying “Brendon, live a little”).

Now for the really funny part: I’ve got a new DDR pad in my bedroom.

First asian album released using a creative commons license. It’s a Chinese language gospel album.