Picked up an Acer Aspire One today from Walmart of all places. I don’t normally shop for my electronics there but Best Buy’s selection was slim to none and Wally-World had what I wanted so I bought it. I needed it small, decently fast, and read more card formats other than just SD. I was trying to choose between the MSI and the Acer. Best Buy didn’t have either (they did online but were sold out) and on my way back to work, defeated, I tried walmart.com and sure enough they had them in-store. So far I love my Aspire One. Here’s a good write-up on it. I’ll post again with some rants and raves about it once I’ve had time to use it a bit.

Was on Facebook looking at Bon Iver’s page (my current favorite band) and this link was served to me on the right side of the page. Hilarious. Because girls that show their boobs on the internet are statistically Christian, right? Of course.

So I went to the Memphis in May concerts and my original iPhone got wet. I was pretty pissed off but glad I finally had a reason to trade in my old iPhone for a new 3G one. That was in May. It’s June 8th now and there’s a new iPhone coming out this month. Awesome. The best part about it? I won’t be getting one. Why not? Because I’m not going to spend $700 or even $600 for one – because that’s what it would cost me as an existing AT&T customer. Who’s to blame for this? Apple or AT&T? That’s just absolutely rediculous. They don’t mind selling you a 3G iPhone now for $99 but it’s gonna cost you $700 for a new one if you’re not elligible for an upgrade. :-/

Don’t believe me? Read the fine print.

Just finished up on two new sites for the car dealership I work for.

First up: Watson Quality Commercial Sales

www.watsonqualitycommercialsales.com

It’s a Joomla 1.5 site with a customized back-end for people here at the dealership to be able to easily log in, check traffic stats, change pages, etc. Took about 2 weeks from start to finish – procrastination included. Most of the time spent was gathering information for the vehicles (because quite frankly I didn’t know much about F-650’s and cargo vans…but I do now!) It’s got several plugins like slideshows and lightboxes for image popups. Very cool site, I am happy with it.

Second up: Watson Quality Blog

www.watsonqualityblog.com

We decided to make a blog for a few reasons. It’s cheap. It will offer us an outlet to keep the local community updated with our business, the local competition, the state of the auto industry, sales, new products from Ford, and all that sort of good stuff. It’s Wordpress based so it’s easy to quickly change and edit which gives us an opportunity to quickly add and remove things like Internet Specials and coupons for service work and/or car sales during events. It’s got links all over it that point to our main site www.watsonquality.com that will hopefully improve our website’s relationship with google and give us a bit of a networking aspect between the three sites (main, commercial, and blog). It’s got a contact form for an easy way to get in touch with us, as well as RSS subscription possibilities.

Leave me some feedback and lemme know whatcha think!

Another friend of mine is wanting to build himself a computer that he can mix music on and occasionally play a game on. I sent him a 3 lists of different computer parts to build 3 different computers. I put together a list for one cheap PC, one media-center PC and one faster gamers PC. I emailed him these lists but I’m putting them on here hopefully to inspire some people to build their own computers. It’s a fun hobby and develops skills that you can in turn use to fix your computers when they break on you. Read on for the lists.

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Building a friend a budget gaming PC. This is a pretty decent rig. He’ll be hooking it up to his widescreen TV so he doesn’t need a monitor. If he did I’d recommend the Hanns-G 19″ or 22″

Case and Power Supply – $49

Motherboard – $79

Memory – $55

CPU – $52

Video Card – $75

Grand Total – $310