The worst part about having a website that literally tens of people visit is attempting to come up with something to write about. Worse still is the my need to write something, anything, yet cannot string a coherent sentence together to save my life.

Fortunately, I've always advertised myself as "semi-coherent," so I figure I'll just go for a warm cup of stream-o-consciousness writing, thus satisfying my need to write and your need to read something dumb.

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Last year, I wrote (somewhere) that I was, for the first time since the Bad Hair Day tour, was going to miss 'Weird Al' Yankovic at Westbury Music Fair. And, for those of you who don't know, the first album I ever bought was by Al, I own a copy of every CD Al has ever put out, and have White And Nerdy as my iPhone's ringtone, so me missing him play live was a bit of a bummer.

Well, I decided to go to his website today and discovered that he will be continuing his Straight Outta Lynwood tour this year, and will be coming to Westbury Music Fair on July 10th. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't totally pumped, and I'd be doubly lying if I said I didn't know how pathetically nerdy this is, but I've never let that stop me before.

...as this site's webhost, Dreamhost, is going to have a planned server outage for twelve hours.

Please keep the rioting and looting to major areas. Thanks.

Picture this:

An older man reads the newspaper, clearly forlorn. Somber, downbeat music plays in the background as the depressed man's two daughters with a pair of big, sad eyes apiece come into the room. The older child looks at her father, sheepishly smiling, knowing that very little she could say could bring her father out of his sadness.

"C'mon, Dad," she says, with a perkiness that is clearly manufactured. "It's time for you to get back out there!"

The younger daughter smiles, hopeful. "You're a great catch!" she exclaims, and presents her either divorced or widower father a box of Just For Men hair color.

Later that evening, the father, with freshly hidden gray hair, sits at a table with a lovely looking younger blond woman, as they have a great time. He pulls the woman close, and takes a picture of them with his cell phone camera, "for my girls." He sends it off to them, and as the children receive their multimedia message back at home, they share a hopeful high-five.

This was a commercial I saw during the news today, and I have just this to say: this is the creepiest thing I've ever seen. At best, it's about a divorced man who's children are asking him to forget their mother and move on; at worst, a man who's wife has died is being pushed back into the dating world by two selfish children who want another mother figure. And, given how he looked in the commercial, I'm pretty much guessing it's option two.

Creepy, creepy stuff.

Just over two weeks ago, everyone's favorite Mac Daddy spoke to Apple shareholders about how Adobe Flash, which is used in some form on about 70% of the internet, will not be coming to the iPhone any time soon, as the mobile version isn't "real Flash" and the desktop version is too much of a resource hog to run effectively on a phone without killing the battery power. Of course, what with a majority of sites using Flash, and the iPhone as being advertised as "not the mobile internet; the real internet in your pocket," how Flash can continue to be missing escapes me.

However, Adobe's CEO, Shantanu Narayen, said that they're actively working on a Flash client for the iPhone with the recently-released software developer kit, and will distribute it through Apple iPhone App Store.

"We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone," Narayen said. "We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves."

Of course, all Apps in the iPhone App Store must be certified by Apple, and if El Jobso doesn't want Flash on the iPhone, I'm sure they'll find a way to deny Adobe's application access. Whether or not this will begin a massive nerd war has yet to be seen.

UPDATE: Adobe has issued a statement saying, in effect, "We're sorry Mr. Jobs, we don't wanna mess with you. Please forgive us, and let us make our unimportant software for your all-important iPhone. We love you." Wieners.

One of the things I like most about FeedBurner, the company who controls my RSS feed's non-lameness, is that they have metrics tracking what sort of Google search gets people to this here site. Usually, people stumble here because of my Subway Philly Cheesesteak post (seriously: I'm the seventh search result. Sad, I know.), but every so often a real gem comes through that makes me wonder what the hell Google is thinking.

One of the more solid ones is "random music playing from computer;" mention it once, and you're tagged for life. But the latest interesting result comes in the form of "MacBook Comics," which brings up my rant about how nutty replacing the hard drive in my MacBook Pro was (which, if someone would remind me, I'd like to do a full post on, since, in retrospect, it's not as bad as it seems).

So, this gets me to wondering: is there some secret demand for a webcomic featuring a MacBook? Could one write a comic that successfully uses all laptops to be funny? Would the marketing of this be completely screwed, what with said webcomic ripping off being inspired by Apple's product line?

Personally, I think the answers are "no," "probably not," and "you're an idiot," but that might be me.

For those of you who don't know (and you should be hanging your head in shame if that is the case), today is the International Day of Awesomeness. And with me being an Evangelist of Awesome^™, I thought I'd be the first (and likely last) person to wish you an awesome day.

One of the things that draws people to this site every day is a Google search for "random music from computer." Now, I know I posted about that once on a lark, but that was only for Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, and I know I've seen similar searches coming here with "OS X" on 'em, too.

Here's what I want to know: What music is randomly playing from your computer? Is it 'It's A Small World' and 'Fur Elise,' or is it something else entirely?

Either write to me via the contact page or in the comments. Thanks.

When someone does a play-by-play of an event that they're at or watching on their weblog, it's called live-blogging. However, oftentimes I'm working or sleeping or doing something else while said event is going on, so live-blogging isn't an option.

That said, every so often I'll watch something online later and want to comment about it in "real time," anyway, but the blogging community makes no provision for that in their narrow definition of a "live-blog."

So, I decided to make one up. I introduce The Dead Blog.

Last Thursday, Apple held a media event regarding the iPhone, enterprise software, and their forthcoming software development kit. And although it was offered for streaming later that day, it only recently came to iTunes as a download, which makes it easier to watch (with it not having to buffer and all that crap). Now, although I've seen the entire thing already (I'm impatient, what can I say?), I've decided to watch it again, and dead-blog the event.

Check it out after the break.

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