I have a severe case of blogger’s block. I’m sure if I sat here long enough, something would appear, but would it be of the quality that I would like? Probably not. I made a vow for August that I would write one blog per day, but then my computer crashed and I was set back. Then many new opportunities came my way and my blog has unfortunately been put aside again. Please bear with me as I get some other stuff done and hopefully overcome my block at the same time. I’ll be back. I promise:)
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According to the NY Post and TMZ, Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, was found dead in his apartment in NYC today. Police found drug paraphernalia and prescription pill bottles near his body. He was an extremely talented DJ, spinning records at endless Hollywood clubs and parties. In his younger years he romanced Mandy Moore and was engaged to Nicole Richie. More recently, he paired up with drummer Travis Barker of Blink-182 to make the group trvsdjam. They were touring in September of 2008 and both survived a bad plane accident while returning from a show in South Carolina. They narrowly escaped death and two of their good friends died. Reminds me of the Final Destination movies a little bit. You can never escape death. It WILL find you. I hope Travis isn’t next. RIP Adam.
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Look out celebrity stalkers!! McAfee released it’s annual list of “Most Dangerous” Celebs to Search. Who knew that celebs were so dangerous? I am kind of surprised that Britney Spears didn’t make the top 10. She came in at #12. What is also interesting is that Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox are tied for #8. That must just eat Angelina up. Megan is known to many as the up and coming “Angelina type”. She’s probably even more pissed that Jennifer Aniston came in at #3.
According to McAfee, here are the top 10 to watch out for:
“Cybercriminals are star watchers too – they latch onto popular celebrities to encourage the download of malicious software in disguise,” said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee Avert Labs. “Consumers’ obsession with celebrity news and culture is harmless in theory, but one bad download can cause a lot of damage to a computer.”
This makes me nervous. Although, I rarely google a celebrity directly, I get my gossip from other sites, like People and TMZ. Watch out fellow celeb obsessors!
Staci at Just Bloggled gave me the J’Adore Tien Blog Award. According to Staci, this means “I Love Your Blog” in French. Just like Staci, I also took Spanish in High School and I’ll just take Kat’s word for it too. Thanks Staci for thinking of me for the award. This is my very first blog award, it really made my day. I write this blog not really thinking anyone reads it…so it’s nice to know that you do! And I love Just Bloggled! You should definitely check it out.
The best part of the award, is that I get to pass it on! Here are the rules:
I read a lot of blogs. A lot. In the absence of Facebook games, I’ve needed something to occupy my time, and blog-surfing is it. As I could probably think of 100 blogs that I read on a regular basis, I think it’s best to limit my award-giving today to 4 entries. I did 4 and not 5 strictly because of space issues:
These are 4 blogs that I visit, or at least try to, just about every day. They come highly recommended and I am proud to pass on the J’Adore Tien Blog Award to them!
Before my computer crisis a few weeks ago, I was a loyal Facebook game player. My games of choice were Yoville, Farmville and Mob Wars. I dabbled in Parking Wars, Smarty Pants and My City. I would go onto Facebook with the primary goal of tending to my crops and working in the Yoville factory and killing some thugs. I actually would schedule errands around when these things had to be done in the games. Then, suddenly, my computer crashed and I *gasp* had to be without it for 5 days. “But my crops!! My crops are gonna die!” was a thought that went through my head that night. I went through some withdrawals. I thought about the poor little virtual me in Yoville, with nothing to do for a few days. When I got my computer back, I had over 150 gift requests for the games. It was then that I realized all of the time that I actually put into them. And what did I get out of it? Absolutely NOTHING. The games are just the biggest time-wasters. They sucked all my time in Facebook away. Time that I could be actually corresponding with friends, which was the reason I joined Facebook in the first place. Since I got my computer back, I took a personal vow to not play the games anymore on Facebook. Thank you to all of my loyal friends who still send me gifts on there, but I am no longer playing them. And it feels good. You should try it.
I attended my second #LITweetup last night. It was held at Croxley Ales in Farmingdale. It is so nice to be in the company of other twaddicts. Every person had some sort of wireless device in front of them, whether it be laptop, netbook, Blackberry or iPhone. There were several videos taken by tweeps in attendance that were posted onto Twitter directly from the event (video by @ray, @dani3boyz, @islesblogger, @namnum). Overall, it was fun meeting up my fellow local tweeps as always. Many were people I had met before, some I followed and never met. Who says you can’t keep Twitter relationships outside of Twitter?
There were a few new Twitter tools I learned about while at the tweetup:
Have you learned about any cool new Twitter tools lately? Please feel free to leave a comment…you can never have enough applications to tweet with.
