The Utne Reader Online has an Emotional Intelligence test online. I tend to not like tests like this because my actual response to more then half the questions wasn’t listed. Well, that and I didn’t score real highly.

I’m on a slowdown of buying CDs. But I just replaced my copy of Obituary Column (Ha) by Moev. Or at least I ordered a copy of it. So I should have it soon enough. It’s nice to be replacing a bunch of music from another time in my life. It makes be feel a bit nostalgic.

I keep thinking I should start a list of all the CDs I’d like to track down, since so many of them seem to be either only imports or out of print. Figures.

I’m not asleep again. I think right now it must be allergies that are helping to keep me up. Unfortunately when I can’t sleep and it is three am I tend to think too much.

On the plus side, I’m having breakfast with two good friends in 7 hours. Quite cool since I’m always telling people to call me for breakfast and they never do.

How come in almost every Anime series I watch the main characters parents (or at least one of them) died in a horrible accident? Sheesh.

It looks like there might be a 2nd Mahoromatic series. Which would be great since the first one just kind of ends with lots of questions (and IMHO lots of things that just don’t quite make sense).

Amazon is linking up with another brick and mortar store.  This time it’s Borders.  You’ll be able to buy a book online and pick it up at a local store.

I love this feature in stores.  I’ve only used it once, but when you’re looking for something and the stores aren’t real close to you it is nice knowing that you can go to the store and get what you want.

I’ve been playing about with a lot of alternate browsers lately.  I always have.  While IE works for so many sites I go to, I like seeing what else is out there.  Time has a nice article about Mozilla.  I’ve got to echo the author’s feelings on it.  It’s a pretty stable browser at this point.  They’re still cleaning little bits and pieces up but it feels nice.

The program I mentioned yesterday, “Zoe”, looks pretty cool, but I just realized this morning that it would probably be useless for me. Why? I read all my own email off of my own mail server. All my filtering happens on the server and I use IMAP to get at it. Last I checked, POP doesn’t support it. Companies need to start looking at support of things like IMAP when doing email products. I could very much see the day when one of the appliances in your home is a server that you toss in the closet and then access remotely.

Dave had two links I found pretty interesting yesterday. The first was an essay by Meg Hourihan about using personas in the development process. The second was a article about people hacking various p2p software and the reactions of the companies who put out the software. There’s an interesting relationship between these two articles. They both have to do with knowing who your customers are and what they want (or don’t want).

Radio geekage – That link to my past post about Zoe was my first time trying out the shortcut feature in Radio. It’s cool!

Ended up waking up much too early. Here’s what I heard as I was waking:

• Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood

• Lies – Thompson Twins

• Addiction – Skinny Puppy

• I Like Noise – Euphoria

• The Whole Point of No Return – The Style Council

• What Difference Does it Make? (Peel Session) – The Smiths

• Vanity Kills – ABC

• Open Mind – Moev

It’s Friday again, and that means it is time for Heather’s Friday Five:

1. What are your hobbies? Let’s see: Reading, hunting for anime to download off the net, DJing (it’s a hobby and a second job), working on my web site.

2. Do you collect anything? If so, what? I collect molds, spores and funguses. Well, no I don’t. I just always wanted to say that. I don’t collect anything beyond dust.

3. If there a hobby you’re interested in, but just don’t have the time/money to do? Oh yes. I’ve wanted to get into Geocaching or Letterboxing for the past year or so. It’s a combination of lack of time/money and the difficulty of hiking around to do these things.

4. Have you ever turned a hobby into a moneymaking opportunity? I guess kind of with DJing. Since when I get gigs I usually get paid.

5. Besides web-related stuff (burbs, rings, etc.), what clubs do you belong to? Hmm. None.

You can find the Friday Five at http://fridayfive.org.