Hey folks. It’s Wednesday night again. And you know what that means. No, not monkeys and lard. It means there’s another visit to the Analog Lounge scheduled for tonight. So you need to come out and drink heavily and listen to some cool tunes. What better way to relax after a busy day at work.

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week we proudly present our special guest: Jeff Mission. This will be Jeff’s second visit to the Lounge and I am pretty psyched about it.

Special Guest:
Jeff Mission

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
Free before 11
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

This week at Anitya: TAYLOR (Changmian) Boston

Are you a DJ in the Boston area? Are you interested in playing out some Wednesday night? If so, drop me a line at lounge@ezoons.com.

Since I haven’t been typing much this week, I haven’t gotten around to posting about things like TypePad going live on Monday. What is TypePad? It’s a new hosted blogging service from the folks who brought up Movable Type. They seem to be offering a really nice service at a reasonable price. They have three pricing levels, $4.95/month, $8.95/month, and $14.95/month. When you compare what you get for features for this it’s quite reasonable. For instance, at the top two levels you also get photo blog support (that supports using cell phone cams). Overall it looks like a very complete package. I actually think they need to consider making a photoblog option.

If I wasn’t the control freak I was I’d probably think about using them, but as of now I can’t live without things like threaded comments and my mail notification plugin. But I’d definitely suggest that friends interested in blogging without having to deal with installing Movable Type give it a looksee. Now hopefully some of these features will also filter down to Movable Type too.

Franklin P. Jones: “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” [Quotes of the Day]

Most of my other friends who have Macs have tried out the video part of iChat A/V. But for some reason I was having a really hard time getting it working. I finally figured out the problem with my network configuration and mentioned to my friend Halsted that I wanted to give it a try. A moment later my computer was beeping that she wanted to talk to me, even though I said I looked like I’d just woken up and was all scruffy looking.

My reaction to the whole thing? Frickin’ Cool. It’s amazing how well it works. One of the coolest things was setting it full screen for a while. Even there it was pretty smooth, though I’m sure the camera quality makes a difference there. I wish I’d taken a screen shot while it was running so I could post a pic of it. Now I want my parents to get all set up with this. It’s so cool!

So I somehow got it in my head that I wanted to fix some of the bad links on my site. I cleaned up any link in my blog entries that pointed to the old permalink system and got rid of a bunch of broken image posts. Hopefully that will cut down on some of bad links I have.

I’m also thinking of putting a banner ad on the site using Google AdSense. Given that I’m unemployed every little cent I might take in would help, even if it wouldn’t be a real lot.

CNN has an AP story up about someone who had installed keystroke logging software on a bunch of machines at Kinkos in the New York area. This strikes me as common sense. Any machine in a public area isn’t going to be completely secure.

NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a year, unbeknownst to people who used Internet terminals at Kinko’s stores in New York, Juju Jiang was recording what they typed, paying particular attention to their passwords.

Jiang had secretly installed, in at least 14 Kinko’s copy shops, software that logs individual keystrokes. He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, and used them to access and open bank accounts online.

The case, which led to a guilty plea earlier this month after Jiang was caught, highlights the risks in using public Internet terminals at cybercafes, libraries, airports and other establishments.
[CNN]

Feeling very uninspired today. I’ll possibly post more tonight.

Tonight at midnight on Cartoon Network is the beginning of FLCL. This is probably one of the most bizzare animated shows I’ve ever seen. It’s about this kid who gets run down by a girl on a vespa who then smacks him with her guitar. Next, something starts growing out of his head. The show is insane. I love it. I’m real curious to see how the dub is (since even though I have the DVDs I’ve never listened to it in english).

Via /usr/bin/girl, I found this great review Real Life

It’s the beginning of a new week. Hopefully this one will be a bit more productive. The weekend was kind of lame. The weather and I fought again on Saturday night. I lost. I played tons of KOTOR this weekend. I think I must be getting pretty far in it. There’s been some great little twists and turns. My one big question is: why can’t we get the people who wrote this to write the next Star Wars movie?