Well, I can’t even email them. Logging into my account this evening is impossible. It’s one error message after another as these screens show:

At one point I was logged in for about 2 minutes. When I clicked the contact link, the resulting page informed me my session had timed out.

Continued Reception Woes
This is the coverage map. Looks like I’m stuck between two towers.

According to AT&T I’m in the GOOD area.

GOOD: The areas shown in the medium orange should be sufficient for on-street or in-the-open coverage, most in-vehicle coverage and possibly some in-building coverage.

SOME in-building coverage. At my house, ‘Some’ equals about 1 bar on the EDGE network. 1 bar on EDGE equals no data connection. It also means missed calls and dropped calls. ‘Some’ times it means no service. It always means no 3G, even though the map says the opposite.

If I can ever contact AT&T, I want them to know that coverage in this area stinks. Ideally they have a database of people who have complained about coverage in this area and it’s only going to take one more (my) complaint for them to come out to the tower and boost the signal, build a new tower, whatever. 13 more months to go…

It’s about as minimal as it gets, but we wanted to get something published just to go through the process. Now it’s on to something bigger and better! Ideas are welcome.

iTunes link to Clapp

Leno did a good job but I was always a Letterman fan.

I always felt Letterman got a bad deal not getting the Tonight Show after Carson left. Letterman was obviously Carson’s favorite.

Conan is great, because like Letterman, is able to come to the celebrity guests as a more of an outsider who doesn’t mind calling them out on their obsurdities.

So with Letterman and Conan coming on at the same time, it’s really going to be unfortunate to have to split my time between the two.

Jimmy Fallon has been on for a few months now. He’s getting better and it’s great how he involves the audience in the studio and viewers at home through the internet. And what he’s doing with Twitter is great. Friday night, after Leno’s final show, Fallon Twittered along with his show, kind of like a director’s commentary. It was quite dynamic and very interesting. There are some brutally awkward moments, though. Especially between him and his announcer. But his show is still very new, and has a lot of time to develop.

Here are some classic clips of Letterman on Carson. Letterman was really fired up back in the day.

Letterman on Carson talking about NBC choosing Leno for the Tonight Show. (Part 1)

Letterman on Carson talking about NBC choosing Leno for the Tonight Show. (Part 2)

Follow Friday needs to get back to its roots. Choose ONE interesting person, post their name, and explain WHY they are worth following. That’s it.

Remember: ONE interesting person per Friday and explain WHY.

P.S. Also, as an aside, rambling about your personal health problems is the quickest way to garner an unfollow. No one wants to read that. No one.

Update: Just wanted to add this clip from WKRN as the tornado passed over I-24. It’s a devastating situation down there. Pay attention to the local news if you have to be down there or are looking for ways to help.

I was making an Amazon purchase and decided to throw in the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. Well, after everything was all said and done I was going to end up paying $10.50 in shipping for a $9.99 CD. This was after I had to call into customer service on the phone to have my password reset. (Another rant for another day.)

So I knew anyone local could beat $20.49 for a CD. I went down to Grimeys, paid $14 with tax and ended up with an EP that came with it.

For over a year now my server has been pulling down an hourly snapshot of the current NOAA weather alerts.

This is a one year time lapse compiled from these images from March 2008 to March 2009. A snapshot of alerts was taken every hour. At 24 frames per second: 1 second = 1 day.

Logging into my router I’ve pulled this lovely little bandwidth graph that gives a good indication to how much data I’m pushing out.

Before the litter cam I was sending an average of 5GB of data per month upstream. With Ustream I’m now pushing up about 22.5GB a month. This equals about 17.5GB per month broadcasting Ustream 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The image sent out is almost always static so I don’t know if much more bandwidth would be used with a more animated subject, what with the way digital compression works and all. Eventually I’d also like to try the special Flash encoder that is supposed to push out higher-res video to Ustream viewers, but that will involve a virtual install of Windows which I’m just not looking forward to, to be honest.

The idea of a whole OS running on top of another OS for just one app is unpleasant.

Do you really think if we had the other political party in office, they wouldn’t be spending unfathomable amounts of money right now?

Politicians at the Federal level exist to move money. They control the flow of money and it’s their job to get as much money to their friends/constituents as possible.

Remember: We need to change the system as a whole. Both parties are to blame.

This potential rabbit-hole of a post could go on forever, but I’m going to cut it off here.