Category: Hobbies and Projects

Yup, had to move lyza.com again. This time I hope permanently. I was tempted to wait until I’d modified WordPress to my heart’s content, making it awesome and all that, but I really need to get my ass in gear, so you’ll likely see stuff blinking and changing and breaking occasionally. That’s what makes it [...]

For the past several months, there’s been various adulations around the Interweb about Inbox Zero, the somewhat ninja-like discipline of maintaining complete mastery over one’s email life, with the emphasis on the “zero.” That is: Get everything out of your inbox with speed like cheetah. The gist of some of this is simple: get mail [...]

I like books, as you know. I don’t have a collector’s personality, but I collect books like old women collect Hummel figurines and Kinkaide paintings. It’s a somewhat shameful, obsessive thing. I get away with it fiscally because I never buy any clothes. That’s sort of the trade-off. Some people like going into their greenhouses [...]

Saw this over on Blogtown today. Cracked my shit up.

“7 Skies” by Kyau & Albert (on Euphonic)Male vocal progressive trance, released Aug. 23, 2007 EP available on iTunes. Discovered on Solarstone’s weekly DeepBlue Radio Show, this week mixed by Agnelli & Nelson (show #74), which I listen to at 9-11am Pacific on ETN.fm’s Trance station (available also in iTunes).

Battlestar!

She works! I finally got an AT&T rep who cared last night and she walked me through the 5-minute process to get my phone working. Now I am enjoying my iPhone. It’s quite nice. I especially like how “aggressive” it is about finding wireless networks. I was at the Band of Horses show last night [...]

It’s Tuesday afternoon and still no iPhone love. My other (old) cell phone doesn’t work either, as AT&T has de-activated the SIM in it, so I have had no phone service whatsoever for days now. I called AT&T again last night. Their official response (paraphrased): go pound sand. Sigh. If you’re trying to call me, [...]

Short story: don’t try to call me; neither of my phones work. Thanks AT&T. That totally rocks. I just got off the phone with AT&T customer support. Again. This time I was bluntly told that it could take “24 to 48 hours.” “Really?” I asked. “I thought I read in the news that you guys [...]

Short story: AT&T customer service instructs me to “take the phone apart”; still not activated. I knew activating my iPhone was going to be a bitch because a) I already have Cingular/AT&T service; b) I have had said service for a long time without changing anything and; c) I have a corporate discount from that [...]