This week and next is the big tekkie gathering in Austin called SXSW. The first week is for computer geeks and then the second week is for musicians. This is the one trade show that I would be willing to pay my own way. If I can’t get a gig with a company to send me next year, maybe I will just pony up and go on my own.

Everyone loved Megan Fox in Transformers. She has a body to kill for. So now she’s the killer, in Jennifer’s Body. It comes out next month. Here’s the new trailer I found.

I guess the modem in my HP PC has quit working. I could not get on the internet yesterday at all. So I tested everything and the laptop gets online. By process of elimination, it must be the modem has blown up.

I went to SAMs Club and found a new modem that hooks up through a port and it was only about $30. It plugs into the front of the PC and worked right away. So that’s fixed.

Isn’t it kind of sad that a popular slogan is based on a company’s failure to provide the expected services? I’ve had the frustration of talking to someone on my cell phone and having the call dropped because it lost the signal. I bought a phone and brought it home when I lived out in the boonies and discovered that no where near my house got a cell signal. I’ve had a road trip through an East Coast state that I would have figured for good cell phone coverage – less than an hour from Washington DC – and was not able to get a cell phone call once over the three days I was there. I guess things are getting better. I don’t know.

Shake a baby? Can you believe that some idiots that this was a cute idea for an iPhone app? You shake the phone until the baby on the phone display dies. That’s just sick.