Sean’s Rant

So if you use Pandora on the Instinct, you have noticed that the sound is very low in the headphone setting.

There is an actual hack in the phone to change the maximum volume setting, which requires messing with the programming in your phone. Not many people want to go through this. If you do here you go – This is an excerpt from a post on Buzz About Wireless.

Ha! Live Bloomberg on my site! Widgets are so cool. CoolStreaming lets you embed a live channel on your site.

The markets have been crazy and unignorable. Back to some tech blogging.

I just installed a different related posts plugin, but you have to actually click on the post to see it, or view it in a feed. It looks pretty accurate so far. See the sidebar for the link. 

Good news? For banks? Maybe, we’ll have to see. These are very unusual times, and the US is becoming more Socialist every week.  The banking system is to be partially nationalised. This is huge. The Government will have to nationalize all of the companies doing bad because of the economy, and then nationalize all of the personal debt consumers have too to completely fix what is going on right now. Communism? 

It still baffles me when people want to stand behind ‘this isn’t a recession’. Well, its not technically a recession by definition, but the measurement for a recession is based on GDP and a length of time. We may not currently be in what is defined as a ‘recession’ based on these 2 factors, but we’re in more of a sudden condition, whatever it is that you want to call it. Those two metrics are heavily lagged by what is actually going on. The media has deemed it an ‘economic downturn’. Is this a new definition?

Take what you want and leave the rest. The next time you go to the buffet line you only take what you want. Unsubscribe to the feeds that suck, and take more like the ones you like. I have been utilizing the Google reader ‘Top Recommendations’ to do just this. With media these days being so profuse and diverse, there has got to be a pairing down of what we pay attention to, so that we can get what we want to see and not what ‘they want us to see’, they being main stream media. I’m not conspiracy theorizing right now, just saying from a marketing aspect the top news stories always seem to be the same, leaving what someone like me, who has specific tastes and interests, wanting. Does anyone else have any experiences or web tools that assist in their RSS experience in this way?

I added the mobile plugin “Wordpress PDA & iPhone” as well as a handfull of others but thats the only one I found to actually convert the page to a simpler look for phones. It still isn’t perfect, but what do you expect? The best way to view it would be through the mobile RSS Google Reader. I have found this to be a dream. It fits the feed to my phone, and is quick to load. I would highly recommend using this over going to a site directly. it saves download time and it fits it to the screen.