Saw this post on objo’s blog, apparently it’s a meme of some kind, though his was the first I’ve seen.  But I thought it was pretty cool none the less.  Here’s mine:

$  history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn
| head
114 cd
84 ls
79 irb
39 git
31 pedump
10 ps
10 objdump
10 e
8 ssh
8 dd

You can see a bit of my dual developerness there, irb and git for ruby, and pedump and e for the windows side (this is in cygwin).  What does your shell history have to say?

Forget blogging, tape a letter to their door!  Looks like Nick Starr was tired of not having IMAP for Gmail and decided to go right to the source.  Thanks for Steve Rubel‘s tweet.

But it’s still sad when you find out.  I hope that everyone that worked at MMORadio landed on their feet, I enjoyed the station and just found out when I went to put it on today. :/  If anyone knows any similar stations that are still on the air, or any places the DJs went, drop me a line.

Oh man am I tempted to call up Scoble and be all like “Hey man! I want in on the BlogHaus, can you send me some plane tickets? Oh and can I bunk with yas?” All the CES talk has me a bit bummed that I’m stuck here doing my normal, boring job stuff. Oh sure, I have CodeMash in a couple weeks, but it’s in Sandusky not Vegas, and it doesn’t have an adult convention next door. Poo. So a little piece of me dies every time Scoble picks someone else up in his limo. Looking through my feeds, it looks like there’s a ton of bloggers there, alot that don’t even necessarily cover consumer electronics regularly on thier blogs. I’m sure the face to face is wonderful, unfortunatly I can’t afford in either time or money to go, hopefully there’ll be something in the Midwest/East Coast some time soon. I’m looking forward to the Microsoft annoucements most of all, but every year is exiciting to see what toys I’ll be buying in the next year or two. Well, while you are are out there enjoying the lights and booze, think of all the hundreds of thousands of bloggers that are stuck at home, wishing they could be out there having fun with y’all. At least CES is one of the most covered events on the web, with all the live coverage I’ll at least feel like I’m almost there.

With word on the next version of the XBox360 coming out “soon” with some nice upgrades (HDMI = yummy). I’m sure glad I didn’t push to get my wife to let me buy one over the Christmas vacation. I’m definitely saving up now with the intention to buy one when it’s available.

The real question is…how many other people are doing the same? How many purchases is Microsoft going to loose this quarter while people hold off for the XBox361? Of course with 2 million XBoxes sold during the holiday season compared to only 750,000 for the PS3 [source], the climb is probably insurmountable. But still, it should be interesting to see if there’s a dip in XBox sales over the next few months.

I also believe that the inclusion of an HDMI port strongly points to the possibility of a HD-DVD drive being built in. If that happens, and Microsoft is able to keep the price of the XBox around where it’s been, HD-DVD will win the format war handedly. Of course this would probably piss off the early adopters, and purchasers of the external drive, more then the hard drive upgrade.

Another interesting bit of Xbox speculation occurred at Scobleizer today. Robert speculates on Microsoft leveraging the XBox platform outside of the gaming world and throughout it’s Live family. I personally think it makes sense, though achievements may not be the best way. Imagine instead micro-payments of Microsoft Points (notice that they are Microsoft Points and not XBox Points…hmmm), maybe instead of an achievement it’s half a point or some such. If the console manufacturers ever decide to allow person to person point transfers (which Microsoft says they eventually want to allow), it would be interesting to see if a third party point system could develop. What if you could earn XBox Points that you could convert to Wii Points or whatever the Playstation ends up with? Or convert it to cash? A gamer point market seems like it would be fun, profitable, and good for all three consoles.

With yesterday’s post from the googlereader blog detailing how they’ve added the new personal stats feature, a number of people have speculated on Google releasing the information in an aggregate form. As speculated earlier on this blog and others, Google may be in a position to compete in the social web with the likes of Digg. Of course this would require aggregate data on individual posts (which I’m sure they’re gathering). Another site that Google could easily compete with would be Technorati, the stats that they’re currently showing are for individual feeds, which usually correspond to an individual site. It would be trivial to provide a listing of most read and most shared feeds, those would be some interesting stats I think. Maybe call it Feedorati? Regardless, I’m expecting with 2007 to be the year of the Social Web that Google will be adding alot more social aspects to their services, and this is likely a step in that direction.

It looks like Ford is partnering with Microsoft to release a new autocomputing platform next year.  Since I bleed Ford Blue, and will be needing a new car soon, this is exciting news.  I hope my Escort lasts one more year so I’m not limited to the Focus or the Five-Hundred.  Oh, and please hold the “Fix Or Reboot Daily” jokes.

I haven’t actually seen this one around too much, looks like I’m Big and Bad and I like it!

Michael.NET’s results are:
Michael.NET is Apocalypse

Apocalypse 91% Magneto 86% Dr. Doom 81% The Joker 76% Lex Luthor 74% Venom 67% Riddler 67% Green Goblin 65% Dark Phoenix 62% Juggernaut 57% Kingpin 56% Mr. Freeze 53% Two-Face 49% Mystique 45% Poison Ivy 43% Catwoman 36%

You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest.

Click here to take the “Which Super Villain are you?” quiz…

Looks like I’m a Super Ironman…(coincidently two of my favourite superheroes growing up), this seems to be the popular thing to post lately, which one are you?

Michael.NET’s results are:
Michael.NET is Superman

Superman 80% Iron Man 80% Spider-Man 75% Green Lantern 65% Robin 60% Catwoman 60% The Flash 55% Hulk 55% Supergirl 53% Batman 50% Wonder Woman 28%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

With the recent talk about Google perhaps replacing Digg as a social news/link site, a lot of people made the point that you can’t share non-feed items through Reader. While it’s true that you can’t click on a URL and add it to Reader, there is a work around. Admittedly it’s technically a feed…but it’s your own personal feed of links.

The first thing to do is to setup an account on del.icio.us (note: Originally I wanted an all Google solution, if there was a way to embed HTML in Spreadsheets (or if notebook had RSS feeds) then del.icio.us wouldn’t be necessary, and if Google Bookmarks ever becomes shareable with an RSS feed then watch out), this will be where all the non-feed items you want to share will be put. After you’ve registered browse to your bookmarks (http://del.icio.us./username) at the bottom of the page they’ll be an RSS icon, right click this icon and select copy link. Since Google Reader doesn’t like del.icio.us feeds for some reason, we have to burn it. Go to FeedBurner and follow the directions on burning your feed. Add the FeedBurner feed to Google Reader.

Now, here’s where the trick comes in, once it comes up in Google Reader, Click the Add to folder button and select new folder. Let’s give it a good name like…Shared-Links. You should now have a folder that contains the feed of your bookmarked items. Now in order to share it just go to your Settings, click the Tags tab and you’ll see a list of all your folders, including the newly created shared-links. There’ll be a grayed out RSS icon and the word private in the third column. Simply click the icon and the folder will become public.

Click on the “view public page” link and you’ll be given the URL for those items, in my case it’s http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/17930628540914156026/label/shared-links . As you add items to your del.icio.us account they’ll appear on that page. You can then spread both your Link Blog and your Bookmark Blog. Enjoy!