http://pyrosarco.com/blog the thoughts, ideas, and opinions of seth nenstiel Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last week or so has left me with little to write about.  Today I started a class on Adobe Illustrator which I am extremely thrilled to learn.  I am starting to look at pictures that people have created and am understanding which parts they used Illustrator for and in ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/07/08/streaming-to-find-people-progress/ I recently read Seth Godin's account of dealing with Verizon Wireless customer service.  He speaks about dealing with two, three, four plus people on the phone to get his problem solved.  Perhaps, I have been extremely lucky, perhaps I have been well informed about what I need done, or perhaps ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/25/re-learning-from-frustration/ I was having some trouble figuring out how to add a single RSS feed to Feedly today, so I thought I would make a write up about how one can do it.  First lets find a feed that we want to add.  I like Design You Trust so I will ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/18/adding-an-rss-feed-to-feedly/ What's more important in the internet social world?  Blogging or tweeting?  I am struggling with this concept when it comes to sharing.  Obviously if you blog about something and people like it, they will continue to read, respond and visit.  But if you tweet about something, it can also be ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/17/blogging-or-tweeting/ Five days shy of a month ago, I posted some goals.  To keep on track, I am going to make myself accountable to you.  Here are the goals (reposted)--I put a two month time limit on them--and what I have accomplished. 1. Make a portfolio of art that will get me ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/17/what-have-i-been-doing-revisited/ I woke up this morning and went down to breakfast.  The potatoes had already been fried and the question of "who wants eggs?" was floating around.  I passed, got some potatoes and orange juice, and quickly went on my way.  I turned on my computer, not knowing what I intended ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/14/old-friends/ I was sitting around this morning, listening to the Gym Class Heroes when I got to thinking that blogging about something on a low traffic site like mine, is in many ways, very similar to playing the stock market with out investing too much time in learning about it.  In ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/09/a-comparison-of-blogging-and-playing-the-stock-market/ I recently was surfing through last.fm when I stumbled across this tasty bit of information.  Apparenlty Canada has been working in secret to bring about some new laws that would force internet providers to turn over data with out a court order.  The ACTA also will allow for government agents ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/06/anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta/ Two new Twitter applications that need to be implemented immediately. The first should allow you to search your time line by putting in your user name and then a search term or phrase.  It needs to be online based and return you results. I believe I saw a wget form of ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/04/twitter-applications/ I am really kinda sad right now because I don't know that I have a good enough portfolio to get me into RIT.  I am going through my stuff and am like crap, I really don't know what I am doing because I really haven't had any art classes.  So ... http://pyrosarco.com/blog/2008/06/01/bummed-out/