Don't Back Down

In my never-ending quest to (attempt to) present things in a more organized fashion, I've decided that it's time for another category.

I originally created Linkedelica (then called Geeks Only or something similar) as a catch-all category for links that I happened to find now and again.

But I've noticed an increasing amount of entries on television. Most specifically The Amazing Race, but there are some others in there too. While most of these ended up in Linkedelica, they didn't fit particularly well. I do like to try and keep topics grouped together, and while these entries included links, they were about television, not just miscellaneous links that I happened to find.

I'm also closing in on my next birthday (number 35, about 6 weeks, plenty of time to send gifts), and it adds up to one more factor. Namely, I don't want to be any more un-cool than I already am. I need to get jiggy with it. Or something.

And with that, I introduce the newest category to Don't Back Down: Televizzle.

Like Scoble and half a dozen others that have blogged about it recently, I now have the Audiovox SMT 5600 from AT&T Wireless. Their price on the phone is listed as $199 with a two-year agreement, but I only have a one-year agreement and it was $199.

Actually $149 after an online user rebate of $50. I ordered the phone late Tuesday, it arrived yesterday afternoon via Fedex and I just received a text message that my number was transferred successfully from Sprint PCS. I'm impressed at the speed.

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I think I have some more insight into the number line mystery. While browsing books at the thrift store today, it came to me quite suddenly that I had some idea about the extra numbers found on this line in some books.

Not that it matters, but this particular line came from a Harry Potter book - specifically, The Prisoner of Azkaban.

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So I've felt a certain tug to try del.icio.us. There's a similar tug for flickr, but I've been able to keep that one at bay for the time being.

For del.icio.us, I even wrote a quick extension because I didn't like the way their bookmarks worked in Firefox and I didn't like the existing del.icio.us extension. Too much stuff for my tastes. Perhaps I just don't know how to use the service, and that's where I get stuck.

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