How’s that for a title? 
I recorded a podcast the other day. I’m going to try to upload it today. Really. I did it, I’m serious.
I’m back home in Indiana. That’s weird to say, as I actually feel more comfortable on the West Coast. Friends asked me if I had culture shock when I moved to Los Angeles. I responded that I think I had culture shock the first 23 years of my life in Indiana!
So, recently I’ve discovered some cool things about some tech stuff. Awhile back, I bought a car charger package for my cell phone. Well, actually it’s for almost every cell phone as the connectors swap out. And it’s not just for the car, you can connect it via usb to your computer (so the cell charges on the computer) or to a wall connector or to a cig lighter connector in your car. The whole package was twenty bucks. And with it, I save people when they forget their charger because I have just about every adaptor!
And I found another reason to love that little package. It works with my iPod. Because the car connector uses a USB plug to connect, I can use my USB iPod cord and plug it into my cig lighter and charge my iPod! Not bad considering the car adaptors for iPod also sell for twenty dollars! So if you’re thinking about buying a car charger for your iPod, go to Fry’s and pick up the cell phone charging kit for twenty bucks. Same price, much more useful!
I’m pretty frustrated with Verizon-Yahoo and Linksys. I spent three hours trying to get a wireless router working at my parent’s house. Tech support for both were pretty useless until… until a guy had me change the Router’s IP address because the Verizon modem used the same IP that nearly all wireless router’s default to… And the Verizon people just brushed me off to Linksys, when this has to be a common problem. It was not in any of their documentation. Having installed many wireless networks, I can say I’ve only experienced something similar to this once before and that was because they had several routers and hubs working against each other, not one simple wireless router with a DSL modem.
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