So when did American Idol start letting singers actually play instruments? I am watching for the first time this year and that Brooke White girls is pretty good. She just did Let It Be and it was awesome.

What do you think?

Mariah Carey’s new video for Touch My Body just dropped and it is hilarious!

I want to be the guy who pitched this treatment… “Ok so Geek Squad shows up at her door and then there is a unicorn and guitar hero… and then it ends with Mariah saying ‘802.11n’” Hot!

So I am going to start writing about more then just ColdFusion so I am doing a little cleanup on my RSS feeds. If you want to read my ColdFusion posts only then stay put. If you want to read my other rants from politics to technology to music, just subscribe to:

http://jeremiahx.com/feed

That should give you everything!

One of my favorite blogs OfficeSnapshots, which features photos of Internet related companies across the world, has released a new blog called… HomeOfficeSnapshots. I always love seeing how other people work in their homes and steal ideas from them.

Picked up my new MacBook from MacAuthority today decked out with 4 gigs of RAM. So far I am stoked and excited to be a Mac guy!

Well I’m off to get Parallels installed and ColdFusion etc. ohhh yeah baby!

Oh and while I was at MacAuthority they had a MacBook Air and it is SWEEEEEET. Yeah the cool factor alone will sell the thing.

If you happen to be in one of the 20 or so states that are having a primary today GO VOTE!

I don’t care who you vote for ::Obama:: or what your political ::Obama:: views are… just get out there and VOTE! ::for Obama::

:-)

wow!

From Foxnews.com (which I don’t read because I hate FoxNews… it was emailed to me)

Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data

Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong.

When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.

So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.

“She decided to mess up everything for everybody,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. “She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.”

It didn’t take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who’d done it — Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.

Police arrested Cooley Monday evening and charged her with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files, a felony. She was bailed out the following afternoon.
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Hutchins told one TV station he’d managed to recover all the files using an expensive data-recovery service.

As for the job, Cooley originally wasn’t in danger of losing it. The ad was for Hutchins’ wife’s company.

The firm told FOXNews.com that Cooley no longer is employed there.

Source

THIS!

Yes after 9 years as a palm user I have succumb to progress and have purchased a Blackberry. Now I just have to wait for it to get here!

One of my long-time friends Richard Blakeley… I say friends because I have met him before and have been watching his life unfold via LiveJournal for about 7 years now… has gotten himself into some “trouble”. He has worked at Gawker for a couple of years now as their video-boi and does hilarious videos and photoshopping for them.

Well this year at CES they decided to pull a prank with a tv-b-gone on the exibition floor and then all blogging mayhem let loose.

Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES

Needless to say this was way overblown and the real thing is that bloggers feel like they have to defend just because they want to have respect and crap like that. The funny thing is that Gizmodo was there as press, not bloggers so really it was the press acting up… not a blogger.

I first heard about this when reading John Chow’s blog post about it. When I saw 3 words “Gizmodo, Prank, Video” I immediately thought BLAKELEY. This is what he does… stupid dumb but artfully hilarious videos like this. He has been doing it for years and why would he change now? It drove traffic like crazy and traffic means $$ in this sport. So it worked.

He was on rocketboom the other day explaining himself and I think it is a great interview. I love the terrorist scarf, I have a red one. Funny side story on that… Blakeley mentioned he got a terrorist scarf at urban outfitters in NY and my sister happened to work at UO at the time in NY and I asked he if they still sell them. She said yeah and then about 2 weeks later I receive a red one in the mail. She took it as I really wanted one and she bought it for me :-) Sweet but I have never worn it once.

http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/rb_08_jan_17

Links:

Gizmodo: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES

Read more here:
New York Times: Over the Line at C.E.S.
BoingBoing: TV-Be-Gone mischief at CES
CNet: Bloggers behaving badly: Gizmodo messes with CES flat screens
CrunchGear: On Gizmodo’s douchery and blogging
Beltwayblogroll: Grow Up, Gizmodo Goofballs
Mobility Site: Gizmodo: What were they thinking?
Gear Diary: Total and Utter Crap: Gizmodo’s Stupid CES Prank on Motorola and Us Bloggers
ZDNet: How to temporarily “kill your television”-and everyone else’s, too
ZDNet: Gizmodogate: Get a sense of humor folks
Tech.co.uk: TechBloggers disrupt CES but prank backfires
Austin 360: Gadget site rattles trade show with TV prank
ZDNet: Gizmodo prank trashes CES presentations
Fake Steve Jobs: Gizmodo admits blasting out TV screens at CES
Scripting: The debate about the worth of podcasting
MacDailyNews: Video: Gizmodo turning off TVs - lots of TVs - at CES
CNet - CEA’s take on CES Gizmodo prank: Banned!

Sorry for all the non-cf posts today… I just didn’t feel like writing about CF… I will try better tomorrow! :-)

So some of you may remember this post where my brothers made the local news. Well come to find out my second youngest brother Monte is actually pretty good. This past week My parents and him ventured out to Vegas for a kicking event sponsored by Nike. It was a showcase type thing where they rate the kickers and give them reviews and stuff. There are also D1a coaches there taking a look at the field. Well come to find out that out of 75 kickers he placed 7th with a 5 out of 5 rating… this is huge! You see at this special camp EVERYONE of the Top 12 have gone on to Division 1 schools… yeah this means he will probably get a full ride to a D1 school and have a good chance of going pro after that.

Sad that he would be the first Merrick to go to college right out of High School and only the second after my oldest brother to graduate. Only too my parents 5 kids to get to that :-)

proof! http://www.chrissailerkicking.com/index.php?act=GetContent&cid=39&selyr=2009&fmLNK=10&pp=1