So I just downloaded the new WordPress 2 iPhone App that I guess came out October 12. I don’t get why they didn’t just make it an update to their version 1. I had no idea it was out and I’m not even sure how I found out about it today lol. Eh whatever.

So it seems pretty cool. You have more control over things like your comments and pages. I never actually used version 1 so I can’t really give an accurate comparison. But I like it and it’s good enough for me. Bye bye version 1.

A couple off topic things I want to note. I have big plans for this blog and my portfolio site at pixelmotives.com. I have redesigns in mind for both sites but I haven’t started anything yet. Hopefully I’ll get to both of them. November seems to be the month I decide to redesign my websites. I don’t know why, that’s just how it’s worked out so far. LOL

Just thought I’d share my current favorite alcoholic beverage with you guys: the Mocha Tini from Tini Bigs Big Martinis in Seattle, WA. I was never into martinis, but my perspective completely changed after visiting this place with my friends while on vacation back in March earlier this year. I guess Tini Bigs is known for their unique martini recipes. I always thought martinis were just straight up vodka with an olive in it…lol. But I guess there’s different ways to make a martini.

The Mocha Tini is a mix of Finladia Vodka (2 1/2 ounces), Starbucks coffee liqueur (1 ounce) and Godiva chocolate liqueur (1 ounce) “Shaken, not stirred”…lol then topped with whipped cream and garnished with espresso beans. Hella strong at first, you can definitely taste the vodka. Then the mocha/chocolate taste kicks in for an after-taste. Here’s a photo I took of it before I drank it:

I think Tini Bigs has about 50 unique martinis and they sell a book with all the recipes so you can make them at home. Yeah…I bought it lol. I’m actually at home now and that’s what I’m drinking…pretty much the reason why I’m writing this post. Here’s a photo of my attempt to make the drink:

Looks nothing like the original…haha. But hey, I think it still tastes great.

Another drink I think they’re famous for is the Spanish Tini. I don’t think it’s on their menu, you just have to know about it and they’ll make it for you. I can understand why since it looks complicated to make and only some of the bartenders know how to make it. I’m not going to write the whole recipe, but basically they caramelize a martini glass by rimming it with sugar, pouring some 151 in it and lighting it on fire. While the glass is still on fire they sprinkle nutmeg and cinnamon on it creating sparks and making the fire bigger. The process looks pretty crazy, wish I had a video of it. I have yet to try making this drink.

I really don’t know what my point was in writing this post, but if any of you go to Seattle anytime soon I highly recommend going to Tini Bigs. Great place..great martinis. Currently vaping with Vapor Talk’s Cappuccino juice and it just tastes awesome with the Mocha Tini. LOL

Alright…going back to vaping and drinking my Mocha Tini. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

The long awaited 3.0 software update for the iPhone was finally released today. Many iPhone users have been wanting several features to be available on the iPhone since it’s first release, but so far Apple has failed to please everyone. Features such as video, MMS, copy and paste, bluetooth stereo and apps running in the background are a few of the wishlist items I’ve seen floating around the internet. In this latest update, Apple promised over 100 new features for the iPhone. I don’t have a list of every single new feature, but I will give my thoughts on some of the features I have checked out. I must say, I am both impressed and quite disappointed.

I guess I’ll start off by talking about the features I thought were pretty cool. I always ran into situations where I wanted to copy a website url and text it to someone, or copy and paste a message to someone else. So, the first thing I checked out was the “copy and paste” feature. I was impressed with how easy it was to use. You press and hold on the screen until the magnifying glass shows up, let go then a menu pops up asking what you want to do, “select” or “select all”. Choose one and then it says “copy”. Press and hold again. When you let go, it gives you the option to “paste”. Easy enough.

Next thing I checked out was the landscape keyboard. I know a lot of people have been waiting for this and it’s pretty cool. I personally don’t like the landscape keyboard because I feel that I have to reach my thumbs out too far to press the middle keys, but maybe I just have to get used to it. I can see this causing less typos though because the keys are larger and more spread out.

Spotlight Search. When you flick the home page all the way to the left, Spotlight Search comes up and it searches pretty much everywhere on your iPhone for things. You can search for apps installed on your iPhone, contacts, emails, songs, etc. I can see this being very useful when searching for an app I have lost somewhere on the 9 or so pages.

Shake to Shuffle. Not highly impressive, but works. Shake your iPhone when you’re listening to your iPod and it randomly shuffles to another song. yay…ZzZzzZ…

Now on to some of the features I was disappointed about. I’ll just list them quickly and briefly explain why.

1. MMS. Won’t be available until end of summer.
2. Tethering (connecting your phone to your laptop as a modem). Won’t be available for AT&T.
3. Sync Notes. Requires that you have Mac OS 10.5.7 or above. I am still using Tiger at home, which is 10.4
4. Stereo Bluetooth. I have old bluetooth headphones that I used to use for my iPod. I was able to pair it to my iPhone and the sound transmits to the headphones, but the button controls located on the headphones do not function (previous, next, play, pause, volume). LAME! They probably plan on come out with “iPhone compatible” bluetooth headphones. Great, more money.
5. Folders for apps was probably just a rumor as I haven’t seen anything on it yet.
6. Video only available for the new iPhone 3G S.
7. Voice control only available for the new iPhone 3G S.
8. Compass only available for the new iPhone 3G S.

As you can see, I have a larger list of disappointments. I think the only real thing in the 3.0 update that I will be making use of is the “copy and paste” feature. But I really can’t say this update was completely disappointing just yet. There are actually a couple features that we have to wait and see what happens with, like Push. Supposedly the “Push” feature was added with this update. But I have yet to see an app utilize this feature. For those of you that don’t know what it is, Push will allow an app to send a notification to your phone even while the app isn’t running. An example would be an instant messaging app notifying you that someone just sent you a message.

So, I guess it’s just a waiting game then. As with the previous iPhone 2.0 software, we have to wait until developers come out with some cool apps that utilize some of the other new features. We also have to wait until all the bugs are found and fixed. Ok, and I guess I would just be a lot happier if I just give in and bought the new iPhone 3G S. We’ll see… o_O

I know I haven’t updated this site as much as I wanted to and I’m pretty sad about that. The main reason behind it is this asshole at work has been causing drama for me, making up bullshit and trying to get me fired. Someone who I actually considered a pretty good friend, ends up stabbing me in the back. I still don’t know why and I can’t go into detail or anything, but I ended up having to lay low on my social networks for a bit and put everything on private. And since this person knows my website, I kinda stopped blogging. I do want to keep a website but I don’t want this person reading my shit, so I may either buy yet another domain name and transfer things over…or make this a members only site. But how many of you would actually join??? LOLmylife could be the next facebook! hahaha…yeah right. My last option would be to just ditch the site all together just to be on the safe side. Please comment your thoughts on that. kthxbai!

Wow, I can’t believe it’s already been a week since our Whistler trip. We were waiting for the trip for so long, then all of a sudden it’s over and passed already. I’ve been meaning to blog about it, but I’ve been so busy with other things. Well, it’s never too late right? LoL. I realized that this was my first really big vacation trip without my family. And I must say, I had a lot of fun. We didn’t have phone service or any internet, so I wasn’t able to update my twitter status the entire time. I was dying, so I resorted to jotting down notes in my iPhone to post in this blog later. It really helped me from going through any withdrawals. So here’s an excerpt from my notes on our Whistler trip:

Wednesday 3/18/09

9:37pm – Arrived at Whistler around…ok I don’t remember what time. Checked into the Blackcomb Lodge. Got some groceries for dinner tonight. Now we’re just chillin watching Twilight on Cicero’s laptop while cooking the food. Yay! I feel so disconnected from the world right now without any Internet. I’m sad that I can’t update my Twitter and Facebook…LOL yeah it’s an addiction. So I’ve resorted to jotting down stuff in my notes on my iPhone for the next few days. I’ll probably start up a blog and throw this in there. At least I’m not limited to 140 characters. LOL ok time to pay attention to twilight and see what all the fuss is about.

11:52 pm – Time for bed…got an early and long day tomorrow. Gotta leave the room by 7am to get to the early bird First Tracks thingy. Good night!

Thursday 3/19/09

7:43am – Wow we’re actually doing the 1st come, 1st tracks early bird breakfast thingy. On the gondola right now. Serving us breakfast at the top. Hungry!

7:54am – First time hearing someone say “ay”. The guy on our gondola with us must be local.

8:55am – Just finished breakfast…finally going on our first run.

12:12pm – Lunch break…eating at the same place we ate breakfast at the top.

11:33pm – Going to bed already?? Feels so early, but we’re all hella tired. Doing it all again tomorrow. Good night!

Friday 3/20/09

8:35am – Andrew is dancing to his eggs? (I was still in bed and overheard Shelly say that. I have no idea what was going on. lol)

10:02am – Getting ready for day two of snowboarding. Shelly cheated by going on Twitter through her work cell phone. I asked if I could see her phone. She said no.

(I didn’t bother taking my phone out at all since the weather conditions were really bad on the mountain.)

6:29pm – Waiting for table at Caramba! Restaurant.

8:42pm – Bought a bottle of Taboo Absinthe. Watching Ceez take photos of the bottle before we start drinking. LOL

11:21pm – Me and Cicero killed the fuckin bottle of absinthe. LOL

11:48pm – Going outside for a smoke since I’m the only smoker here…

Time?? Will probably regret that I fuckin took my phone off airplane mode.

Saturday 3/21/09

10:09am – Checked out and leaving Whistler now. So so sad…=(

I’m actually kinda glad that I jotted down notes in my iPhone. Now I have some sort of written record of some of the things that happened. LoL. There were a few parts missing, but whatever. In case any of you haven’t seen the photos from the trip,  check them out in my photo gallery: Whistler.

So I’m sitting outside of Boiling Crab in Alhambra waiting for a table with my sister. I’ve never eaten here before, but everyone keeps twittering about it. So I’ve grown very curious and have been dying to try it out. I guess this place is super popular. There’s a crapload of people outside waiting for a table too and the wait is an hour and a half long! I convinced my family to have dinner here tonight so it better be worth it. I’m starting to think this might not have been a good idea because my mom isn’t a very patient person. She’s waiting in the car and I’m surprised she hasn’t started complaining yet. Ah whatever. I just can’t wait to get a table. I’m hungry and I love crab. Iz mah favorite! LOL o_O

I have no idea why, but I didn’t wake up to my alarms this morning and it made me an hour late for work. That’s what I get for playing around with this site so late I guess. I’m making up for my lateness by staying a little later than usual. And what am I doing? Blogging! No I did some real work. Really I did. lol…whatever, I think I’ve stayed long enough. I’m gonna go hit up Town Square right now to do a little shopping. I haven’t done that for myself in ages and I think I deserve it. Well I’m outta here! Lateeeeeerz…..

Crap. So much for doing any real freelance work today. I spent all day after work playing around with my website. Made some adjustments and tried out different guestbooks. I didn’t realize what time it was. Well, I’m happy with this last one that I installed. Looks pretty clean so far, but I need more people to sign it so I can make adjustments to the padding or whatever if it needs it. I mean I guess I could make fake Lorem Ipsum posts, but that’s no fun. I want real people to sign it. LoL. That’s where you guys come in….so, sign it! NOW! kthxbai…

I just finished updating my about me page. I think I spent about 2 hours writing those few paragraphs about myself. I had a hard time trying to describe myself and it was even harder to fit it in just a couple paragraphs. I didn’t want to make it too long because that’s just boring. But I also wanted to get everything in there.  So yeah, that’s me in a nutshell. Oh and I decided to throw in a favorite quote of mine. =D

Awesome. I just set up the WordPress App on my iPhone. I’m just testing things out to see if everything works properly. And it looks like it is! Woooo! Now I can blog about random things right on the spot. Damn this would have been so useful on our whistler trip because you can save drafts and post them up later. Oh well. Whatever. So I’m just sitting here waiting to get off work. Got about 15 minutes left now. Yeah…then I get to go home and do freelance work. Yay…it never ends. Ha! That’s life right? Aight I’m outta here. Laterzzzzz….