Today's Dose of Randomness

Steve Berry

Finally finished Steve Berry's Third Secret yesterday. Definitely much better than Romanov Prophecy. No mention of Nostradamus there, but Berry used the St. Malachi prophecies... which temporarily became popular when Pope John Paul II died and people were speculating who the next pope will be.

I've decided to buy the latest book from Berry ... just to make Jeng and Menchie happy.


Software for the P1i

Anyway...I fell asleep way too early yesterday that I woke up at 1AM this morning. Decided to download some programs for my cellphone. I got 10 points to spend for programs, and each point is worth about 10 euros. I have until November of this year to use them. Problem is, the first time I saw the list of programs available last November, I couldn't decide what to buy to get the most of my 10 points. Good thing there are trial versions.

Downloaded DocumentsToGo first. My phone can already make, read and edit word and excel files, but not powerpoint. DocumentsToGo will allow me to read and edit Powerpoint. Hopefully, it has more excel functions.

Next was Finanz ... which is supposed to have financial calculations ... but I'm now thinking of uninstalling it because it's not that good ... it downloads currency rates from the internet though and that's cool. But not worth 2 points.

Third on the list is Best Crypto. It's supposed to allow me to put passwords on certain documents ... since that function does not come with my cellphone version of the office softwares. I've installed it but haven't tested it yet.

Also downloaded the Oxford english dictionary ... haven't installed it yet.

Downloaded both Sony Ericsson Media Studio and Mobiola Studio. Sony's expensive than Mobiola. I want to test if they convert DVDs and Youtube videos the same way.

Last on the list is the Mobiola webcam software that's supposed to allow me to use my phone camera as a webcam.

I think I'll test Bestcrypto and DocumentsToGo first before installing the others.

I'm gonna hunt for free downloadable games next. he he he!


Website Hopping
How I ended up reading about One Tree Hill

Before I started downloading the programs, I did a backup of my phone, had my system updated, which erased all phone memory, then had to do a restoration of data. That took a lot of time (and I was always wondering how long it would take before I had to let go of the "c" key on my phone), so I started looking up other sites.

Opened the lg.org forum and found out Lucas Grabeel has joined the cast of a new movie, Milk. He also has an interview in OK! Magazine.

Browsed through other pictures in OK! magazine and kept seeing Monique Lhuillier's name so I visited her site. Looked up some articles and blogs mentioning her or her creations.

Saw a blog mentioning Monique Lhuillier, Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Copon. It was about all three having Filipino ancestry, and currently making a name in USA. Huh? Michael Copon? Never heard of him so I ended up typing his name in Google. A bunch of YouTube videos have been posted about him.

Since I've already logged into my YouTube account to watch Michael Copon's videos, I looked into my subscription box and saw new music videos and movie trailers/announcement have been posted.

More about the movies and videos in my other blog: http://box-o-donuts.blogspot.com/2008/01/bits-and-pieces.html


Cleaning up my YouTube channel

Going to hide the older videos I uploaded. I've got too many up. If anyone wants to see them, s/he has to connect to my channel as a friend first. If s'he doesn't have a YouTube username but already has a gmail account, s/he can use that gmail username and password to log on to YouTube.

Oh yeah, I must really know who that person is before I add him/her as a friend.