ITSO Tech, Bookshelf, and a free CD

Last night I was on the ITSO Tech show on RIT's radio station, WITR 89.7 for the first time and had a lot of fun. We really just geeked out for a couple hours and contemplated how corporate giants are going to react to each other in the coming days, weeks, months, and years. It wasn't nearly as difficult as I expected to come up with two hours of decent conversation, leaving me thinking that I might want to start my own podcast. Not that anything is happening soon, but sometime down the road, I might go on the indie media trip. Granted, we didn't have to deal with any of the technical requirements of the show other than speaking directly into the mic, but I don't think podcasting will be much different. Hey, if Paris Hilton can do a podcast, I can do a podcast.

If you haven't been checking my site every time you turn on your computer (not that you should), I've been working on slowly adding more stuff to the bar on the right side of the page. The most recent addition has been a list of books I'm currently reading, images provided by Amazon. It's based on yet another table in my database, giving me the flexibility to add and remove books on a whim. I'm also keeping track of books that I've already read so that I'll be able to create a full bookshelf page eventually. Who knows? Maybe I'll even set it up so that I know who I've loaned books to.

Keeping in tune with my "free stuff" based life of mooching, I noticed that WITR keeps a box of free CDs outside the door that they can't or won't play for whatever reason. I grabbed one by a band called Aryastone because the cover looked cool. The music really isn't that bad... It's got a bit of a Phil Collins sound to it with hints of a boy band and a heavy Jazz influence. I also like how it has a sticker on it that lists the best tracks on the CD so that the radio station knows what to play.

While I'm on the topic of free stuff, I'm getting pretty close to a Beanie with Mountain Dew caps. In case you're not following, Pepsi is giving away an Xbox360 every 10 minutes until it comes out. Every Pepsi cap has a code on it that you enter on their website and you get "mostly" free stuff. Now, this is great if you already drink a lot of soda anyway, but if you're really trying to get cheap stuff, you had better try for that sport jacket at goodwill because 600 Mountain Dews are a lot more expensive. So it's not really free, but because I'm already buying the Mountain Dew, it's an added bonus. If I win an Xbox360 I might just break even, but that's a long shot.