Alright your bastards, I get it! I don’t need this pop up message to show up everytime i move my mouse.

Vista rules.

Anyone know how to get rid of this?

Lately, social networks have been disappointing me - and I am talking about the ones that I really like or the ones I really WANT to like.

Streamy - I’ve written glowing reviews of Streamy in the past. I still think it is a good service and a solid site. However, the lack of allocated invites to testers has gotten to me lately. I understand that they want to push out some updates, but come on now. After two weeks it would be nice to let some of my friends in to join me. Streamy on its own is a nice RSS reader, but the social features are what make it unique. Hard to test those and give feedback if I have only 2 people on my friends list (the 2 founders of the site).

Twitter - Oh Twitter, how unreliable you’ve become. Downtime, tweets which never get posted, adding new followers which never save in the system so I have to keep re-adding them. Could go on and on.

Pownce - Do something, ANYTHING, new. God, you are sitting on a gold mine here if you’d just add some new features the community has been clamoring for. Capitalize on Twitter’s performance issues by adding SMS options and decent RSS feeds. Even the addition of some new themes might be nice. Get some sort of public API released. Pownce is stagnant. I think the most recent addition was the addition of allowing people to see their friends last name - wow.

Digg - fix the damned comment system already. The new design was weak, it didn’t do much at all for the users. What about an image section? Surely that is an easy add, right?

My sincerest hope is that someone reading this hasn’t seen Heroes yet. I sometimes feel like the last person on earth to have found this show. It’s going on its second season, is immensely popular (perhaps the most popular show on television in fact) and already has a huge audience. If you have heard about Heroes, but haven’t taken the blue pill yet, read on!

Up until this week I’ve stayed away from Heroes. I am a die-hard Lost fan and I was really sick of people saying how much better Heroes is than Lost. Hogwash! I’ll show you! I won’t watch Heroes! I hate comics! Those were my counters to their arguments. Stupid, so stupid.

My friends, I was wrong and I will admit it - Heroes is better than Lost.

At least, this first season was better than Lost’s last season.

Although both shows have a completely different story which makes an apples to apples comparison impossible, they both have superior writing, acting and directing. Production values are off the charts good. Here is the major difference though - Heroes doesn’t take a full season to reveal the answer to mysteries, whereas Lost seems to drone on forever and keep you in the dark.

Heroes is based on the premise that seemingly ordinary people in our world have been given extraordinary talents. Not talents like say, Susie is good at playing the piano. In the world of Heroes, Susie could play the piano with her mind.

What these characters do with their newfound powers, the mysteries of how they attained them and what the future holds for our world are all explored over a whopping 23 episodes in Season 1. No doubt you have seen commercials for Heroes already. "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World!"

Season 2 of the show starts September 24th. Season 1 is currently out on DVD (as well as online on tons of sites). So you still have time to get caught up and I strongly recommend that you do so, this show is highly addictive! I basically finished watching Season 1 in 3 days (math majors, thats 8 hours a DAY of Heroes).

Either I am pathetic or Heroes rocks!