HTC is releasing the HTC Kaiser to Europe. Woohoo! That means we should be getting our hands on them soon. Can't wait! You can read the complete details at this Engadget article.

More cool pics (and you can preorder):

• http://www.mobilecityonline.com/wireless/store/seemorepictures.asp?pid=1&productid=22674 

Musicovery... OK this is one of the freaking coolest sites I have EVER been too. You choose a mood and it creates and plays a music list to match your mood!!! And you get to see it create your Music Plot. So EFFIN cool.

I found this site because I am reading the  Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites on PC Magazines web site. Check it out if you're interested.

Seriously though... you HAVE to try it out!!!

I took 2 photography courses in college to make my art requirement. I have alway been interested in photography because it was a way to "artfully" express myself. I can't draw, I can't paint, I can't write poetry or write songs. I can definitely frame a picture and I have a very fast trigger finger, so by default, photography became my outlet for expressing myself "artfully". I LOVE photography.

After living here in Houston for 2 years I finally (what took me so long) decided to do a search for "Houston Photography". It turns out there is a very strong and active community here. I found Photine, which is a wonderfully written blog. For some reason it is extremely engaging. I'm betting because there's true genuiness (is that word?). Anyway, the author is a photog and I've followed her links to other Houston photogs: CyberToad, Martin, and of course Photine's. One day, when I get the time and the nerve, I'll post my photos too.

Random thoughts... I make my living on the web. I'm a web programmer, yet it never ceases to amaze me how cool the Web is and easy it is to connect; with blogs, with twitter, facebook, etc.

Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense is the name of the article on Wired.

This is THE sentence that convinced me to use Twitter: "For example, when I meet Misha for lunch after not having seen her for a month, I already know the wireframe outline of her life: She was nervous about last week's big presentation, got stuck in a rare spring snowstorm, and became addicted to salt bagels."

I thought to myself that this would be the perfect way for all my friends and family to be able to see what is going on in my daily life. In addition to that, I'm not spamming them with emails. Not only do they get to choose to participate, but they get choose how often. I thought that was a perfect way to share my life with the people I care about. Granted I had to make mine public since some of my friends and family are too lazy to create an account, but I try to be very careful with what I say.

Anyway, I'm a huge fan of Twitter and (most of) my sisters are now signed up and Twittering away too. Good stuff!

This blog runs on BlogEngine.NET and I tried to use the Import Tool to import my existing blog on Blogger. This for whatever reason did not work. I then read the forums and found out some other people were able to import their blog from WordPress. I also found out that WordPress is able to import blogs from Blogger...

ding! ding! ding! We have a winner. I created a WordPress blog, imported my Blogger blog into WordPress, then used the import tool to import my blog from WordPress. It worked like a charm except I could only import the 10 latest postings and no images or links work... hmmm...

I read more forum stuff and found out I needed to change the "Reading Options (WordPress Admin)" to "Show at most:" equivalent to or greater than the number of blog posts I have. So now I can grab ALL of my blogs, but alas, without the pics or links... not useful. Oh well...

I am currently trying out a new blog engine called BlogEngine.Net and it is built on ASP.NET 2.0. So far this thing rox! Because this is built w/.NET it uses master pages which will make it A LOT easier to theme. I am currently using the Leaves them of which I have used on another site of mine, Eurlist. You can find the theme here and I recommend you donate to the creator. It is an excellent theme.

So this blog engine comes with an Import Tool that is currently in beta. It is located in the "Settings" tab of the admin pages. You must have .NET 2.0 installed on your computer and be using Internet Explorer. I have yet to try it becase my current blog at Blogger is down. I think all of Blogger is having issues... at http://hagii.blogspot.com/ you should get this:

Server Error

The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.

Oh well, guess I have to wait to try it.