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Rest Assured

April 4, 2010 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Easter 2010

Hey folks.  For those of you that stop by from time to time, thank you.  I do have things to say, but life has taken the spotlight recently.  I am very focused on my first, and most beloved project, The Speedzine.  At the TheSpeedzine.com, I am blogging and reporting on various motorsports topics and headlines.  Doing this, and reporting on the races each week, has taken up a lot of the time I would normally have devoted to this blog.

Twitter.  Twitter, Myspace, and Facebook have become the portals to which I update the day to day ongoings of my life.  I am exploring how I can really utilize those conduits, plus this blog, in complete synergy.  How exactly, I am still working on.
One thing is for sure.  This is where the difinitve profile for myself, Daniel C. Vining, will live.  Somehow, most likely with Flickr, I will begin to post a ton of photos.  I will update my online resume, and keep you up to date on my other projects.
So rest assured, if you care, that this site is not dead.  Stay tuned!

I’m Ditching Third Party Updaters

January 31, 2010 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

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With all the social networks on the web today, it is very easy to become overwhelmed by them all.  I have accounts with most of them, and I am most active with the same top three that most of my readers are: Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace.  All these services have a feature called status, to which you constantly update to tell the world what you doing, reading, thinking, seeing, feeling, promoting, wishing for, etc.  Since so many of us have so many accounts, various developers have created a barrage of service updater applications to aggregate and push out information.  Up until recently, I have been very big on Tweet Deck, but I now find myself using the web more and more instead.

Tweet Deck is one of the largest updaters on the market.  With this Adobe Air based application, I can keep track of multiple accounts in Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.  I can even stay up to date with my seldom used LinkedIn profile.  I can do most everything on Tweet Deck that I can do in each respective service too.  However, there are problems.  The Adobe Air platform is sluggish.  I don’t get the updates in true real time, I don’t view aspects of each post the same way that the source developers had intended, and overall I feel a tad alienated from the experience.  I can see how useful a service like Tweet Deck, or HootSuite, or Seesmic can be for someone that is using social networking as a business model, but for me, I find that the only thing I use them for is to update all my profiles at one time.

For that, I am turning to Ping.fm.  That’s exactly what it is for. Updating. That is all I care about.  For the rest of my social networking experience, I turn to the host service itself.

What do you think?  What services do you use?  What do you think about the third party applications vs. the service’s main website?  Tell me what you think and post bellow.

Quick Tip! – Myspace IM

November 26, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

If you are anything like me, then you use social networking sites throughout the day everyday.  I still use and love Myspace.  In fact, along with Facebook, I have an instance of Myspace logged in and open almost 24/7.  I use Myspace IM, and find it to be a great tool for communicating with others.

Here is a quick tip.  If you stay logged in for long periods of time, and use Myspace IM, you may want to sign out every now and then.  Most of the time, Myspace will get to a point where I have timed out, and it logs itself out for me.  Other times, however, I notice that the IM feature becomes very sluggish, and may not provide accurate information, like who is online at that moment.  Logging out, then back in usually resolves this problem.

Quick, easy, and useful, at least that what I hope you get from this tip.  You have any tips to pass along? If so, leave a comment bellow, or shoot me an email: dan@danielvining.com

The job hunt saga.

May 9, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

What a day.  I was awakened by my girlfriend at just after 7am this morning.  It was really great to hear her voice after the day she had yesterday.  She ended up in the emergency room due to a killer migraine.  They gave her medicine and fluids and sent her on her way.  At the time, before we knew what was wrong, I was totally freaking out.  

I digress.  So I woke up this morning around 7am and talked with my girl for a bit before starting my day.  I finished filling an application with the convenience store chain Circle K, which was not the easiest user interface to work in.  Afterward, I caught up on my massive amount of email, all three or four messages.  Then I stopped by my usual online hang outs, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and a few others.  I got all my resumes printed and bound; they are now ready to go when I submit them to various firms next week.   By this time, I realized that I hadn’t yet eaten, so I scrounged around the kitchen a little and settled on a Chocolate Fudge PopTart.  Yummy, until I drank my milk. YAK!  Which reminds me to throw out that milk after finishing this post.  

It is now around 1pm and I am starting to think that the day is gonna be a waste, so I called my girlfriend to see if I could bring her something.  Come to find out that her parents had just left the house for a while and it was just her and the kids.  YAY!  I jumped in my truck, and headed over to her place.  I got to spend some quality time with her just hanging out at the house.  Good times.  

Around 3pm, I left her house and was dead set on filling an application at the near by Publix so that the day wouldn’t be a total waste (in terms of the job hunt).  It took me about 20-25 minutes to finish up at Publix, so I decided to head toward Target and Wal-Mart.  By the end of the day, I put in applications at Best Buy, Publix, Target, Wal-Mart, Win-Dixie, Lowe’s, and got applications for Home Depot and Office Depot.  It felt great to be making some progress toward getting a job.  

Next week I will focus on my resumes, and trying to get hired by a design firm or print shop.  Someone gave me the idea of job hunting in Mobile, which is about an hour away from here, Pensacola.  I don’t know if I want to go that far yet.  There are plenty of places to try and get hired here in Pensacola, so I may wait awhile on that avenue.  I guess, in the big scheme of things, anything is possible.

New Addiction: Facebook

April 30, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Well, try as I might, I could not help but to fall into the massive void that is Facebook.  I know, I know.  I am very late in the game, yet that doesn’t change the fact that I am now addicted to this service.  

I was an early adopter to Myspace, Facebook’s rival in the social networking game, back in 2005.  Within my Myspace profile, I grew a better understanding of HTML, got my fix on adding as many friends as I could, and kept in touch with friends in both my hometown of Pensacola, FL  and the place that I called home for five years, Minot, ND.  As 2005 drew into 2006, and 2007, I became a bit over saturated by Myspace.  By 2008 it had become the place where I would watch people continue on with their lives, while at the same time I started to respond less and less.  I was tired of Myspace.

Jump to now, 2009, and I have found new life in social networking, through Facebook.  It started with wanting to create a more professional social net presence that I felt Myspace could not provide.  Facebook for me has begun to overtake Myspace as my number one most visited site thus far this year.  I keep a Facebook page open all the time, and constantly check my email to see if there are any new updates.  Never a big fan of Myspace Apps, I don’t see myself changing that on Facebook.  There do seem to be more apps that truly cater to networking.  Although I don’t like how hard it can be to find new friends on Facebook, I feel that overall the user experience on this social network is safer.  

I don’t know if this new “addiction” will last as long as Myspace did, but I do know that I am enjoying this service now.  It is a huge tool that has let me reconnect with a ton of old friends, and expand into new relationships in both my personal and professional life.