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Every day, five or six thousand social-networking, blogosphere-trotting, long-tailing web sites are created.  All of them with a really great, new idea that combines RSS with AJAX and plans to stay in Beta forever.  Out of all of those, a few are really cool and useful - and Technorati is definitely one of them. Technorati tracks blogs and the discussions, reactions, and responses that bounce from blog to blog via the simple mechanism of who is linking to who.  It also collects tags and allows you to search the mass of blogs for posts that might be relevant to your query.  Bloggers can "claim" their own blog and use some surprisingly fun tools to see who is talking about them.  Some people have even been abandoning the whole trackback system in favor of Technorati. And apparently, Technorati hates me. Now, Technorati hasn't outright said it hated me (or us, since this is a group blog), but it won't let us claim Unsought Input.  Every time we try to make the claim, we get this:

There was a problem claiming your blog. Please try again in a few minutes. You can also go to Technorati Help for help claiming your blog.

Trying again is of no use, whether we wait a few minutes or a few weeks.  Using the customer service form to send an email has been fruitless as well.  Each time an acknowledgment email is promptly returned, but no answer--even when we send them a reminder with our ticket number. For a while I thought I knew the problem - some of our authors had claimed their author archive pages as their own blogs.  This doesn't really work, though, since virtually no one links to our author pages and posts on Unsought Input don't fall under the same URL pattern.  After we cleared out those old claims, I had a small glimmer of hope - but alas, we still cannot complete the claim. I know they are busy.  I know that it is a free service (though to tell the truth I would be willing to pay a reasonable price, like I have with StumbleUpon and Last.fm, it really is a cool service).  But at this point I feel like a freshman in high school with no date for the winter formal: But why doesn't Technorati like us?  There was a post about some technical difficulties on the Technorati blog last month, but judging by the example at blogs.marketwatch.com, it turned out to be more about indexing times than problems with claims. I've seen the same issue mentioned on other blogs like Bark Bark Woof Woof, and a few commenters have mentioned the possibility that Unsought Input has been identified as spam.  I hope the latter is the case, because it has become clear recently that if a powerful gateway site like Google thinks you are spam, you are in big trouble. ... To be fair, this post is a bit tongue-in-cheek.   The folks at Technorati are remarkably accessible, and many of them have blogs of their own (or even make their email addresses available to the public).  I just haven't worked up the gumption to pester them more directly.  I would much rather go through the support page, I know they are busy.

Recently the hotly anticipated expansion for World of Warcraft, the Burning Crusade came out. I got the chance to play it and I was blown away by the improvements made to the game play. The following are the top three coolest new additions to the game.

1. Ability to have sex: Previously when you wanted to get it on with comely gnome hotty in the game (most likely being played by a 40 year old male nerd) you would have to stand really close to each others characters and wiggle your mouse to make it look like you were doing it. Blizzard has listened to the players and finally implemented intercourse into the game. Now you just need to walk up to any character in the game and right click on them to bring up the have sex screen. If both players click yes then it’s on like Donkey Kong. Of course, as most of players of WoW are used to in real life, you will need a credit card in order to get some. The aforementioned title of the expansion the Burning Crusade comes from the main character Emerdale Sunleaf, a Night Elf Hunter who has contracted a burning sensation in his loins after doing the nasty with a skanky Undead Rouge. He is now on a quest to find the mystical mushrooms of Ghrystan to cure his burning sensation, hence the title the Burning Crusade.

1. Drug use: Now characters can specialize the in the new profession of drug dealer. They can make, buy and sell drugs. Look for this profession to be even more popular than tailoring. The new race the Blood Elves are especially suited to being drug dealers. Their racial abilities grant them a +2 to joint rolling and they have a natural resistance to Meth lab fires. Also their white skin gives them the ability to evade cops.

1. Going to the bathroom: You used to have to imagine what it would look like if you character needed to poop in the game.  Well dream no more, for Blizzard has made all your scatological desires a reality. Now your level 60 Paladin can sit on his throne and take a dump in all his glory. The different races have different poop types. Gnomes drop little pellets, while the Taurens drop mighty loads big enough to choke a Thunderhead Hippogriff.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy the Burning Crusade as much as I do. I know I’ll spend hours having my Orc Shaman eating all types of foods just to see what different colors I can make his poop.

Apple gets a lot of credit for putting effort into the user experience. Many attribute the success of the original Mac, iPods, the iTunes Music Store, iBooks, and their other products to ease of use. But building a brand based on user experience can be much harder than, say, a brand based on low prices (like Dell) or ubiquity (like Microsoft). Because it doesn't take too much to go from "it just works" to "it doesn't work," which has been my experience with iTunes 7. The worst problem: it freezes up whenever I don't have an internet connection. For a long time, I used WinAmp as my MP3 player. As a nerdy web developer, I'm stuck at my computer for inordinate amounts of time, so I tend to listen to a lot of music through my SoundBlaster. By long time, I mean 1997 through a few years ago. I didn't have much of my collection ripped, so a static list of the 100-or-so songs I did have converted was fine. After ripping the majority of my CD library, and getting my wife an iPod, I started using iTunes. WinAmp has media library features, but I just liked iTunes better. Fast forward to 2006, when iTunes version 7 appears. It added some cool features, like album covers. It also was pretty buggy. Apple has released a few fixes so far, but now with even the latest version - iTunes 7.0.2 on Windows 2000 - I run into issues whenever my Internet connection goes down, or I have VPN up and running, blocking all traffic. It will start up and play like normal, but then after a few songs, the audio cuts off. Sometimes the track looks like it is continuing to play, others the time stops ticking off as well. Skipping to the next track results in more silence. When I finally close iTunes, it doesn't really close - I have to go into the Task Manager and manually end the process. I've done some Googling to see if there was a solution, but so far no luck. I found a blog post by Don Loper talking about freezing, but disabling automatic checking for podcasts did not resolve my issue. I tried disabling Audioscrobbler, a great plugin that uploads what you've been listening to to last.fm, and anything else that looked like it might be trying to send or receive data. Still no dice. Now, this is obviously not a huge problem, but when I'm dialing in to work from home, it would be nice to be able to listen to music. I can always dig up WinAmp, but I don't want to bother importing or recreating playlists. My solution so far has been to listen to NPR on my headphones. The risk that Apple runs with each release of iTunes is that bugs, even if they are fairly uncommon, can put the breaks on the flow of the user experience like Fred Flinstone jamming his feet through the floor of his stony, Neanderthal car. Which is why all the hype (and the 6 month lead time) around the iPhone could still blow up in their faces. My advice: test, test, test, and do it with actual users. Oh, and anyone have any ideas to fix my freezes that I haven't tried yet?

According to an upcoming National Geographic show, we are getting close to being able to do a human head transplant. And I for one couldn't be more excited. Lately my body and I haven't been getting along and I think it's time we took a break and started seeing other people. I'm sick of it having to poop all the time and it's tired of me masturbating all the time. So being bodiless again I suppose I need to start looking for one. I don't know, I kind of like not having a body. I can get so much done without having to constantly eat, go to the bathroom or jerk off (not necessarily in that order). And my body's happy too, it can just sleep all day which is what it wants to do anyways. It is difficult to find a new body. I mean sure, it may look good at first, but then you get attached to it and realize there are all sorts of things wrong with it that you couldn't see before. And getting separated is such a pain, all that time and money and having to divide your stuff up. Those lawyers always make sure that the bodies get everything too how fair is that? Just because I'm a head doesn't mean I don't need a house. I can still sit on the couch and watch TV. Plus I'm not getting any younger so it's not like I can go out and find a hot young body like I used to. Well I guess I'm stuck with my body for now. I'm sure we can work it out, I mean it hasn't been all that bad we've had some good times. So the next time you and your body are fighting and are thinking about separating, just take a moment and think about what your doing. If not for yourself then at least for the sake of the kids.

Extras Sundays @ 10 PM on HBO In a nutshell: The Office + Curb Your Enthusiasm Aren't you Americans lucky? Ricky Gervais's second hit BBC show (since The Office) is here on Pay Cable! Gervais plays goofy and awkward (sound familiar?) bit-part actor Andy Millman who spends his time playing the role of an extra in crappy British TV shows and movies. His agent, Darren Lamb (Office co-creator Stephen Merchant) can't actually get the guy a good part to save his life - his role is really that of being more pathetic than Andy than actually getting him work. Ashley Jensen (the wardrobe closet manager on Ugly Betty) plays Gervais' co-extra and best friend Maggie, who, while not more pathetic than Andy is actually more clueless. But sweet. She plays Andy's conscience. Andy gets some local recognition - mostly from people on the street who hate him or directors that dispise him. Like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, he is pretty good at unintentionally pissing people off just by opening his mouth - a role not too far off from Gervais' Office manager David Brent. By the second season (the current HBO season), Darren manages to land Andy his own TV show to write and star in, but the show quickly spirals into a dumbed-down version of his vision. Andy plays a factory supervisor with a funny wig & glasses and a catch phrase. Andy's popularity grows but he is miserable - the running gag of this season is that the show caters to the lowest common denominator - which happens to also be the largest tv viewing audience. Now instead of sneering at him, people on the street ask for his goofy catch phrase. But his peers still think he's crap. The absolute hilight of this show is the guest stars each week - famous British actors playing a cartoon version of themselves. A lusty Kate Winslet, an insane Ian McKellan, a horny bragging Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), a pretensious Chris Martin (Coldplay), a slimy David Bowie, a dispicable Ronnie Barker and of course the over-the-top vain Orlando Bloom. The "real" famous people give the show an edge over just the humdrum of Andy's life. Another great part of this show is getting to see more GervaisdespiseTVhighlight and Merchant ipretentiousnterplaydespicable, which was missing on The Office where Merchant was not a principle. Merchant & Gervais's podcats became hugely popular in 2006. So much so that they became pay-for podcasts. But the two work brilliantly together, like a pair of British Napoleon Dynamites, two idiots playing off each other. Add in Shaun Williamson as Darren's lackey Barry - a sort of Karl-like character (see podcasts) - and the so-dumb-it's-funny just drips out of the screen. Unfortunately, this series is only available in the US on HBO...but if you are clever you can lap it up elsewhere. Or really if you're that clever, you can afford HBO. If you're really serious about this mission, get the first series on DVD. For those of you who just aren't clever...I guess you'll have to wait until season 2 comes out on DVD. You're also reading the wrong blog.