Like the title? Ya, I thought it was clever. Isn't it clever? Well I thought it was apt in any case. Because I did beyond nothing today. I mean if I do so little I may as well be playing a computer game at least. You know have fun whilst wasting time and doing nothing? Ya that.

Well I did go to the local hardware store to see if they had a couple of different torx drivers so I could finally open and attempt to repair the hard drive of my Xbox 360. I mean I've had it long enough the warranty is expired anyway so I don't exactly have a lot to lose by my count. Well the hardware store didn't have the one size, a torx size 6 or whatever. So instead I ordered one of those multi-tool things from Amazon. The funny thing is I don't actually play 360 very often even when it works. Still, nice to have the option. Right?

Actually I ordered a little gadget called a ZipIt as well. It's a little device, I think roughly the save size as the older GameBoy Advance with the same sort of clam shell form factor, but it has a full QWERTY keyboard along with a little joystick/nub-like thing on the front of it. And the display is a convenient 320x240 resolution. Oh, and it has an ARM cpu, similar to the iPhone's CPU, and runs Linux as an OS. So really it's like a really, really tiny laptop that's too small to do anything on. Except maybe host a web server, web browse and everything else you can think of that a Linux distro can do but on an extremely small screen. 

Strangely enough I really only have the two things in mind for it: a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (e.g. LAMP) setup, for prototyping web sites or whatever, and using it as an MP3 player because Linux is bound to have at least one MP3 player that can keep track of where a sixty minute long podcast left off from.

I'm sure there's some other stuff I could use it for. I mean there's basically an entire debian distro that can be installed on the thing. Well not an entire distro. It's probably limited some what by the limited storage. But then a lot of distros try to keep the size down to 650 Megabytes so it will fit on a CD I guess. An old school re-writable CD, I think that would be. Oh, and the ZipIt is only $50 on Amazon right now. I probably should have bought an SD card with it. Too late. If I really need one I'll buy it later. I need some kind of convenient device that plugs into USB for accessing various SD cards anyway. I'm not sure but from what I've read I don't think there's a direct USB port and cable to allow a ZipIt to be plugged into a PC. 

Maybe I could use it as the host for some PXE images. Finally get that up and going. Like I had planned before. Only eight months ago. What? It could happen. 

Other than those two exciting things I just watched a lot of Hulu TV shows. I just started this morning over breakfast and before I knew I had spent an exaggeratingly (I'm declaring that a word) large portion of the day watching TV shows. The good (or bad) news is that I think I've possibly watched anything and everything I could possibly be interested in now so there's very little chance of wasting more time on it. Except tomorrow tonight's stuff will be on Hulu and there's a few shows I'm looking forward to. Caprica, perhaps LOST...and probably others I haven't thought of.

Oh, and I got some junk mail, the physical kind, from Google. Apparently I have a $100 redemption toward some AdWords ads. So, you know, if I had anything worth advertising I could probably maybe get a lot of traffic to that site. I don't really have anything to advertise though. And I'm a little unclear on the conditions. Do I have to actually redeem and spend the money before the end of March, or merely redeem it so the balance is on my account? I have no idea. Maybe I'll look it up and find out, maybe I won't.