Unboxing is a favourite geek pasttime. Some might even call it geek porn.

Get something new? Take a picture. Every.step.of.the.way.

I received a new pair of Creative Aurvana Live yesterday, and I thought I’d try my first unboxing.

Sure, it’s not as cool as the Apple IIc unbox, or a MacBook Air unbox, but this is my unbox. Here it is

I’m looking forward to test hearing them this afternoon on the air, I’ll post a review then.

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Leo Laporte is the host of many podcasts, tv and radio shows about technology. His TWiT Network is one of the most listened to online, and he comes up to Vancouver 1 week a month to work on The Lab With Leo.

He loves his gear. He’s usually on the bleeding edge for buying the latest and greatest, sitting on waiting lists until something new is released.

But every now and again Leo waits and buys something a little further down the line, and when he does, it means the item is about to be discontinued.

He’ll buy the HD DVD player the day before the battle is lost to Blu Ray, he’ll buy a new iPod the day before the memory is doubled and the size is shrunk.

It’s called getting Leo’d, and it just happened to me.

I finally received my iPod Shuffle that I scooped on the Future Shop Boxing Day Sale for $59.99. A GREAT deal I thought. Nope.

Today Apple announced the price of the shuffle has dropped to $55, and a new 2 gig model is being introduced for $75.

Grrr.

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Many people gathered with friends today at whoever’s house has the biggest HD TV to watch the Giants and Pats in the SuperBowl.

Watching big games with a lot of people may be a fun social event, but you never really get a sense of the drama of the game because of the din of the crowd, and beer spilled in your nachos.

For big events, like the Masters, or the Stanley Cup or SuperBowl, I prefer to watch the game tout seul. Alone. By myself.

Today, Jen is on one couch, I’m on the other. But I’m having a big party - with my twitter peeps. It’s the best of both worlds. I’m chillaxing with the fam, I get to get into the game, and when something big happens, or a cool commercial comes on, I can yak back and forth with 30something people - all the while not disturbing the ass kicking of Eli Manning.

Beautiful. I’m calling it TwitterBowl I.

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I have long lamented the gong show that is my Boxing Day Sale purchases from Future Shop.

Here’s the short version: I bought an SD memory card and an iPod shuffle on December 24, and I still haven’t gotten them.

I have phoned THREE times to the Future Shop customer service line and each time been told it will be a couple of days to investigate the situation.

When you buy something online, and it gets shipped, you get a tracking number from Canada Post. I’ve tracked my package and Canada Post says they delivered it on January 7. But here’s the kicker - I didnt receive it.

So who do you bitch to?

Future Shop cause that’s who you paid your money to, or Canada Post because they’re the ones “lying” about the delivery?

Apparently I will now know on Friday what will happen with my case. How it will end, is still confusing. I just know I spent $165 in a 3hr online marathon over a month ago and I still don’t have anything to show for it.

As I have said here and here, online shopping sucks.

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A lot of people found a way to e-commute today. Get things done from home with the kids instead of hiking up the skirt and pounding through the slushy puddles.

That’s fine, but could you do it everyday? e-commute, I mean.

Darren Barefoot does. He has a Vancouver based web marketing company called Capulet Communications. For the past 8 months Darren has been running that company remotely, from Malta and, most recently, Essouira, Morocco.

But you’d have no idea if he was in a trendy Railtown loft, or his ancient riad on the Atlantic coast of Africa.

Pretty cool. I profile Darren in today’s cyberbuzz. I’m working on a feature piece on his efforts for a magazine later this spring.

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Seriously, the internets were brokened at the house today, haven’t had a reliable online presence all day. Sorry, no blog for you!

BTW, the logo is on a tshirt I bought my brother for Christmas.

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Bloggers are modern historians. We’re taking pictures, writing down and documenting everything that’s happening around us.

With 36 bloggers last night at Test the Nation, the event will properly be entered into the annals of Canadian Trivia History.

Here’s the rundown of who’s writing what, so far:

Miss 604 - No Spoilers Here
Miss 604 - Nerd on Top
Photo Junkie- Team Blogger Photos
Canadian Entrepreneur - Sweep! Sweep!
Calgary Grit - The Answer is Bee
Jon Arnold - Bloggers 1 Rest of World 0
Lainey Gossip - I Love Winning
Right Between the Eyes - Don’t Wanna Brag, But ..
Nunc Scio - The Sweet Smell of Blogger Victory
BlogTo - Backstage Celebrity-ish Interviews
Celeb Edge - SMRT on the CBC
Unsweetened - We Will Blog You
Pen Machine - Yay for the Indoor Kids!

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We weren’t allowed to bring our computers backstage for Test the Nation, but we were allowed to bring our cameras. I left mine on the table, in the capable and secure eyes of Ryan Cousineau while I went to get my buffet lunch.

Ahh.. yes, the surprises on your camera when you leave it alone.

Love me some Amber Mac. I was staring at her in the lobby before the show, she looked like Amber .. but the hair? She’s a brunette now, but as brilliant, funny, and positive as ever - it was cool to get some one on time with one of the smartest minds in new media.

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Here's what's on the menu today:

    - CraveFX is hot, right out of the box! Already Shannon won $2500 with Nat and Drew this morning, and we're already up to $1500 for the next play at 5:15 this afternoon.  Ever wonder what it's like to win big bucks on the radio? Check out this video.

    - If you like it when your boys talk nerdy, check out the announcements made by Steve Jobs today at MacWorld.

    - American Idol is back tonight.  Christian Louboutin will be on Oprah on Friday.

    - They've cancelled The World Series and Stanley Cup Playoffs, and unions can cancel Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives too.

    - The Britney stuff gets crazier, crazier and crazier.  I want to just leave it, but I can't - sorry.

    - Tom Cruise is gone Katie, gone.  For that matter, Katie Holmes is gone too.

    - Madonna wants to do the SuperBowl.

    - Do you play a lot of Scrabulous on Facebook?  It might be coming to an end.

    - The Golden Globes were axed because of the Writers' Strike.  However, the AVN Awards went out because pr0n has no writers!  Lol.  With no red carpet to critique, the bloggers took to critiquing the .. um .. "hardwood" of the AVN show.

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