I let the world know about my desires for Christmas this year, and lo and behold, the world has granted me half of my two-item Christmas wish list (OK, not the world. The parental units. Thanks, Mom and Dad!) mere days before Christmas. I have now in my possession a totally awesome and totally shiny iPod touch. Let me show you it! First, the packaging:

It’s a tight little box made of sturdy stuff. I have perfume boxes bigger than this baby, and I fell in love with it immediately. See, I’d like to think of myself as a minimalist. That’s what makes me helplessly attracted to Apple products. In design terms, anyway. So, yeah. It got me at “Hello”.

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Dear Mr. Technology,

Hi. I’m Gino Carteciano and I’m a big fan. In fact, I took up Computer Science as a sign of my devotion to you. I’ve been mostly happy with you and your almost magical wonders, but recently, I’ve been getting harassed by your failures that are quite simply irritating and frustrating. I think I’m starting to hate you and everything closely related to you. Well, except the Bionic Woman.

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I love lists, and this is why for 10 blog posts, I’m going to share my top 5 lists of stuff. And I’m going to start with my Top 5 applications on my Windows machine. Yeah, Windows can suck in hundreds of ways, but beggars can’t be choosers, right? Well, unless when I’m at work where I use a Mac. Mmmm… a Maaaac.

#5: Yahoo! Messenger – These days, I won’t be able to live without an Internet connection (OK, that’s an exaggeration, but you know what I mean), and I can’t have my Intarnetz without Yahoo!’s instant messaging client, Yahoo! Messenger. It serves as my primary form of communication with friends, co-workers, and creepy strangers. Being on the Internet just looking at porn sites can be so lonely, so an occasional chat (or even a whole day conference) with friends can make the emptiness of cyberspace a little bit warmer.

#4: EditPad Lite – This is a free text editor that I use as a Notepad replacement. I don’t do a lot of (OK, I don’t do any) programming on my Windows machine, so I just use a text editor as a “buffer” for ideas and a container where I dump seemingly useless text that may become useful as I go about my business. EditPad Lite has a lot of features not present in Notepad, but its tab feature alone makes it worth the quick download for me.

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Comic Collector Live is a desktop software that helps comic book fans organize their comic book collection. Here’s a feature list from their site:

• 100% completely FREE software
• Download titles and issue information directly from our servers
• Wish List with instant desktop notifications of availability
• One click issue selection. Little or no manual data entry
• Up-to-date comic book market valuation information
• Comparative comic book shopping
• Collection and wish-list reporting
• and even more

Just in case you missed it, let me repeat it for you: 100% completely FREE software. A sleek, handy, and generally easy-to-use software designed with serious comics collectors in mind. But there’s also a lot of other stuff in there for people who buy comics for the reading experience and who just want to organize their measly collection like me. You can organize your comics by cover title, publisher, writer, artist, character, and even story arc! Crazy!

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So I’ve been busy this past week at work. Never had that amount of tasks served to me before. Been assisting a fellow employee with a spyware problem (IE can be the biggest pain in the ass!), rolling out a sale on the PinoyDVD Online Store, and doing some CSS/HTML/PHP/Photoshop Kung Fu on the PinoyDVD Forum. I usually visit my regular interweb hangouts at work, but with all the tasks this week, I just didn’t have the time to dick around yUPieLBi, Newsarama, Digg, and The Man Blog Forum at work. And I’m online from 9 am to 6 pm! At home, the communal PC is always occupied by any one of my three siblings during weeknights. So what does a surf-hungry dude do to get his daily fix of interwebs dickery? Be Smart.

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