As seen at adimiron’s place: Step 1: Open your mp3 player. (iTunes here) Step 2: Put all of your music on random. Step 3: List the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing. “Crave” – Nuno – Schizophonic “Universal Mind” – Liquid Tension Experiment – Liquid Tension Experiment “Fool Like You” – Ozzy Osbourne – Ultimate Sin “The Words Unspoken” – Andromeda – Extension of the Wish “Brain Damage” – Eminem – The Slim…
Mike Sax wrote: Let’s not forget that when Microsoft encounters smart competitors, they have a hard time competing. Quickbooks and Quicken still blow away anything Microsoft has tried. Adobe dominates in graphics, fonts, and document exchange. Google is still the clear number one. Play Station 2 blows XBox away in market share and game support. My boss is fond of talking about markets by using the picture of the bell curve (my apologies if I butcher…
I’m packing up the cable modem to return to Comcast, so I’ll be in radio silence for a few days while I move. I have no idea what kind of connectivity to expect at the temporary housing, so it may be a while before you hear from me again… Update: I made it to Boise, Idaho, and got into a hotel with free WiFi access. I drove nearly 900 miles, in about 10.5 hours (when you…
I know a lot of geek gamers regularly partake in Red vs. Blue, which has just started Season 2. If you happen to have the Season 1 DVD, here’s a list of the easter eggs (taken from this list). 1. On the main menu, go to scene selections, then left arrow, up arrow, enter. A short thing of Sarge will come up 2. On the main menu, wait for a while with no activity, a short thing of…
I have 5 DVD-Audio discs that I really wanted to get ripped. What I had really wanted was a way to directly pull the lossless digital signals off and downmix them to 2.0 at 16/44 so I could make a traditional audio CD of them so I could take them into the car, and then rip those so I could have WMAs on hand on the PC. (Hint to the industry: If you want SACD…
While wandering through the mall yesterday, I noticed that the XM Satellite Radio vendor in the mall had a device they called “XM PCR”. It’s an XM receiver for your PC (running Windows). Cool user interface: It worked fine last night, and is working fine again today. However, during the hours in which sunlight was shining into the room, it resolutely refused to work. I find this very odd: it cannot see the satellite because it’s too…