Agile Tortoise

Archive for September, 2005

New SMS delivery option

To heck with SMS, I need this for email.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>

MPFreaker (Mac only) is a way cool app that searches a variety of Internet sources to locate the correct information and artwork for the songs in your MP3 collection, then updates the tags with that info. Sweet.
Also, the beta of AudioFaucet is finally out. It’s a renamed and updated version of iSeeiTunes, which [...]

Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Posted in Music, TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

Keyboard

I ordered an M-Audio Keystation to complete my “home studio”. I debated getting a Yamaha with speakers and sounds on-board in case the boys want to play with it, but decided to go for the more compact MIDI-controller. We have a piano, after all. This should make it a lot more fun [...]

Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Melanoma-Ware

Ok, excuse the bad pun. I’m a cancer survivor, so I feel authorized to make bad cancer jokes. Seth’s first fundraising software auction has gone live on eBay. It’s a great batch of stuff for the Mac, and all goes to a good cause.

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

eBaying the LPs: More VU, John Cale, Blues

I think this is the most stuff I’ve had on eBay at one time. Lots more LPs posted!

Thursday, September 15th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Yahoo! Audio Search

Sweet. Make sure you search “Other Audio” for those funky sound effects you need for your iMovies!

Thursday, September 15th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

LINQ

Werner Moise has some interesting comments on LINQ, Microsoft’s proposed query language integration effort announced at the PDC. I look forward to this functionality being baked into C#. It will make code a lot more compact and readable.

Thursday, September 15th, 2005. Posted in .NET | No Comments »>

Morbid statistics

The media has developed a sudden and complete disinterest in quantifying the aftermath of Katrina. They were previously obsessed with guessing the death toll. Plastering Ray Nagan’s 10,000 number all over the place in the headlines. They briefly reported that initial sweeps seemed to indicate the number would not be that bad. [...]

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Evolution Schmevolution

In case you feel you don’t have enough information to make a meaningful decision about the appropriateness of teaching Intelligent Design in tandem with Darwinism, The Daily Show is running a special series, Evolution Schmevolution all week long that should help you fill in the blanks.
Plus, tonight’s guest is Kurt Vonnegut.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

Tahoe for Sale

My Tahoe is on eBay Motors. Figured it was worth a try, especially since I happened to get an offer to list it free in the mail the other day.

Monday, September 12th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Windows Vista product editions revealed

It’s turns out that the marketing bigwigs an Microsoft have determined that consumers weren’t finding it difficult enough to buy a new PC. So they will be adding a new layer of confusing and annoying options to the mix with the release of seven different editions of Windows Vista. If they’re really smart, [...]

Monday, September 12th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

RIP, Gatemouth

There will be many sad story of loss in the musical community from the fallout of Katrina, I’m sure. The death of Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown is one that struck me.
Saturday afternoon I had just be sorting out my remaining vinyl records to go on eBay, and the couple of Gatemouth records there haunted me. [...]

Monday, September 12th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

eBay’ing the LPs: Lou Reed and Velvet Underground

After a considerable hiatus from the venture, I just got the first 10 batches of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground LPs up on eBay. Should have the rest up in the next day or two. Lou was a very important musician in my formative years, so I attained a few interesting promo pieces [...]

Sunday, September 11th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Downsizing

In general guilt over succumbing to the excesses of Texas, and in an effort to save some money on my bottom line, I have ordered a Scion xB. It’s still possible I won’t get it, since I have to find a buyer for my Tahoe, but I have about 3-4 weeks before it’ll arrive [...]

Friday, September 9th, 2005. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

FEMA disaster website IE-only

Need relief from FEMA? I hope you have an up-to-date copy of Windows and IE 6. Because the FEMA disaster website IE-only. It’s also miles away from Section 508 compliance. What the heck is that about?

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005. Posted in Politics, Technology | No Comments »>