Good Bye Unused POTS… a bit late
January 30, 2008
• contacted ISP 2 go DSL w/o the phone line. need 2 cancel w/ my POTS 1st. attempted 2 do that on the web. failure. 2 many hoops,wiil try l8r #
i hate being honest, DSLextreme would wave the “move” fee ($60) 4 dryloop if i sign up 4 a new year, but i maybe outta here in june, ack #
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Music: Mac OS Ken: Day 6 No. 2 from the album “Mac OS Ken: Day 6″ by Ken Ray
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Macarthur Leaves Mainstream News ‘Cause They Don’t Get It
January 30, 2008
It’s no news that mainstream media doesn’t get it, but it speaks to Amber Macarthur’s character and values that she’d rather take her smarts and talent home versus becoming a network talking head.
It seems clear that the model is no longer for citizen-journalists and blogs to espouse to become part of the mainstream machine but for them to use their tools to build the community that will make the “mainstream” into the “once was.” jbb
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Why Playing “Keys” is Better than Guitar
January 27, 2008
Amazing Young Organ Player Rocks Out - Watch more free videos
And why “GH” is for posers… and I’m a guitar player, so I should have some insight into the matter. jbb
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Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
January 25, 2008
While we wait for moi to post my macworld pix & vids here’s Mahalo Daily’s compression of Steve Job’s keynote speech. Very creative, guys…
BTW, besides chatting with Geek Brief’s Cali Lewis (right), I met the adorable Veronica Belmont (left), who commented on the Gelaskins cover on my iPhone… [sigh]…
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Life Back to Normal
January 21, 2008
- World is back 2 normal:
watching GB v. NYG @ Taco Beach - only women here are employed by TB. Life is weird that way. # - So, NYG squeaked one on GB, Pats plane will have to go down for them to lose the SB. yawn. GB v. Pats would have been a better game. Zzzz #
- Fustrated, 2 hard disks failed 2 mount on mac os x, running drive genius & getting no love. dealing w/ the possible loss of photos & vids #
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MacWorld videos & pics to be posted REAL SOON NOW
Music: GBTV #0297 (medium) | GeekBrief.TV from the album “GeekBrief.TV | Medium Format” by Cali Lewis
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Computer Games on a TV look like Crap & Why Kids Love ‘em Anyway
January 13, 2008
K, I can troubleshoot the hell out of an lab-full of aging CRT iMacs with 35 energetic 12-year and 13-year olds pounding these relics from the late 90s into submission. But some things get past me. I mean, over Christmas break when I finally got around to seeing if I could get some of my old PC games to run on my MacMini, which is connected to my old school CRT standard def TV, it dawned on me: games meant for a PC monitor look like crap on a standard def TV. My DVD collection and video podcasts look great on the 10-year-old 36-incher. But even the first gen Age of Empires was completely illegible on my TV. Damn. And Duh!
But because I use the TV mostly for DVDs and don’t even watch broadcast TV on it (’cause I cut the cable over a year ago), I have a hard time justifying buying something fancier. I don’t know, it seems silly. But then again, I am the guy who just spent a shit-load on an external back-up system (le drobo) and three 500GB hard drives when it became clear that the drives I was hoping to use from my G4 tower were … um, of the wrong vintage. Damn.
I don’t know why I keep feeling the pull to get into computer games. I’ve never really been a gamer. But part of me feels like interactive computer environments are going to be a serious part of education. I mean, they already are a part of any kid who spends any time on them; girls on chat and myspace and boys on some MMORPG or pr0n. Ack. On a marginally related note: Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, the genius behind the “Zero Punctuation” game reviews, rocks:
Music: (I Know) I’m Losing You from the album “Earth Tones: The Essential Rare Earth” by Rare Earth
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I think I Have A Real Gadget-Addiction Problem: drobo
January 10, 2008
just arrived, I’ve absolutely no time 4 new stuff b4 macworld, but that’s never stopped me b4. Mtaskng: write & setup a new techtoy #Powered by Twitter Tools.
Music: Save The Day from the album “My Private Nation” by Train
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Doing Good with What One Has
January 9, 2008
My students think I’m rich and my family and friends think I’m nuts because my continuous acquisition of tech toys.. er, tools (he writes while tracking the progress of his Drobo “Data Robot”). But from the beginning it’s not been about shiny new things as much as using the tools available to me and living this life. I’m an artist, a writer, a problem-solver and technology has been my canvas, my curse and my calling. Given my continuing difficulties with my stable of machines, one might think that I’d be tempted to really throw it all away and go back to pad and pencil. I’ve known system analysts who wouldn’t allow any technology into their homes. But I’m looking for a more unified holistic lifestyle that celebrates my technological artistry but doesn’t confuse all of this for anything more than it is. jbb
Music: Mad World from the album “Donnie Darko (Music From the Original Motion Picture Score)” by Michael Andrews
More of my current perils with my faltering technology follows…
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If only we could dance like children…
January 4, 2008
Found this one through the Tekzilla podcast: Menomena “Wet & Rusting.”
These guys shoot music videos in urban areas in one-take, no special lighting, no fast cuts and no special effects. I love it. It’s the brain-child of director Vincent Moon. For more info go to www.blogotheque.net or www.vincentmoon.com
Music: Menomena - Wet and Rusting from the album “Friend and Foe”
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The XO-1 Arrives
January 4, 2008
“What is it about a computer that turns old people into infantile morons?”
- Steve Dallas from Bloom County
Oh crap, my OLPC/XO-1 just arrived. So much for getting anything else done today…! (via Twitter @ 3pm)
That probably wasn’t the reaction one would expect from moi, the gadget-dude. But I was just finishing putting XP on my two Mac-Intels, when I found out from my apartment manager that I had a box and I knew that whatever plans I had were going to be changed. Ha, what’s time anyway, except something to be spent on such things… So, the XO-1 feels very solid and seems to weigh more than I expected, but it weighs considerably less than my MacBook Pro. The keyboard is tiny, pretty much impossible for an adult to touch type on. But then it was designed for kids. The interface was a little confusing and there was no documentation beyond a single sheet explaining how to open the device. I got the hang of it and started up the web browser. No go… seems that little XO’s wireless is not compatible with my router’s industry standard encryption (WPA). Damn. That kind’a threw off the experimentation for the night. I guess I could turn off my encryption just to see if the XO works…. They said that they plan to roll out WPA compatibility at the end of January Or I could look into find a USB-to-Ethernet connection. Damn. Anyway, I love the design: lots of USB ports, an SD memory slot, built-in video-cam, mic and game controller-buttons. All I need to do is get the thing online. Looks like I’m making a Radio Shack/Fry’s run tomorrow. Ack. Onward and upward. Check out my unboxing pix here. jbb
p.s., it works… click the “read the rest” link..
Music: Pretending from the album “Journeyman” by Eric Clapton
