Interested in following the blog of the 1st female space tourist? Check it out here.
Posted under General
This post was written by Marc
on September 24, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Hybrid Mini-Cooper - I’ve finally found my dream car!
When I saw this posted in boingboing I knew that my future would hold something like this.
I have no idea if the production hybrids of the next 5 or so years will be anywhere near as slick as this mini-cooper but everything about it appeals to me, no mechanical brakes (just torque up those wheel integrated electric motors to maximum), phenomenal gas mileage and a stylish bent.
Here is a link to the actual treehugger article if you have problems with the boingboing link above.
Posted under Opinions
This post was written by Marc
on September 24, 2006 at 11:07 am
Apple iTunes 7 will break your ability to share libraries (for now)
If you share your iTunes libraries across your network (there are some good reasons to do this, being able to play your songs on another computer without having to copy everything over there for one) you’ll find that the recent update to iTunes that brings it up to release 7 will break this sharing.
If you share between computers the solution is to simply bring all the computers up to R7 and you’re fine.
However, I use an appliance called a Roku Soundbridge that allows me to stream my music to our living room stereo. They have to come up with a patch to allow the soundbridge to interact with the new iTunes version. From the company’s support page:
Attention iTunes Users!
With the release of iTunes 7.0 today (9/12/2006), Apple has changed some of the underlying technology that allows the SoundBridge to communicate directly with iTunes. We hope to have an iTunes 7.0- compatible release of the SoundBridge software soon; however, at this time all SoundBridges are incompatible with the music sharing feature of iTunes 7.0. We recommend that SoundBridge owners wait for a SoundBridge update before upgrade to iTunes 7.0. Users wishing to upgrade to iTunes 7.0 (or who have already upgraded) can install the free Firefly media server to share their libraries with the SoundBridge. Firefly is available here.
Posted under Tech Stuff
This post was written by Marc
on September 23, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Flash Animation of “The Galaxy Song”
With many thanks to Phil Plait’s “Bad Astronomy” blog for pointing me towards this, here is a flash animation of Eric Idle’s “The Galaxy Song”. I’ve always loved this song!
Posted under General
This post was written by Marc
on September 23, 2006 at 10:43 am
Hallowe’en Costume for Mich’s office party
Mich’s office is having a hallowe’en party next month. We’re having some problems trying to decide on what to wear.
Some of the costumes from last year were pretty cool (and some quite elaborate). To the left is a link to the gallery for that party. We went as “The Matrix”’s Neo and Trinity.
Mich is tending towards something slapstick/humorous while I’m tending towards something maybe more statement oriented (or sexy for Mich with me acting the foil).
BTW, based on last years pictures, I think Mich looks quite fetching with black hair. Opinions?
Posted under General
This post was written by Marc
on September 22, 2006 at 8:23 am
White & Nerdy
Weird Al’s newest, I’m almost embarrassed to admit exactly how much I relate to this video…
Posted under General
This post was written by Marc
on September 20, 2006 at 11:14 pm
The Baby Names Wizard’s Name Voyager
Yeah, yeah it does seem odd for me of all people to be posting something about baby names, but this Java-based wizard is a slick visualizer showing you how popular various names were at various times. The bigger the name, the more popular it was.
Click here to see what I mean, it really is interesting to see how popular *your* name was when your folks named you. And was your aunt *really* given an old person’s name or was her name hip at the time?
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This post was written by Marc
on September 19, 2006 at 5:52 pm
