Hat tip to Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog. AOL launches a blogging service. I’ve got to say that with Jon Miller taking over, they really are doing more software. Cranked out AOL 8.0 after a long hiatus. Then pumped out AOL 9.0 Optimized (don’t understand that branding myself) about six months later. Now they are doing AOL […]
Month: August 2003
Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
Hat tip to Zagula on Tufte’s new book on bad PowerPoint presentations. IMHO, blaming PowerPoint for bad presentations is a little like blaming Word for your essay not being Shakespearean. Or Outlook for long turgid email. Or MovableType for a boring blog. The darn thing is a tool and you can really misuse it. No […]
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MIT Classes online
“MIT Open Courseware”:http://ocw.mit.edu. Hat tip to Ludwig. Hat tip again. What a cool idea. You can take any MIT class online. Sounds like Software Engineering 6.170 is a wonderful course. Also shows how global the knowledge worker business has become. The “Wired”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit.html piece talks about a Vietnamese student in Ho Chi Minh City taking courses […]
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Kazaa Hash Issues
Updates on the P2P business: * “P2P Links”:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.leonard1/webdir/index.htm. Tim Leonard did P2P guardian (a nice IP blocking program) and has some good links to track the P2P business. * “Zeropaid”:http://www.zeropaid.com/. A whole portal just for file sharing. * “Boycott RIAA”:http://www.boycott-riaa.com. Pretty humorous site that tracks the RIAA. * Zeropaid.com – Music industry uses vulnerability in […]
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Tyler Hamilton's Inside Story
Tyler tunes: Teamwork smooths out bumps in a tough Tour. The Tour de France is long over, but I thought this inside story on how it went for Tyler’s team (CSC) was pretty amazing. Shows how much suffering there is. Some samples: * When we decided I would try to ride the next day, I […]
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Ogg Vorbis and other formats
I’m experimenting with funky new encoders that are coming out all the time. For instance. XIPH:http://xiph.org seems to have an amazing collection of encoders: * A speech encoder called SPEEX * Vorbis for music. There is a nice 5MB encoder called OggDrop that includes the encoder. * FLAC is now a XIPH project as well […]
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Monkey's Audio
“Modatic.net”:http://www.modatic.net/audio/ape.php. Another site says that Monkey’s Audio is the best performing, so I’ll try it. It is Windows only though.
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Trek 5900 Headset Problems
Replacement headset for Trek 5900. Great set of posts about the headsets in the 5900 vs the 5500s. A good discussion about the custom headset used in the 5900 frame that saves a few ounces and allows an a strong aluminum steerer rather than a carbon fiber one that will get destroyed if you over […]
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Disneyland Ho!
Went to Disneyland for five solid days. Yikes, I can’t believe it. Good thing I’m a kid at heart. Also learned a ton about how to make it a great trip. Here are the top ten hints: * Read “Undiscovered Guide to Disneyland”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764566059/qid=1061792942/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-7370691-7420060?v=glance&s=books&n=507846. A great book that overviews getting around Disneyland. This is the 2003 […]
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Archiving Music
One of the things I’ve been doing is to work on having an archive of CDs. The kids just destroy CDs at an amazing rate (only cassettes are less durable :-). So, here’s my strategy for archiving things. I archive into two formats: * A lossless format so that I can recover the exact audio […]
