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MIDI to a CD
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Continue reading →: MIDI to a CDFor Brad’s party, we need an instrumental of a Little Help from my friends. A great reminder of how hard it is to do certain things. Like get a MIDI file into a CD. Here’s how and its amazingly hard to do. Requires you pay dollars for a utility for…
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Barrow Alaska Research Notes
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Continue reading →: Barrow Alaska Research NotesHere are some links for things that happened in Alaska around 1987, Barrow Alaska and whaling there: * “Bowheads in Alaska”:http://alaska.bp.com/alaska/environment/EnvStudies/pdf/3MAMMALS/gBowhead_Whales.pdf. A note about Bowheads What happened around 1987: * “Exxon Valdez”:http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/exxon.htm. Crashed into Bligh Reef 11M gallons. March 24, 1989. * “Wikipedia 1986”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986. It’s hard to access Encyclopedias or…
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Sony launches dual layer DVD writer
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Continue reading →: Sony launches dual layer DVD writer“Double Layer DVD”:http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=105337#105337. Sony announces a double layer DVD player. Called the DRU-700A and DRU-700UL (external). You can store up to 8.5GB of data on a single disk. Wow! Its truly a super drive and supports all the bizarre formats now around including They will also feature up to 8X…
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Hybrid Cars
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Continue reading →: Hybrid Cars“Hybridcars.com”:http://hybridcars.com. Proving once again there is a website for everyone, there’s actually a news portal now for those interested in hybrid cars. No RSS feeds though unfortunately. Some interesting facts: * “Toyota Hybrid Camry in 2006”:http://www.hybridcars.com/news/toyota-hybrid-camry.html. Toyota plans to sell 100,000 hybrid Camry’s out of the 400,000 total. The overall…
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Audio Encoders…
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Continue reading →: Audio Encoders…Welcome to the world of audiocoding – AudioCoding.com. I use MP3 for compatibility, Ogg Vorbis for playback on PCs and Flac for archiving music files. Here’s another resrouces, Audiocoding.com is doing free MPEG-4 encoders including HE MPEG-4 also know as AACplus. This is a very high compression codec. Got to…
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Referrer Spam Attack…yet again
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Continue reading →: Referrer Spam Attack…yet again“Referrer Spam”:http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/referer_spam/. There is no end to the spam disease. It ain’t just email. With all this self publishing, I’ve spent more time on comment, then trackback spam. Now I’m barraged by referrer spam. That is links of folks who have recently visited. What is really needed is some sort…
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PC Recommendations for 2Q04
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Continue reading →: PC Recommendations for 2Q04George asked me about what computers should he get. Surprisingly, January-March was quiet in the computer business without any major events. The Prescott launch turned into a non-event given that although they moved into a new chip family pricing didn’t really change. Even with CeBit coming next week, doesn’t look…
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Gas Hybrids are Coming…
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Continue reading →: Gas Hybrids are Coming…Well here they come, hat tip to my buddy Jeff for pointing this out to me: * Toyota Prius is named best car of 2004 and one of the ten best by Car and Driver. More importantly, production goes to 150,000 units next year. Who would have ever guessed that!…
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Using Bit Torrent…after 30 days
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Continue reading →: Using Bit Torrent…after 30 daysI’ve been using Bit Torrent now for the last 30 days. It is a little confusing since there doesn’t appear to a site for novices who want an easy to use P2P system. Here’s my short guide with what I know so far: * “Azureus”:http://azureus.sourceforge.net/. First, you have to select…
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Nikon's Latest
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Continue reading →: Nikon's LatestI haven’t seen reviews of these yet, but Nikon has a pretty interesting 1Q04: * D70. A response to the Canon Digital Rebel. This is a 6Mp camera. Also has a new 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 zoom lens. “DPPhoto”:http://www.dpreview.com/articles/nikond70/ thinks it compares well with its bigger brother, the D100, and its competition,…
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