Posted by Matt Rose Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:54:04 GMT
This article is one of the best explanations of why cycling is at once the most interesting, and the most boring of all sports. Plus, there's two stories in it that had me laugh out loud. Pack Mentality
Posted by Matt Rose Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:15:01 GMT
I thought Liz and Jen would get a kick out of this: You can now get knitting patterns through itunes
Posted by Matt Rose Thu, 04 May 2006 18:47:59 GMT
Sorry for the utter quiet from this corner. I seem to be more obsessed with the back-end of this blog these days. I'm having a lot of fun with it, but it's all on the development side, and it's not public. Looks pretty though.
Posted by Matt Rose Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:42:58 GMT
As I type this, there are 5 wifi networks within my reach, and I've never figured out how to get the Airport software on my mac to use just my connection if it's available, so I often log onto one of my neighbors networks by mistake. I guess that happened to me this morning. I turned on iTunes this morning to listen to some music, and I noticed a weird drive in my iTunes sidebar called "Brendan Waddell's LimeWire" So I looked at this drive, and there was some really great music on this drive. I was listening to Xavier Rudd earlier (I caught his set at the BluesFest last summer), and now I'm listening to The Curious George soundtrack from Jack Johnson. Brendan, I don't know who you are, but thanks for the tunes! I gotta go out and buy a few new CDs.
Posted by Matt Rose Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:42:00 GMT
As I type this, there are 5 wifi networks within my reach, and I've never figured out how to get the Airport software on my mac to use just my connection if it's available, so I often log onto one of my neighbors networks by mistake. I guess that happened to me this morning. I turned on iTunes this morning to listen to some music, and I noticed a weird drive in my iTunes sidebar called "Brendan Waddell's LimeWire" So I looked at this drive, and there was some really great music on this drive. I was listening to Xavier Rudd earlier (I caught his set at the BluesFest last summer), and now I'm listening to The Curious George soundtrack from Jack Johnson. Brendan, I don't know who you are, but thanks for the tunes! I gotta go out and buy a few new CDs.
Also, if someone out there in tha interweb can figure out how this works, and how I can save some of his tunes in my iTunes, that'd be cool. Leave a comment.\
UPDATE: Today I have Eric Estartes Limewire. It's all HipHop tho.
Posted by matt Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:56:15 GMT
between Bloglines, Delicious, and sites like BlogAfrica. I'm spending too much time on the www. More on this later.
Posted by matt Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:27:00 GMT
I went to see U2 Friday night, and while I was waiting for the Arcade Fire, my thoughts turned to Pearl Jam, and how, to combat bootleggers, they released CDs for the entire tour, one CD per show. The distribution and marketing of that was apparently a nightmare, and they had to fight their record company to do it. So the idle thought is: Why does every band not release MP3s or some DRMed version of MP3, of their show after it's done? Put the MP3s up on their website, charge $5 for it, and that would be a way to make even more money from shows, which seem to be the only way that musicians make money these days.
Posted by matt Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:39:26 GMT
Jack kapica from the Globe and Mail writes about The death of Usenet. I haven't used USENET in years, but I'm kind of sad about it's decline. Some of my best experiences online were on usenet in the early days. I even found my My first post. Dorky, huh? Remember kids, whatever you write online is archived somewhere, forever.
Posted by matt Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:54:54 GMT
Bloglines is my new favourite utility/web site. A long time ago I discovered blogs, but my memory is horrible, and I would go months forgetting to check them. Then I discovered RSS feed readers. Linux Feed Reader for the GNOME desktop came out, and I started using that. It's pretty good, and it integrates well into the desktop, but it has one big drawback. It's only available on the desktop, so I can't check it from where ever I am. My rule, it seems, is that everything I do has to be network-transparent. Normally, I would find an RSS reader that I could install on my website, but one doesn't seem to exist yet, really. Bloglines fits all my criteria, and will do nicely until I write my own. The other feature I like is the clippings folder. I have at least three or four more blog entries stored there. Go check it out
Posted by matt Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:53:02 GMT
Mer and Colin have set up a blog where they announced the long-awaited (at least if you talk to Mom) date for their wedding
I need to set up a blog roll for friends and family. I know Geoff has a blog that he never posts to, but I can't find it anymore.
