Yay! Some kind soul helped Halley get her RSS feed back. I’d emailed a week ago whining about how I couldn’t read her blog via RSS anymore. And now that I’ve gotten back into the habit of checking it regularly, she’s available via RSS. Yay!

Mickey Mouse: “Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.” [Quotes of the Day]

Is it a hoax? Snopes seems to think it probably is.. I hope so. Also from that page is a link to information about notorious prankster Joey Skaggs that is pretty amazing.

On this day last year, I found out what my Cowboy Bebop theme song is.

Abraham Lincoln: “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” [Quotes of the Day]

I’m posting this here, hoping someone else might have run into some of these issues. Lately I’ve found that Safari has been flaking out on me bigtime. After running for a few hours it starts to do one of a few things. Either it stops opening up new pages (it just hangs at ‘connecting to site’), or it puts up a spinning wheel and just sits there, forever as far as I can tell. This just started in the last week or so, so I’m not sure what’s up. I’m wondering if maybe clearing out the cache might help, but I was wondering if anyone else has had problems like this.

Being unemployed sucks, but here’s someone making the best of it

“The first month, I was totally lost,” Higby said. “I was either moping around the house or chasing leads for jobs that were ridiculously out of my reach. But now I have experience under my belt.”

Through a months-long process of trial and error, Higby has learned the tricks of the unemployment trade.

“Leaving the house every single day is very important, even if it’s just to spend a few hours at the coffee shop organizing the MP3 files on your laptop,” Higby said. “I try to be out the door by 2 or 3 in the afternoon—no exceptions. You have to get out and do something during the day in order to not feel guilty about going out drinking that night.”

Higby warned strongly against going to bed too early. [The Onion]

I love The Onion. It’s almost sad how much this article sounds like some parts of my life (not everything since I don’t go out drinking really). But it’s a fun read anyways. Anyone wanna hire an out of work computer geek with 10 years of sysadmin experience?

As usual, come on down!

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week we proudly present our special guest: Matt Diamond. Come on out and have a drink tonight.

Special Guest:
Matt Dimond – Boston

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:

July 25th – Ali Ajami [Chug Records, Avalon, SquareOne/Axis], Boston
July 30th – Dave Wagz, Boston

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

This week at Anitya: Alpha Channel *LIVE SET* (D-Space Studios/Soular Records) CT

Are you a DJ in the Boston area? Are you interested in playing out some Wednesday night? If so, drop me a line at lounge@ezoons.com.

I love my TiVo. It’s a great device and it just plain works. But in a lot of ways it feels like the tip of the iceberg to me. And I’ve been waiting to see what is next. Today, my friend Ellen pointed me at a product that I think shows one of the next steps. It’s the Telly: The Entertainment Computer. It does all the stuff of a TiVo, plus you can play DVDs and CDs on it. You can play music off the network (so if you store your music on a central server like I do you can play that music through it). It’s got a web server built in. Oh yes, and it runs linux. But unlike the TiVo they seem to have no problem with you going in and playing around with the unix side of things. According to the FAQ you can even configure the on-screen menus to run programs.

A month or so ago someone released this portable radio that would record programs for you so you could listen to them at a later point in time. I thought it was neat, but until I could pause a live radio program I was listening to I wasn’t ready to call it TiVo for radio. Now, the cool people over at Griffin Technology have announced the RadioSHARK. Due out end of summer, it is a USB controlled radio with time shift recording.

The radio airwaves will never be safe again. The RadioSHARK adds a software controlled AM-FM radio to any Mac computer – but thats just the beginning.

The RadioSHARK can also record any AM, FM or even Internet radio broadcast. You can program the RadioSHARK to record a scheduled show or as a way of ‘pausing’ live radio, giving you the ability to return to right where you left off moments or even hours later. It can also record audio Internet streams, either scheduled or real-time, from any streaming audio application available. [Griffin Technology]

Oh wow. I want this. I could see having it hooked up to my G3 and controlling it remotely to play over my stereo. Also, being able to easily record all the NPR shows I like that are on over the weekend would rock. This item goes on my wish list right now.