The band, OK go , has a music video played on Treadmills. It’s really well done and this got them a spot on the MTV Video Music Awards. The coreography alone makes it really interesting. I wonder how many takes it took? Either way, the video is really good.
Music I’m listening to right Now:
“Here It Goes Again” by OK go from the “Oh No ” Album.
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One of my hobbies is photography, another is programing (Also My Job…). I've written a couple of MT Plugins to create Yahoo Maps or Google Maps in a Movable Type Entry.
Sony has introduced the GPS-CS1 that
might allow me to easily combine the two.
It's a pretty simple idea:
I'm hoping it downloads the data to a usable format like a Text file of some sort so i can make use of it for my own uses. If it does, I'll try to modify my MTYahooMaps plugin to take advantage of the Coordinates in the Jpeg EXIF data.
Here is a screen shot of the software as shown on CNET .
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Pump It" by The Black Eyed Peas from the "Monkey Business" Album.
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But it's been All good. Among other things:
In short, Life is busy but good. I can't believe that it's nearly the end of summer!
If you've never been to Toronto, I highly recommended it. We stayed with some friends of mine and met some people that I've corresponded with via Flickr. I've always thought that my wife, Janny, takes better photo's than I do and on this trip she took my Camera and shot away. I'm hoping to convince her to participate on Flickr and share some of her shots. With a little luck she'll develop a severe case of flickritis and get hooked on Flickr…
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley from the "St. Elsewhere" Album.
Image from CN Tower Web site.
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On my Flickr account I put a modified photo of a lady waiting to cross 3rd Avenue (Original here). I'm not at all a Photoshop expert but two of the comments asked me how I did it so, here it is after the Break.
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"On a High" by Duncan Sheik from the "Daylight" Album.
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Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Mr. Curiosity" by Jason Mraz from the "Mr. A-Z " Album.
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After Updating the DB via the command line (NOT a fan of a GUI update!) and following my own instructions on how to install my own plugin, So far so good.
After I'm happy with my Test Server results, I'll document each step I took. Each One Note: rebuild seems to take longer than the 3.2 version, but it might be just my perception as I'm not really timing it.
Image from my Poor Editing of a "Built for Movable Type 3.2" banner…
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Over My Head (Cable Car)" by The Fray from the "How to Save a Life" Album.
Update: Got my first "HTTP Error 500 – Internal server error"! This is reassuring since I'm running a server with less than the recommended Hardware specs. Everything looks ok, probably took too long for the Web servers liking. You can see the test server here.
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Ok, I listen to music a lot, especially when I drive (Oddly Karaoke singing with the window down keeps other cars away from me. Why is that??). So naturally, driving back home, my factory car radio starts randomly turning off and on. I’ll take apart the dash to see if it’s a loose wire or not, but I suspect the CD/radio is just out of warranty and Thus ready to go the way of all things.
This begs the question: If it is broken, what should I replace it with? When I purchased the car, I didn’t have an Ipod, so a CD Radio worked fine. Now I have an ipod with an Itrip radio transmitter to play over the car radio. The Itrip is a good product, works well most of the time given conditions but the sound quality is lacking when there is radio interference.
I’m pretty demanding about Car audio too. Not just the sound quality, but how usable the device is. That is: I don’t want to have to look at it to turn it on/off, change the volume or to change the station.
Apple has an “Ipod Your Car” page which was actually pretty informative. Crutchfield has an Excellent on line site too. After going to Crutchfield’s site, I’m leaning towards a Sony CDX-GT300 with a Sony XA-110PI iPod interface adapter. It allows control of the Ipod and is what I call a “Fire and Forget” system. You plug your Ipod in, it gets charged and you only need to use the radio controls to access it. Also, The layout of the controls looks usable and has a detachable face to it. If I did get this with an Ipod controller, likely I’d never use the CD player built into it…
Image from Dave’s Antique Radio and TV Restorations . It’s a Philco 802 Antique Car Radio.
Music I’m listening to right Now:
“Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley from the “St. Elsewhere” Album.
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Tagged Audio, Car, Dave's Antique Radio and TV Restorations, Music
One advantage of working late is that I come across events like this one. Not really a Fan of Blue Grass music, but they sounded great. This is part of "Mad. Sq. Music 2006 " featuring Rhonda Vincent and the Rage.
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Dream Attack" by New Order from the "Technique" Album.
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Hope everyone has a Happy and Safe one.
That's a Flag on the 23rd Street and Park Avenue South corner of One Madison Avenue,
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley from the "St. Elsewhere" Album.
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Testing BlogJet. It's a Windows client for blog’s . That’s a photo I took in 1991 when I was a student at Baruch College.
Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com.
Update: Seems to work. Could use some better status messages and a Cancel button.
Update II: It lower cases the URL’s! As URL’s are case sensitive, that’s Bad and A complete showstopper.
Update III: Nice Software with only One Bug so far. I have to email the author and see if it can be fixed. I *think* it may be related to the Spellchecker, but I'm not sure.
Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley from the "St. Elsewhere" Album.
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