Review: Guitar Hero
Normally I’m not much of a game player. My idea of a good game is Time Pilot: one joystick, one button, and the objective is to shoot everything. Your bullets don’t hurt any good guys, only bad guys,...
View ArticleMost entertaining stuff of 2005
I was rooting around on my bookshelf today and noticed the book that I enjoyed the most last year: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. Most fun movie? I’m picking a black...
View ArticleGoogle + dMarc + XM
I thought this was intriguing: Google and XM will collaborate on advertising via recent acquisition dMarc. Looks like XM gets great ad inventory and Google/dMarc gets to refine and improve its...
View ArticleStartup idea: Make My Music Legal
I was reading all the TechCrunch40 coverage and I asked myself: “If I had five minutes to come up with a startup idea completely outside of search, what would it be?” This is more of a fun exercise,...
View ArticleDownload, slice and dice podcasts on Linux
I’m trying to replace my Windows applications with Linux applications. On Windows, I use I use Juice to download podcasts as MP3s. Recently I decided to switch over to Linux for receiving podcasts....
View ArticleGood workout music?
Okay, so I registered for a sprint triathlon (400m swim, 11 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) in August. Maybe that will turn out to be a really stupid idea, but I’m going to see if I can at least finish. So I...
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