2007 March

The first MP3 was recorded by Ponzi with Jeff Ubois of Archival.tv – you can listen to it now. With all of this video being recorded, where is it being stored? Great questions.

Read more on Podcasts on TVs and Tablet PCs – MP3s…

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It’s not very often that hardware manufacturers send us hardware to review (largely because we don’t ask for it). Since AMD is a reigning sponsor for our programming, they connected us with someone over at HP to lend us a tx1000 – which we’ll have to send back in a few weeks. Still, this was our first true “Tablet PC” – even after using UMPCs at our wedding.

Read more on HP Pavilion tx1000 Entertainment Notebook PC…

Ponzi just so happened to have our recording equipment with her when she attended a party held by our friend, Dave Winer. One other guest happened to be none other than Jeff Ubois – who is working to archive every single broadcast, past and present, for our own future:

Read more on Jeff Ubois is Archiving TV for the Future…

There are naked ladies in my bathroom!

Ha! Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m talking specifically about one of my favorite bands, Barenaked Ladies – although they’re not really in my bathroom. Still, they’re in someone’s bathroom – and they’ve recorded a handful of hits (forevermore known as ‘The Bathroom Sessions’).

What’s your favorite BNL song?

And before you watch any of ‘em, I should remind you that I interviewed Steven Page a while ago.
Read more on New Barenaked Ladies Videos…

Is it just me, or is this invention a game changer?

It may sound futuristic, but Powercast’s platform uses nothing more complex than a radio–and is cheap enough for just about any company to incorporate into a product. A transmitter plugs into the wall, and a dime-size receiver (the real innovation, costing about $5 to make) can be embedded into any low-voltage device. The receiver turns radio waves into DC electricity, recharging the device’s battery at a distance of up to 3 feet.

Read more on Wireless Power…

What’s wrong with people!? I have absolutely no problem with sane adults having the right to bear arms (legally), but there’s something beyond disturbing about this video. Is this some sort of bizarre militia indoctrination? The child’s brain hasn’t even developed to the point where critical thinking is possible! No, no, NO – this is just plain STUPID.

Read more on How not to use a Gun…

From What We Call the News…

There was a time not long ago
when each and every day
at six o’clock each evening
you knew news was on its way
from anchors of integrity…

Read more on I’m in a JibJab Cartoon!!!…

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Read more on Pirillo’s Picks for 03/27/2007…

This afternoon, Ponzi asked me to install Office on one of our laptops so that we could use Excel and Word on it. Easy enough to do, right? All I had to do was find the CD, right? Well, I couldn’t find it – and I’m pretty certain all of my Office activations have been used up, anyway (especially now that I no longer have access to an MSDN account).

Read more on OpenOffice vs. Microsoft Office…

Had to be done.

Then again…?

Nah, it definitely had to be done.

Well, I’m not sure…?

Nah, I’m sure we need a tension breaker tonight.

Why are you talking to yourself?

Read more on TENSION BREAKER!…

Okay, so the blogosphere is going apeshit today over Kathy Sierra’s situation – which has to do with anonymous hate and abuse:

I’ve been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that’s not what pushed me over the edge. What finally did it was some disturbing threats of violence and sex posted on two other blogs… blogs authored and/or owned by a group that includes prominent bloggers.

Read more on I had Death Threats in High School…

You know, there are very few things in Linux that have ever made me jealous… but this quote from the Beryl project made me jump out of my chair:

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do.

Read more on Please, port Beryl to Windows or OS X?…

I had the opportunity to attend Microsoft TechFest the other day – placing me smack dab in the middle of a researcher’s zeitgeist. One of the more interesting conversations I had was with Jasha Droppo – you have to see it to hear it to believe it. If you’ve ever dealt with background noise in audio and/or video files, you’ll really appreciate what Microsoft Research has developed.

Read more on [VIDEO] Noise Cancellation Tech from Microsoft…

Check to see if your laptop battery has been recalled:

• HP Battery Recall
• Lenovo Support & downloads – Battery recall
• Apple Battery Exchange Program
• Dell Battery Return Program
• Sony eSupport – Electronics

Read more on [VIDEO] How to Check for a Battery Recall…