Monthly Archives: February 2005

Podcasting Music

By | February 22, 2005

When I first read about podcasting music, or even podcasting talk with a little bit of music in the background, I didn’t think about the copyright and licensing implications. I also didn’t consider what happens when a podcast becomes popular, but the RIAA has shown with webcasting that they won’t stop until they have extracted… Read More »

The Triplets of Belleville

By | February 22, 2005

I finally got around to watching The Triplets of Belleville. Before the film started, all I knew was that it had been nominated for Oscars for best animated feature and original song, was French-made, and was kind of quirky. I had absolutely no idea what the plot was. If I had only known just how… Read More »

More Fun with MGM

By | February 17, 2005

About two weeks ago, I posted about the MGM DVD Class Action Settlement. As in my last post, this one will be half about MGM DVDs and half about speech applications. And if you are looking for a really meaningful discussion of the technical details behind the settlement, you should stop reading my blog immediately… Read More »

Oakland Soul Food

By | February 16, 2005

While I was doing some research before posting about my experience at the House of Chicken and Waffles, I ran across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “Oakland in midst of soul food renaissance”. I’ve now been to 3 of the 4 restaurants mentioned in the article. The Southern Cafe is only a… Read More »

Ask Jeeves for Bloglines

By | February 9, 2005

Trustic, the maker of the fantastic Bloglines service, has been acquired by AskJeeves. [Official press release] After trying out several different syndication feed readers, I settled on Bloglines many months (a year or more, even?) ago. While Bloglines offers much more than just a feed reader, I highly recommend Bloglines even if just for that.… Read More »

Treo 600 Sync to Evolution

By | February 6, 2005

I haven’t posted about my Treo 600 in a long time, but I finally got around to doing something I’ve meant to do for a long time – syncing my Treo to Evolution. Just over a year ago, I got my Sony Clie to sync to Evolution on Red Hat 9. Though I had already… Read More »

Chicken and Waffles

By | February 4, 2005

I suspect that many of you are oblivious to the Southern delicacy of fried chicken and waffles. The chicken isn’t actually served inside of the waffle, or even on top of it. And the waffles aren’t deep fried, either. Just the chicken, which rides side saddle on the plate with the waffle. And getting a… Read More »

Personal Productivity

By | February 2, 2005

As a nice accompaniment to my recent post about the dangers of multitasking, someone recently posted an excellent article on personal productivity at Kuro5hin. And who should the article have quoted, but Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Once again, the concept of “flow” reigns supreme. The author of the article at Kuro5hin provides several excellent suggestions for improving… Read More »