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Entries for January, 2005

AllOfMp3

Check out www.allofmp3.com - It is a Russian site, but legal music downloads. You can get an album for like 2 dollars or less. You might have to click on the little “english” link in the top left hand corner.
AllOfMp3

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Listened to my First Podcast Today

Today, I decided to listen to my first “podcast”. If you don’t know what podcastting is, here goes:
1) Podcasting is a bad name - really it should be called “Audio” casting, or something like that. I don’t own an ipod and I doubt I ever will.
2) Someone records themselves talking, like a talk radio show, [...]

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Walmart Auto Service

Last weekend, up north. Got a flat. Goto walmart. “You are next in line”…..2 Hours Later…Finally car in garage…1.5 hours later..”It can’t be fixed”….”Cant I get a new tire on there then?”…”No - we took off your old tire, inspected it, and put it back on. If you want a new tire, then you need [...]

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Linksys WRV54G Wireless VPN Router

For xmas, I got a Linksys WRV54G Wireless VPN Router. I set it up and it worked good, wireless worked, wired work, etc. You are supposed to be able to use it as a VPN endpoint, so I decided to try it.
First thing I did, was upgrade the firmware. I was running 2.10. I downloaded [...]

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Snow

Finally, snow was dumped down in St. Cloud. Now all the people who have been complaining about not having any snow turn into the people who complain that there is too much. Personally I think it was cool because I could whip donuts in my truck! w00t!

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FM Transmitter - MP3 Player

I have Rio Nitrus (1.5 GB) and I have been using it a lot lately. I just purchased a FM Transmitter from Best Buy so I can use it in my vehicle. It is pretty cool, but doesn’t work as good as I would expect. You tune your radio to 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, or 88.7 [...]

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Microsoft Voice Command 1.5 Released

Yesterday, I installed Microsoft Voice Command 1.5 (5 Day Trial). This is some cool software. I loaded it on my Audiovox 6601, and started using it.
“What is my battery level?” I say, and it responds: “The battery level is 79%”
“What is my signal stength?” I say, and it responds: “The signal strength is 100%”
You can [...]

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.NET - Changing Screen Resolution

Last night I was working a project, and a feature was requested to have the program change the screen resolution to 1024×768, and then back to what the user had before they started the program. I figured, hey, .NET, it should be easy, right? First rule of computers…nothing can every be easy.
First order of business. [...]

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Happy Odd Day

Today is 01-03-05. The first series of odd numbers.
The next series won’t happen again until 2007
:)

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