Posts from — January 2003

Remember Dancing Paul? Well he’s at it again with this clever site. I played around with it for quite a while the other night.

Ever wonder what’s inside a floppy?

William Orbit (www.williamorbit.com) puts out some great music. I found him on the newsgroups, my regular haunt for MP3 files. Forget about Kazaa, Limewire and Morpheus. Use EasyNews instead. The sheer fantastic volume of music stored on these servers (20,000 songs times 500 MP3 newsgroups) means you can find anything you want. For 10 bucks a month, EasyNews is a great bargain.

How do you make a VCD, SVCD or DVD? Go here and find out. My living room’s DVD player is Video CD compatible. That means I can take an MPG file that my new camcorder creates, convert it to VCD format (with Nero 5.5) and watch it in my player. This CD only holds 700 MB but it’s enough for my home videos.

Pocket PC breakthrough: I can now browse my home network, map drives and print using my iPAQ. Well, I thought it was cool. I also found an app where you can use your computer’s keyboard to enter info on your Pocket PC. It’s called, strangely enough “Remote Keyboard.”

Happy New Year.

A lot has been going on for the last few weeks. Pam and I have been off work since before Christmas. It’s been nice having the time off but it has been shadowed by the sadness of our cat Alpha passing on. The Monday before Christmas, Pam and I went to the doctor and had him put to sleep. In just a few days his health declined rapidly and he stopped eating and drinking. We knew then it was time to let him go.

For sixteen years we enjoyed his company and we’ll forever miss him.

Frontsideback got upgraded to the latest version of Moveable Type. It has a bunch of new and cool features. Now I’m set to fix several of templates that aren’t quite right.

Starting in February, we’re getting our basement finished complete with a project area for Pam, a computer room and a home theatre. I have setup a separate weblog to track the progress of the project.