Not that theblackdog will ever be up for an award of any kind but if you’re looking for something good to read online (other than fark or slashdot), you might want to peruse the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards. Voting closed at 10pm this evening (barely got my votes in for engadget) so don’t bother rocking [...]
Filed under: Technology on January 31st, 2006 | No Comments »
A friend at work sent me a link for a new music site called Pandora. Seems to use complicated algorithms to take an artist or song and bring back similar songs based on several factors. I’ve been listening to it for a few hours now trying to teach it what I like. It’s doing an [...]
Filed under: Music, Technology on January 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
Because I deal with online music services as part of my job, I have used most of them: MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and MusicMatch.
MusicMatch, MusicNet and Rhapsody are all mostly-subscription services - you don’t own the music but you can listen to a million different songs anytime you want as often as you [...]
Filed under: Music, Technology on February 24th, 2005 | No Comments »
This is scary to me: The Resignation at CNN Shows the Growing Influence of Blogs. Basically, Jordan Eason, head of “liberal media” giant CNN, has apparently been pushed out of his position for implying that US troops were targeting journalists. Now, I find that assertion hard to believe but the fact that so many people [...]
Filed under: Technology on February 14th, 2005 | No Comments »
You can tell it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog and I’ve been telling myself that I really need to to get back on this thing, so much to say you know… so I finally decided that instead of continuing to support my own “blog” software, I would go with one of the [...]
Filed under: Technology on February 12th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
A couple of years ago, I bought a really nice video camera that also happened to take digital pictures…. really crappy digital pictures. You can see many of them in the gallery. Anyway, last night I drove to Rochester to meet a complete stranger’s father and buy a gently-used digital camera. I found this kid [...]
Filed under: Technology on October 20th, 2003 | No Comments »
Here is a transcript of a recent chat I had with Steven, that lovable fella always pushing the Dell computers….
BrojayG: sup chump?
delldudesteven: i’m not so sure about that, BrojayG.
BrojayG: ok. what is up with you? chump.
delldudesteven: nothing. y?
BrojayG: just wondering
delldudesteven: just wondering, huh?
BrojayG: yes. I was just wondering
delldudesteven: funny…
BrojayG: what’s funny about that?
delldudesteven: hmm… i [...]
Filed under: Technology on October 15th, 2002 | No Comments »
Finally got the gallery installed and stuffed with photos. There are currently 7 “albums” with almost 300 pics ready for you to view.
Filed under: Technology on June 19th, 2002 | No Comments »
