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So between Twitter and Facebook, I find myself having less and less to particularly blog about on Chatterwocky. I never really liked talking about myself anyway, and my brief forays into talking about work have been uncomfortable at best, as pretty much only my friends and family read my blog, and there’s not much chance I’m going to sell any of them on some JIRA Hosted. Although I guess you never know.
Anyway, and perhaps sadly, the only non-work-related thing I particularly research in any depth these days is soccer, specifically English League Soccer, and even more specifically Liverpool FC. Rather than completely bore and risk losing both of the remaining Chatterwocky readers, I’ve started a separate blog at redeaux.net (which is meant to be a play on ‘Reds’ (a Liverpool nickname), the word ‘redo’ as in to re-hash or replay, and a cajun-ish spelling, since I am after all from Louisiana, but really is more indicative of how few good domains there are left out there, particularly ones involving the names or mottos of English Premier League teams, but I digress).
Anyway, I’ll be blogging over there, and there’s also an associated twitter account but be warned that I will be tweeting scores on it - so don’t follow if you don’t want to know.
I know there’s a couple of Liverpool fans at the office, I’m hoping they’ll read it from time to time, otherwise if nobody ever reads it that’s perfectly ok with me. It gives me an opportunity to write in a way that’s not conspicuously about me.
The problem with making a public invite via twitter to benihana birthday is that people show and stick their finger in your ear.
I spent this morning varying between love and hatred for my iphone. Love, because streaming KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic over the iPhone thru the car speakers is just the most awesome way to spend the morning commute, and hatred because, over a first gen EDGE iPhone, it just doesn’t work that well.
Presumably, I should buck up for the 3g, but I’m not convinced it will solve the problem. Using EDGE for internet radio worked fine in Sydney - rare were there connectivity issues. On the drive up this morning, though, it would lose connection every few minutes, and I had to give up. 3g will make it faster, but it won’t as far as I know particularly improve coverage, so I’m not sure its worth the price of upgrade for that one feature - I don’t particularly care about 3g otherwise.
After research, I was surprised to find that there aren’t really any good options for 3g-based internet radio car players out there. Certainly they would require separate 3g phone service, and some sort of interface for choosing your stations, but given the huge number of free internet radio stations out there you would think these would still stack up cheaper than XM/Sirius. I’m surprised that AOL or Pandora haven’t partnered up with some hardware manufaturer to offer this yet. Perhaps because 3g coverage isn’t quite up to the task yet?
I was playing around with the idea of making a Mac Mini mod for the car. Basically arming the Mini with a 3g card, embedding it in the dashboard somewhere, and perhaps using a nav monitor as the interface - this way I could access all my music, use it for a CD player (or DVD for the passenger?), and stream internet radio.
But thats just a bit too geeky for me. The fact that using my iPhone plus an aux cord is the best way to listen to internet radio in my car seems a bity janky. At the end of the day, I just want to listen to KCRW in the mornings, and while their selection of podcasts is admirable, I want the daily show and not just the weekly specials. And I want it live. Anybody have any ideas?
So between Twitter and Facebook, I find myself having less and less to particularly blog about on Chatterwocky. I never really liked talking about myself anyway, and my brief forays into talking about work have been uncomfortable at best, as pretty much only my friends and family read my blog, and there’s not much chance I’m going to sell any of them on some JIRA Hosted. Although I guess you never know.
Anyway, and perhaps sadly, the only non-work-related thing I particularly research in any depth these days is soccer, specifically English League Soccer, and even more specifically Liverpool FC. Rather than completely bore and risk losing both of the remaining Chatterwocky readers, I’ve started a separate blog at redeaux.net (which is meant to be a play on ‘Reds’ (a Liverpool nickname), the word ‘redo’ as in to re-hash or replay, and a cajun-ish spelling, since I am after all from Louisiana, but really is more indicative of how few good domains there are left out there, particularly ones involving the names or mottos of English Premier League teams, but I digress).
Anyway, I’ll be blogging over there, and there’s also an associated twitter account but be warned that I will be tweeting scores on it - so don’t follow if you don’t want to know.
I know there’s a couple of Liverpool fans at the office, I’m hoping they’ll read it from time to time, otherwise if nobody ever reads it that’s perfectly ok with me. It gives me an opportunity to write in a way that’s not conspicuously about me.
The problem with making a public invite via twitter to benihana birthday is that people show and stick their finger in your ear.
I spent this morning varying between love and hatred for my iphone. Love, because streaming KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic over the iPhone thru the car speakers is just the most awesome way to spend the morning commute, and hatred because, over a first gen EDGE iPhone, it just doesn’t work that well.
Presumably, I should buck up for the 3g, but I’m not convinced it will solve the problem. Using EDGE for internet radio worked fine in Sydney - rare were there connectivity issues. On the drive up this morning, though, it would lose connection every few minutes, and I had to give up. 3g will make it faster, but it won’t as far as I know particularly improve coverage, so I’m not sure its worth the price of upgrade for that one feature - I don’t particularly care about 3g otherwise.
After research, I was surprised to find that there aren’t really any good options for 3g-based internet radio car players out there. Certainly they would require separate 3g phone service, and some sort of interface for choosing your stations, but given the huge number of free internet radio stations out there you would think these would still stack up cheaper than XM/Sirius. I’m surprised that AOL or Pandora haven’t partnered up with some hardware manufaturer to offer this yet. Perhaps because 3g coverage isn’t quite up to the task yet?
I was playing around with the idea of making a Mac Mini mod for the car. Basically arming the Mini with a 3g card, embedding it in the dashboard somewhere, and perhaps using a nav monitor as the interface - this way I could access all my music, use it for a CD player (or DVD for the passenger?), and stream internet radio.
But thats just a bit too geeky for me. The fact that using my iPhone plus an aux cord is the best way to listen to internet radio in my car seems a bity janky. At the end of the day, I just want to listen to KCRW in the mornings, and while their selection of podcasts is admirable, I want the daily show and not just the weekly specials. And I want it live. Anybody have any ideas?
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