RSS Feeds, etc

I spent some time looking at various options for news that work on the Mac and the iPod Touch (haven’t bought the iPhone 3G yet but soon, very soon…) and have settled on NetNewsWire. It took a while to massage all the feeds I had in Firefox and Google Reader, but I have finally got [...]

Blackberry Photo Tip

Granted that I have found that the Blackberry Curve’s camera is relatively poor unless the lighting is excellent, there is a major annoyance that can be avoided – the .rem extension on the photos. By default, encryption is enabled on the memory card inside the Blackberry and as a result, each time you take a [...]

Bookmark Bar

Quick browser hint: In all major browsers, there is a nice bookmark bar to which you can drag and drop your favorites. What I like doing is creating folders on this bookmark bar and then organizing my favorites that way so that I can get to them easily. The good news is that Google Bookmark [...]

Musical Musings…

Assorted notes about recent musical acquisitions
Bennie Maupin – excellent especially when I am feeling a little buddhist mood coming on
Stanton Moore – some excellent stuff in there – particularly his cover of Zep!
Curcumin – like this one too. Nice Joao Gilberto revival stuff in a way. Thanks!
Death Cab for Cutie – not bad. I prefer [...]

Off on vacation…assorted musings

I am off for two weeks with the wife and kid at La Tranche sur Mer in the Vendée. Some projects I plan for early September (so please come back soon
- More soft topics (what I am reading non-professionally)
- More technical stuff as well
- More playing with widgets
Trying to figure out what tool [...]