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Audio Formats
Mar 13th
As a follow up on the Home Theater troubles from earlier. I decided to keep the current system until the new crop of receivers hit the market. To test the setup, I fired up the PS3 and inserted a movie disc I borrowed (this was my first attempt at a BD movie). And it threw More >
Auld acquaintances
Mar 12th
Had dinner with some old friends / former colleagues (including my ex boss). Good to catch up after six months. The occasion: my treat for losing a bet on the stock market. The last time we got together was my farewell at the old shop and so it was a sort of five gainst one More >
Music Review: Timbaland
Mar 11th
I’ve given a listen to Timbaland’s follow up to the debut Shock Value entitled… wait for it… Shock Value II. I did not find the first album all that good, but this one is much better. The songs seem much more developed and distinct. Perhaps at the time of the first album, there were too More >
Home theater setup is a mess
Mar 10th
I am redoing my home theater setup. And it is a right royal mess.
The equipment has been bought over the past six years and the oldest pieces are the AV Receiver and the Speakers. The speakers are okay (one of them is showing some signs of problems) by and large: these are Mission’s M5 set More >
No Post Today
Mar 9th
It has been a long day and I am tired. So no blogging today.
Just wanted to point out one bit of heartening news. The Supreme Court ordered the release of some prisoners who had completed their terms. Ordinarily this would not have been news. Except that they were Pakistani prisoners who were being held even More >
Oscar Upset
Mar 8th
Looks like a major upset at the Oscars for Avatar, with The Hurt Locker walking away with the best picture and best director awards. Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock won as many anticipated. The latter apparently being the first person to win an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year. It also seems that More >
Madrid Photos
Mar 7th
Finally got around to uploading a bunch of photos from my trip to Madrid. This was back in January and the first of the bad winter storms across Europe was under way. Temperatures were below freezing most of the time, and indeed when the temps hit 2 degrees my taxi driver remarked that it was More >
Mac Day 2
Mar 6th
Well, the first full day with Leopard. Mostly the experience has been decent. Getting some hardware working was difficult. As with Linux, not all hardware makers offer Mac drivers. But the struggle with some basic stuff like keyboard and mouse were unexpected. Even after getting some fixes in, it still freezes sometime with the keyboard More >
Mac OS X
Mar 5th
Tried out Mac OS X today. The install of Leopard went remarkably smooth and here I am typing this blog post from within Firefox for Mac. Thanks to cross platform applications like Firefox, the learning curve is small. However there are enough painful differences.
Firstly the Mac OS does not seem to have an effective application More >
10 billion itunes songs
Mar 4th
So apparently Apple has sold 10 billion songs on itunes. The store has been up for a few years now and is currently one of the biggest music retailers in the world. Ergo it is reasonable to expect that the best sellers during this time would reflect the best music of the decade. Maybe the More >