Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Link dump

Wink is a flash-based tutorial generating tool
Flac http://flac.sourceforge.net/ is a free lossless audio-codec, better than MP3 and free-er too.

Sunday, April 24, 2005

I would buy his record

The best flash site I have ever seen...

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Links to newspaper front pages around the country

Firefox includes an extension called Stumble - get it off their extensions page and try it out.

Found this site stumbling around.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

California Coastline Photos

Some really nice shots here, over 10,000+ of them!

Saturday, April 16, 2005

LiquidIce's PSP Hacks

LiquidIce's PSP Hacks

Thanks to Liquidice for the inspiration to hook up Winamp on my home PC to my Playstation Portable.

In 3 easy steps! (well, not really easy, more like *&%@#(&!!! but hey it was worth it...)

http://omlette.net/psp/roto/ - The widely available Wipeout Pure Browser hack made me go out and burn $50 bones on a game I played twice.
http://www.ntcanuck.com/ - The DNS server I setup from above link
http://winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=144237 - Cygnus Winamp Remote via web browser.

After installing Tree Walk DNS and performing the couple of install steps in the Wipeout Pure browser hack walkthrough, I setup Cygnus.

In the C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\Cygnus\Messages directory, you can create a text file with the name of the logged in user to Cygnus. You configure your users in the General Purpose plugin settings of winamp.

Mine looks something like this (it's HTML):

Hi Andrew.


NEXT SONG

wavesmash
yahoo
zip.ca
Google
Mapquest
Yahoo
cnet
Wapmarks
BBCFinancial Times

TV guide
Blogdex

Then you setup your PSP to use the DNS server you installed (your local IP address) rather than the 66.98.192.68 server provided in the hack.

When you hit the Download page in Wipeout, the Cygnus page should display, with the links above & some additional search capabilities.

Voila?

You may have to go into Cygwin & configure the MP3 Directory & rebuild the database of mp3s. I also noticed my PSP seemed to shut off or disconnect randomly.

On to other hacks. Maybe a browser toolbar written in javascript & some frames would help the browsing experience. Hmm...

I just wish there was a way to d/l content onto PSP from the internet.

Well, back to Luminens.

There goes privacy

Sort of a White Pages directory on steroids.

Try some noteables names. Google Satellite them.

Overexposed:
Paris Hilton is there.

Talk too much:
Jay Leno. Oprah Winfrey

Wealthy
Warren Buffett, Bill Gates,

Bloggers
Mark Cuban, Robert Scoble

Disclaimer: These addresses are probably for Rob Scoble, the sanitation engineer and Billy Gates, the plumber.

John Travolta's House in Jumbolair

"When you own an airplane, the biggest problem is finding a reason to use it."
http://www.jumbolair.com/

I'm sure I would find something to do with my time. Vegas maybe?
Google Sightseeing - The Las Vegas strip
3600 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
http://www.bellagio.com

Interesting that Google Maps Satellite doesn't have Ocala, Fla.

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Sorry Warren

A top insurance company as the new Enron?

An accounting probe at AIG worries Wall Street, and involves some of America's richest men.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0401/p03s01-usju.html

Yeah, so I bought BRKB (Berkshire Hathaway) a couple of months ago. Just 1 share (!) but since everything I buy seems to go down, I had apologized in advance to the world's second richest man, since I'm a big fan of his.

Looks like this self-fulfilling prophecy stuff seems to keep coming back to haunt me.

I also bought Hemosol (HMSL) a couple of years ago.

Right after this: But Hemolink didn't work. Last March, Hemosol announced that another Phase 2/3 trial had shown the product caused "certain adverse events" in cardiac patients

I'm guessing that means they gave their blood supplement to some people, and they had heart attacks, but adverse events could even mean their hair fell out or something...

I am still in the stock unfortunately. Reading Yahoo's Message Boards on that one is like a soap opera, with everyone thinking the company will cure cancer or something 'next week'. Maybe I can go acquire a pipe off of that $90 million dollar plant down the road or something.

http://noblood.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-1285.html

If anyone wants to give me some cash to invest for them, it may be a good idea. I would make a good short-seller. As my friend said to me last week when I asked him about buying more Hemosol, "don't try and catch a falling knife."