I’ve now had my iPod for approximately 3 months, and wanted to revisit my original review to provide a more comprehensive picture based on long-term usage. This feeling was primarily instigated by another article on the appearance of patterns within the iPod’s shuffle algorithm.
Personally, I strongly believe that the iPod has a truly random [...]
I recently caved to my ongoing desire to have a higher capacity MP3 player. I’ve been using a 1GB flash-based player since my Rio Karma died over a year ago, and I simply couldn’t get over the desire to have a larger selection of music readily available. My biggest original issue with the [...]
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has recently been debating several initiatives that I’ve been following, both of which I’ve discussed in previous posts.
The first is the Broadcast Flag - an initiative originally mandated by the FCC to force all electronics manufacturers to obey a “broadcast flag” that would determine how any given [...]
For those who haven’t jumped on the social bookmarking bandwagon already, let me just extol some of it’s virtues for a bit. I started using del.icio.us several months ago, and it’s definitely been a handy tool.
First and foremost, del.icio.us solves the problem of having one set of bookmarks but three or four [...]
So much for my vaunted effort at regular updates.
The last couple months has been fairly interesting, if not completely crazy. The website front was dominated by all these really cool new things I’m learning with CSS, PHP and databasing and all sorts of other goodies. Unfortunately, all of my code is currently locked away on [...]