Hit or Miss

Entries from Feb 2005

Paging Mr. Webster  

"iPause v. to cease or suspend an action temporarily in order to adjust your iPod."

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How to Save TiVo  

Om Malik's suggestions on how TiVo can stay in the PVR game.

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Make out with FireFox  

Firefox extensions to facilitate blogging.

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In Over My Head

Today and tomorrow, I’m participating in Lia Bulaong’s hello, can you see me?, a group moblog event sharing the lives of 24 people over 48 hours in New York City. And I’m doing a pretty piss-poor job so far. I’m starting to think that I just don’t have a photographer’s eye. Or my surrounding are too boring, or it’s too cold to pull out my cameraphone.

This coming Tuesday, February 22, Jeff and I are singing the Beethoven Mass in C at Carnegie Hall, along with other members of our chorus. I’ve been trying to teach myself the music and it’s fiendishly more difficult than I had originally thought.

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sIFR 2.0  

Degradable standards-based custom typography using Flash 6.

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Mapping iPod sightings in NYC  

Khoi spotted 32 iPods in a 30 minute / 18 block walk.

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Satellite image of The Gates  

A whopping 3696x4422 pixel photo of the art installation in Central Park.

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In Search Of: A small Midi keyboard

I’ve missed playing around with music sequencing software, so I’m looking to get a Midi keyboard with a small desktop-sized footprint. The M-Audio Oxygen8 would appear to be the perfect product, but it’s only a Midi controller and lacks an on-board synthesizer. I know I can play sounds through my Mac with software like SimpleSynth, but I’d also like to be able to sit with a keyboard on my couch (i.e. away from the computer, where I spend most of my day) and play through and practice my Chorus parts. A cheap little 25-key synthesizer would be great, but it would have to have Midi ports on the back. So far, I’m striking out on my web and eBay searches.

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