Archive for June, 2004
Macworld: ‘iTunes does the heavy lifting. When iTunes plays back standard audio content (AAC, MP3, audiobooks, music streams), it decompresses those file formats and creates what’s essentially a raw, uncompressed audio stream. That stream is compressed on the fly using Apple’s Lossless Compression, encrypted, and sent to the AirPort Express. AirPort Express decrypts the stream, [ READ MORE ]
We came in second last night in the pub quiz finals. We lost to a team named green scissors by less than two correct answers. Last night’s quiz was more popular culture than usual, which meant I knew a few more of the answers. There’s always next year… better start studying… (for next year’s quiz, [ READ MORE ]
I am not quite sure what this means exactly or how you are supposed to view it, but ‘For six hours early on Tuesday, June 8, Venus will pass directly between the Earth and the Sun…‘ [ READ MORE ]
Last night as I was driving home my truck turned over 98,000 miles. I guess the count down to 100,000 has begun. I am guessing that will happen sometime between three and four months from now. [ READ MORE ]
VH1 has a show on heavy repeat right now called 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever. The people (wanna be commedians) on the show commenting about the songs are not funny one bit, the show should be called something like 50 Most Awesomely Bad Commedians Ever All the songs in the countdown were big hits, [ READ MORE ]
Photos from today. I will put up some links on the side sometime so I don’t always write about the photos, but for now, this is how it is going to be. Enjoy. [ READ MORE ]