Can't tell you more than I told you already?
The Columbus newspaper ran a story about a public information meeting for some of my projects at work. I think it’s funny that no matter what newspaper you get in, you can still call it “the paper”. So I was in the paper.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/2004/01/16/news/local/7722161.htm
I’ve put together a web page about how to connect an iPod to a Sony car stereo. I had bought a Sony head unit in 1998 with cassette and a CD changer in the trunk. I had been using a cassette adapter but had some problems. So I wound up getting a Sony XA-300 auxilliary input adapter. This is a successor to the XA-107. The web page has other work-arounds that might be useful and it seemed more appropriate for that information to appear on its own web page instead of a blog entry.
A guy on Ebay saw that I bought this FM transmitter and asked me what I thought of it. I’ve been happy with it. Here’s what I wrote:
I got mine for my iPod as well. I tried two different transmitters that I got at Best Buy and neither one worked very well but they were only $20 whereas this one was $36 including shipping. I thought with 3 batteries and a claimed range of 150′ that maybe the Linex would have more oomph. It is adequate, but not powerful.
This is a review I posted on Amazon for a FM transmitter that would let me play the iPod over any FM radio. I gave it one star.
I use a cassette adapter with my MP3 player in the car, but was hoping to have something I could use in the house that would let me keep the MP3 player close by for skipping songs, pausing, picking albums, and changing the volume. Wiring the MP3 directly into the stereo I had to get up any time I wanted to do those things.
One of my AvantGo subscriptions is the NY Times technology page. I usually sync up on Sunday nights so I get some stuff from their Sunday journal (like Parade). This week they had an article about web logs (or online journals) and how high school kids use them. You can read the original but I’ll post the rest later.
Highlights:
“Ninety percent of those with blogs are between 13 and 29 years old; a full 51 percent are between 13 and 19”.
After the writer posts a comment to one kid’s journal a kid writes a new entry titled “i like how older people have grammar online”
The people who write them like expressing themselves publicly, but live in fear that someone they know will find out too much. At least one person asked that their name not be used so their parents wouldn’t find out about their blog, even though it’s available to everyone in the world (solution: geeky dad creates Movable Type site so that his kids can have their own web logs).
There are many different sites out there. The article starts with one called Blurty, then LiveJournal, and finally Xanga. The writer asks some high school girls (randomly I guess) if they have LiveJournals. “No” one said “we have Xangas.”
That’s about it. One thing I thought of while I was reading the article was that what is really needed is editors. There are tons of blogs out there and some deserve attention, but you have to have some way of going through all of it. Not randomly, probably not even by popularity since you’ll just get the most incendiary or lurid content that way. There doesn’t seem to be any lack of source material, it just needs to be culled.
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