On The Air Again
I recently started a new consulting contract at a new client. Unlike several other clients I’ve worked for these guys gave me full reign to install whatever I want on my local workstation. (Many companies have certain limitations and procedures to follow if you want to bypass the limitations.) I was happy to see this since it meant I would be able to set the workstation up to stream my portable MP3 player through Winamp to feed the “I’m Listening To…” section of the sidebar.
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about how I set that up using a Winamp plugin called Now Playing. There are a few Winamp plugins with this title and I was upset to see that the website for the one I’ve been using at home and at previous jobs no longer exists. I had to do alot of web searching before I was finally able to find it at this link.
Once I had the streaming software and Now Playing set up I fired up my MP3 player. But for some reason only the artist and title of the track that was playing would display on the blog. After hours of research and tweaking with Now Playing and the WordPress plugin I’m using I finally figured out that the problem was with Winamp itself. If you look in Winamp Preferences under Titles you’ll see a section called Advanced Title Formatting. All I needed to do was uncheck the “Use advanced title formatting when possible” option and I was good to go. Alternatively I could have kept it checked and tweaked “Advanced title display format” to have it show what I needed but simply unchecking the option was all that was needed for me to get it done.
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Bad Digital Photo Frames Lurk
Microsoft designs a pay-as-you-go patent. Sony PS3 not catching up? HP gets PC and MAC server. So? Extra second added to the year. Windows 7 to come out early, now leaked. Nothing special they say. Will websites have to be rated. Photo frames have malware. Merry Christmas. Verizon wins $33 million from squatter. Apple, Google, MS sued over icon previews.MMO patent emerges. Gov’t sets up call center for analog to digital changeover. Texting while driving finally becoming illegal. Seven most under-reported stories of 2008. ÂÂ
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/137844/tech5-137844-12-29-2008.mp3]
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John Lennon Appears in OLPC Commercial
I just read an article on PCWorld.com about how the One Laptop Per Child, with the blessing of Yoko Ono, has digitized John Lennon to appear in their latest ad. This is one of the silliest things I’ve ever heard/seen. The likeness could be better and the voice is way off. But besides that it’s just plain weird.
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Long Post (Somewhere Else)
Today I amazed myself by writing a 673 word post about the New York Jets on one of my other blogs. Although 673 words is not the largest post I’ve ever written it’s been a while since I’ve written anything that long. Time to give myself a pat on the back.
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RIP Eartha Kitt
I heard last night that Eartha Kitt died of colon cancer yesterday at the age of 81. As most guys my age my first exposure to Kitt was as Catwoman on the old Adam West ‘Batman’ TV show. She was filling the role after Lee Meriwether and Julie Newmar had their turns. Much later, in 2003, my wife and I had the pleasure of seeing her perform on Broadway as Liliane in ‘Nine’. She was wonderful and actually brought up the performances of her co-stars (most notably John Stamos, who had the lead role of Guido). Even at the age of 76 she was able to heat up the stage. In between I’d seen her on TV on many occasions and actually had to explain to my wife who she was when she appeared on an episode of ‘The Nanny’ when the Sheffields went to Paris. Earlier in her career she recorded the holiday standard “Santa Baby” and was dubbed “the most exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles.
Rest in peace.
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