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CoverFlow

This app looks cool. It allows you to browse your music like you are flipping through your older vinyl album covers.

I do try to make sure that all my MP3s have album art in them so I will be checking this out…

CoverFlow
Don’t know about you, but I find browsing a list of album names somewhat uninspiring, to say the least. One of the big appeals of a physical album is the beautiful packaging and aesthetic appeal, something that’s sorely missed with the digital equivalent.

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IE 7.0, Boycott it.

Definitely an interesting read about IE 7 and the technical challenges behind it. I am sure that it isn’t easy to implement all those features but It can’t be that tough to pull off, come one, it’s Microsoft!

Firefox has done it, and further more, it is here today.

Also, isn’t it tiresome that Microsoft still chooses to use proprietary technologies rather than fix or support current web standards?

IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch
My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It’s a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn’t secure and isn’t standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

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The Russian Shuttle Buran

I have seen pictures of this in the past, however it just is hard to believe that the Russians almost had a working shuttle. Not for any cold war fears, but seeing this thing seems like I am peering into an alternate reality or something.

Shuttle Buran – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet reusable spacecraft program Buran (“Бура́н” meaning “snowstorm” or “blizzard” in Russian) began in 1976 at TsAGI as a response to the United States Space Shuttle program. Soviet politicians were convinced that the Space Shuttle would be an effective military weapon since the DoD took part in the project, and could pose a potential threat to the balance of power during the Cold War. The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space exploration.

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Here’s to you mister Sysadmin Guy for all you do!

{listen to patriotic music while reading}
Here’s to you mister Sysadmin Guy,ah Person, for all you do!

Thanks for:
* Helping users do battle with the day to day forces that delete files or create viruses.
* For securing our networks to keep the baddies out.
* For climbing under desks and into ceilings to pull countless cables.
* For routing packets that needed routing!
* For dealing with office politics when it comes to network policy
* and for keeping the Internet up.

I toast this Jolt to you Mister Sysadmin! Happy Sysadmin Day!

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Guest hosting TechTidbits Daily!

Tech Tidbits Daily is part of Steven Holden’s podcast at Technewsradio.com. He does a 20min or so podcast called Tech Rag Tearouts and shorter versions through out the week called Tech Tidbits Daily which are about 1-3 minutes each. Tech Rag Tearouts is just that, as Steven reads articles he tears them out to keep and he uses that as material for his podcasts.

Steven Holden is taking a vacation, and asked for volunteers to guest host while he is out so I am doing 3, Today July 25th, July 28th, and August 2nd. There are a lot of others also doing the Tech Tidbits Daily too so give it a go, and subscribe over here.

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Dueling iPods! Alright!

I use to DJ back in the Dark Ages. I loved matching beats, and mixing up songs. There is this great satisfaction that you get when people are dancing and partying to what you are playing…

I haven’t mixed in a while, but it is still an interest to me. Anyway, look at what showed up over at Engadget! Set up a mixing stack with iPods!

Oh how I wish that I had MP3’s back then. I could have saved my back hauling around all those records.

Numark busts out iDJ dueling iPod mixer – Engadget – www.engadget.com