New Template

I had to upgrade something here and had to choose a template. Looks OK, I guess.

I want a new Mac

I'm thinking a laptop this round. I hear something new is coming in the fall.

Got my RocketFM - it rocks!

I got my RocketFM in the mail today and it works great! I can broadcast my iTunes over the radio to a boombox and control it with my iPod Touch using the new Remote app. It's going to be great to sit on the deck with a cold homebrew listening to say, Bad Brains. Too bad the RocketFM is a discontinued product. Maybe with the launch of the iPod Touch/iPhone firmware upgrade, there will be more FM transmitter solutions. I'm glad this worked. I was ready to drill holes into the walls to mount some outdoor speakers. Thanks Apple!!!

Let's update the blog

I know, I know, it's been a while again. What can I say? It's been busy.
I got the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware upgrade - it rocks! There's a cool free remote contral app for iTunes that let's you control iTunes through the wireless network. I'll be getting an FM transmitter so I can sit on the deck and listen to my iTunes music through a boombox. Stay tuned on how this works out.

Yep, still here - got an iPod Touch

Wow, it's been a while! Maybe I should have a New Year's resolution to update this more often.

I got an iPod Touch - love it! I use it to surf and check email on the road. The wireless and Safari is surprisingly usable.

Happy Holidays!

Backup Drive working, Summarize service

My backup drive now works. I had to buy a new Acomdata case since the problem was caused by my old case. I'm not sure what happened - either the case blew out and took my USB hub with it or vice versa. I now have an external FireWire case with my 250GB drive. Works like a champ.
I also came across a post explaining the Summarize service in Mac OSX. If you haven't seen it, check it out here - it's really cool. From the blog, "What it does is it takes an selection of text and generates a very precise summary of the text." Where was the Summarize service when I was in school? Very cool.

Backup drive failure?

My USB hub for my iPod Shuffle blew out. I think it may have taken the external drive I was using as backup with it. I may buy a copy of SpinRite and see if I can repair it. If it doesn't help, at least I would have contributed to Steve Gibson's excellent Security Now podcast.

New Blogger

Well, it's been a while. It's been so long that there's a new version of Blogger that requires a Google account. So I created one and added this post.
Hope it works.