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I love my iPod. I work on a competing product but the simple fact is the iPod fits my usage model perfectly. Or maybe my usage model has been molded by iPod. One place I like my iPod most is in the car. On my drive to and from work I listen to podcasts of … Read more

This is a quick test of MacJournal to see what it’s editing capabilities are. Hum, template based export of journal entries. Not sure I’d like that for blogging. MacJournal might be pretty cool for journal writing though. We’ll have to play with it a bit and see. Smittie

“Babel” (Alejandro González Iñárritu) My wife and I watched Babel on DVD last night. Both of us thought it was pretty slow, not very good. Babel tells four stories that are, in varying degrees, interrelated. In my opinion, none of the four stories are very engaging. Much of the camera work was the handheld camcorder … Read more

“World Trade Center (Widescreen Edition)” (Oliver Stone) This weekend we watched the movie, World Trade Center. This is the story about two Port Authority Police Officers who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The two were found and dug out. They survived some 18 to 24 hours … Read more

Every once in a while, a direct mail campaign works on me. Which is, I suppose, why we have junk mail in all it’s nastiness. 1% of the direct mail actually works. yourmusic.com is pretty cool. There are probably other similar services out there but this is the first one I’ve become aware of. The … Read more

“The Company” (Robert Littell) Some years ago my wife bought me a gift certificate at Audible.com. The certificate was good for three books. Interestingly enough, it literally meant, three books. I was able to buy books far beyond the cost of the gift certificate itself. The process has since changed at Audible.com. You can’t do … Read more

I always check out the new albums on iTunes 25 New Releases. I am often introduced to artists or albums this way. So, today I was cruising through the list of 25 new releases. An album piqued my curiosity because it was a group called The 5 Browns. The album cover looked like a release … Read more

This book and the subsequent movie reminds me of “Rising Sun” (Michael Crichton). I had lived in Japan and was an Asian Studies major at Cal State Long Beach at the time the book was published. Crichton sought to capitalize on the popular notion that Japan was bent on ‘conquering’ the United States by buying … Read more