Archive for July, 2005

The Solution to YME

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

It looks like Windows media Player will cheerfully play tracks downloaded by Yahoo Music Engine. Indeed, I didn’t realize this before but it looks like YME is using WMP at a much higher level than I thought to play tracks, since WMP knows about recently played and most frequently played tracks.
Sooo, I can log […]

Dell DJ 30 (continued)

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

It’s been a couple weeks now. I have some more comments about the Dell DJ:
1) In shuffle play mode, the random track selection happens with the “next track” rather than when the playlist starts playing. This means if you navigate back a song or two and then forward, you get different songs. […]

Where do you get your ideas?

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Lynn posted about intelligence and happiness. In the comments, Angus McIntyre said:

Intuitively, I feel that imagination may play a part here, but there’s an open question as to whether the ’successful’ intelligent person is successful because they generate better ideas, or because they generate more ideas and, crucially, know which ones to pursue. […]

Baylands walk

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

I took a walk through a piece of the Palo Alto Baylands Preserve this evening. I was mainly out for a walk but I did bring a camera.
I parked at the end of San Antino road and walked in along Shoreline lake. It was a sunny beautiful day […]

Dell DJ 30 and Yahoo Music Unlimited

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

My shiny new Dell DJ 30G arrived a few days ago. It arrived in a box-within-a-box arrangement from Dell.

I quickly unpacked the various bits and set up the dock next to my computer and plugged it in. I only installed the Dell DJ Drivers rather than the whole mess of software on […]