The Shifted Librarian - Shifting Libraries at the speed of byte
 Tuesday, February 04, 2003

While I get myself back up to speed blogging, you should be checking in with Frank Field's Furdlog. He's posting a lot of the stuff I would have for the last week, including pointers to Big Champagne (a Nielsen-like rating service of the most popular songs being downloaded) and today's FoxTrot comic about Kazaa users and Disney.

As for me, I got around to doing a few things last week that I'd been putting off. I'm pretty much caught up on my print Entertainment Weeklys, and I noticed an ad in last week's that made me look twice. It's for Allegra allergy medicine, and it shows a woman using a laptop out on a patio. I'm pretty sure she's accessing the internet wirelessly, but I can't be sure. So now Wi-Fi has become background for ads!

I started playing with my Archos Multimedia Jukebox more. I took some video of Brent's basketball game, and I plugged the Archos directly into my ReplayTV to record the wonderful Danny Kaye-Louis Armstrong duet "When the Saints Go Marching In" from the movie The Five Pennies. Of course, it's only an MP3 file since Archos hasn't released the video recorder yet, but I still like having it. I'm thinking of testing RSS enclosures with it, because I'm starting to really like the idea of getting audio and video in my news aggregator.

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