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QotD: Random Acts of Kindness

Jun 16, 2008
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What was your random act of kindness today?
Submitted by Cher Cabula.
A girl passing by asked where 3rd and 27th was. Instead of pointing her in the opposite direction, I just told her I had no idea where it was. That counts, right?

QotD: Home Sweet Home

Aug 29, 2006
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What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat

http://www.vox.com, of course!

QotD: Howdy Neighbor!

Aug 17, 2006
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How well do you know your next-door neighbors?
All too well, and I can tell you that they have exceptionally bad taste in music.

QotD: Weekend Wrap-Up

Jul 16, 2006
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What did you do this weekend?

This weekend I decided to give lossless audio compression a try. Disks are only going to get bigger. And that includes iPods. Why should I compress my audio with lossfull encodings (such as MP3)?

So I took a few disks and encoded them in iTunes using Apple's Lossless Encoder. It appears that this is just an AAC file at a higher bit rate. The bit rate depends on the disk in question. John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme Deluxe Edition" (2 disk set) takes up 154.4MB using 192kbps MP3 and 529.4MB using ALE. That's just 3.4x the disk space for the 'good as original' encoding. I call that not bad, not bad at all. If they all encode like that, then my 30 GB iPod can 'only' hold 2200 songs (7500/3.4). I can certainly deal with that. The only question now is: How long will my battery last if I'm only playing ALE encoded songs?

In a few years we'll have computers that can re-encode that to MP3 on the fly for use in smaller iPods (like today's nano.) But in a few years, the nano will hold 30GB, so what's the point of that? Battery life??

Should I be encoding using ALE?

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Jun 30, 2006
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My worst traveling experience was a flight from San Jose to Seattle via Reno via Salt Lake City via Spokane, all standby because they were overbooked.