O.k. So we've already discussed the Sony PlayStation 3
If you can't see the video player take this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giiCPKQn6M0
That's all folks!
Quote of the day
This quote was selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations
- I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Unless you've had your head under a rock for the last year or two, you've heard of You Tube. What is it you ask. It's a website where you can upload your own video and show the world the creative genius that's been lurking inside waiting for such a medium. You can even post the video on your website, or leave a link directing people to the You Tube site where they can watch it there. Don't want the world to see your family videos? The good news is that every movie can be set to public, or you private (which means you can choose who can access the video).
How can I make a Movie
Windows Xp comes equipped with Windows Movie Maker (take the link to download it for free if it's not already on your computer. Just go the start menu, click the 'all programs' and scroll to accessories. It's pretty basic and easy to use. I'm unsure if Macintosh systems have something similar (sorry, I can't afford a Mac yet). I use a program called VIDEOSTUDIO10
I'm a You Tuber Too
Yup, you guessed it. I've jumped in on the craze.
I was messing around with the video editing software and put together this slack little music video: Yep that's me in the video all right. It's a nice little bluesy jazz thing.
Just click on the player.
Go here if you can't see the player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3L36GMV2Go
Well folks, that's it for today. Give it a try. It's fun to be a little creative once in a while.
Quote of the day
"The revolution will not be televised"
-anonymous
For more of my music visit my website or see me on Myspace
HDTV in Canada
The U.S. has plans to phase out analog T.V. by 2009. Digital seems to be the way to go. Particularly HDTV and it's 1984ish wall-like units. The HDTV programing that we get is almost exclusively from the States. Do you think if Canada went all digital it would be a threat to our culture? Before you answer that, have look at this story from the CBC. It brought up a few good points that I wouldn't have thought of.
Motivational Quote
When your insurance company offers to have a free immobilizer installed in your car, you might have to bring your wallet (just make sure you have some money in it). I received a letter from Autopac last week offering me a free immobilizer for my car. It turns out my car is in the top 100 vehicles which get stolen here in Winnipeg. They offer the immobilizer and installation free because after this year they will no longer insure your vehicle if it makes the top 100 list unless it is equipped with an immobilizer. It is supposed to make it impossible for your car to get stolen. No keys, or more specifically, a key tag attached to the keys, no start. So fine, I made my appointment and had it installed today. It turned out to be not so free. Because we have two people driving the car in the family, I had to buy an extra key tag. If you don't have the key tag on your key chain, the vehicle won't start! Bang! $22.00 and change. It also turned out that my car had an old remote car starter in it. I had no idea, but it didn't work anyway. In order to install the immobilizer, they had to remover the remote starter. Bang! $60.00 for and hour of labor. So I had to pay around $82.00 for my free addition. It would have been more if I had a remote car starter that actually worked. They charge about $80.00 for this. They explained to me that the remote starter and the immobilizer work against each other because one starts the car without the keys and one stops the car from starting if they keys aren't in it. Because of this they need to do some extra work. I can see the logic in it but none of this was actually explained in the letter from autopac.
All in all, it's not a bad deal because the immobilizer and installation would normally have cost about $280.00, I get a $40.00 rebate for having it installed, and I get an additional $40.00 off my insurance per year. The extra charges were just unexpected and I thought I would let everybody know what they might be in for.
So remember folks: When somebody says something is free, it's probably not.
The internet holds a huge amount of talented musician/songwriters. The problem for many is where to find it. I was reading a blog entry by my brother in-law (well practically) who was asking his readers to let him know where he could find some good music that he hasn't heard before. Here's the link to Larry's blog (very entertaining). Guess where the idea for this entry came form. Thanks Larry!
Indie Music Sites
I am a singer/songwriter, and used to run an internet radio station (two of my many talents that get me nowhere). I have found a few places on the net called "Online Music Distributers" (OMD's) that play host to a wide range of music by some super talented people who are not signed to any labels but write some wicked music.
Check out Soundclick.com. They have alot of different categories of music to choose from. They also have music charts (like top of the charts sorta thing) for each section. I like that because you know where the good music is right away. If you can't find some music that you like on this sight then you have something wrong with you!
Another similar site is Artist Launch. The front page of the site looks a little cheezy but if you poke around there is some great stuff to be found. They also have various radio shows you can download.
If you haven't heard of Scrub Radio go there now. They run live radio shows and have a few stations to choose from. I mean it, go there now. The also have an OMD full of musicians called Scrub Records. It's run by some great people too.
Compo 10 runs a music contest every week for indie musicians has a huge list of OMD's here.
If your a musician then go to Indie Hangout. It's a forum board. They have some serious musicians with some serious music. Check out the "new release" section, or go to the "Indie Musician" section and click on a topic. They all have links to there music sites in thier profiles.
I could go on and on. There is a huge amount of music out there.
Here's a link to some of my music too (if you like the mellow stuff). How's that for shameless self promomotion?
So remember kids: Support indie music! Otherwise your just listening to what the record companies have you trained to listen to.
Oh ya check out Mixposure too.
As everyone in the free world knows, the new Sony Playstaion 3 gaming system was released on Friday. A friend of mine at work told me these things were selling for about $700 Canadian. So I thought that was ridiculous. A gaming system for $700! What ever happened to Atari for $99. What about Intellevision (I actually bought one for $5.00 with 10 games a few years back). Colecovision anyone? Ok, I now the old gaming systems are literally archaic compared to the new ones, but really.....? Can you say "carried away?"
Well, Like I said, when I heard the retail price I was shocked. Ok, so the same friend told me that they were being pre-sold on e-bay for around $2 000 can. Of course I came home and checked it out right away. Low and behold, right in front of my eyes, PS3s being sold for $1 800 - $2 200 on average by people who were lucky enough to get one pre-sold to them from a dealer.
So I had to sit and watch the bids on these things for a while because I couldn't believe my freakin eyes. I saw one system go for $10 000 us. The deal this guy was offering goes something like this:
if the bidding makes it to $2 000 an extra controller would be thrown in. For every addition $200 a game would be thrown in. That's a gaming system and 40 games (which cost about $2400) for ten grand. The seller paid $3 100.
Alright, so your saying that beats everything right? Wrong.
I also saw a PS3 e-mail address (you know the kind someone who sells these things would have). It got sold for a cool $38 000. Yes, for a freakin e-mail address! Don't believe me check it out here.
Here's a video I found about a guy who paid a bunch of homeless people a hundred bucks each to stand in line for him. The video is here on You-Tube. I found it on the Web Strategy by Jeremiah Blog
That's all folks!!!
Oh ya, if anyone wants to buy an Intellevision Gaming system I know where you can get one for about $500 Canadian. I also have Atari, various Nintendo games, and yes I even have Pong.
So I've already got rid of Opera. It seemed very good except that it had a problem on some pasword pages. You would enter the password and it would just refresh the page. This happened on quite a few pages including my bank and my work websites. Von-voyage Opera and hello Fire Fox. Yep! Firefox seems as good as I've heard it was. I haven't really gotten too deep into it's capabilities but I like it so far. No troubles at all....so far. It also seems to have some cool add ons and stuff. Good call Larry!
Well, I've still quit smoking but Damn I've been nic-ing out for the past 20 minutes. I may have one yet. I thought this got easier but it's like you don't have a nic fit as often, but when you do it's more intense, or at least it seems that way. Fuck......I want to rip out my eyeballs.......
Aaaaa yes. The joys of addiction. To bad the Governments lied about smoking in the 50's when they said it wasn't harmful. Did people actually believe you could inhale the smoke from burning leaves and it wouldn't be harmful? Now, even though they know the shit kills, they make so much money from it they can't ban it out right. What ever...............
See ya.....
Alright, so Corinne and I are trying out a new browser called "Opera". Well, Corinne doesn't know it quite yet he, he. Hi Honey......lol. I don't now if any of you have tried the new Explorer 7, but I thought it sucked the big petulee.........or small petulee.....or what ever. Ok , you've got me! I made that word up. I just thought it sounded cool. Anyway, the newest version just seemed to copy things from firefox (so I've read) and Opera. It's painfully slow. I hate slow. I need shit now. Not 10 seconds from now (which can be an eternity when you waiting for a page to load), right now. So Ya, MicroSoft (Is there any reference here to Bill Gates Petulee....) sent out a critical update and when you accept it, it downloads and installs the new Explorer version. Well I got rid of it after we tried it for a while. So far The Opera is good. It's definately faster! It seems to have all the same features too. Best of all it's free and doesn't seem to be a memory hog. A cool thing to is that you can incorporate widgets. I love widgets! My favorite so far would be the Bittorent one.If I notice anything totally out of wack with it I'll blog an update.
So remember kids, Bill's Petulee, oh alright Microsoft, is not the only game in town. I would put the Web address down for but frankly I'm too damn lazy for that right now. I know you can find it. Google is a great tool.
Oh ya, I quite smoking 2 or three days ago and guess what? EVERYTHING SUCKS!!!!!!!!
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