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Couch July 26, 2005

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Big hike tomorrow, a week-long trek through Yose high country. I am really loving my couch right now.

Anchor Steam Date Decoder July 23, 2005

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Anchor Steam/Liberty Ale Date Decoder

Pome Randomizer July 21, 2005

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I decided to include randomly selected, randomized pomes here on the Foo, just cause. Please feel free to add lines to existing pomes or create a new one.

Watch free! July 14, 2005

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I like how cheerful CNN appears with its new video service. Headlines like:

“Wildfire threatens expensive California homes | Watch free”

“Shark attacks teen off Texas coast | Watch Free”

I Can’t Wait for Wireless Streaming Audio July 9, 2005

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Sitting at my PC, I often listen to internet radio — Mainly the Launchcast music service from Yahoo — which allows me to connect to their sevrer and receive music based on my preferences. It works great — audio quality, content selection. It’s nice that I cannot control it like a playlist. I actually enjoy that aspect of it. But that I can set ratings for titles and artists, and so forth.

So far this is a PC-centric sort of service. Occasionally I have wired my PC to my home stereo to listen to this radio over the stereo. This also works fine.

Now I have this Treo 650 phone, which has storage space sufficient for MP3 storage, plus has internet functionality. So when can I marry these features to the Yahoo Launchcast thing, such that from my phone I can sit there and listen to music streamed in? Like the old trasmitter radio of old, but based on my specific preferences? Why should I even have to store a ton of MP3 files on my phone? I’d rather just get content wirelessly streamed in anyway.

I can’t wait for that.

Local Inventory Search July 7, 2005

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I wish there were more intersections between the online world and the local physical world. It’s all well and good to search for the product you want on-line, and deal with the shipping cost of that. But it would also be nice to know if the same product is already available at a local store. That would be a nice ecommerce search tool. Search for product X by zip code, and it would list all the stores in the area which offer that item or similar, and the inventory status. Of course it means all the local retailers have expose their inventories to the world. Would it kill them?

I’m looking for this:
Hybrid Headset/Headphones for Treo 650

But I’d like to know if I can find them locally to avoid the shipping charges, and if I can beat the price. But there’s no way to do that without driving around town.

So, Auggie said after a few minutes July 4, 2005

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“So, Auggie said after a few minutes. “You think Bono ever farted on stage? I wonder if Bono ever farted on stage. I mean, not so anyone could hear it. I just mean, you know, with all that noise, and all that movement, and you know he would have had to have eaten that day. With all that travelling, you can’t always be sure about what you eat… I have to say, I would feel better about myself if I knew that Bono had farted on stage.”