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I’m really a bass player… I mean, I play guitar, and if it’s 3-chord punk rock you want, I can deliver it, but really, I’m a bass player… Oh sure, I used to have a drum set, and play other people’s drum, and it was fun and all, but now, now my friends, I have a drum set.

Through a crazy set of circumstances, I now inhabit a house with a nice basement room that contains a bass, guitar, two amps, and a drum set. Those drums! They make for a good workout I tell you! It’s been probably 10 years since I really played the drums for more than a few minutes, and it was a blast. (I’m hoping the neighbors don’t mind too much.) I just wish it was a double-bass setup so I could get a full body workout.

The next step of course is to get the kids involved, and see if they’ve got any musical inclination. They say they do, so we’ll just see what happens. Don’t think The Partridge Family, think School of Rock. ;)

Just a reminder folks, if you’re ordering my birthday gift from Amazon you’ll want to use my Amazon Wish List, and you’re gonna wanna order it very soon so it can get here by next Saturday.

I mean, I don’t mind my gifts coming later than Saturday, but if you wanna be all official and stuff, that would be the day…

I recently told someone that I don’t listen to the radio anymore… Which is not completely correct…

The Mel & Floyd show on WORT in Madison is probably the only radio content I actually try to listen to. By chance I heard it while driving home on a Friday a few years back during summer hours, and now each summer I try to listen, but come on! Podcasting! How can I be expected to remember to listen to a radio show?

So I was happy happy when I found an episode of Mel & Floyd on madison.indymedia.org, but alas! No feed! I contacted the uploader, and asked about RSS 2.0 and enclosures and podcasting, but they weren’t quite sure about being able to give me what I was asking for, so I whipped up this RSS 2.0 Feed with enclosures for Mel & Floyd, which will do for now, and hopefully this is a feature they can offer in the future…

Sometimes progress moves so slowly…

Have you seen FireANT? It’s a video aggregator. It’s like iPodder, but for video instead of audio… For videoblogs instead of podcasts…

The FireANT folks just put out a great screencast showing how it works. Well, showing how the Windows version currently works. The Mac version is not quite the same, but I’m sure it will be soon! (Isn’t that right?) I know they’ve got a lot of new ideas and features in store, so keep an eye on it.

And remember kids, ANT‘s Not Television…

People are wondering if Apple will fall under the Osborne Effect with it’s Intel announcement… I don’t know. I doubt it though… I think Steve is smart enough to know what he’s doing, and maybe Apple’s line will be tweaked to account for this. (Cheaper hardware? Less high-end hardware?) I think as a Mac user talking to a potential Mac buyer, the first thing you should tell them is that Apple will put out a machine that is faster, cheaper and better in the future. Possibly a few minutes after your shiny new Mac arrives. It’s a guarantee. Oh, that and don’t order right before Macworld Expo or the WWDC. I mean, sheesh! That’s just common sense!

I don’t know. (None of us do…) As I said in Apple + Intel = Yawn I’m not too worried about it. As I mentioned, I think a processor upgrade is a good idea for me. (Well, for my Mac anyway, actually I could use a processor upgrade as well…) In fact, this could be big for the processor upgrade manufacturers. There might be a lot of people looking to stretch their Mac another year or two instead of buying a new one now. (Sorry PowerBook/iBook users, processor upgrades are typically only for desktop machines.) The other good news for me is that people may sell their ‘obsolete’ hardware at cheap prices. Yay for me and the old used Macs.

I also thought this was amusing. People used to say if you were a gamer you’d run Windows, not a Mac. Macs used PowerPC chips while Windows used Intel chips. Nowadays all the game consoles are or will be using PowerPC chips, and the Mac will be using Intel chips. What does it all mean? Nothing really, I just found it amusing. It’s almost like the Mac is still trying to live up the “The Mac is not a toy” motto.

Oh, and one more thing… I find it curious that Apple may be manufacturing it’s very nice hardware, with Intel chips, that can run Windows, at just about the time Microsoft will be releasing Longhorn, forcing people to buy new computers capable of running it. Is Steve Jobs looking to out-Microsoft Microsoft by producing kick-ass Windows machines? (Somebody get Scoble on the case!)