Corey's step into the world of Blog publishing.

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

If you own a t68i phone, and your volume switch is broken (I couldn't increase the volume), there is a way around it... kinda. If you can get the volume slider to come up at all during a call (you can still either increase or decrease the volume), after you see the slider, use the joystick to increase/decrease.

Yep.

Don't feel like writing today.

Monday, July 21, 2003

Wow, SCO. Give it a rest. I just don't see the cards falling in your favor here...

Thursday, July 17, 2003

Yesterday I bought a Creative Labs PC-CAM 880 at CompUSA for about $150. It is a 3 megapixel "take it with you" digital camera that connects via USB. It can also work as a webcam. I bought it so I could collaborate with people in a remote office over WebEx.

Well, the camera's pictures are "ok." I guess I don't have a lot to compare it to, but this could function as a "quick picture" camera when we want to e-mail friends and family pictures of my 4-month old daughter. In fact, it will work great for that. As for the lasting-family-memory pictures, I think I'll stay with film until I get a higher-resolution camera.

The other part of the camera that is actually a bit maddening is that it takes about 2 seconds to take the picture. You actually have to hold the camera still during those two seconds. If anything, this is the most disappointing part of it all.

Actually, the most disappointing part of this is that webex didn't let me share my camera, even though it has a 'video' tab... so I never used it for collaboration. All I did was take pictures of the whiteboard after the meeting so I could send them the pictures.

Monday, July 14, 2003

A few weeks ago I saw Pearl Jam at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, MN. Pearl Jam rules... and its not only their music.

Before I went to the show, I went to http://www.tenclub.net, and puchased the "show" CD. Basically, make a CD for each show. This is great! Although "non-commercial" PJ bootleggers are nortoriously nice (when I started collecting PJ bootlegs around 1994, someone offered to start me off with 5 shows if I would just send the blank media), there have been occasions where I paid $25 for a good show. Now I pay about $14, and they get some of it too!

Anyway, about 36 hours after the show, I was re-living the concert, because in addition to sending me the concert's 2-CD set, they sent me a URL where I could download the entire concert in MP3 format (each song was its own MP3.)

Perhaps the most interesting part of this is that Pearl Jam recently left Epic (part of Sony Music). I hope everyone buys a few shows, and helps prove that this type of distribution (who says they have to ship you the CD?) works for the artists.