Help Save Internet Radio

Listen next Tuesday to your favorite Internet Radio Station, perhaps even the popular KCAA radio that features my radio show, The Power of Information and you may hear a taste of what's to come (silence!) if a bill is passed on July 15th that could cost Internet radio stations as much as 1200% of their revenue back dated to January of 2006.

48 Hours Later... A Short Film

What is a Grandparent?

(taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds)

Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of her own. They like other people's.

A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady!

Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to see them. They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run. It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.

When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.

They show us and talk to us about the color of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on "cracks."

They don't say, "Hurry up."

Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.

They wear glasses and funny underwear.

They can take their teeth and gums out.

Grandparents don't have to be smart.

They have to answer questions like "why isn't God married?" and "How come dogs chase cats?".

When they read to us, they don't skip. They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.

Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television because they are the only grown ups who like to spend time with us.

They know we should have snack-time before bedtime and they say prayers with us every time and kiss us even when we've acted bad.

A 6 YEAR OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED. ''OH,'' HE SAID, ''SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT AND WHEN WE WANT HER WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN WHEN WE'RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT.''

GRANDPA IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH! HE TEACHES ME GOOD THINGS BUT I
DON'T GET TO SEE HIM ENOUGH TO GET AS SMART AS HIM!

It's funny when they bend over, you hear gas leaks and they blame their
dog."

It's late, but the house is gonna look great...

I can't quite fall asleep at the moment, its been a long weekend. Just watched Rome (hours after it aired). The last episode could have been better in my opinion. Of course they had to finish the character arcs in the show, which they did, but not with the same style they normally do.

Anyway, make sure to check out the changes to mi casa next time you're in the neighborhood, we have worked hard today to hook up the studio for our audio editing. It's nice.

Take care all. Time to try again for some sleep. Oh yea, GEEZ what's up with all the rain coming this week? Lame, no motorcycle riding!

Apple iPhone Ad in New York from the side

Apple iPhone Ad in New York from the side, originally uploaded by DerekA.

It was there, now its gone. Apple's advertisement for the iPhone that everyone is waiting for was put up and taken down very quickly. The phone comes in June.

Florida was pretty sweet

I recently hat the opportunity to do some Florida visiting, here are some pictures along the way, while I was there, even while underwater. Nice.

Getting bloggers to say nice things about Microsoft

Companies are at odds, before it was just the media that they had to convince that this release or that release was the latest and greatest of an operating system, software or some specific hardware. Now it's tougher, the critics are the people, and now with the advent of blogging they have a voice, and the general public is listening. Even companies as large as Microsoft know that they have to convince the people that they are "good." Check this out.

Our God is an awesome God

Okay, now if you're uptight then don't even click this link but if you play any online MMORPGs and perhaps like techno, all I can say is WTFOMGBBQSAUCEPWNNUBCAKESQQMORE! Thanks Micah, now you're famous on my blog.

So, is one really better? FM, AM, or XM

With satellite radio like XM now having commercials on some of its stations and FM always playing the same music over and over are services like Sirius actually worth it just because of the programming?

From Windows 3.0 to Vista

I honestly am not sure where this came from (*cough* Microsoft internal production) but I thought it'd be interesting for everyone to see what (or more accurately: when) they thought Vista would hit the market and how much its changed over time: