- January 30, 2005
Recently, a friend of mine introduced me to Audioscrobbler. Using an audio player plug-in, your music choices are collected and compiled into an overview of your musical taste, accessible from the Audioscrobbler website. The website also displays a list of neighbors--users with statistically close musical tastes. Friendster for music.Groups are another interesting feature of Audioscrobbler. By joining a group (voluntarily), my music taste is combined with other members to create an aggregate...
http://blogs.msdn.com/cambecc/archive/2005/01/29/363041.aspx
- January 24, 2005
A little while back I bought a Japanese keyboard to use with my laptop while docked. It's a Microsoft Basic Keyboard 1.0A, with 109 keys. Not only does it have more keys than a standard US keyboard, but the layout is slightly different (such as the location of the apostrophe ' and at-symbol keys). To enable this layout in the US version of Windows XP, I configured IME by adding the Japanese keyboard layout to the Japanese input language service. Unfortunately, this didn't work. A bit of...
http://blogs.msdn.com/cambecc/archive/2005/01/24/359359.aspx
- January 17, 2005
I'm at war with the washing machine. No matter which countermeasures I take, this "home appliance" manages to stretch my clothes to extreme and unfair proportions. It is particularly brutal to t-shirts. I'm not the only one. Each apartment in my building has the same model. Every so often I spot a student, a fellow soldier from the front, with a t-shirt draped loosely around their neck like a toga; a t-shirt sent forth into the watery void only to return a changed garment, a v-neck vest or a...
http://blogs.msdn.com/cambecc/archive/2005/01/17/354283.aspx
- January 2, 2005
It may sound strange, but odd-numbered years always bring me better fortune than even-numbered years. Sorry, I won't elucidate. I've returned to the United States for the holidays to visit family and friends. Having spent the previous 9 months living in Japan, I've wondered how this experience has changed my perception of the US. What would I see differently with outsider's eyes First thing that struck me is the disproportionate amount of over-the-counterprescription drug commercials on TV....
http://blogs.msdn.com/cambecc/archive/2005/01/01/345382.aspx
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