January 2007 Entries

So, I thought to myself - what?!  Then I went to www.willitblend.com and all I can say is "I want one!"  I didn't even know I had any desire for a blender, but Blendtec has me now. Very cute viral marketing campaign.

A great new set of reference posters is now available to download on MSDN.  They contain all the helpful keyboard shortcuts you could ever imagine on one pretty poster!

Visual Basic 2005

Visual C# 2005

Visual C++ 2005

I am going to start to blog about some of the nice wine that is around.  We have a bit of a hobby of wine and nothing wrong with sharing good finds, right?!  So, every once and awhile we find a good one!  This one is a champ for under 8 dollars a bottle. A little Chilean number with a lot of spirit - Root:1, Cabernet Sauvignon, Colchagua Valley, Chile 2005. I do enjoy something that doesn't have a dry after taste and instead has some fruit left to it.This one actually still has some sugary taste left to it and was great with lamb.  Pick some up and enjoy!  

Yes, not only did we finally digitize the 500+ CD's in the house but they now all live on my Zune, rocketroll.  It is really amazing to me that I could stuff all that music onto my little brown (of course) Zune.  First, the digitizing process, all I can say is be patient. It was so exciting though to rediscover some of the old stuff, but it took a lot time over the course of a couple weeks to get it all done. I am sure that if you had time to sit and feed CD's to the computer all day long it could have been done quite quickly. Then, synchronizing to rocketroll was pretty quick and I am still amazed that it found most of the album art.  I have some very random stuff. Or at least I thought it was before this!

All my Josh Joplin, Modest Mouse and Ghostland Observatory are there - for those of you that have found my blog from searches on those bands. Plus, the complete Pixies library and lots of Robyn Hitchcock. And of course the full U2 collection (thanks to Jason's additions to the home collection).

Next challenge is to manage stuff off of rocketroll as I get new music and as I find those lost CD's (there were about 20 - a perfect small carrier worth) missing.

So, I innocently stumbled upon this today and now I guess I have to give it up.  Thanks Eileen for tagging me. And thanks to all those previously in the chain. 5 things you probably didn't know about me:

1. In my travels, the one thing that will always make me pull out my camera is graffiti.

2. I hope to one day go to Antarctica.

3. My new favorite band is Ghostland Observatory. Not only are their albums great, but they are fantastic live!  See them if you get the chance.

4. My favorite place on Earth is the Redhook Brewery (especially in the summer). Take the tour!

5. My favorite movie is still Gattaca...nothing has beaten it yet.

In the spirit of this tagging thing, I tag Trisha (which seems to mean she has now been tagged a bunch of times), the girly geek - Sarah Blow, Doug, Korby, and Damir!