2006-03-26

My time away in Tampa, Florida







Its been a month now that I have been in Tampa and haven't even updated this blog at all. Mostly because I have been extremely busy. I will try to update this a bit more. It has been a treat staying here with the nice weather. But also at the same time a bit stressful being away from my family. 10 weeks is a long stretch but it should be OK.







We are eating like Kings here. Which probably doesn't help me lose weight.



-View outside my window each morning.

2006-02-16

New Job

New job starts on Monday. Will be working here in town for a week and then its off to Florida. I am unsure if I will have internet access during this time. But I hope I do. If I do I will continue to post but if not, well then you will know why I don't post. Will find out the answers next week. Going to have the dog groomed. Will see how that goes as his little patella has been giving him problems lately. Also need to get his shots soon.



the Massachusetts registry of motor vehicles requires that I return my licence plates to them. So this whole troubling process of changing over licence plates is getting to be a pain. I also got my new Tennessee Driving license. The photo is so bullshit its not even funny. They were still using 1995 technology cameras and its utter shite. Anyway I got a new Registration a new insurance and a new license and everything is legal. And it felt sad surrendering my MA DL which I paid $75 for to get a TN DL which I paid $19.50 for. The photo on my MADL was at least good. They fattified my photo on the TNDL.

2006-02-09

Cool ass hacks and mods

Saw this on Slashdot. Check this out. A PC installed into a Whisky Bottle! (the photos etc continue at the bottom of the page)



Dark


mp3
1. Tale From The Sea (Breakin' - BRK005)
2. Bad Karma (forthcoming soon Vibe'z)
3. Tribes - remix (Warm Communications - WARMLTD001)
4. Footsteps Concealed (forthcoming on Warm Communications)
5. Orient Dawn (forthcoming on Vibe'z)
6. Defunct Drums' Depression Decade - VIP (forthcoming on Offshore Recordings)
7. Jason - (forthcoming on Thermal)
8. Jungle Got No Ranks (forthcoming on Make-Shift Recs.)
9. Leave The Natural World Behind (forthcoming on Vibe'z)
10. World Behind A World (forthcoming on Soothsayer Recs.)
11. The Circle of Sycamore Trees (forthcoming on Warm Communications)
12. From Afterlife She Speaks (forthcoming on Nerve Recs.)
13. Toshiro - (forthcoming on Darkestral)

OK I heard the Hangover mix, and its good, but I like the All Fanu Mix Part 2 best.

2006-02-08

Situation - no improvement



Asshole neighbor is home. Note, his stupid ass truck.



Poor damn dog is stuck outside in the snow. Though barking and howling has gotten to be less of a problem. It still happens -like 0600 this morning.

Hangover Mix


mp3

Found this on the fanusamurai site. Havent heard it yet, but then again, my iPod is filled to capacity. I have to constantly delete podcasts more than a day old. Will make room for a listen.

2006-02-07

2006-02-06

Newest Avatar / Alaska Pictures


This is the full image. I took it back in July 1997 when I visited Seward, Alaska. At Exit Glacier there is a hiking trail where you can hike up and view the Harding icefield. I took this when we started to run into some snow. It was a beautiful day. The sun made the air temp to be about 70 degrees F and there was still a couple of feet of snow on the ground. As we neared the top there was probably more snow than just a couple of feet but I had no way of knowing.

Photo #2 then (not an avatar but maybe I'll make it one later) you can see Exit glacier down near the bottom. This is the same glacier that I have a picture of me touching down the page a bit (I think it was a post in Januari)


This was taken in July 1996 on the Dalton Highway driving north. This patch of fireweed was just before crossing the Yukon River Bridge. There was a forest fire before you can tell due to the black trees and black dead open field. This fireweed grew up in its place and it was very beautiful. I don't know where else fireweed grows besides the arctic but it is lovely.

I don't remember if I posted this one or not. Its of me on that same trip up the Dalton Highway. The time in the photo was about 11.30 pm (I was a skinny bastard eh?)

Farmer's Loop just outside Fairbanks. Wanted a photo of the Moose sign. I had seen many moose on this road before -this one and the Steese Highway.

Again I don't know if I already posted this one or not, but it was taken on 6th, Sept 1997. Driving down to Skagway for the Klondike Road relay race of 171km (?-forgot) but I thought it was really cool how the trees were cut to form a line on the border. (US/Canada, Alaska/Yukon) My right foot is in the YT and my left foot is in Alaska

I think this was when we stopped in Destruction Bay, YT. Stay tuned to the blog, I will post loads more. I still have a big box of the pictures I need to scan into the PC. So I'll try to do that sometime. Enjoy.

2006-02-04

Alone at the weekend

Well the wife is gone to Memphis, until tomorrow sometime. Daniella went to stay the night with family. So its just me and the dog. It snowed last night a light dusting. If this had been a school day they probably would have closed school here (the wussies!) No superbowl parties to attend this year. It might just be some down time (chill) with my iPod and also watching some DVDs

2006-01-28

Bad Dog update

Well regarding the Bad Dog situation, It has not improved at all. This morning Daniella woke up for the second time at 5 am because of this dog. She just got back to sleep and the damn dog starts barking again. I don't know what we are supposed to do now. Its obvious this prick who lives next door doesn't give a shit. His teenage daughter was out riding around in the field behind our houses today on their dune buggy making the dog howl and bark, conveniently during Daniella's afternoon nap. That really pisses me off. Will keep updating about this.

2006-01-25

Bansky

Check out the cool ass photos of Bansky Graffiti in London.

New Flickr account

Since I havent had a photo hosting site anywhere at all since webshots, I decided to join up with flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris1051/

Will upload photos later.

Bad dog


Well we have been having a bit of a problem with the neighbors dog here. These people leave this dog out 24/7 regardless of the weather. The poor dog is pent up in a cage and has worn down the grass to mud. The dog is covered in mud and it probably gets pissed off. So it howls and barks at all hours of the night. -Very un cool. My wife wrote them a letter and stuck it in their mailbox today:

23 January 2006

Dear Neighbors,

I would like to bring to your attention a situation that is getting somewhat out of hand. For quite a few weeks now your dog has been howling, crying, and barking during the day and throughout the night. We didnĂ‚’t pay much attention to it because we can tell the dog is not very old, so we thought it was possibly a phase that would go away with some attention. However, it has since gotten worse. For the past few nights the dog has whined and barked enough to arouse me, my husband, and my seventeen month old child from sleep multiple times through the night. The dog has even aroused my daughter from her nap time during the day. Very early this morning was a perfect example. We put our daughter to sleep and most of the night was fine. However, the dog started to whine and bark at approximately 4 A.M. and woke all of us up. I got my daughter back to sleep and was almost back to sleep myself and the dog started again Thirty minutes later. This happened again at 5 A.M. until finally my husband and I both put in ear plugs to stop hearing the noise and praying that our daughter would not wake up again. However, as you can imagine, we cannot sleep with ear plugs in every single night due to not being able to hear our daughter if she awakens and needs us. As stated before, she is seventeen months and still needs monitoring through the night.

I am hoping that maybe this is just an oversight for you. Perhaps you did not know the dog was being so bothersome because he is on the opposite end of the house from your bedroom, whereas he is adjacent to our bedroom.

I sincerely hope this note will not cause any ill will between us and bring your attention to a matter that should be taken care of. We are big dog lovers ourselves and have one of our own. Granted, he is an inside dog, but if he were an outside dog and being bothersome, we would want to be told so we could remedy the problem. We hope that this situation can be taken care of within a short amount of time.



She wrote the original letter and this is the finished version -I edited a couple of things. Last night (24th) I heard the dog barking at half past midnight and howling at 2:30 am. We will see what comes of this. EDIT: After the letter was dropped yesterday he moved the dogs pen over to make a new mud spot (see photo taken today). I don't know if this is the result of the letter or just him trying to save his lawn. (dumbass) Photo was taken from my bedroom window to show you how close he is and how much of a nusicance he is at night.

2006-01-20

New post

So I am going to update this thing. New Years I did in fact get drunk off my ass. When I was puking from 12:15am to 5 am New Years day all I could think of for some reason was the theme song to Trinity from Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. Since his DSC # 305 was one of the last things I listened to before drinking. I wrote Adam an email telling him this. He mentioned it in Wednesday's DSC # 318 at about 26:18 I know for sure its going to be a long time before I eat Hot wings again. See the group I was with ordered hot wings from Hooters and it was the last thing I ate before downing about 500ml of Grey Goose. So I haven't got the photos from New Years yet but will post some older photos up.


This is me standing in Portage, AK on about 13 July 1997. We stopped here to eat and have a bathroom break since we were riding on the bus from Fairbanks. It was 10 hours to Seward.


This was in 1998 (Summer obviously) up in Ft. Wainwright, AK. I jumped on some random guy's Harley for a photo opportunity.


This is me using my camera's self portrait feature on the deck of the MV Columbia. On or about 1 April 1999. I took the ship from Haines, AK to Bellingham, WA with my car. Cool trip. Loved the ride except for the 1 hour and 45 mins in the Queen Charlotte Sound.


going back in time again. This is back in the July 1997 trip to Seward. This is Exit Glacier just outside of Seward, AK.


A more recent one. My 30th birthday last year.


A more recent one still. Christmas Morning.


Christmas evening. One of my favorite things in the whole world. I missed my coffee and thanks to some generous relatives I can enjoy this now at home. (No Dunkin Donuts here in TN!) :(

So thats about it really. Haven't updated this thing but also wanted to say I was offered the job that I wanted. I start on 20th Feb. So looking for some part time gigs to do until then. I will be heading to Florida shortly after I start. I should have web access for the 10 weeks training I will receive. This is sort of a short update and will try and be more active in the future. Sorry my site sucks :(

2005-12-31

New take on the Zakim



Almost new Years and I am flat out Broke. Its not easy being able to admit that. After exhausting my savings, I need employment soon even if it is working as a slave. So please anyone reading this, please click on my google ads. Don't get click happy with it, but help a brotha out please.

Anyway, hopefully things will turn out better in the new year. Having to work temporarily somewhere, and my interview is on the 4th.

Looking to get fucking wasted this new years. Drown out the pain.

2005-12-27

New Avatar again



I love the Boston one. But somehow want to convey my love of the podcast. Hope to start my own shortly. When I can afford to.

2005-12-18

New Avatar

Yes it seems like that time again, when I will update my avatar at the 3 boards I visit.

This one was a photo taken on a rainy day in Boston. We were just about to dip into the Charles River. I took this snap of the Zakim Bridge. If you look very closely you can see raindrops on the surface of the water (after enlarging the photo of course) and also the Commuter Rail train going over the river.



Photo was taken 12 October, 2003

Podcasts -Australia is on summer break



http://www.coolshite.net/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcasts
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml
http://www.toeradio.org/index.xml
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio1/bestofmoyles/rss.xml
http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/standard/
http://www.abc.net.au/science/podcast/gmis.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/podcast/drk_rss.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/kobebeef
http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/InoM
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radionorthampton/theweekender/rss.xml
http://triplej.net.au/listen/dools_gold/podcast.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/podcast/hack_daily.xml
http://triplej.net.au/safran/podcast/safran.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/todaytoday/podcast/podcast.xml

2005-12-02

Technorati

Just became a member. Heard about it on Adam Curry's show today.

2005-11-30

Gun Nuts


On one of my message boards there was a link to a pretty disturbing video out of Oklahoma. I have got no beefs with gun nuts -some are a bit kooky so you have to watch out for that, but in general they don't pose a problem. I did have a problem seeing a big fat mofo as one of them. And I know I am jumping ahead of myself here cause I don't know a thing about this man, but, the stereotypical neocon war hawks who always claim their freedoms are being taken away are usually uneducated fat ass mofos in the south and the midwest from what I have seen. And its usually those asshats who would be the last guys to step up and join the army. That doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of vets out there who are not fat ass mofos and who at the same time are indeed gun nuts. Lets leave them out of this discussion. Its the fat ass Rush Limbaugh types that kind of get to me. video here

2005-11-28

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving meal was plentiful. Spent the day job hunting. Started pissing it down with rain so I came home.

Now hungry. May order a pizza while listening to podcasts.

Came across a funny website. You post your own messages and they are relayed to an LED sign in Calgary, AB, Canada that can be viewed via webcam.

Funny stuff.

2005-11-21

Shit Happens

I had reduced myself to work in a plant. It wasn't actually on the assembly line, so it could have been worse. It was working in an office so that wasn't really bad. I had reduced myself to working through a temp agency. I had reduced myself to accepting a huge pay cut just to pay the bills. So I am working through this temp agency and each night I would have to ask the security guard to clock me out using one of those old-fashioned time card things (one that I hadn't seen since 1993). I tell the man my number. "Hey I'm number 4" No names just numbers. I had gotten the overall feeling that this company had treated temps as nothing more than a pair of hands, nothing more than a number. Not like they were actual human beings. I catch glimpse of a yellow post-it note attached to my timecard. It says:



What could it be? I thought standing there. Here it was 6 30 pm I had just put in a full day and a full week. Echoes of "Office Space" could be heard in my head.

"We find its always best to fire someone on a Friday..."

Well there was a moment of fear there. But half of me said not to worry, I hadn't done anything wrong, and I should just enjoy my weekend.

And I did. I saw two movies, and just relaxed very nicely.

So now 7 30 am comes around and I am "reporting" if you will, to the temp agency. I can already tell what the woman is going to say to me by reading her body language. And you already know what she told me as well.

Anyway I am pissed off right now. I am pissed off at this economy and I am pissed off at this job market. I am an educated person. I have technical skills. These companies try and boast that their shit is "Made in the USA" but the harsh realities of it are these companies don't give a shit about their workers. And they try and skimp out on everything to make their profits higher for themselves. They wipe their asses with temp workers like the toilet paper that they are so they can skimp out on healthcare and benefits costs. The cunts.

I have been trying for the past 8 months to find something permanent and something direct. The temp service was used only as a last resort. I am bitter. This strengthens my hatred for fatcat CEOs and "the man". This country is fucked up. This is only one out of many other things that prove this.

2005-11-20

thing that I hate #22

When in a restaurant, you get a baked potato, and they feel the need to use a fecking Ice cream scooper to apply butter in the split baked potato.

Who the fuck needs that much freaking butter? No wonder Heart Disease is the #1 killer in America.

Listen to this podcast

I know I may have already posted this, but one of my podcasts (Coolshite) spoke of a scary future in America. It reminded me of this podcast. You must listen to it. It is a great story.

Anyway, if things go wrong tomorrow (the unknown road ahead) I will be bitching and complaining very loudly here tomorrow.

Goodnight.

2005-11-19

Google Images search

Saw this on another blog so I'll play along.

Town I grew up in



Town I live in now



My name


My grandmothers name




Favorite Food



Favorite Drink



Favorite song



Favorite smell

This Summer's photos



Before & After. (I appear a fat Bastard)

Dumb people

I used to run a series of posts titled "Some people do not deserve to live" well there are some people out there that do not deserve a brain.

ABC Video

I really feel sorry for the girl. Some people are so ignorant though. And that Manager definitely has a few brain cells missing. And WTF was that guy thinking? He must have thought he was getting lucky. A big thanks to Big Brother for catching the weird dude.


Found this originally on Coolshite forums. I remember hearing on WRKO about the Wendy's incidents.

New Fanu mix

Well New to me anyway. Hurry up and grab this one cause it may not last.

mp3 128kbps

Bush/Clinton Katrina Fund

In honor of the unleashing of Google Ads onto this blog. (not many people look at it anyway) I will write a post regarding the first ad I saw after republishing. It is a link to the Bush/Clinton Kartina Fund. I think its great that both guys can come together in order to help people in need. I liked the fact that they did so after the Devastating Tsunami of 26 Dec 2004. And I am so glad they came together for this Hurricane Katrina disaster.

So many disasters this year. They had an earthquake in Pakistan which received little or no (slow) aid. More people perished in that horrible accident. Most Americans are oblivious to this event and how many people did die. Almost a disbelief of the reported numbers.

Anyway that's my post about it.

2005-11-05

Word!

Word verification that is. Man how could I have not seen this?

No more spambot problems should arise now in comments. :)

On to blogging

Well I havent reported that we have moved, (1 OCT) and also I got a new job. The job is ok, not in anyway related to my skills. But anyway its a job and it pays the bills. I work in an auto manufacturing plant not in assembly, but with the Production Control dept. I work as a temp which is annoying cause there is no health coverage. It pays very meagerly as well. But anyway its just something for now.

Halloween came and went and we had about 300 kids coming by in our new neighborhood. I can't believe it. I saw lods of parents driving around in cars etc. It kind of pissed me off cause these people werent even from this neighborhood, but We were going to give out the candy anyway. We were out by 7pm or so. We took Daniella out to family. Drove her to 3 different places. Which is a bit odd in my opinion. My oldest memories of Halloween is of me walking around the neighborhood in which we lived. Its not an odd concept. I mean, why are there about 300 kids we don't know knocking on our door? I remember hospitals offering to x ray candy and fruit, cause there was some sick fuck putting razor blades etc in apples. (1982)

Anyway, the weather has finally gotten cooler here and I am glad for it. I hate hearing people around here bitch and moan about how cold it is (40Âş F) please! Last year they got 1cm of snow here. Whereas in Boston last winter we got about 60 inches. Right now, at 0933 its 71Âş F! Nice and it will save on the power bill. I love the winters here but I hate the summers.

I don't really have time to update this often. I leave for work at 0730 and don't get home until 1700. Then its evening dinner time, family time etc. Until Daniella goes to sleep. And then I am trying to listen to my podcasts. But I am taking my iPod to work now. Keeping it with me at all times in my pocket. I can listen to it in the office, but not out on the floor. I believe I am all caught up now. Sunday Night Safran is not on now until 2006. Its just Adam Curry cause his a daily show.

Thats about it really.

odd

well I re enabled anonymous comments. Apparently this prick has a blog himself. Its an advertising blog and I reported it to blogger.

Have a nice fucking day you prick.

2005-11-04

Last resort

Had to disable anonymous comments. Those spam fuckers kept on hitting my site.

Newest spammer

2005.11.04 1919 EDIT: Found the post where Hotel Nice has posted.

2005-11-03

I don't give a fuck about your carpet cleaning

Listen cunts. Whatever robot or program you have running to post comments on my blog, kill it now. I hate getting emails showing a new comment that I can't find.

I got a nice website to give you some ideas of what you are serving on a daily basis.

Quit spamming me you cunts! I am not even in Texas, and Even if I was I wouldn't use your stupid service. So lick my gooch!

Look at this unprofessional website.

Here is the big deal, I am getting a shitload of comments posted on this blog they are all the exact same thing from some ad bot. Example in my inbox:



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I cant find them at all.


Here is a copy of the comment:

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Well Sterling Myers, you can go get fucked. Your website isn't "pretty good" it isn't even good. It sucks ass. Quit spamming me.

2005.11.04 1917 EDIT: Found the post where Sterling Myers is posting his garbage.


2005-10-26

My music likes / dislikes

Its all very simple.

I like all forms of music, I discovered this today while I was driving to my dentist's appointment listening to 91.1 FM. I like all forms rock. I don't like some classic rock, like that stupid ass live concert song that seems to go on and on and on for 10+ minutes, and that stupid ass Bye bye Miss American Pie bullshit. I do like metal, and alternative etc.

Like all forms of rap EXCEPT that stupid shitty dirty south bullshit. I cannot fucking stand that shit. East coast and west coast and midwest rap is fine. But that stupid same old ass high beats and stupid repetitive lyrics are really annoying. You know the type, like the music featured in the film "Hustle and Flow" That shit is stupid as hell.

OK now that I have said my piece regarding rap, I will mildly say that I can't really listen to country either. Never really liked it. I can't help but wanting to puke when I hear a song like "Redneck yacht club" ANd I bet you are probably thinking "well if you don't like it, don't listen to it." Nice but sometimes I am forced to listen to it because of the people in the office listening to it.

2005-10-25

More podcasts



Got some new podcasts I listen to now. (not really enough time to do so but I try) I wish I could make one and it really isn't that hard to do so, but I just haven't got the time to do it now.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMaryAndKarlaShow
http://www.coolshite.net/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcasts
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bbing.xml
http://www.toeradio.org/index.xml
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio1/bestofmoyles/rss.xml
http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/standard/
http://www.abc.net.au/science/podcast/gmis.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/podcast/drk_rss.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/InoM
http://www.supanova.com.au/podcast/feed/index.xml
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/sixmusic/talking6music/rss.xml
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radionorthampton/theweekender/rss.xml
http://triplej.net.au/listen/dools_gold/podcast.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/podcast/hack_daily.xml
http://triplej.net.au/safran/podcast/safran.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/todaytoday/podcast/podcast.xml

2005-10-12

Search Logs

Been getting a fuck load of Search words including "Natalie Holloway" lately. I thought I would drudge it up again cause I last complained about it here.

I came across a very funny funny op/ed about it that I totally agree with enjoy.

In case the link dies I will repost the text here using a quotation (don't freakin' sue me ok? I think your Op/Ed is a bit of gold I won't even include the whole thing here)

Does the name "Natalee Holloway" ring a bell?

If you follow the news media in the United States, particular the 24-hour cable stations, it certainly ought to. On the other hand, if you've been living in a cave for the past month or so, here are the highlights: Natalee Holloway is an 18 year-old girl from Alabama who vanished on May 30th from the island of Aruba, where she was vacationing with some of her classmates to celebrate their high school graduation. Based on the amount of coverage that this story has received from the national media (Fox News in particular), one must draw the conclusion that this is a Very Important Issue, and that all Americans should care very deeply and personally about it.

I must confess that I do not.


Now, before I get called a heartless bastard, let me hasten to point out that I agree that this story is tragic. Natalee's family and friends have doubtless been going through hell during this past month. I do hope that she can be recovered safe and sound, though that possibility seems very remote at this point. If I were the King of the World, I would snap my fingers and instantly transport every missing person back to the safety of their families.

But what makes Natalee Holloway more important than, say, Reyna Alvarado-Carerra?

In the United States alone, more than a million people are reported missing each year. The majority of these cases involve minors. The majority of those cases are runaways, but there are also significant numbers of abductions at the hands of both relatives and strangers. This brings us to the case of Reyna Gabriella Alvarado-Carerra.

Have you ever heard of her?

I certainly hadn't until I started doing research for this story. Reyna is a 13 year-old Hispanic girl who is believed to have been abducted by a stranger in Norcross, Georgia. She was abducted just a few weeks before Holloway. A Google search on her name yields a grand total of 6 results.

The same search for "Natalee Holloway" turns up 276,000 results.

But Natalee doesn't just get more Google search results. She's getting airtime, baby. As I mentioned in the intro, American news outlets are awash with a veritable cornucopia of Natalee fever. She also gets assistance from the Dutch Marines and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who apparently already have enough resources at work battling mundane things like terrorism.

Here's the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, and the reason I am writing this treatise: CNN is now reporting that Holland is sending three F-16 warplanes to assist in the search for Natalee. I was given pause by thinking about the sheer cost of this endeavor. My brother-in-law is a recruiter for the Air National Guard, and I have a rough idea of how much money it costs to even get one of those things off of the ground. How much do you suppose is being spent to equip these planes with the special search equipment and then actually get them to Aruba?

...


2005-10-11

Podcasts


I have been listening to these podcasts since the Spring, I discovered that I have really been missing out. I used to slag off Adam Curry but his Daily Source Code podcast is really great. His promotion of the Podsafe music network is great also. Cause the Podsafe Music network is nothing short of revolutionary. This is one huge network of people from around the world very grassroots. The anti pop music and anti monopoly and anti industry. Totally up my alley. The podcasts listed here are alphebetical but my favorites are Cool Shite on the tube (meaning to donate to those guys soon) and I have a new favorite, Adam Curry. I listen to them in the car, also while doing my night office cleaning job. I must say that the iPod is the best $300 I ever spent. Well worth it. I always delete the old shows (up on my limit for space).

Just wanted to put the word out to the few people reading this.

Check these out and subscribe to them via these xml's:

http://www.coolshite.net/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcasts
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bbing.xml
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