After installing Songbird version 0.30 last night, I looked at my quickstart bar. Thought I either had a burned out pixel or some food particle on the screen. Turns out “The Songbird Team” (the developers of this application) have a good sense of humor, even with the little details.
Songbird 0.25 Icon
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In 1999, Chris Baty and about 20 others experimented with writing an entire novel in the month of November. The experiment was a success, not in terms of number of novels published, but in the positive experience of those who participated. Chris stuck with it and has restarted his experiment each year since, and each [...]
Songbird
Current Homepage: http://songbirdnest.com/
Created by: “The Songbird Team”
Abstract
Songbird may spawn a new breed of media players. The application’s paradigm of “playing the web” provides a fresh media experience currently only for the adventurous.
Synopsis
What was the impetus for beginning use of Songbird? I liked iTunes, but got tired of the DRM‘d music.
With what other programs did I [...]
Last Sunday I attended an excellent writers workshop. The California Writers Club, Southbay Branch hosted and James Dalessandro led. Too information rich to perform a total brain dump here, but some highlights were:
You’re allowed one big lie in any story, but the rest has to be logical.
Take the movie Big. The lie: a 13 year [...]
This is pure genius. Original website (and larger size version) found here.
Not open source, but potentially very cool, is FriendFeed. To me, FriendFeed seems to promise to take some of the ‘H’ out of ADHD web browsing and article reading. As the number of separate feeds grows in my newsreader, I am beginning to collect multiple feeds from the same person. For example, I have Person [...]
This is not the official next article in this series.
I just signed up for my OpenID today at MyOpenID. I’ve been reading snippets about OpenID for the last couple of months for one reason only: I HATE HAVING MULTIPLE LOGINS AND PASSWORDS AND EVERY DAMN WEBSITE NOWADAYS REQUIRES A LOGIN AND PASSWORD AND SEEMS TO [...]
Looking over IMDB.com, I see that he has a future movie based on the Napa Valley wine industry. Yes, I’m going to watch this movie.
Wenn ich studiert im Universitaet, ich studiert Deutsch. Heute, sehe ich ein gute Deutsche filme rennt “Der Krieger und die Kaiserin.”
Anyway, I miss speaking German, and I miss the people I met while traveling in Germany.
Lord knows I’m not the best editor out there, and editing my own works goes against my rules of playing to my strengths. Welcome my wife, Janna Mordan, also known as jannamo, as my first hard working editor.
I’ve given her complete edit access to my blog. If you notice changes between the time you get [...]