Travelmedia is about ready to unveil a new product called World Vibrations—which they label as a "radio station-in-a-box.".
There's almost nothing on Travelmedia's website about this product—and at the moment the World Vibrations website just contains a page with the domain name on it. However, there's a good video on ZDNet's site about the product.
For about $2200 dollars, you're going to get everything you need to run a private radio station. If you can get an FCC license, they say you can buy a transmitter for it, but by default it comes with everything you need to stream the audio over the 'net. The playlist features look pretty cool—it'll allow you to do anything a regular radio station would: program playlist in advance, play things at a certain time, pre-record announcements, do live broadcasts etc.
First off, this weekend was awesome! I'm going to back date my entries for each day. So, you'll want to look backwards through the log to find out what happened each day. This may be against "blogging" standards, but this is my blog, and it's the way I want the entries in. (Plus I tend to be long winded, so it makes sense to me to break the entries up.)
I tried to put as many links to the pictures I took as possible. Hopefully each link is to a unique picture. Also make sure to check out the My Photo Album for all the pictures. There are some really good ones that I haven't linked to. I should be getting back the .35mm pictures Jenn took as well, so there's 3 more rolls of film to post! Oh yeah, and there are also some new Quicktime movies that I posted from the trip.
Ok, I got all the pictures (and Quicktime movies) taken with my digital camera posted from our weekend trip. We've got some more pictures getting developed that Jenn took with her 35mm camera. We should have those pictures tomorrow night. I'm writing up the synopsis of the trip and will post it in the next 24 hours.
In the meantime, go see what Jenn had to say about our weekend trip on her blog.
NOTE:Ok, I got my notes on the trip completed. I back-dated the entries so they'll appear under the current entry.
We both slept in on Sunday. I don't think either of us wanted to get up, because then we knew we'd have to pack up to go home. Maddie didn't even want to get out of bed. We ended up getting up just before 9am. We ended up having bagels for breakfast.
After breakfast, I played my GBA for a bit—while Jenn was packing. She was nice enough to get all the packing done—she even ended up packing up most of the car as well. What a girlfriend, huh? :)
Anyway, we took some pictures of the area around the cabin, and then called Dan & Darlene to let them know we were checking out. I think we left the cabin right around 11am.
I ended up waking up about 6:30am on Saturday. I didn't intend to wake up that early, but Maddie had to go to the bathroom and she was afraid of the stairs—not only did she have problems with traction (the stairs were slick,) but they also had no vertical back, so I don't think she could really see the stairs.
I debated going back to bed, but decided I'd make pancake batter now—that way it had time to rise. Maddie and I sat on the couch for a bit after I made the batter. I realized then that I hadn't brought syrup, but fortunately we had plenty of jams & jellies from our trip to Bob Evans the night before. After letting the batter rise for about 20 minutes, I started cooking the sausage and pancakes. Once I got that all cooked, I went upstairs and woke Jenn up. I then made the eggs—Jenn wanted "over easy" and I made scrambled eggs for myself.
After breakfast we decided to head to Cedar Falls. Since the day was supposed to be nice (and the nicest day in a couple of months down in region,) we figured we better get an early start on the day. Since it was still pretty chilly, we put jeans on, packed up the car and headed to Cedar Falls.
Ok, we got to the Log Cabin around 6:30pm. The trip was fairly uneventful, except I turned into the wrong campgrounds at first. (I thought Darlene told me to turn left at the sign, but she told me right, then left. What can I say, I didn't write it down and I talked to her on Monday.) Taking the wrong turn allowed us to get up and personal with a doe that was eating grass in the gravel road. The hills up that driveway were pretty steep to—I bottomed out a couple of times.
When we got to the cabin, Jenn & I unloaded the car and I headed into the City of Logan to find a grocery store—I wanted to pick up some eggs, milk and some alcohol. On the way back, I stopped at Bob Evans and got us dinner. We had planned to pick food up for dinner, and Bob Evans sounded better than fast food.
Maddie spent the remainder of the evening exploring the area around the cabin. I let her run free since there wasn't anything around. She never left view of the cabin, which is why I continued to let her run free all weekend. I think she had a blast exploring.
Ok, this web site really ticks me off. I think I'll hire Johnny Cochron to sue the guy—just like how Spike Lee is suing Spike TV over the use of the name "Spike." I don't know about you, but the first thing I think about when I hear the name "Dan Switzer" is me (or maybe my dad, or grandpa—we all share the same name, but that's besides the point.) I definitely don't think of this dude at all. Johnny Cochron, SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Ok, hopefully you caught on to my sarcasim here. The whole Spike Lee thing is such a stupid lawsuit. He's trying up the court systems for a completely frivious law suit. That really irritates me to no end.
Seriously, I do hate that website, it makes the "Dan Switzer's" of the world not look not so good at web design. :)
Well, today's starting off a beautiful day outside. The skies are blue and clear and it looks like it'll be a warm, sunny day out—a great way to start a weekend vacation! I'm a little sleepy today, I was up until past 1am doing laundry. Any more that's really late for me.
I'm leaving work a little early today to try to finish packing and getting everything ready to go. I'd like to stop and get a pair of shoes for hiking, but I may skip that if time is short. I don't *need* new shoes, but I'd rather not ruin my good tennis shoes walking in the water and mud. Also, I talked to my neighbors and they're keeping a watch on the house for me.
I also finally got to cutting the grass yesterday. In the past 10 days, it's either been raining, to wet to cut, I haven't been home until too late, or Chemlawn showed up to spray the grass. (How come it always seems Chemlawn shows up the day you plan on cutting the grass?)
I posted a new article to PengoWorks.com today that shows a technique for running multiple onload events without altering your base source code. Here's a quote:
One of the most common things I run into while developing sites dependant on JavaScript is the need to have multiple operations run during <body>'s onload event. I think this is a problem most developers run into, since it's very common to develop a set of "shared border" templates that render the shell of your site and the body of your document is included via a server-side command.
Often you have the need to invoke some JavaScript during the onload event of every page. This might be to render a DHTML-based menu, or simply to initial some information about the page, regardless, you need this information to run on every page.
However, you often run into the case were you need to run some addition commands based upon the page that's being inserted. Most often this happens when I'm developing a page that has a form on it. There are a lot of ways to tackle this problem, but the tip I'm going to share with you is the one that I've found over the years to be the best solution. For a lack of a better term, I'll call this the "Auto-init()" method.
If you have any comments about the article, please post a comment!
Jessica Lynch, the most famous soldier of the war, remains in a private room at the end of a hall on an upper floor of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, her door guarded by a military police officer.
To repair the fractures, a spinal injury and other injuries suffered during her ordeal, the 20-year-old private first class undergoes a daily round of physical therapy. But she does so alone, during the lunch hours, when other patients are not admitted.
I was hoping to post this early, but I've been extremely busy at work lately. Anyway, we had band practice again last night. We hadn't played in two weeks, because Todd had a cold. We're definitely getting better by leaps and bounds—but I can definitely tell the difference when we miss a week of practice. I've really got to work on Van Halen's Panama though, that's definitely the tune that gives me the biggest problem.
Robi had a good post on his blog about the Michael Moore Hates America website. Sounds like a good idea for a movie to me! Go read Robi's post now!
The guys at the German Fanclub for Dream Theater have released up to part seven of their behind the scenes video series Nine Degrees of Backstage Tourbulence. Only two more parts to go!
It's been a pretty interesting series so far, if you're in to music (especially playing life) you might enjoy the series even if you're not a fan of Dream Theater. I just downloaded parts 6 & 7, so I'll probably watch them later today.
Bioware has released the movie they demoed at E3 with game footage of Shadows of Undrentide—the new extension pack for Neverwinter Nights. The video is about 10 minutes long and walks through the new features, skills, creatures, spells, etc that were introduced in the game.
Ok, today's "Video Link Day". There's a couple of links to media files I've been meaning to post.
Valve Software recently released some in game footage from the Half-Life 2 engine—talk about gorgeous! If you haven't seen the footage yet, go download a copy of the video from my ftp server. This game has some of the most realistic backgrounds I've seen. The environment visuals look very, very good.