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Music Video – Dennis Liu
Song: “Again & Again” by the Bird & the Bee
I just across Songza.com by way of del.icio.us. So far it looks really cool. Look for a song or band and play it on the site.
Songza: The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now.
Ok… so does this make for a computer technology post or a cycling post? Seeing as this post is about a post at a cycling blog with a link to my site! Anywhooo… I thought it was pretty cool that this little old site got some linking from one of the coolest cycling blogs around gamjams.net.
On a cycling related note…. congratulations to all of the folks that made it through the Sunday officials training clinic and passed the test to become new officials. Josh Goyet (aka: Firebike) and his wife are new members of the officials world. And go figure his wife did better than him on the test…. Josh look out next you know she’s going to be beating you on the road! My little sister also joined the ranks of officials, as did JB. I wonder if that means we’ll be seeing less of him on the side of the course shooting pictures? Congrats again to everyone!
For all you new officials…. dont forget to sign up and accept the invitation to the VACA Officials Google Group and get your availability information in to “the boss”.
It’s a tent for your laptop… who would have thought?????
I think this is going to be a mandatory addition to the cycling officials kit to go along with our new Panasonic Camcorder and a laptop.
Check it out:
The Laptop Tent
A while back I came across a cool site called Thesixtyone.com. The goal of the site is to help new artists get exposure. The way they do this is by using a points system in which site users earn points by “discovering” new music and “bumping” it. Initial bumps cost you points but then as the music is bumped by other people you start earning points. It’s a fun way to find new stuff that hasn’t made it in to music databases like Pandora.com. Some of the cool stuff I have come across on the site: Busbee, Lorelei Carlson, and Temple Scene. So take some time and check out the site.
I came across a cool way to quickly close an application. It’s even built in to WinXP. It’s called taskkill. This little program can kill a running application by way of a batch file. Here’s the scenario I wanted it for…. I wanted the ability to close Firefox quickly while I have multiple tabs open and have the option to restore those tabs the next time I opened up Firefox. With taskkill that’s very simple…. create a batch file that contains the following:
@echo off
TASKKILL /F /IM “firefox.exe”
Then save it as a batch file. Double click the batch file and voila Firefox closes automatically without a prompt to close multiple tabs and the next time you open Firefox you have the option to reload the tabs from the last session.
Even faster…. setup a keyword in Keybreeze or Launchy so that you only have to enter the first couple letters of the batch file name to run it.
More detailed information can be found here:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=297
GX5 has a very cool replacement for the clunky phone interface for Palm Devices. It’s only been a little while since I started to use it but from what I have seen it’s pretty sweet. It allows you to assign photos and icons to contacts as well as shortcuts for you most commonly used applications.
Here’s the link:
http://www.gx-5.com/products/ultimatephone/
I came across this little bit of Army humor by way of 
The Adamz Family
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