Friday, July 22, 2005

Well, I'm here...

Actually Davison is very nice. If it wasn't for the damned humidity, I could almost forget I'm in Michigan. My neighbors are really nice. I already fixed someone's computer. Stores are within 5-10 minutes away and it's not nearly as congested as Auburn Hills/Pontiac. I still find myself crushing a "soda" can once in a while - a habit that will die hard. Now if the lovely phone company would hook up my friggin phone, I'd be in business. At least I've had internet for a few days... the cable guy was a bit of a moron, but he did manage to get it turned on (after about 3 hours).

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Wasting Time

At this point, I shouldn't really be playing with downloading music and crap, right? I've got to be ready to move in a couple days. I need to back up my PC and move onto the laptop and pack all of my peripherals as carefully as possible...AAAAHH!! If I never have to pack another friggin box, I can die a happy woman. Ok, I'm done bitching....

First of all, thanks to Sarah for recommending "Fire Me, Please". It's very good as far as reality shows go. It's one of the more original ones out right now, so I'm impressed.

Now, a tech tip... if you've hopped on the torrent train, you might have found it slightly annoying to have to download full albums to get the songs you're interested in. When you're looking for torrents, search for "Promo Radio" in Isohunt. These are the promo cds that get shipped to radio stations (I assume). There's one for each month for each genre (I've easily found a bunch of current country songs this way). Good Luck!

Oh, and if you're into downloading movies that are still in theatres and get them in .rar files that extract to bin/cue files, a good player to watch them straight in the bin/cue format is VideoLAN (or VLC) player. That player will play practically anything - even can connect to shoutcast stations.