If you don't count the 49 years before I started bogging, I think this post ends the longest break in my blog career. Five whole days.I point the finger at my new iPod Touch. The 'new coolness' filled my head with ideas and possibilities and I sat down on the 26th and began ripping our hundreds of CDs (at 256kbps using 'grip', supported by 'paranoia' and 'lame', on Ubuntu Linux). For various reasons, luckily this did not conflict with anyone else's heart-felt desire to sit also around for days doing......not much. End-of-year-itis. Bed (or couch) rest prescribed.
The result is we now have an iTunes library 25GB in size, with roughly 3,200 tracks by almost 200 artists or groups. The best stuff (about 1750 songs) is also on a 16GB USB key drive and we can play any song we want off that using the stereo remote control. Much better than shuffling though stacks of CDs just to hear one song. Maybe I'm late to it, but the issue was always time. It took days.
Ive aso found myself going for walks with the iPod Touch, with "WifiTrak" installed (an app you can download). WifiTrak allows one to scan for wifi networks of all kinds and of any strength. The default scanner tends to not show access oints with a strength of less than 15 (so I'm told).WifiTrak will show you everything, including the channel and the type of encryption used - if any. A nice tool for 'war walking'. Yes, I have found unsecured wifi on nearby streets. Amazing.
Whatever. With thousands of tracks on stereo and / or iPod, there will be no shortage of party music this evening as we head into the New Year. Given the way things appear to be headed, it looks like we may be able to party like it was 1929.
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