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John Illsley of Dire Straits fame has released a new album. He has teamed up with an Irish singer - song writer named Greg Pearle. Check out John's Illsley's website and you can hear some of the songs. I couldn't turn it off.

Fired up the Pioneer SX-780, Beogram 1602 turntable and my copy of Spin-It-Again and resumed my project of converting my vinyl to Windows Media Audio files. I forget how great some of Mark Knopfler's soundtrack work was. Everyone knows Local Hero but the music he did for the movie Cal is mystic and peaceful as well. There are hints of this music in A Shot at Glory but make no mistake the two albums are very different.

I was looking for minority report on BluRay or HD-DVD and had no idea it wasn't available until just now. What a bummer. I can get Rio Bravo on Blu-Ray or Christmas Vacation on HDDVD but not minority Report?
Don't get me wrong, I like both of those movies but there is no reason for an old grainy western like Rio Bravo to be out on HD before Minority Report and Christmas Vacation has a choice of stereo or mono track on HD. Give me a break Hollywood.

I just wasted some play time copying my old "Made In The Shade" (Rolling Stones) album to my computer jukebox. I haven't checked in a few years but the last time I did check it wasn't available on CD. I set up my Pioneer SX-780 (manufactured 1978-1979) and my Bang and Olufsen Beogram 1602 turntable. I then opened my favorite Vinyl-LP recording software. If you aren't happy with your recording software or don't have one I highly recommend Acoustica Spin It Again. I set my audio levels and started copying. Then I applied some filters and EQ and had one of my old 1975 favorites ready to listen to. After I finished, being a backwards thinker, I decided to check Amazon and guess what? It was finally released on CD in 2005.

Thanks to Kyle, master c# programmer and a true validation Nazi this thing is now valid.

 

I just upgraded the site to a blog format so I might keep it up to date now

It was not fun deciding what blog server to use. I wanted to keep it DotNet on IIS and Microsoft SQL. I almost gave in to PHP, MySQL, and WordPress until I found subText. It seems to be easy on memory and CPU. My biggest barrier was finding a blog software that would render valid xhtml pages. While subText failed that test it appears to be something that can be corrected by editing the skin and CSS files. Some others I looked at were creating bad code at the application level and could not be repaired without debugging and recompiling, no thanks.

My wife and 2 sons bought me a Blu-Ray player for my birthday. Sweet! I thought I would have to wait until Christmas. I got the new John Mayer concert, "Where The Light Is" and "The Punisher" both on Blu-Ray.

They did it, they killed HD-DVD. I didn't get to open and watch every one of the HDDVD movies I got for Christmas and it's already obsolete. Toshiba officially announced that they give up. I guess I'll be getting a Blu-Ray player before the end of the year. It stinks being on the losing team