http://sixowl.com six owl is better than one Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:24:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en in an earlier post i bored you all with my strategy to wrangle my music library to fit onto my ipod. here i will share the preliminary results of that experiment. the hot side is hot the biggest surprise i found is that, i had music in my library on my desktop, ... http://sixowl.com/2008/09/wrangling-my-music-revisited/ in my efforts to stay on the cutting edge of 1995 techno movies, i watched Hackers again the other day. (someone on Twitter made me reference it - i swear!). during the movie i had an epiphany: wouldn't you like your phone calls to be announced with the brilliance of Cereal ... http://sixowl.com/2008/08/cereal-killer-ringtone/ i will freely admit: my ipod is old. not only, old, but old and small. it only has 20GB capacity, and the music in my computer exceeds that. the problem: running out of space for a while, i've been trying to figure out a clever way to sync only the music i ... http://sixowl.com/2008/07/wrangling-my-music-library/ the application "twitterrific" for the web/chat/thingie Twitter got me thinking. this is a not-yet-exploited meme of using "twitter-" as a prefix for product names. so, allow me to make some suggestions: twitterritory could represent your circle of followers and followees. just hope Blake doesn't come to your twitterritory and fire your ass. twitterrain ... http://sixowl.com/2008/07/twitter-as-prefix/ this morning techcruch decided to roundup folks waxing philosophical about the scalability problems with twitter, and decentralizing twitter by creating some new web site or service. and that's entirely the problem with their thinking. why their approaches will not work people are thinking of this as a web problem. twitter is not ... http://sixowl.com/2008/05/decentralize-twitter-look-to-the-past-not-the-future/ watching this video of a meetup of the WELL from 1989. and a quote really struck me, from Flash Gordon, M.D.: "one of the problems in the world is there are no more neighborhoods in the city and neighbors and things like that, but the feeling of the WELL is that ... http://sixowl.com/2008/04/information-is-the-sugar-of-the-late-20th-century/ read a quote, most likely tongue-in-cheek, that struck me funny. Joel johnson, of Dethroner and Boing Boing Gadgets, was planning on spending the week in the woods with all sorts of high-tech gear run from solar power. he ran into a problem with the flow of electrons, and is considering packing ... http://sixowl.com/2008/04/nature-without-internet/ well not really, there was a street there but the map seems misaligned. http://sixowl.com/2008/04/dash-wants-me-to-drive-into-the-river/ http://sixowl.com/2008/04/mikes-tasks/ so i just got my Dash GPS that all the cool gadget kids are raving about. i'll perhaps attempt a review later. i did note something interesting - there's a warning sticker about thieves on the device: and yet the contents of the box include nice transparent stickers: maybe they should have ... http://sixowl.com/2008/03/dash-gps-is-conflicted-about-criminals/