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Keep looking, and don't settle.

Want it on your iPod + Video, or just in iTunes?? Click here.I also found another site that distributes the audio of the speech in AAC, and MP3 formats, along with the text transcript here.

This was clearly NOT the reason why I want or need an iPod. All I care about is my music, and a majority of my music library on it. Now I've tried to use this whole iPod + Video feature, and I seriously don't understand this phenomenon. I just think battery technology isn't there yet. I'd still rather watch videos on my laptop or desktop computers. But for all of it's un-practical-ness, it does still JUST work.The #1 Podcast I look forward to every week, is Diggnation. Check these guys out they are a riot. If I ever do any kind of podcast I'd hope to be as funny as Alex, and Kevin.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Louis L'Amour

We only part to meet again.

John Gay

There's always a story... It appears that the Firewire part of my 3rd Generation iPod has stopped working! Although I could, navigate the screens, listen to music, charge it, but alas I could not manipulate the music library!! I even tried manipulating the library via a USB cable and for some strange reason after about 2 minutes I would get a weird "Battery is getting low"-like message, then the iPod would power down.

So with no choice, I sent my precious off to the Apple iPod funeral grounds.... It's called the iPod recycle program, I found out about this from my buddy Drew (Thanks Drew!!!). All you have to do that is take your old iPod into the Apple Store, and they give you 10% off your next iPod purchase. The 3rd Generation 20gb iPod was a great device and has helped on several occasions to make the mudane daily tasks far more colorful, even with it's mono-chrome screen, and nice red backlight buttons!

Once you go black, you never go back.

Presenting the NAACP approved version of the iPod!!I've opt'ed for the 60gb Black iPod, and yes I know it's been recently slated to be replaced! Now I can finally use an iPod with my D810, Ubuntu, and of course Banshee!

If you were holding your breath for the Vista release in late 2006 good luck! I didn't hold my breath. When Microsoft decided to push back the release to late 2006, I went, "YA RIGHT!" They need to get all of those people off of XBox 360 and eliminating Sony and get back to their OS cause it's deteriorating quickly. This is NOT acceptable, Windows XP is probably going to go down as one of the longest Desktop OS releases. Here's the press release.More coverage here, and here.More here.

Amazing this article allegedly written by George Clooney....just might start a division between democrats and liberals (as if there's a difference..). Here's an excerpt....

Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you'd whisper "I'm a Nazi." Like it's a dirty word. But turn away from saying "I'm a liberal" and it's like you're turning away from saying that blacks should be allowed to sit in the front of the bus, that women should be able to vote and get paid the same as a man, that McCarthy was wrong, that Vietnam was a mistake. And that Saddam Hussein had no ties to Al-Qaeda and had nothing to do with 9/11.

This certainly is written by a liberal, making an imaginary mapping of apples to oranges. It's a minority political/social stance, there are huge differences between racial/gender lines and political ones(.....being a head-case, ultra-sensitive person crying and screaming for not getting their way, when their <insert some really ridiculous stance/race/situation here>). I wonder if liberals will figure out a way of proving that they were born a liberal, then their mapping would be even closer to a reality.I think we (the society in the U.S.) all need to strive towards being realistic, and not idealistic.Here lets try a simple exercise....Is it realistic or idealistic for politicians / public officials to use precious time and resources eliminating anything having to do with a "Church" or "God" from any state/county/federal buildings/seals/insignia?Sure someone may say it's strictly relative, some may pull the tried but true "separation of church and state," but really think about it. Our history of the U.S. fortunately/unfortunately had strong ties to "the church." Luckily we're smarter now, why waste the time/resources/energy? Don't we have people starving/unemployeed/naked/cold/unhoused.... or something?I'm sure there will be more exercises to come.... it's really not that hard people, just use that grey matter in your head. Hell....I have half of one.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves

Abraham Lincoln

My favorite part of this whole trip was how Jordan thought even after we had put chains on his Jeep, and it was quite aparent that we were in a snow storm that our campsite was not going to have snow!It definitely was EXTREME!!!!

Fun times putting chains on a Jeep!

That's me seeing if my toungue will stick to Jordan's Jeep.

This is about 15 miles inside of Yosemite on highway 120, we encountered shelter.

After figuring out how well we could mix the sound of chains on tires with techno music, we decided to take them off.

In the same exact parking lot where we took the chains off, we noticed it was a hotel like place.There's more in Jordan's Gallery here.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas Edison

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Horace Walpole

I decided it was time for a new keyboard and mouse. Being the pro-Bluetooth® person that I am, I decided on the Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth®. My reasoning was, I already own the first version of Microsoft's Bluetooth® powered keyboard/mouse, and I am happy with it. Another attractive part of using the old Microsoft solution was that it worked in Linux, assuming that this new version would, and having cool return policies at electronic stores, I went for it.

I'd have to say that best part is the scroll wheel located on the left side of the keyboard. Especially when reading/viewing a long document, doesn't that mouse wheel get old after awhile?

Initially, when using these peripherals with Ubuntu Dapper Drake, the mouse and keyboard wheels didn't work. A Google search revealed, that there's a bug in the HID layer which the bluez subsystem uses for Bluetooth® powered Human Interface Devices (hence HID). A patch for the Linux kernel provided on the bluez site (thanks to Christian, for the test kernel with applied bluez kernel patch in a deb package) surprisingly yielded a functioning keyboard and mouse wheel!!!

I then started asking (many times, due to no replies) people in the #ubuntu IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, if anyone has applied the patch. Luckily someone then mentioned that there was a #ubuntu-kernel channel, I asked in there and finally got an answer! Long story short, the kernel patch made it into the latest kernel in Ubuntu Dapper Drake! I did install the lastest bluez-utils and bluez-libs from the bluez.org website, I'm sure there will be updated bluez packages in the Ubuntu Dapper Drake repositories soon.

This is a great video, check it out.