Sunday, May 10, 2009

Random Geek

Twitter Search searches Twitter for cutting edge info. Or you can find out what kind of freaky shit the Twitter crowd is into. Whatever.

As far as my recent radio obsession, I am still in deep. I had a few old Kodak rechargeable AA bats that I was using for the Grundig S350DL radio - the thing can run off either AA or D cell batteries. Anyway, I wanted to upgrade to D cells as they last MUCH longer between charges. I nailed 4 Energizer 2500 mAh Nimh Rechargeable Batteries D cells batteries. So far so good. They are MUCH lighter than a regular battery.

Noticing more and more streaming apps on the Touch - including one for Deutsche Welle. Various NPR streams and all have a few different ways of listening on the Touch. Cool! Add to that the ability to do podcasts, and you have one mondo-info machine! Viva-La-Touch!

Managed to get the dual-boot Vista-Ubuntu 9.04 installed again on the laptop. Tweak tweak and feeling good. I found a hack to get the fan under control (something that the native Vista install did, also) that I need to try, but looking good.

Met the granddaughter this weekend - pic in the TwitPic on the top right. She's cool.

Loading the USB Flash Drive with APPS and files. Good stuff. I might need to get a bigger drive.

Found a thread on AskMetafilter about Firefox Add-ons and Grease Monkey Scripts - What add-ons to Firefox do you find useful?