Jim Becher

How has P2P changed your Music Tastes

I was reading slashdot and found an interesting “ASK Slashdot Question” the question was Has P2P influenced your music tastes. I got to thinking about this, and was stunned at my own response. I have to answer that is has changed my music tastes. I own, or did own a tone of cd’s. Once I got hooked on MP3 I converted …

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FireFox issues Continued

Well I have been having issues w/ a few of my sites and Firefox. Each site (including this one) uses CSS and did not have issues till a few days ago. Infact, I build most of my sites and test all of my sites in firefox. They were working correctly earlier and the files have not changed in over a month. …

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Correcting Site issues

My recent upgrade to Word Press 1.5 has destroyed the site when using Firefox. I am currently working on fixing that issue. Please be patient

GeoURL 2.0

Geo URL 2.o is finally out. I have been using geourl for a long time and went to check the site for some new information and noticed that it was down. The had taken geourl down to upgrade to 2.o. GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find …

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Upgrade to 1.5

Well I just upgraded the site to WordPress 1.5 (www.wordpress.org) Lots of nice new features. So far everything looks like it is working. We will have to see.

Soccer on US TV

Ok I am finally going to rant. I can’t get any Soccer on TV. I currently pay a ton of money for cable TV each month. My current plan does not come with espn 2 or foxsports net. Now most of you out there would probably say that is not so bad. But if you are a soccer fan, those are …

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Tourney Logic – Match Play Pool Completed

The Tourney logic Match Play pool ended. The scores were lack luster. You can read more at Joel’s blog. I didn’t win, but like all pools and leagues, it made me watch more sports. The same thing happens when I play fantasy soccer or football. It keeps me excited to watch and chear for a team. I am currently in two …

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WordPress 1.5 is out

WordPress has released their new version 1.5. WordPress is the blog software I use to run jimiz.net. It is a great application and my hat goes off to the developers. One thing I hope to get out of the upgrade (I will be upgrading this weekend) is to be able to control spam. I’ll keep everyone posted on the upgrade.

Picasa – The image application

I have been thinking of the best piece of software I have every used. It probably has boiled down to most recently Firefox and Picasa. Unless you have been living under a rock you probably know about firefox. So Let me tell you a bit about Picasa. Picasa was recently purchased by google (which I believe is the best application provider …

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Phillips Senseo

I frequently listen to Adam Curry and his podcast the Daily Source Code. He has often mentioned his love of the philips Senseo coffee maker. So I decided this weekend I was going to get one. And I have to admit, this is one great coffee maker. The Philips Senseo is a single coffee maker that uses pods to allow you …

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Tourney Logic – Pool

My friend Joel has opened up a tourney on his site tourneylogic.com. He has some good info on his blog Joel has created program with a bracket control, for tournaments. You can visit tourneylogic.com

RSS Screen Saver

I have been working on a screen saver for IIS reporter. In doing research for that I made / modified a C# (Visual studio 2005) demo for and RSS screen saver. This screen saver is build in Visual C# express and uses the .net framework 2.0. It will take a selected RSS feed and display it as a screen saver. You …

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Music – Shooter Jennings

I have found the next album I am going to purchase. I am not sure if Itunes carry’s his label. But Shooter Jennings (www.shooterjennings.com) has his first record out. The son of the late great Waylon Jennings and Jesse Colter. Shooter has a sound that is a mix between Rock and Roll and that fantastic Country Rock that I like. I …

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Music – George Thorogood

Well I finally purchased a CD. I have not bought a cd for a few months. In fact I can’t even remember when the last time I purchased a CD. It must have been over a year. Now spinning in my car, other than my Ipaq is George Thorogood :Greatest Hits – 30 Years of Rock. You can view info here …

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