New Winamp Beta

It's here: http://www.nullsoft.com/cookie/winamp29beta2_full.exe

Eventually, skinning features from 3.0 will be incorporated into 2.8 and then Nullsoft is skipping 4.0 and releasing 5.0, Netscape style. 3.0 is dead, and I hope it remains that way. I'm not altogether sure what's true or not, but there you are. . .

I am so glad that 3.0 is being discontinued. It, uh, sucked. It did not whip the llama's ass at all.

A short Post Script (the read me of the Winamp installer:

Known issues:

* The Vorbis tag updating through the media library may be buggy, please test.

* the minibrowser page says "upgrade". =)

* running a fullscreen visualization plugin when playing video (or vice versa) can be bad
(i.e. cause Winamp to quit). This appears to be a directdraw issue, we'll figure out why.

* new extended skin format may change for 2.90, so don't distribute new skins too widely.

* some AVI/MPEG/ASF/etc videos may be flipped, due to directshow weirdness. We will work to correct this as
much as possible.

* Some MPEG2 video decompressors (latest PowerDVD one apparently) may have issues with playback.

* Many more configuration options and fixes should be added in the 2.90 to 2.9x land. Enjoy.

And so far, I haven't noticed too much of a difference at all. Oh well.

On the day that your mentality decides to try and catch up with your biology

Come around.

And that's how easy it is to keep me entertained. . .

They make sculptures for this now?

You have to see it to believe it.

http://www.popsculptures.com/kiofpopbadr.html

Or is it an elaborate joke?

Don't forget the Oreos. Double Stuf, of course.

There's a B-B-Q place just up the road from my home.

I could've sworn that it used to be called Lip Smackin' B-B-Q, but then one I looked closely and noticed it was actually named Lip Dancin' B-B-Q.

Regardless of that, I still get strange looks whenever I ask anyone if they want some Lip Dancin' tonight.

Where'd it go?

Seems like Metafilter has been off-line all day.

I used to love to mope around listening to the Cure. Funny thing, I really wasn't all that depressed, I just didn't find too much to be too joyous about. Ten years or so changes things quite a bit.

Now I just listen to it for the warm feeling I get thinking about moping about.
Which has nothing to do with Metafilter at all.

Moodle

I'd never heard of Moodle before a couple of weeks ago.

Our school currently uses Akiva's Webboard software to manage any of our on-line courses. The annual service agreement with them isn't too bad, considering some of their competitors pricing (about $1700 annually for Akiva versus $5000 plus annually for some of the other software out there). There are several things that Webboard does not do and have been requested since implementing Webboard about five years ago. Two of the requests have been on-line testing and grading, and an on-line gradebook. Webboard does neither of these things, and never will. It's just not a true classroom manager program, it's a discussion forum piece of software.

In any case, we've been in the process of researching other possible solutions for on-line classroom management, etc. There have been several different possible solutions: Jones Knowledge, Blackboard, and a few others. Moodle is one of them, and so far it's been pretty good. I've been trying my best to try and break it, but I haven't had too much time on my hands to do so. Anyone else happen to have any experience with Moodle?

Virus Alert

A new worm is making its rounds--there are so many every day, really. You can read about it here and here, and here, if you're so inclined.

As always, never open any attachments that you didn't specifically request.

I wonder how long before we start getting infections here on campus.

It's all about making that GTA.

What in the. . .?

It looks like a digital codpiece.

Now I'm having Labyrinth flashbacks.

Ugh.

And in something completely unrelated, here is a story about an eBayer refusing to do business with a Canadian because of Canadia's lack of support for U.S. activities in Iraq.

I didn't know that eBay was such a political soapbox.

Let me take you to the hurting ground. . .

I'm not looking forward to going home and doing the lawn.

After a weekend of rain, it's gotten a bit out of hand. Now, if I had an iPod with 20 Megs of music, I think I'd be a bit more motivated to do it.

Well, at least I'd somewhat enjoy it. I wonder if I'd be able to hear it over the mower.

Home again, home again. . .