Month: April 2009

Aspiring Netbook

I don’t own an iPod, nor do I have satellite radio, but I’m otherwise technologically up to date. For $250 at BJ’s Wholesale Warehouse, I bought an Acer Aspire One netbook, running XP Home with 1 GB of memory and a 160 GB drive.

I’m very impressed. Everything runs smoothly, including video that sputtered a bit on the SSD version of the Aspire One that I tried last week. This post was done entirely on the netbook, except shooting the video clips; which, come to think of it, I might have been able to do with the built-in Webcam and a mirror!

Here are some examples of video playback. First, from this page on my blog.

[MEDIA=32]

One of the things I wanted to do with the Acer Aspire One was manage my Netflix queue for the Roku Media Player, but Watch Instantly also plays fine on the netbook. Here’s a bit of Supersize Me on Netflix Watch Instantly.

[MEDIA=33]

‘Verliefd’ with K3

My not-so-secret shame, the Flemish girl group K3, will soon be gone, with the departure of Kathleen Aerts. The signs have been there for a while. Videos began to disappear from YouTube, including this one, which happens to be one of their very best.

[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/K3/Verliefd.mp3|titles=Verliefd (In Love) by K3]

‘Verliefd’ (“In Love”) is Karen Damen’s favorite K3 song, and it’s the second song by the girls that I heard back in June. The harmony that kicks in at :40 totally knocked me out and I was sold on K3. Here there be Pop music magic.

http://youtu.be/m3qOehRQ-rU

Ape Real Full

I haven’t gone out of my way to find good online April Fool links to share, but here are a couple. This one was pointed out by Bismo…

http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=Mars_home_us

… and this one I spotted on one of my RSS feeds.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

LOL funny: “JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?”