I’m not writing much because I’m spending a lot of time looking into behind-the-scenes changes to this site, including a different look, a different video player and, most of all, a much bigger and better bucket to hold all of my multimedia files. Since being forced to make an emergency switch from iPower to Bluehost way back in March — what a terrible weekend that was — I have restored only a small percentage of the sound and movie files that I had posted, out of concern that I will once again use too much of my “unlimited” storage. By using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), my hope is I will be soon able to put the old MP3, FLV and MP4 files back online, but before I can do that there are some technical considerations to work through.
Category: Tech
Mistah Magloo returns
Last year I posted an unauthorized YouTube copy of Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, the first of the classic 60’s animated Christmas specials. That copy has been pulled, but this year Hulu has it.
I wanted to watch Magoo on regular TV, and thanks to my friend tastewar, who had an Amazon video-on-demand $5 promotional credit to spare, I got it for free. However, mere minutes later, the same program was available for purchase for only three dollars.
I know there’s a lot of dynamic pricing based on cookie scanning, but I’ve never seen it happen so abruptly. I wonder if I’d not purchased it on first viewing, and gone back to the listing a second time to buy it, would I have seen the lower price, leaving me with a couple of extra bucks to rent something else?
In the Vinyl analysis
Ah, vinyl records. A needle vibrating as it travels within an undulating groove. I’m looking forward to getting a new LP re-release I’ve ordered. Denro spotted this video from a Boston TV show, with a discussion on the past, present, and future of music on vinyl.
The world’s least interesting man
I don’t print often, but when I do I prefer big, boring documents…
Bloomberg’s game changers
A few days ago, tastewar sent me this link on Cult of Mac of a new interview with John Sculley, the former CEO of Apple, who was the former CEO of PepsiCo that orchestrated the removal of Steve Jobs from Apple. By chance last night I caught a show on Bloomberg TV about Steve Jobs that includes comments from Sculley and the editor of Cult of Mac. Here’s a clip about Jobs returning to the reins at Apple, a couple of CEO’s after Sculley had departed.
The complete documentary, along with programs about Jon Stewart and Mark Zuckerberg, is on the Bloomberg Game Changers web page.
Silverlight Test
If you don’t have Silverlight — Microsoft’s embedded video player — you won’t see this fascinating explanation of how to use PowerShell scripting, instead of Remote Desktop, for remote management of Windows. If you have Netflix Watch Instantly on your computer, you have Silverlight.