Is it just me, or is Podcast.net EXTREMELY slow? I’d love to be able to add BlogosphereRadio.com to the list (or even see if it is on there already) but I can’t get the damn page to load. Displays the top text and then just sits there, forever.

Speaking of BlogosphereRadio, I just posted a new interview show. This time, we are Blogging With…Eric Olsen of BlogCritics.org. Enjoy!

Ah they are so on to me…they know I might become utterly addicted!

As the industry leader, Anheuser-Busch is the first major brewer to infuse beer with caffeine, guarana and ginseng. Well balanced with select hops and aromas of blackberry, raspberry and cherry, BE will offer a lightly sweet and tart taste – a great mixture of beer and new flavors for adults to enjoy when out with friends at a club or at a bar after work with colleagues.

That’s right folks…caffeinated beer! Man its so over for me now…

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Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I will leave you with this:

What were YOU doing at the time of this post?

Looks like SpaceShipOne, the craft built by Paul Allen’s Mojave Aerospace Ventures, has won the Ansari X Prize for private space travel:

SpaceShipOne, the craft that breached the Earth’s atmosphere last week, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private space travel on Monday when it repeated its feat of reaching 100km.

Just after 8 a.m. PDT, CNN reported that SpaceShipOne reached an altitude of 368,000 feet–well above the 328,000 feet, or 100km, minimum altitude required to win the prize.

Totally cool if you ask me! Could space travel be commercialized as fast as air travel was in the 20th century? Surely it is following a similar pattern of events – many competitions for commercial air travel were held before it caught on. Personally though, I think space travel is incomplete without a moonbase 🙂

Read: CNET News.com

If you have been paying even a little bit of attention to the blogging space lately, you might have heard about podcasting. Essentially, this is a mechanism that allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed that supports enclosures – audio files embedded as links that your aggregator can automagically download. Basically the main way to do this now is via Adam Curry’s iPodder.

I guess what we are doing with BlogosphereRadio.com is podcasting. We create audio shows, and publish via our RSS 2.0 feed so that people can download them. And while I like the idea, I think it suffers from one major problem – time. (I also don’t like that it is called podcasting and thus seems limited to iPods when it really isn’t)

With simple RSS feeds, your aggregator can display thousands in a manner that allows you to scan very easily and efficiently. The problem with audio and podcasting right now, is that there is no mechanism to scan. Either you listen to an entire show, or you don’t. And because of that, you are greatly limited in the number of shows you can listen to. I listened to the newest Trade Secrets and Evil Genius Chronicles on the bus this morning, but I didn’t have time to listen to anything else. In that same amount of time, I could have browsed through almost all of the feeds I subscribe to in NewsGator and read the ones that really caught my attention.

Don’t get me wrong, I think podcasting has a ton of potential, and I am happy to be providing some good content right at the beginning of this phenomenon. Yet at the same time, I think there are definitely some larger obstacles to overcome than what blogging faced.

I am writing this from the brand new wireless network at Felicia’s house. I am such a wireless whore. Soon my goal of having wireless everywhere will be realized – one house at a time! Dickson and I are the best damn tech support you don’t have to pay for…LOL

When asked what she thought of having wireless, Felicia said, “I can’t believe Mack and Dickson almost broke my Internet.”

Talk about ungrateful.

Last night was our so-called “Go Fly Or Go Home” dinner at Joey’s Global Grill in South Edmonton Common. We decided it was time to dress up and have a fancier dinner than our normal Boston Pizza events. I think it went quite well, and everyone seemed to have a good time! It’s always nice to see people dressed up anyways 🙂

We had to wait a bit for tables, but I was pleased with the service we got. The staff did what they could to accommodate us, which was nice as they do not take reservations. We had a pretty good turnout too, so we took up three tables – Sharon, Stephanie, Megan, Jane, Violet, Felicia, Tom, Mack, Lisa, Laura, Tess, Joe, Dickson, Alex, Andrew, Renee, and Candice.

Felicia arrived a little late but she brought everyone roses – it was a nice touch! Other highlights included Joe and I getting $10 glasses of wine for $6, our hot waitress who looked exactly like Mischa Barton from the O.C., Megan and I ordering Asian food and getting chop sticks while the Asian people all ordered white food, and the dessert that looked like steak and ice cream. After dinner a few of us went to Felicia’s house to relax and watch Pirates of the Carribbean. Thanks Felicia for being so hospitable!

Well that was fun! Thank you to everyone who came, and I hope you had a good time. We’ll have to make this fancy dinner thing more than a once a year event! You can see the picture album for this event here (29 best ones posted). If you want all the pictures taken on my camera (145 total), let me know and I will burn you a CD.

I for one am quite pleased with the response we have received to the site so far. And while there hasn’t been much discussion in the forums, there has been some good discussion in the blogosphere – like this post from Blog Business World.

Looks like we are getting some attention as a result of the recent publicity surrounding podcasting too. Let’s keep the momentum going!

Anyone notice that recently there has been a ton of remakes of old songs? Its like the music industry is running out of new things to record. Anyway, there are three recent remakes that I want to talk about. All three were originally performed by men, and have been remade by women. And just to be clear, Britney’s remake of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” was terrible.

Hilary Duff – My Generation
This song by The Who has been remade a few times, and pop tart Hilary Duff felt it was time for her to join the club. I suppose I would give her points for trying, but I really don’t like the remake. I think it sounds far too, what’s the word, mishmashed? Like she has thrown together lyrics, music, and background singers in the least smooth way possible. The rest of her CD is pretty good, especially Fly, but this song should have been cut.

Jessica Simpson – Angels
Jessica has been a busy little remaker lately. Angels is a remake of Robbie Williams’ hit song from a few years ago. I guess I’d have to say its decent, but I don’t think it is as good as her other remake – “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin. That song needed to have that 80’s synth crap removed, so good on ya Jessica.

Vanessa Carlton – Streets Have No Name
On her brand new CD entitled Harmonium (will be released November 9th), Vanessa Carlton has a remake of U2’s hit “Where The Streets Have No Name”. Compared with the above two remakes, this one is amazing. I really like the way she kept the song the same, yet improved at the same time, if thats possible. And she has an amazing voice!

So Vanessa Carlton is the winner here, with Jessica Simpson receiving honorable mention, and Hilary Duff failing. She should have stayed in school 😛

I never thought about this before, but of course it makes sense. By default, digital cameras name pictures in a specific way. For example, Sony cameras name photos “DSC00001.jpg”, and other manufacturers have similar methods.

That’s why you have to check out this Google Images search. Seems most people don’t rename their photos before they upload them somewhere (I am guilty of this), so searching Google Images for “DSC00001.jpg” gives about 57,000 results. Quite interesting!

Read: Engadget