Asymptomatic

The MoGo Mouse fits into your PC Card slot for recharging, and pops up to be used as a bluetooth mouse.

I’ve been slowly amassing equipment for use in producing podcasts.

Over the summer, I acquired a small mixing board and a decent dynmaic microphone to use for recording Almost Friday for the Blogathon. That worked out reasonably well. I hooked everything through the mixing board into the guitar monitor and out to an M-Audio USB audio capture box. The sound produced wasn’t bad.

For Christmas Berta got me a Fostex MR-8 8-track digital recorder. It’s a fine little piece of equipment, and very portable, since you can run in from batteries.

The kit it came in provided a bag, another dynamic microphone, and some cable, which was plenty to get started recording things on the road. I was considering doing a kind of live-recorded podcast from the next meetup in Philly, in which anyone who wanted a turn talking could say great things about themselves, or Philly, or their blogs.

But there has got to be more to this podcasting thing than people blithering on about stuff that has no interest, right?

This book of astronomical events in 2006 is a completely free 13.5MB download.

This XBox 360 mod chip site is supposed to launch tomorrow. I doubt I’m going to mod my 360, but it’ll be interesting if this rumor pans out how they get around the whole Live functionality.

I don’t know what it is about winter exactly that does it - and I’m certainly not far from learning what it is while sitting at the computer - but every year is a new adventure in Pavlovian training while exiting my car.

Perhaps it’s the extra layer of clothing that does it. Maybe it’s that plus the dry air. Every time I step out of the car after a ride of reasonable length, I get zapped when I touch the door.