08/17/01 - Jesse and Amanda are getting married tomorrow (Saturday)! Check out the wedding page for
the details. If enough people show up for Reception 2.0, we'll do
another live broadcast of Radio
Free Barrettland!
08/16/01 - I (finally) added the pictures of the trip
to Shawn & Jennifer's house to the website. I should have
Heather's baby shower and this year's vacation pics up in a week or so.
07/18/01 - Last Saturday night's live web broadcast was a blast!
Thanks to all who tuned in to listen, thanks to those who requested a
song, and a special thanks to everyone who hung out in the chat
room! If you have a song request for the next live broadcast, e-mail
me.
07/14/01 - A LIVE! broadcast of Radio Free Barrettland starts
tonight at 9:00PM Eastern (that's GMT -5 for you folks in the U.K.)
You'll need have an some type of audio player to listen, preferably
WinAmp,
but Windows
Media Player will do. So be sure to gear up and tune in!
07/09/01 - The new cable modem install is complete. Read all
about it in the article on the right.
06/14/01 - I got this really "cool" e-mail today from Live365
(the host of Radio Free Barrettland). Here is an excerpt:
"Last night while the Operations team at Live365 was performing routine system maintenance, your
directory and all of the MP3's in it were accidentally removed from our service..."
Feel free to scream along with me in mutual frustration. (Thanks!
:-)
05/07/01 - The pictures from the MED Group Conference in San Antonio,
TX have been added to the photo gallery.
04/24 - Do you like Tabasco? Yeah, me too (maybe a little too
much). There are some links on the screenshot
page for free Tabasco wallpaper and screensaver downloads.
03/25 - In case you're really bored, are nosey, and have time to waste,
check out the latest screenshot. Also,
the chat page now sleeps with the fishes.
03/22 - After much delay, the LiveJournal
has been added to this site. (Like you've been holding your breath
for that one, right?) Anyway, it's available via a link the menu to
the left. Anyone can read it, but you have to register to post
comments. I can set it up so anyone can post, but if I do that, I'll
set it up like SlashDot.com
so that it show unregistered posts as "Anonymous Coward" ;-)
And, I updated the badtothechrome.com
site today. (Be sure to check out the photo gallery on it for the
donkey picture). And, more stuff going on (busy day), today
Rehab Designs officially launched a re-designed e-commerce site buyramps.com.
So go there and buy lots of wheelchair ramps so I can afford a new P4 for
my office (ha!).
Picture
of the Day
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's the missing piece of you're life that you've
been waiting for. This soon-to-be world-famous "Picture of the
Day" includes such factory-fresh features as:
Radio Free Barrettland
Is Back & Better Than Ever!
It's
no fun surfing the web in silence, and now you don't have to. Check out Radio
Free Barrettland, and crank alternative 80's & 90's to your heart's
content!
The
best player that I've used is WinAmp.
It comes in three flavors: Standard, Lite and Full. And unlike
RealPlayer, all versions are totally FREE!
Cable Modem Improves Life at Barrettland H.Q.
Thanks
to the friendly (albeit slothful) folks at Insight
Communications we now have more bandwidth than we can use (not really, but pretty close ;-)
Our vehicle of destruction is the 3Com
HomeConnect Cable Modem (bet they sat up all night coming up with that
name). It looks like one of the creatures from the "Aliens"
movie, but man, this dude can fling TCP/IP packets across the web faster than
you can say "MP3"!
So the ugly alien
head just sits here silently... blinking... every so often... all day...
all night... waiting to strike... (it looks really creepy in the dark).
Anyway, like all good geeks, we wanted proof of just how fast this thing
is. So we decided to clock it on cNet's Bandwidth
Meter (try it yourself). Our results were between 439K - 618K.
Compared to your traditional 56K modems (which may connect between 24.4 to 48
or 50K) that's pretty quick!
Sure, lab tests are great, but "you're mileage may vary".
So we pointed the alien head at a server on a T1 line and started some
downloads. The results? We go speeds between 1,200K - 1,500K on
sustained transfers! The average was 1MB per 8 seconds. For those
of you playing along with the home game, that's like filling an entire
3.5" floppy disk every 10 or 11 seconds! (Yeah, I know, "speed
kills"). Anyway, I digress...
Radio Free Barrettland
Is Back & Better Than Ever!
