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My Zen iCro, er… Micro
May 2nd, 2005 • 10 comments Music
The PacketShaper sessions that I was attending currently were very important to me, at least from a business prespective, so I needed to record them one way or another. Well, my laptop isn’t much capable of doing that, first, the microphone isn’t really that good, and the battery lifetime wouldn’t handle a 9am-6pm session. So I figured this time I should buy myself an iPod.
I can’t really talk much about the iPod, I mean I tried it a couple of times, some of my friends have it, but I didn’t have a chance to try it on a daily basis. I’ve heard so much about this “thing” called iPod, and I thought since everybody loved it this much then it should be my best option. Problem is, it’s not.
On Enjoying Music
April 16th, 2005 • 2 comments Music
Right now, I’m listening to a song that I haven’t heard in about 6-7 months, High Hopes by Pink Floyd. I was trying to remember this song’s lyrics all day long and couldn’t come up with anything but the chorus:
the grass was greener,
the light was brighter,
with friends surrounded,
the nights of wonder.
I plugged my headphones, clicked on “play”, and suddenly, every single word of its not-so-easy-to-remember lyrics came back, heck, I started singing along and doubting my own mental abilities. But I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it so much that I’m blogging about it and all of my readers are probably going to have a “What the hell’s wrong with this guy?!” moment.
You see, I’m a musician, a pianist to be more accurate. I’ve been playing piano for about 12 years now, and I can’t resist good music, it takes me back to the old days when I used to mix tapes, re-arrange albums’ songs just so they feel new, be frantic about organizing my music library, categorizing, tagging, and generally speaking, being obsessive. I miss those days. Well, not that I’ve changed a lot, I still have obsessively-organized library, only this time it’s encoded with FLAC. Those days still give me warm memories.
iPod Shuffle, Think Jewelry
January 31st, 2005 • Music
It’s not about features anymore — it’s about geek jewelry
My sentiments exactly. iPod, being a huge success, isn’t at all about features. Yes it’s packed, it can do a lot, but nothing that many other players can’t handle, except iPod does it with style. The secret is in getting people to like a product, make them want to carry it around everywhere, buy it as a present, wrap it in shiny white, fondle and play with it. Small, probably a good idea, but “cool”, now that’s a must-have; iPod Shuffle does both.
Well, I’m not going to go into the details, Scoble probably has it better.