Getting back to the basics
For a good while, I think I’ve just been out of it. I don’t know how to explain it, really. Lately, my creativity and eagerness to learn and experiment has been comming back. I’m starting to program at home a lot again. I also did a few yardwork chores this past weekend. Yardwork is just something I dread. Sometimes I do it out of boredom really.
I don’t know all of what is involved with how I got to where I was. Computer problems was one issue. Waiting forever for VS.Net 2005 was another. You could fit some depression in there as well, although it has pretty much gone away at this point of my life. The SecondLife addiction came on pretty heavy back in November and has recently tapered off a bit. In fact, I’ve started working on little projects to assist me in SecondLife, so that probably means that I’ll stop using it so heavy. I also purchased Civalization IV this past weekend, so that has got my mind away from SL as well.
Another thing that I am starting to do is use my online services a bit more. Take Del.icio.us for example. I have started tagging pages that I find useful to reference later rather then bookmarking the pages. I’ve started posting to flickr again and my blogging activities have increased.
My iPod has been synched up with my newly formatted drive. Unfortunately, I lost all of my music ratings in the process. I have to rate all my songs again. I have about 3500 songs and desperately running out of room on it. I’m down to less then a gigabyte left on a 20 GB drive. I think it is due to all of these audiobooks and podcasts that I’m losing precouse space. Eventually I’ll upgrade to the iPod video so I can have a color screen, pictures, and of course, videos. It would be nice to see my album art too when I’m listening to a song.
My dreams, I feel, are still odd at best. I’m looking into a few gadgets that should help me out a bit better with my Dreamy Audio podcast. It seems Olympus is very popular with digital voice recorders. I’m looking for quality and capacity. One of them (WS-200S) stores about 4 and a half hours for its high quality mode. My current W-10 that I got used allows me 45 minutes in HQ Mode. Of course, I always go to ebay for my supplies. I see that I can knock of $30 on the WS-200S retail price and get it at $100 US. The W-10 is still selling for around $35 on eBay, a $65 savings. I got my W-10 for roughly $40 a year ago. Maybe I can resell it and only suffer a $5 loss. It doesn’t have any wear or tear showing and it still works just like new.
I’ve also seen Digital Audio Tape (DAT) recorders out there. Some of the results that I’ve heard from One-Minute Vacation are impressive that were recorded on these devices. They have a high sampling rate as well as a high price. The thing though, is that they are not so digital. It’s not as if I could hook a DAT player up to my computer and transfer files. It appears that they would have to play the audio while my computer would record it. What a mess that would be. I think I’ll just stick with Digital Voice Recorders for the time being.
May 6th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
[…] Since my interest in recording my dreams has been renewed, I’ve started fixing up the code to my audio blog. I mainly call it “Automagic Podcaster” due to the fact that all the end-user has to do is upload MP3 files onto there site. The code reads all the meta data about the MP3 files that have ID3 tags embedded within them. […]