If you don’t what games live is go check out their website. Its basically a concert of classical music of your favorite games. I am going this year to the  showing in Seattle.  You can also check out many videos on their website or youtube.

Cheers

I got tired of trying to listen to my music and to tell you the truth it is hard to find something I like anymore in my library so I decided to start all over again. I am backing up my whole library and I am going to kinna follow this tutorial by djsnack.com
I have all my music backed up and I have tons of space to grow a new music library from the old by taking it little by little I should be able to tag and select only the song I want in my library anymore. None of that I’ll take any crappy music into my library anymore.

I was looking for Itunes alternative and really there might be one but not too soon. Its called SongBird and it has everything that one would like in Itunes except that it not quite there yet. I do Like to listen to my music outside of itunes and for that I use VLC (sadly as of this writing I am not able to use themes/skins in the mac but hopefully I will in the future) But mainly I want to be able to understand my music by just going to the folder structure because many DJ programs like VirtualDJ, Scratch live etc use a folder structure for the music.

Online Radio: DISCOvering new music.

Pandora.com
last.fm
SoundClick.com

Back in the day I used to use mp3.com to look for new artist and now that site is dead and its not what it used to be. SoundClick.com is kinna like mp3.com used to be but it not near what it was. I remember recording music from the FM Radio in a casset and thinking it was the coolest thing. Now one can do the same with many online radio stations.

I was so frustrated because there was a song on a online radio station that I had listen to and I could not find to buy any where. I have a mac and most of the online radio recorders work only in windows. Just by googling “record online radio stations” you might find what you need but it takes a lot of time but don’t get frustrated just take your time and be patient. I stumble upon an application for the mac called pandorajam for the mac and it looks like it can do everything I want and its cheap.

well, I talked for a while. Any comments or questions?

Pocasting plug in for word press its very nice. It allows people like me who use wordpress to make a separate rss feed for just podcast entries. I like it alot and It always adding new features. I came across WP-Geo and I loved the Idea of easiely integrating maps into my blog. As of version 2.1.2  “NEW - GeoRSS points in feeds”

After I had intalled the WP-Geo, Podcating plug in started to give me this error.

xmlns:itunes=”http://www.itunes.com/dtds/
podcast-1.0.dtd”xmlns:georss=”http://www.georss.org/georss”>

I kept typing my rss address in firefox and getting the same error. I took me 45 minutes to figure it out after activating and uninstalling plug ins. WP-GEO has a check box that will disable the feature and eventhought I had done that, Firefox has cache the rss and was giving me the error all the time even thought it was fixed.

What did I learn?

In order to troubleshoot rss feeds one must use something like http://feedvalidator.org/. Also, One needs to read the documentation before posting n00bie questions.

Also special thanks  to josh stauffer for document the delay of permalinks to appear, I would have been up until the early dawn.

-Cheers

cheers

Work overload. They way I see it, manager keep handing the work load down the ladder and the poor employees in the bottom do most of the work. Maintaining a web presence is a team effort. It requires everybody to be in the same page.

I am going to pick on California DMV’s website.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/dmv.ca.gov
http://web.archive.org/web/*/ca.gov

According to one of the developers the was at dmv since the beginning ,whom I’ll call  Ramon for the purpose of the paper, said that the website started just as a handbook page. The drivers handbook was released, Ramon says that he thought it was the coolest thing at that time. Now if you visit the archive.org site, you can see the development of the website as the years go by and more and more content was added to the page. They moved from table design to css and xhtml and so forth yet the content still kept growing. Ramon said that he was hired as a fool time and then come others. The web team at dmv stated using the early version of Adobe Dreamweaver starting with version one. The team has been using dream-weaver since the beginning and their work flow has not change much in all those years. Dev on the local drive, test site and production. With hundreds of pages to be updated monthly, the work is enormous and plain. With the California mandates to maintain a Spanish site that mirrors the English site, along with accessibility mandates, the work goes to the roof top and yet the resources available are the same.   But it is no DMV’s fault for the stagnation in content management, it’s the way the system was built.

What needs to happen?

ca.gov needs to provide a way for all the departments to move all the content to databases and those databases be managed by a CMS (content management system) but databases, according to ca.gov, present a security risk and should be avoided. The system is so fragmented  that it actually serves as a security barrier because no two people know how the whole things works.

• Centralized CMS
• Database support

California government needs to embrace open source, it would save tons of money and less headaches. Move away from Microsoft servers and client software, stop trying to write everything from scratch and pick up an open source project and make it better and customized.  Embrace open source PHP and MySQL.

Popular CMS’
I would recommend drupal for its strong International support.
But DotNetNuke might be a better choice for the state since the state of california has a lot of money invested in Windows architecture plus DotNetNuke is very easy to manipulate.