The Almost Live Radio Blog

James doing Pet Cremation in Kernersville!

2009-12-04T06:17:00.000-08:00

Yes, I finally received approval and am officially in business helping people with cremation of their dear pets. Can handle anything from a tiny chihuahua to a miniature horse. Details are on the website, http://lovinghandsnc.com (Loving Hands of the Carolinas).

Serving Kernersville, Greensboro, High Point, Clemmons, Thomasville, Lexington and the surrounding areas, though additional fees apply out of our free pickup area.

Hillary-Summer of Love (and wacky pants)

2007-07-29T06:37:00.001-07:00

clipped from www.nytimes.com

Inky The Podcat - Busted!

2007-03-11T16:41:00.000-07:00

I can't help it, I just love the kitty porn!

IE Spell

2007-02-22T05:46:00.000-08:00

There's a new IE add on called IE Spell, which is a spell checker for text input box o browser forms. I'm trying it now!

It woks great! You can check it here.

Kimotikans

2007-02-20T20:32:00.000-08:00

I'm a PC

2007-02-18T10:57:00.000-08:00

More here.

Astro-nut

2007-02-07T12:23:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Podcat!

2007-02-05T14:11:00.000-08:00

On February 14, ALR turns 1 and Inky the Podcat turns, well, 7 or 8. We don't know his exact age, and he isn't telling, but he came to live with me around Valentine's Day in 2001, so that's when we celebrate his birthday!

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My what a long tongue you have!

Welcome Vista!

2007-01-23T05:04:00.000-08:00

Hacker Sighting In The Press

2007-01-22T21:11:00.000-08:00

An interesting article about a real hacker, kind of down on his luck: Captain Crunch!

Biff.TV

2007-01-20T10:13:00.000-08:00

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A podcat sighting, this is Biff on Lab Rats. Should be Lab CATs.

Show #57 Apologies

2007-01-20T08:37:00.000-08:00

Well, not really apologies. I recorded this one on Thursday night. My list of podcast was much longer than I knew, and took much longer to record. There were also so many pauses and re-reads (yes, I'm actually writing these shows up before I do them, again) that I decided to wait until the next morning to do post-production and to post the show.

Well, the next morning became the next night. Unfortunately that allowed GeekBrief.TV to 'scoop' me on the online sales of Vista and Office. Editing took a long time, and when I uploaded the show it pushed me over my space limit on libsyn. Being over my limit locked me out of making changes to some changes I wanted to make on the almostliveradio web page template, so I had to delete the show, make the changes, and then re-upload the show. 3-4 more days and the Christmas show will have been up for a month, so it will be archived by libsyn, freeing up space and giving me some breathing room. Podshow is sounding better and better, though I do like the management features of libsyn.

Anyway, it's out there (without artwork, one problem that I do frequently run into with libsyn). Hopefully some will enjoy it.

An Aussie Explains The Different Intel "Core" Chips (In A Way That Even I Can Understand)

2007-01-19T07:21:00.000-08:00

From: mssmallbiz@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mssmallbiz@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Quark IT - Hilton Travis
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:53 PM
To: mssmallbiz@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [mssmallbiz] dual-core vs core duo vs...

Hi Ben,

I can't talk much aboot the AMD side as we almost exclusively use Intel
CPUs here.

But, as for the Intel side...

Once upon a time there was a processor called the Pentium-III. It got
outdated, so along came the Pentium 4 CPU which was based on the P-III,
but with "more modern" design ideas. Things went swimmingly for a
while, but 2 major issues were noted - 1. It ran so hot in a laptop
computer that it was impractical and 2. It wasn't really that fast.

So, Intel had another thunk aboot the P-III that was, relatively
speaking, a really good CPU. They decided to implement the now "even
more modern" design lessons they learned since designing the Pentium $
and called it the Pentium M (for Mobile). It ran at a much slower clock
speed, power usage and temperature but produced numbers as quickly as
the Pentium 4. "We are onto a good thing here" thought Intel, even
though the Pentium M was a 32-bit only CPU core.

Now, as the desktop CPU requirements were getting biggerer and biggerer,
Intel decided to gaffer tape another Pentium 4 core into the same
package, making the Pentium D. So, the Pentium D is basically 2 *
Pentium 4 CPU cores on individual pieces of silicon in a single package.
Old school. Power hungry. Damn hot.

Intel also needed to update the Pentium M and did so, making the Intel
Core Duo CPU which was 2 * modernized Pentium M cores in the one
package. It, too, was stupidly only 32-bit. It was basically a
stepping stone to a real CPU - the Core 2 Duo - which is a full 64-bit
version of the Core Duo CPU.

Now, Intel has managed to make the Core 2 Duo into a single piece of
silicon, so that there's one chunk of silicon in the CPU package, but it
has 2 * CPU cores. Nifty. Now, they realised that the next step - the
Core 2 Quad - can be initially released by gaffer taping 2 of these bits
of silicon on the one chip - so the current Core 2 Quad CPUs are
basically a pair of Core 2 Duo CPUs in a single package. The upcoming
Core 2 Quad will be a single piece of silicon containing the 4 * CPU
cores.

So, there you go - a basic overview of single and Dual Core Intel P4 (or
Xeon) CPUs and where they evolved. Hope that helps.

--

Regards,

Hilton Travis Phone: +61 (0)7 3344 3889
(Brisbane, Australia) Phone: +61 (0)419 792 394
Manager, Quark IT http://www.quarkit.com.au
Quark AudioVisual http://www.quarkav.net

Podcat Sightings: The Funny Papers

2007-01-15T07:00:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! from ALR!

2007-01-01T06:12:00.000-08:00

with apologies to Al Stewart...

Meet Trucker Two Times

2006-12-28T06:36:00.000-08:00

This is Trucker Two Times, or "T3" as I like to think of him, talking about podcasting. You can check out his website and podcast by visiting his websites at truckertwotimes.com or PodShow.

Hmmm, on second thought, after seeing his Foot Powder PSA , I'll probably be thinking of him as "Happy Feet" istead of "T3".

ALR Blog V2.0

2006-12-27T08:29:00.000-08:00

Giving this a try. The old free Wordpress blog is great, but it's pretty slow and hard to work with sometimes, so I thought I'd check this one out.