Monthly Archives: August 2007

Big waves at Gibson Beach

There’s a powerful mixture of pride and fear when you see your kids face big waves for the first time. After years of teaching them to love the ocean, this past weekend I found myself facing a surprisingly big gnarly set of waves with them. Getting back into shore was not an option. It was [...]

Converting Windows iPod .m4a files to .mp3 files

I like MediaMonkey for managing my mp3 library. I have a Windows iPod with some .m4a files on it that I wanted to get into my .mp3 library, so… Enable disk access on the iPod Download this plug-in and copy the .dll to your MediaMonkey plugins directory Fire up MediaMonkey Open the iPod device (should [...]

Wireless Broadband on the Train

I know it’s been around for awhile. I even sat in the back of a taxi in 1993 using a Mobidem (a packet data radio from RAM Mobile Data) with the windows email client I’d just written for it and had the experience of getting and sending email on the move… But I recently plugged [...]