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Author: Karel Kerezman

  • NetJuke – Great music jukebox

    If you’re like me (and who isn’t?) you probably enjoy music and want a nifty way to organize and access your considerable MP3 and Ogg music collection for easy LAN streaming.

    NetJuke is the latest such product I’ve employed to achieve this task, striding boldly in the footsteps of Globecom Jukebox and Tunez before it. Unlike those other products, I haven’t had to hack anything at all to make all of my music import cleanly and run easily.

    If you have a Linux box sitting around with lots of hard disk space, if you have a bunch of MP3s and/or OGGs that you’d love to “jukebox,” follow the link below.
    NetJuke

  • Getting on with getting on

    Just to catch everyone up on where I’m at and where I’ve been, I spent Monday at home getting well enough to come in to work yesterday, on which day I ran around madly catching up on various projects.

    I have a few small things planned for today, both at work and at home. I may even make another improvement or two to this site…

  • Because little green men WANT to be found

    Are we alone in the universe? Maybe, maybe not, but one of the biggest, coolest computing projects known to mankind is still running strong. That’s right, I’m talking about the SETI@Home project!

    And what makes it cool to me? Well, other than all the cool astronomy and other science involved, it’s that they generate little certificates for processing milestones… like this one.

    Now don’t you wish you were as cool as I?

  • How I Spent My Weekend

    It was to be a lovely weekend, full of opportunity and wonder. How did I spend the 48 hour period from midnight Friday night to midnight Sunday night?

    In a torrid marathon of heated passion? No.

    Writing madly a masterwork of prose fiction? Hardly.

    An intense round of hardcore gaming, complete with huge levelling of Diablo II characters and lotsa neat Unique loot? I wish.

    Solving the deepest mysteries of existence? You should be so lucky.

    Sleeping like the dead while some annoying little flu virus dances a jig on my intestinal tract, only allowing me to manage a grand total of ten hours out of bed the whole weekend? Bingo.

  • My two book reviews so far

    So far I’ve reviewed two novels, both by Anne McCaffrey. I’ll be expanding my horizons soon, I assure you. (I’m going to give the Eddings tome The Redemption of Althalus a once-over some time very soon.)

    Click on the Books link to the right to see the relative ratings given to the novels, or click the links below to read whichever particular review interests you.

    Nimisha’s Ship review
    The Skies Of Pern review

  • Cutesy icon added to site

    Because I can’t resist the temptation to indulge in the latest, greatest goofy web-design trend, there’s now ‘favicon’ support on this site. If you notice the super-scaled-down version of my Deviant Picture adorning the address bar, bookmark or browser tab while surfing here… good for you.

    And if you actually have bookmarked this site and you aren’t me, please don’t tell me. I’d simply faint dead away.

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