Monday, May 19, 2003

Roxio to acquire PressPlay I have for the past few months been enjoying my subscription to PressPlay.   I take great interest in today's news that Roxio has acquired PressPlay.   It will be fun watching Roxio relaunch the Napster service. My family is hooked on PressPlay.   I have a PC configured with PressPlay connected to our Bose home theater.  We use Windows XP's Remote Desktop feature to control the PressPlay PC from a laptop via my home 802.11 Network.   When friends come over for drinks a laptop on the island of our kitchen serves as the world's greatest jukebox. A recent demo for my Dad went something like this.   I selected a link on my tablet PC's desktop to remote desktop to my PressPlay PC I asked my Dad what year he graduated and then selected the billboard charts for that year from the PressPlay plug-in for Windows Media player. I asked what his favorite song was back then, selected it and immediately resounding throughout the speakers in my home was a Buddy Holly song. My Dad was touched, amazed and thought he had seen some special future technology due to my employer.  No early adopter bits were shown, just a mixture of home networking, Windows Media, PressPlay and Windows XP.  Since the music is downloaded and not burned to a portable player the base subscription for PressPlay is all  I need. 9:11:20 PM    comment []  trackback []

Blooming in Seattle I love how my plants are turning out this year.   One of the nice things about Seattle's winter of rain and gloom is that you appreciate the summer weather.    I need to work on my plant selection though, when I picked the plants for my landscaping I didn't get enough variety.   Once my Rhododenreons  loose their flowers my backyard loses some of its shine. So can someone recommend plantings that will get me blooms from now until September? 7:06:59 PM    comment []  trackback []