For an early Father’s Day present, the family gave me a new stereo for the truck along with a Sirius receiver… ESPN? … check! Disney channel? … check! NASCAR? … check, but not till next year. Playboy? … Playboy, on the radio? I don’t think so. So far I’ve managed to get the service activated which was pretty easy. Now I just need to learn how to work the stereo itself. It doesn’t seem that car stereo UI has advanced much over the years. But, once I figure it out, I’m looking forward to playing with satellite radio.
I’ve always been looking for a good way to handle my “readlater” items — websites or other information that I’ve found and don’t want to forget. I started with task lists (on the Palm) and recently use a ‘readlater’ tag in del.icio.us. ToRead looks like an interesting alternative solution. It’s a free service that mails web pages to your inbox. After registering, you receive a bookmarklet that lets you quickly tag any webpage. Tagged pages are sent to your inbox where, presumably, you’ll get around to reading them. I’m going to try it for a while to see if helps…
When the Xbox 360 came out, I wanted one bad. For once, I thought, I’d be on the cutting edge rather than waiting. But, scarcity of supply and the outrageous premiums on eBay turned me off and I decided to wait and see what happens with the upcoming Sony and Nintendo systems in 2006 (2007?). Steven Frank (of Panic fame), a pretty hard-core Mac guy, explains why he bought the 360 in a recent blog post. He too was watching the results from E3 this year to see the future of console game systems. His take on Sony was great:…