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Sunday, December 25, 2005
Merry Christmas 2005
Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful and safe Christmas!
I have and wait till i tell you what goodies I received and gave this year. I’m pretty dead right now and busy yet but in another day or two I’ll get that posted.
Merry Christmas!
on 12/25/2005 at 07:06 PM
Sunday, December 11, 2005
How to get 50 free MP3s legally
Maybe this is old news but I’m a little slow. HA!
Long story short, I went with my girlfriend to the Historical Museum today. They have this nice Christmas display they run every year. Anyhoo, they were playing Christmas music and it was “Christmas Time is Here” from the Charlie Brown Christmas album.
It’s a great song and I really wanted to have it so I started digging around the net for it. I found out it’s in the eMusic.com library.
eMusic I think is the only pay music site on the net that actually uses normal non-DRMed MP3s. They do a monthly subscription model where you can download a preset number of songs. It varies but the cheapest plan is 9.99/mo for 40 downloads. That’s not too bad when you think about it. One cd will burn you 12-20bucks right? And it only has maybe 10 songs. I’d say 10 bucks for 40 tracks is a pretty good deal.
So I see they have a free trail membership where you can download 50 songs for free and keep them even if you cancel your subscriptions.
So, this is where I’m getting 50 free MP3s legally. I’ll be downloading the whole Charlie Brown Christmas album plus whatever else I find this week then cancel my subscription.
The only downfall to their service is the music quality. Songs are only encoded at 192kbps variable bit rate. Which is good enough for most people but it would be nice to have the option of getting nice 320kbps archive quality files.
But it’ll do just fine and I’ll be happy with what I get considering it’s free!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Hey, Wait! I still have a blog?
Heh, long time no post huh? I won’t bother apologizing because I’m sure you all understand how hectic life can be.
Well as I said in my last post, I no longer work at UPS as I have a new job working at a company doing actual IT work!
Well, I’m basically a month into the job and so far things are going great. Everyone is nice and I’m slowing getting to know them. My coworkers have been very helpful and understanding of my learning the systems and procedures.
The place is growing by leaps and bounds and it just constantly impresses me. It’s nice to see a company growing and not doing mass layoffs (You hear that GM? Maybe you should send your execs to come mentor here, so they can learn a thing or two about how to run a successful business!)
So anyhoo, the job is great but just a bit tiring with the commute. I’m up at 6:30am every morning. Shower, shave… you get the idea. I’m on the road by 7:15 and in the lot by 7:50ish. Clock in and at my desk by 8 and spend the day busily working. The day’s over around 5-5:15ish and I’m back out and on the road. I get home by 6 and start the nightly decompress.
That’s why I haven’t posted in a month. I’m usually pretty tired and I get sidetracked doing other things. So Mr Blog gets put on the back burner.
I’ll try to be better about posting now that I’m getting used to the routine. Big things are a brewing and I’d like to try to document it all as I think it would be very interesting for everyone.
How’s that for a teaser? HA!