Santiago, Chile – Day 1

I have arrived in Santiago, Chile to find that it is one of the cleanest big cities I think I’ve ever seen. Especially in South America. I mean, this place couldn’t be MORE different from the Caracas that I remember, where there were massive random holes...

Etymology and Rock Band Names

As a person obsessed at time with etymology (which is the study of words, as opposed to entomology, which is the study of bugs, also known in my house as  "Those Disgusting Crawly Things That Must Be Killed") I love this list of band names and how they...

LA Home Electronics Show

The LA Home Electronics show is kinda like a CES-lite.  For all that, there were a lot of high-end gear manufacturers there, setting up their booths and blasting tunes to roomfuls of rapt audio nuts.  I wandered around with a mini-disk recorder (there were a...

Embedding Experiment with You Tube

Man if this type of technology actually works, in the long run, this will allow everyone to have and share all their video moments through blogs like this … no man is an island, but he very well may be his very own TV station and multi-media producer … I...