One of the things I like to do is make backgrounds for my computer’s desktop. Usually I keep them for myself, but I shouldn’t be so selfish so I won’t be. If you want to make your computer look pretty too then go ahead and take a few. Let me know if you like them.

About a month ago I bought a new car (for me anyway) – a 1994 Audi 100cs. I love the car, but there’s just one problem. I want to set up my iPod to play on the stereo and I can’t. Actually I can, but not the way I would like to.

I’ve tried the tape player adaptor, but it just doesn’t sound that good. It takes out the low frequencies while boosting the low mids and cuts the highs. I wouldn’t mind that if I was listening to talking, but I use my iPod for music. I have a Bose sound system in my car and I would love to take advantage of it.

How about the radio transmitter? It’s a pain to work with. I don’t want to have to change channels as I’m driving because the channel I had been using has a ton of static on it. Not only that, but even when I do find a good channel there’s still that little bit of static that drives me nuts.

What I would like to do is hardwire the iPod to my stereo. Having a brother and a dad who are both electrical engineers helps, but doesn’t solve the solution. The problem is the car is too old and the wiring is all proprietary. There are a fair amount of companies that make kits for hardwiring, but none of them support older cars, especially older foreign cars.

The solution: When I get enough time I’m going to open up the cars stereo and try to find out which wires go where, with the help of my brother and/or dad of course. If I can figure that out I might just have to be a Garage Logician and come up with a not so standard solution. Any ideas?

Before you start reading you need to know that yes, I am biased. My opinions are not entirely uncalled for since I did grow up using Windows and only recently switched to Mac, so I do know what XP is like. Now that we got that out of the way, lets continue:

Many people, mainly in IT style jobs, tell us that Windows is better than OSX. What we have not heard is why. Other than the “OSX doesn’t run my application” argument, is there really a good reason to run Windows over OSX? I could be wrong, but I think the argument is that Windows works better in a large scale network enviroment. I have yet to hear a good reason why they think that. Is there something from an administrator’s point of view such as remote desktop type operations that OSX doesn’t support?

Can someone help me out and tell me why most people don’t want to run a much simpler, prettier, stabler, faster, and more intuitive OS?

If you come here looking for some entertainment only to see that I haven’t posted in a while, there is more. You may not have noticed the sidebar to your left. If you click on any of the links under bookmarks it will take you to a page that I think is interesting. Some may be expired or not work by now, but some of them are way more interesting than my site, so go ahead and leave this site for other, more interesting websites.

This is a test. Let me know if it works in your browser. Trust me, you will know if it does.

Update:
From the browsers I have tested it seems to be working pretty well, so I’m starting the Work section of this site and I’m using the same method. Check out the Escape Band page to see it in action.