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Internet Radio Appliances one of the ideas was to create a customizable feed of content, such as local traffic, news, weather, etc based on your interests, delivered to your PenguinRadio when you woke up. Along those same lines comes podcasting, delivering podcasts of content to your Ipod every morning so you have something different to listen to on your way to work. I have to confess I am getting a bit tired of my library of music (700 songs) so I started playing with podcasting as a way to get fresher music. podcastdirectory.com is growing, slowly but surely. What I hope to do in the next few days is build not just a directory of podcasts, but of the actual shows they have produced, and then make that searchable through some database I create. XML is nice to pass data around, but it really isn’t the best database format out there (it’s not really a database format for that matter). Now it’s just a matter of parsing XML and OPML to MYSQL and moving forward from there into some search functions and classification capabilities. Ok, time for bed though. It’s 11:00 and, well I have work to do tomorrow on this…]]>

The Synergy Summit is being put together by some friends of mine down in Florida as a meeting of the “entertainment and video game industry” with the “government and military community.” As simulation become a greater part of modern military training, it appears more and more that the services of entertainment and gamers are meeting the needs of the government. NATO is speaking there, and it should be a pretty interesting event, if I can just find the time to go.]]>

Ok, so it is just some cranes. But it looks like crab legs.]]>

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Channel News Asia is reporting that biometric passports, including facial recognition and fingerprint scanning, will soon become part of the Singapore airport. It will also have the capability to add mustaches and facial hair, along with a few extra pounds to travellers so they can recongize the inevitable changes. Sounds pretty cool. Did you see the movie Minority Report with the iris scanners? I’m thinking we’re going to be there a hell of a lot sooner than we think…]]>

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