1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:10,940 It's Wednesday. 2 00:00:10,940 --> 00:00:15,940 It's the source code and good afternoon. 3 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,580 And as you can tell I still haven't fixed my crappy mic problems 4 00:00:28,580 --> 00:00:34,940 Second or my feedback problems or just a number of technical difficulties 5 00:00:34,940 --> 00:00:39,800 I'm an Amsterdam right now and hold on now. I have five wires intertwined 6 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,460 Hold on headphones and microphone cables 7 00:00:43,460 --> 00:00:53,380 I'm at the Amsterdam house which we affectionately called the bunker because well, it's built like a bunker 8 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:59,300 I guess in fact these houses in Amsterdam we have one on the canal on the Kuytrosfer which is the emperors canal 9 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:04,540 When when they catch fire if they catch fire they never burn down 10 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:11,340 They burn out is what they say what they say in other words the structure always remains just the shit on the inside will 11 00:01:11,340 --> 00:01:13,900 leave these things are built like 12 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:15,540 bunkers 13 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:21,180 And I had to stay in Amsterdam because of course have been away for two weeks been on vacation hadn't been here and we have 14 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,940 Patricia's cosmetics company here. I always want to check up on them and my assistant Chris 15 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:33,000 She keeps her office here. So hung out with the girls. 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 I just went through the latest stuff, signing stuff, whatever. 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:45,000 And I had dinner with my banker, which is always fun. 18 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 If you're in good standing with your bank, that is Thardy is her name. 19 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 And if you're looking to invest your money in the Benelux, let me know. 20 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Let me know, here you'll be more than happy to take care of that for you. 21 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 And all other private banking services needed. 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 That was nice. It was a great evening. 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 It was about 70 degrees. 24 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 And it was just the city. It was beautiful. 25 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 So nice warm summer evening. Good food. 26 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Nice wine. 27 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Hanging out. 28 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Talkable friends who drop by May or may not know Rodrigo Otazu. 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 He makes jewelry for great necklaces. 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Jennifer Aniston's Wornam. 31 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Beyonce. J-Lo. Madonna. 32 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:35,500 and my wife. He lives in Amsterdam. I believe he's from Argentina originally. So anyway, 33 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,380 so I'm going to stay here this evening, which is kind of cool because it gives me an extra 34 00:02:39,380 --> 00:02:45,100 hour of sleep since Amsterdam is much closer to the studio than Belgium. So I don't have 35 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:51,020 to get up until, oh man, 430, can't believe it. Oh, and there was something really nice 36 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:57,820 that I wanted to talk about. See, maybe five or six weeks ago, a friend of mine called 37 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:03,460 an acid. You could use the Amsterdam house as a set for, there was something, I don't 38 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:08,540 know if it was a new gadget show or a commercial or an infomercial. I'm not quite sure what 39 00:03:08,540 --> 00:03:14,940 it was. So I said, yeah, no problem. And so they did the shoot. I wasn't here. Crystal 40 00:03:14,940 --> 00:03:19,340 was, of course, my assistant. And today she said, you know, these guys, they said that 41 00:03:19,340 --> 00:03:21,980 they're going to pick this up, but they haven't picked it up. And I figured it's been long 42 00:03:21,980 --> 00:03:25,940 enough. You might as well just take this upstairs and go play with it. And she clearly knows 43 00:03:25,940 --> 00:03:29,220 me quite well. It is the 44 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Pinnacle Systems Show Center. 45 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,500 And I don't know if you've ever heard of this. 46 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:41,200 I haven't even looked at the website yet, but essentially it's a box that looks... 47 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,480 Well, it has about the dimensions of a DVD player, really thin new DVD player. 48 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,080 Four lights on the front, that's all. 49 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:55,080 It's just one brush metal look front, one with a power switch and there's a power light. 50 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,440 A new media light, oh-ho. 51 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,240 And something in the middle that does not have a description, so I'm not quite sure what that does. 52 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:11,240 But essentially this box has a Wi-Fi card built in and it knows how to listen to a streaming server. 53 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,740 And we'll display that with a nice menuing system on your television. 54 00:04:15,740 --> 00:04:21,340 So this is really something that I'm interested in, well more for the experience than technology. 55 00:04:21,340 --> 00:04:26,640 Because technology is probably crap and we'll find out about that as I get into it probably this weekend. 56 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,440 Just with the experience of having BitTorrent download automatically and 57 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:34,480 And then I guess the way this works is you can set it up. 58 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,840 So if you drop new content into a specified folder on a PC, which of course needs to be 59 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:46,440 connected to your home network as well, then this box will recognize it and the new media 60 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,080 light will flash and then you can get into the menuing system. 61 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,320 You can play the new content. 62 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,900 So this would be great for the American TV shows that I record and then just much better 63 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:55,900 interface. 64 00:04:55,900 --> 00:05:01,820 Although I do have my doubts, first of all, I need a PC to make this work because it needs 65 00:05:01,820 --> 00:05:10,400 to start up a database which manages your content and a streaming server to send the 66 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:19,300 content from PC over the home network to the show center media player. 67 00:05:19,300 --> 00:05:22,580 So okay, problem one is a PC. 68 00:05:22,580 --> 00:05:27,620 I actually just loaded the software on my virtual PC on my Mac. 69 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:30,740 It appears to work, but I really have to go to bed pretty soon, so I won't be able to 70 00:05:30,740 --> 00:05:31,660 play with that tonight. 71 00:05:31,660 --> 00:05:32,660 uh... 72 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,440 but I'll have to get a dedicated PC setup for that. 73 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,280 So that's problem one. 74 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,720 And then of course, the streaming server business, you know, what exactly is it? 75 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:42,720 Is it media streaming? 76 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,280 Is it windows, media, windows, media streaming server? 77 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:47,360 Is it a proprietary streaming server? 78 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,600 That's all very unclear, but it does play. 79 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,200 Divx, exvid, MPEG 1 and 2 and MP3. 80 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,200 So that should work. 81 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,280 So I'm pretty excited about that. 82 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,600 I'm going to play without this weekend, get it installed. 83 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,800 And I will certainly report back on that. 84 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:10,040 OK, let me slip the headphones on for a second because every source code 85 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,400 needs an inspirational moment of the day, which means we're going to play some tunes. 86 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,640 And I've got something selected for you from the voice. 87 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,280 Ella Fitzgerald. 88 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,280 Thanks for watching. 89 00:06:23,750 --> 00:08:43,500 [ Music ] 90 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:47,260 I don't care what you say. 91 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:49,660 She has one of the classic voices. 92 00:08:49,660 --> 00:08:53,900 Ella Fitzgerald on the source code for today. 93 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:57,500 And before I go, I just wanted to wrap up by mentioning the audiobook that I've been 94 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:02,940 listening to, timeline by Michael Priton, the unabridged version, which I bought from 95 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:05,220 through audible.com. 96 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:06,940 Fabulous book. 97 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:07,940 Absolutely amazing. 98 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:09,580 I'm so enthralled in this thing. 99 00:09:09,580 --> 00:09:12,380 And the audiobook version is just phenomenal. 100 00:09:12,380 --> 00:09:14,140 Speaker is so good. 101 00:09:14,140 --> 00:09:15,140 I've not mentioned it before. 102 00:09:15,140 --> 00:09:17,140 It does the accent so well. 103 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:20,420 And the story is plausible, man. 104 00:09:20,420 --> 00:09:24,300 I'm not into dragons and dungeons and medieval times, et cetera. 105 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:27,700 And the story does take you there through quantum travel. 106 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:30,300 But wow, what an excellent book. 107 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:31,900 I totally recommend it. 108 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:33,380 And I was actually wondering about that. 109 00:09:33,380 --> 00:09:38,900 What if I decided, well, I really like this book so much, I'm going to put it on an RSS 110 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:42,340 feed for distribution. 111 00:09:42,340 --> 00:09:43,340 And here's the question. 112 00:09:43,340 --> 00:09:44,980 Of course you won't be able to... 113 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,960 play it since it's an AAC file that AAC or AAC whatever Apple's DRM stuff is. So you won't be able 114 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:58,040 to play it but is there an interface that if I give you that file I give you this audio file 115 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:03,480 that you can then purchase it wouldn't that be great if you fired it up and iTunes and iTunes 116 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:10,120 said oh I see you want to play this but it's registered to Adam Curry would you like to buy it 117 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,920 and just click yes and the purchase is done. Now that would make a lot of sense. I wonder if 118 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,800 they've got it set up that way I doubt it. Food for thought at least and I'm going to end the source 119 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,640 code today with that thought. Not much blogging time today so I'll have to catch up tomorrow 120 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:32,520 and look forward to it. So have yourself a great day, what's rest of it or a great evening or wherever 121 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:39,800 you are. Kindness yeah it's so different everywhere. I'll definitely be on tomorrow so take care 122 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,240 everybody and I'll see you. Bye-bye.