WEBVTT 00:01.500 --> 00:10.940 It's Wednesday. 00:10.940 --> 00:15.940 It's the source code and good afternoon. 00:25.500 --> 00:28.580 And as you can tell I still haven't fixed my crappy mic problems 00:28.580 --> 00:34.940 Second or my feedback problems or just a number of technical difficulties 00:34.940 --> 00:39.800 I'm an Amsterdam right now and hold on now. I have five wires intertwined 00:39.800 --> 00:43.460 Hold on headphones and microphone cables 00:43.460 --> 00:53.380 I'm at the Amsterdam house which we affectionately called the bunker because well, it's built like a bunker 00:53.380 --> 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 00:59.300 --> 01:04.540 When when they catch fire if they catch fire they never burn down 01:04.540 --> 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 01:11.340 --> 01:13.900 leave these things are built like 01:13.900 --> 01:15.540 bunkers 01:15.540 --> 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 01:21.640 --> 01:26.940 Patricia's cosmetics company here. I always want to check up on them and my assistant Chris 01:27.000 --> 01:33.000 She keeps her office here. So hung out with the girls. 01:33.000 --> 01:38.000 I just went through the latest stuff, signing stuff, whatever. 01:38.000 --> 01:45.000 And I had dinner with my banker, which is always fun. 01:45.000 --> 01:49.000 If you're in good standing with your bank, that is Thardy is her name. 01:49.000 --> 01:53.000 And if you're looking to invest your money in the Benelux, let me know. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 Let me know, here you'll be more than happy to take care of that for you. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 And all other private banking services needed. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 That was nice. It was a great evening. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 It was about 70 degrees. 02:04.000 --> 02:07.000 And it was just the city. It was beautiful. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 So nice warm summer evening. Good food. 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 Nice wine. 02:12.000 --> 02:13.000 Hanging out. 02:13.000 --> 02:19.000 Talkable friends who drop by May or may not know Rodrigo Otazu. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 He makes jewelry for great necklaces. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 Jennifer Aniston's Wornam. 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 Beyonce. J-Lo. Madonna. 02:28.500 --> 02:35.500 and my wife. He lives in Amsterdam. I believe he's from Argentina originally. So anyway, 02:35.500 --> 02:39.380 so I'm going to stay here this evening, which is kind of cool because it gives me an extra 02:39.380 --> 02:45.100 hour of sleep since Amsterdam is much closer to the studio than Belgium. So I don't have 02:45.100 --> 02:51.020 to get up until, oh man, 430, can't believe it. Oh, and there was something really nice 02:51.020 --> 02:57.820 that I wanted to talk about. See, maybe five or six weeks ago, a friend of mine called 02:57.820 --> 03:03.460 an acid. You could use the Amsterdam house as a set for, there was something, I don't 03:03.460 --> 03:08.540 know if it was a new gadget show or a commercial or an infomercial. I'm not quite sure what 03:08.540 --> 03:14.940 it was. So I said, yeah, no problem. And so they did the shoot. I wasn't here. Crystal 03:14.940 --> 03:19.340 was, of course, my assistant. And today she said, you know, these guys, they said that 03:19.340 --> 03:21.980 they're going to pick this up, but they haven't picked it up. And I figured it's been long 03:21.980 --> 03:25.940 enough. You might as well just take this upstairs and go play with it. And she clearly knows 03:25.940 --> 03:29.220 me quite well. It is the 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 Pinnacle Systems Show Center. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.500 And I don't know if you've ever heard of this. 03:35.500 --> 03:41.200 I haven't even looked at the website yet, but essentially it's a box that looks... 03:41.200 --> 03:46.480 Well, it has about the dimensions of a DVD player, really thin new DVD player. 03:46.480 --> 03:48.080 Four lights on the front, that's all. 03:48.080 --> 03:55.080 It's just one brush metal look front, one with a power switch and there's a power light. 03:55.080 --> 03:57.440 A new media light, oh-ho. 03:57.440 --> 04:01.240 And something in the middle that does not have a description, so I'm not quite sure what that does. 04:01.240 --> 04:11.240 But essentially this box has a Wi-Fi card built in and it knows how to listen to a streaming server. 04:11.240 --> 04:15.740 And we'll display that with a nice menuing system on your television. 04:15.740 --> 04:21.340 So this is really something that I'm interested in, well more for the experience than technology. 04:21.340 --> 04:26.640 Because technology is probably crap and we'll find out about that as I get into it probably this weekend. 04:26.640 --> 04:31.440 Just with the experience of having BitTorrent download automatically and 04:31.500 --> 04:34.480 And then I guess the way this works is you can set it up. 04:34.480 --> 04:40.840 So if you drop new content into a specified folder on a PC, which of course needs to be 04:40.840 --> 04:46.440 connected to your home network as well, then this box will recognize it and the new media 04:46.440 --> 04:49.080 light will flash and then you can get into the menuing system. 04:49.080 --> 04:50.320 You can play the new content. 04:50.320 --> 04:54.900 So this would be great for the American TV shows that I record and then just much better 04:54.900 --> 04:55.900 interface. 04:55.900 --> 05:01.820 Although I do have my doubts, first of all, I need a PC to make this work because it needs 05:01.820 --> 05:10.400 to start up a database which manages your content and a streaming server to send the 05:10.400 --> 05:19.300 content from PC over the home network to the show center media player. 05:19.300 --> 05:22.580 So okay, problem one is a PC. 05:22.580 --> 05:27.620 I actually just loaded the software on my virtual PC on my Mac. 05:27.620 --> 05:30.740 It appears to work, but I really have to go to bed pretty soon, so I won't be able to 05:30.740 --> 05:31.660 play with that tonight. 05:31.660 --> 05:32.660 uh... 05:33.000 --> 05:35.440 but I'll have to get a dedicated PC setup for that. 05:35.440 --> 05:38.280 So that's problem one. 05:38.280 --> 05:41.720 And then of course, the streaming server business, you know, what exactly is it? 05:41.720 --> 05:42.720 Is it media streaming? 05:42.720 --> 05:45.280 Is it windows, media, windows, media streaming server? 05:45.280 --> 05:47.360 Is it a proprietary streaming server? 05:47.360 --> 05:50.600 That's all very unclear, but it does play. 05:50.600 --> 05:54.200 Divx, exvid, MPEG 1 and 2 and MP3. 05:54.200 --> 05:56.200 So that should work. 05:56.200 --> 05:58.280 So I'm pretty excited about that. 05:58.280 --> 06:00.600 I'm going to play without this weekend, get it installed. 06:00.600 --> 06:04.800 And I will certainly report back on that. 06:04.800 --> 06:10.040 OK, let me slip the headphones on for a second because every source code 06:10.040 --> 06:14.400 needs an inspirational moment of the day, which means we're going to play some tunes. 06:14.400 --> 06:18.640 And I've got something selected for you from the voice. 06:18.640 --> 06:21.280 Ella Fitzgerald. 06:21.280 --> 06:23.280 Thanks for watching. 06:23.750 --> 08:43.500 [ Music ] 08:43.500 --> 08:47.260 I don't care what you say. 08:47.260 --> 08:49.660 She has one of the classic voices. 08:49.660 --> 08:53.900 Ella Fitzgerald on the source code for today. 08:53.900 --> 08:57.500 And before I go, I just wanted to wrap up by mentioning the audiobook that I've been 08:57.500 --> 09:02.940 listening to, timeline by Michael Priton, the unabridged version, which I bought from 09:02.940 --> 09:05.220 through audible.com. 09:05.220 --> 09:06.940 Fabulous book. 09:06.940 --> 09:07.940 Absolutely amazing. 09:07.940 --> 09:09.580 I'm so enthralled in this thing. 09:09.580 --> 09:12.380 And the audiobook version is just phenomenal. 09:12.380 --> 09:14.140 Speaker is so good. 09:14.140 --> 09:15.140 I've not mentioned it before. 09:15.140 --> 09:17.140 It does the accent so well. 09:17.140 --> 09:20.420 And the story is plausible, man. 09:20.420 --> 09:24.300 I'm not into dragons and dungeons and medieval times, et cetera. 09:24.300 --> 09:27.700 And the story does take you there through quantum travel. 09:27.700 --> 09:30.300 But wow, what an excellent book. 09:30.300 --> 09:31.900 I totally recommend it. 09:31.900 --> 09:33.380 And I was actually wondering about that. 09:33.380 --> 09:38.900 What if I decided, well, I really like this book so much, I'm going to put it on an RSS 09:38.900 --> 09:42.340 feed for distribution. 09:42.340 --> 09:43.340 And here's the question. 09:43.340 --> 09:44.980 Of course you won't be able to... 09:45.000 --> 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 09:51.960 --> 09:58.040 to play it but is there an interface that if I give you that file I give you this audio file 09:58.040 --> 10:03.480 that you can then purchase it wouldn't that be great if you fired it up and iTunes and iTunes 10:03.480 --> 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 10:10.120 --> 10:14.920 and just click yes and the purchase is done. Now that would make a lot of sense. I wonder if 10:14.920 --> 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 10:19.800 --> 10:25.640 code today with that thought. Not much blogging time today so I'll have to catch up tomorrow 10:25.640 --> 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 10:32.520 --> 10:39.800 you are. Kindness yeah it's so different everywhere. I'll definitely be on tomorrow so take care 10:39.800 --> 10:43.240 everybody and I'll see you. Bye-bye.