Webmaster Cookbook

The Stiletto, Serius Satellite Radio

Jowl — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:42:59 +0000

The Stiletto 100, the newest Serius satellite radio reciever by Serius is what I recently got as a present,

The pro’s of the Stiletto are,

1. It’s small, and easy to carry
2. It stores alot of songs, and you can record songs from the satellite radio
3. Using the satellite headphones your able to hear satellite radio
4. It has two batteries the big one which is the 4 hour, and the little one which is 2 hours
5. Its Wi-fi enabled

The con’s of the Stiletto are,

1. In order to recieve the satellite part outside, you must be wearing the headphones which hurt my ears
2. When walking around outside the signal gets messed up and it has to rebuffer

Ask for my review of the Stiletto, it’s a slick small and easy to carry device that fits in my back pocket. While i’m walking I enjoy the channels Buzzsaw which is a rock and roll channel, and Hair Nation, and of course the always elegant Howard Stern. On sunday nights I enjoy walking and listening to the Bears on the Stiletto. I’ve transfered Mp3’s to my Stiletto, and have been listening to them,

I’ve also recorded music while listening to it on the Stiletto. I found one problem though if your listening to a great song on the Stiletto and you want to record it, you can but if you hit a bad signal area the song wont record that part which really was sad for me to find out. While listening to the Stiletto outside my home, I have to wear these headphones to get the reception for the channels, the headphones hurt my ears.

When I first got it I realized it came with two batteries, both of mine are currently charged, the small battery which is the two hour one takes two hours to charge. The four hour one takes four hours to charge, the greatest thing about the Stiletto though in my opinion is the WiFi, I probably use this the most of anything else. Everyday I bring the Stiletto to school and listen to it before and after school, the WiFi enables me to listen to it in my room, in fact im listening to it right now. Overall the Stiletto gets a straight A- from me, and I will post new developments as they occur.

Taking time to just write

Jowl — Tue, 16 May 2006 03:15:40 +0000

in this case I just sat down at my computer and wrote, this story has no name yet.. this is first chapter called
Brothers sudden disappearance.
Whispering in my ear, I heard the voice as I sat their asleep. I could barely hear the voice of my brother telling me to wake up and get dressed, I had not slept good in the past week or so and was dreadfully tired. I stumbled out of bed to notice the time was 5:00 am, which was unusual for me as I went to school at 9:00 am. Me and my brother lived together in a apartment building on Chaplin Street, my name is Sarah Mcalister, and my brothers name is Brian Mcalister. I got dressed and got into his car with no idea of where we were going, he turned on rock and roll like he usually did in the morning. We drove quite fast, and I asked him where we were going. He muttered something, and I could barely understand what he said but i did catch the words “to pull a job”. We pulled up to a building and he got out of the car, my brother said in a stern voice “Stay here, dont move a muscle” and I obey’d, I stood in the car for about 20 mins before I heard a noise. I got out of the car and walked through gravel to the large warehouse, I didn’t see anything at first. I opened the warehouse door to find the warehouse DEAD EMPTY, my brother was no where in sight. I began panicking and suddenly found something. I found a dead body, I could not figure out who the person was but I knew to call the police, I hurried to the car and grabbed my cell phone and dialed 911. They said they would trace the call as I had no idea where I was and it ended up taking them a while before they got to the scene of the crime. The cops looked for clues to my brothers whereabouts and were quite interested in every single detail I could remember, I told them everything from that morning till now. They said the guys name was Bruce Chung, a known gang of the Mafia. Bruce Chung was wanted for alot of small crimes and more, they said my brother was in some sort of trouble also but when they finished looking around my brother was gone. I was taken to the station and was questioned some more, and was put into a orphanage and was told if my brother was found I would be called on the spot.

Figuring out where we are at, 25 podcasts behind it seems

ChefTD — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:14:28 +0000

Though the blog hasn’t been updated since almost the middle of December we actually have had a live show every week. Just a reminder to folks following this blog. We do a live stream of this show every Friday after 3:30pm PST. Sometimes it’s right at 3:30pm PST, sometimes not, but we haven’t missed a week yet.

As for podcasts, we have missed several of those and have been very inconsistent. Here’s what shows haven’t been posted yet (also serving as reference for us, and this will be updated after posting, just FYI):

Recent shows / podcasted not posted (15 podcasts)
show #55 - Friday October 14, 2005
show #56 - Friday October 21, 2005
show #57 - Friday October 28, 2005
show #58 - Friday November 04, 2005
show #59 - Friday November 11, 2005
show #60 - Friday November 18, 2005
show #61 - Friday November 25, 2005
show #62 - Friday December 2, 2005
show #63 - Friday December 9, 2005
show #64 - Friday December 16, 2005
show #65 - Friday December 23, 2005
show #66 - Friday December 30, 2005
show #67 - Friday January 6, 2006
show #68 - Friday January 13, 2006
show #69 - Friday January 20, 2006
show #70 - Friday January 27, 2006

Older shows / podcasts not posted (12 podcasts)
show #39 - Friday May 20, 2005
show #40 - Friday May 27, 2005
show #41 - Friday June 3, 2005
show #42 - Friday June 10, 2005
show #43 - Friday June 17, 2005
show #44 - Friday June 24, 2005
show #45 - Friday July 22, 2005
show #46 - Friday July 29, 2005
show #47 - Friday August 5, 2005
show #48 - Friday August 19, 2005
show #49 - Friday August 26, 2005
show #50 - Friday September 2, 2005

The checkbox will be checked and strikethru on the show number/date once we are caught up, unless otherwise noted above. The plan will be tomorrow to post within an hour after each show so at least we stay up with the current shows.

We skipped from show #38 to show #51 and were actually good about posting the podcasts right away after each show for three shows, stopping again at show #55.

My Goals

Jowl — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:50:55 +0000

People with no goals usually don’t succeed, atleast thats what I heard. So I made a list of my webmaster related goals and here they are-

1. Be prepared to each show, with something to talk about (No dead air)
2. To get lots of traffic for Webmaster Cookbook
3. To get Spawn to say something more than yes, no, maybe, during the show
4. To get into a routine of posting something everyday on both Webmaster Cookbook and Orting
5. To get into a routine of getting traffic and visiting blogs on Blog Explosion

These are just 5 of my goals, but I wonder what are your goals? These goals that I talked about are all short term goals, one of my long term goals is to become a great engineer and I am making lots of progress to that.

Scratch card Jowl!

ChefTD — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:42:57 +0000

I’ve noticed that Jowl has renewed excitement in Blog Explosion. Perhaps it is that they are running their $1,000 Christmas cash giveway or the new scratch card game.

What Happened On Show #63

Jowl — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:07:24 +0000

We started the show a bit late because I came into the studio 10 minutes late because my teacher would only accept late work if it was done at school. I ended up staying and getting 4 assignments done which was good, then I came to the studio and the show starts up and ChefTD out of nowhere says Jowl and Spawn I am going to let you guys have this 15 minutes to talk about how we could improve the show during the week. Spawn could not help saying anything more then yes, no, maybe. So I basically ended up talking alot of the time I suggested that we start doing blogexplosion every day to increase the amount of traffic coming. Spawn suggested that we should start saying the link to our chatroom at the beginning of the show and I thought that was a great idea. Then the show came to the end and we asked everyone if they had any ideas on how we could improve the show during the week. If you have any ideas be sure to tell us because we are open to any ideas.

What happened in Show 61

spawn — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:44:25 +0000

Today in the show we talked about our new camera that we bought. It is called Kodak z760. We linked a picture from putting the camera into the computer onto webmastercookbook and we called it a dust covered phone. We also spoke a little bit about forms, me and ChefTd worked a little on it before the show. We put codes together and we mixed alot of other things to create code that now seems familiar to me. We are going to talk more about it on next weeks show.

The dust covered phone is shown below:

Jowl the cartoon

Jowl — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:23:56 +0000

This is the real Jowl as a cartoon

Demoing the Kodak z760

Jowl — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:49:21 +0000

This was a demo close up that we took of a dusty studio phone using the Kodak z760

Pandora, adding music and songs

Jowl — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:35:53 +0000

Okay, ChefTD pulled me onto Pandora which was created by Music Genome Project. Pandora is a free music station where you select music titles or artists that you wish to have on your station. The free version of Pandora has advertisements but I have listened to 20+ songs and not heard a advertisement. You can get Pandora at this site, when you get there if you like rock and roll you can listen to my stations which are JOWLS ROCKING ROCK, and Jowls station or you can listen to ChefTD’s station which is TD’s Rock Radio. This is a good music service and I highly reccomend it because all i’ve been hearing is good music, and they have all types of music if your not into the music not me or ChefTD like you can create your own station and then start adding music.