Someone had commented on a previous post about a media player for Windows called Foobar2000. Having just been swept off my feet by Billy, I decided to give it a try. I chose the “Special” download option and was very impressed with the extensive options for music file formats available. There’s also a good amount of modules or plugins that can be downloaded from the web site. The interface is very simple and minimalistic, focusing almost that entirely on the task at hand: just playing your music files.

Get your copy right here! A must have for poeple who find themselves on the go!

I have finally found my portable MP3 and OGG player to use on the go with my Seagate 40GB disk (which I have nicknamed Pegasus): Billy! I downloaded the setup file and chose my Pegasus as the destination folder. I then chose one of the several music folders I have inside Pegasus and started listening to my songs immediately. The program seems to have been written for those of us who hate using the mouse and rather use keyboard shortcuts.

Recently MeetUp, a then free group organizing web service, has decided to charge registered groups for its services. A Meetup meeting organizer must now pay $19 a month to use their software. Having spent the last 8-9 months as the organizer for the Northern NJ Linux Meetup I’m somewhat saddened by the fact that this move will most definitely mean the end of the group. Averaging 3 members for ever meeting we’ve had so far (with the exception of the day I brought someone from Ubuntu Linux to gives us a talk… that day we had 7 members!

This is just too funny!!! Not sure if it really happened or not but my professional experience has proven me wrong many times before! Hehehe… Read on… Something nice I read on www.stophiphop.de (got pointed there by a comment on www.macguardians.de) is this nice story of a hacker: `http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new…php?storyid=184 <http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new...php?storyid=184>`__`www.stophiphop.de <http://www.stophiphop.de>`__ (got pointed there by a comment on `www.macguardians.de <http://www.macguardians.de>`__) is this nice story of a hacker: http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new...php?storyid=184 (site might be down, quite a lot of people are reading this).

| Q: What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long? | A: Polaroids!!!

vim like Microsoft Originally uploaded by omaciel. Ever wondered what would happen if Clippy, the annoying Microsoft Office animated “helper” joined the Open Source movement? Well, wonder no more!

Originally uploaded by omaciel. This goes to say that a picture is worth a thousand words!

cowboy_hats_20050411 Originally uploaded by omaciel. When not cranking out code for the Gnome or Mono projects, these guys like to do what every normal Open Source developer does when they have some free time: Hang out at the OK Corral.

If you thought Google Maps was cool, wait ‘til you see this! It’s Craigslist on steroids!