Friday, April 30, 2004

Music: Live Music this week

On Tuesday I saw Stereolab at La Zona Rosa. What a great show! I love their music - not sure what to call it - avant-rock? And they did an amazing job of performing it live. Latetia Sadier, the lead singer, has such presence. Stereolab is definitely on my Top 5 list of best bands. And this show confirmed it. Also, La Zona is definitely one of the best places in town for live shows. They also get some great bands there.
Last night I saw Blonde Redhead. Opening for them was Secret Machines from Austin. Both were pretty good. It was at Emo's which I had never been to before. Good venue. Tickets were so inexpensive. I am seeing Zykos there next week. They are opening for TV on the Radio. I discovered Zykos, a local Austin band, when I was streaming tunes from Epitonic a couple weeks ago. Right after work I went to Waterloo and picked up their cd. They have a great sound, a bit unpolished, but great potential. I am looking forward to seeing them live.

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Technology: Gmail

Just signed up for Gmail. It will be interesting to see if it is any improvement over my yahoo account. Using web mail is so much more cumbersome that using Groupwise or Outlook. I hope gmail will be an improvement.

Monday, April 26, 2004

Music: Record Stores

I go to Waterloo Records (or Video) at least once a week. The best thing about it is that you can listen to any cd they have in stock and they have a 10 day exchange policy. Waterloo is as Austin fixture.
Yesterday, I found another record store: 33 Records CDs on Guadalupe north of UT. Not a wide collection of stuff, but a focus on indie stuff - a lot of which I have been listening to lately.

Art (Photos): Deep Eddy Photo Blog is up

I got my Deep Eddy Photo Blog up and running about two weeks ago. I am using My Expressions - a blogging tool built by and for visual artists. It is pretty inexpensive. Not super easy to use, but it is good enough.

Friday, April 16, 2004

Zeitgeist: Mouse Potato

I heard this word mentioned a couple weeks ago to describe people who surf the web a lot: mouse potato. That's me! I rarely watch TV, but web-stuff - I can spend hours skipping from one site to the next.

Monday, April 05, 2004

Technology: Cool Tools For Change

I attended this very engaging and interesting seminar last Friday and learned about all these useful and no/low cost open source tools that non-profits can use to enhance their web presence and improve how they operate. A lot of the things I learned can be applied to my current work on the Intranet Redesign Project. We will experiment with some of these open source Content Management Systems as an alternative to the $1/2 million cost of one from a traditional vendor.
This seminar was organized by students at the UT LBJ School of Public Affairs. Here is their website: CommunityNetworking.org
I am so pumped. I love learning new things and especially love learning about tools that democratize technology.

Thursday, April 01, 2004

Technology: Gmail announced

I love google. Today they announched that they are launching an email service: gmail. Here is an article. Can't wait to try and use it.