Saturday, August 10, 2002

Winamp 3 (Part Two) After submitting a bug report to NullSoft about the horrible performance in Winamp 3.0 I was informed that a lite version is in the works. I have no idea if this version will be any quicker, or if the video options are stripped from it. I guess it's wait and see. In the meantime I am happy with Version 2.80. Morgan had to rub it my face that iTunes would solve all my problems. While this is true, I must warn him that Winamp is available for the Mac (in Alpha form). Beware! Winamp for the Mac, now something with that name strikes me as wrong. 9:47:21 PM

Winamp 3 After two years of development, Winamp Version 3.0 has officially been released. Boy, am I let down. For one, and this really upset me, upon installation it totally spammed my desktop with AOL icons. It also invaded my Start Menu with a big ole AOL icon, right in the top section which is intended for very important programs. I guess AOL was not paying these guys to write a MP3 player for nothing That's another thing, Winamp is no longer a MP3 player. It's a "media player." That means it plays music and video. Video, Winamp plays video. Am I the only one who finds the concept absolutely atrocious? Ok, nobody is forcing me to use Winamp to view video, so why complain? Because it now takes about 10x as long to load. The beauty of Winamp 2 was that it loaded in an instant. Before lifting your finger off the mouse when clicking on a song, Winamp was loaded and playing. Now there is a nice clunky pause between clicking and actually hearing music. Bad. Bad, bad, bad! If this keeps up it won't be long before Winamp as bloated as Musicmatch Jukebox which us PC iPod folks need to use for syncing our iPods with our desktops. Oh well, what do you want for free? 4:17:15 PM

Chinese Tattoos I always get a kick when I see people of non-Asian descent with Asian lettering tattooed on them (usually Chinese). I mean, unless you were raised to speak and write the language, how do you really know what your ink says? For the record, I am a white guy, who cannot read or write anything but English. Case in point, I once dated a Chinese-American woman. One day we met a crunchy, drum circle participant (you know the type) who had Chinese lettering on his arm. My girlfriend asked him what his tattoo said, and he replied, "It means 'Earth'." As we were walking away my girlfriend was chuckling and when I asked her why, she told me the tattoo actually said "Dirt". Ooops, someone get that guy a dermatologist. My new thing is to pretend I know what the ink says and tell the person, "Dude, you do know that says 'Pork Fried Rice' right?" 11:53:50 AM

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