Couple of days ago I saw a link to Escape Pod science fiction podcast. At first, I didn’t pay enough attention to it, although, I still gave it a quick look. It made its way somewhere deep into my brains and didn’t show up until this evening. You might know that I’m studying English (or, perhaps, polishing it) and always looking for good opportunities to extend and improve my communication skills.

Today I’ve got an idea. Why not give it a try and combine learning with a pleasure of listening to some science fiction? So, that’s how I decided to review the site again and download some issues. I’ve downloaded two of them (#19 Implications and #24 The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario) and, now that I’ve finished listening to them, I’m definitely going to get the rest of them. It’s so wonderful and exciting that I would recommend anyone out there to give it a whirl on the off-chance. Yeah, it’s something special!

I promise, you would find it time well-spent for sure!

Busy time has come. We are seriously polishing our product — the BlogBridge — for the rapidly coming BlogOn 2005 conference. We have lots of new features and fixes put into the latest builds. If I took the application as I knew it a week ago and compared it to what we have have today, most likely I would have been shocked and completely paralyzed till the end of my days, so big and significant those changes are.

New weekly build has just been deployed and it will be announced in a while on our official site. I won’t list the changes here as it’s a privilege of the main site. If you are reading these lines from within BlogBridge 2.3, my immediate suggestion is to restart it and get the updated version of weekly build right now.

What? Still reading? Don’t waste any more time — restart and enjoy!

Another cool-looking VJ’ing piece of software — NEUROMIXER AVmixer Pro. I’m not really sure about its characteristics, in fact, it even looks a bit simpler than VidVox applications. But anyway, it is usually whatever you make of it. I saw the guys who painted wonderful pictures pixel-by-pixel with Microsoft Paint application as well as I saw the others who were making crap with cutting-edge Adobe Photoshop. Give it a spin even if are only curious about “How do these VJ’s work?” and, who knows, maybe the world will get another Einstein of light and motion. :)

Here’s the picture for your viewing pleasure:

Wow! I’ve been given a very interesting link several nanos ago and writing pretty fast to share it with you. It’s the link to a very unusual site — The Million Dollar Homepage — where the front page is a big advertisement board. The owner of the site sells each and every pixel on this board for $1. It all started Sep 25, 2005 and by this very moment the stats say that he has sold 320,300 pixels which generated him a pretty solid revenue.

I refuse to believe that someone could earn that much in such an easy way. :) Heh, the price of innovation, I guess.

A good friend of mine gave me an interesting link today — the link to a VJ’ing software he found on the net. Those guys — VJ’es — can drive you half crazy with impressive colorful video-performances they have on big parties. In most cases the software plus hardware costs like a middle-sized spaceship. Five years ago no one could even think of having installations of this kind at their disposal, but today we all have an opportunity to release our creativity in full swing. Of course, if you have no imagination or both of your hands grow from wrong places it’s not going to be of a real help to you. For the rest of us addicted to everything ground-breaking, I would recommend to have a look at Grid2/GridPro series of VidVox VJ’ing applications as they apparently reveal some chapters of Black Magic Bible. Beware!

You aren’t going to harm anyone, are you? ;)