Apple Wireless Keyboard, $59.99

I've been wanting a new Apple Bluetooth Keyboard for a long time - but other things have come up that have caused me to avoid the $79.99 pricetag. So imagine my surprise when I showed up at my local Best Buy store tonight and saw the new "mini" Apple store section - and tucked away on one of the shelves were several of the new Bluetooth KBs selling for a cool $59.99!!!

I thought - this HAS to be a mistake . . . but I picked it up and rushed to the checkout anyway. Sure enough, they checked it in as $79.99.

"Are you sure?" I asked, "They're definitely labeled as $59.99."

Long story short - after some checking they confirmed that they had the price set at $59.99! I walked out the door with my shiny new keyboard for $20 cheaper than anywhere else I've seen it.

Rush out to see if your best buy made the same mistake.

Des

GMail IMAP

Hey.

If you're an email geek you will appreciate this.

GMail is now supporting IMAP. This is very good news for many reasons.

Peace.

Des

The Diamond in the Rough (day of packing)

For the record, while I'm VERY excited to be moving back to Charlotte, I am NOT overly excited about the week of packing that I'm (thankfully) just about done with. However, one of the great joys of packing is finding old stuff that got stuffed away in random places and forgotten about.

Enter the Diamond Rio 500.


This, my friends, was my first MP3 player. It was the first portable media player that Diamond Multimedia sold, according to my quick research. It had a whopping 64 MB of internal storage and room for an expansion card.

How many hours walking to University was I thankful for this little device? It really was incredible and probably did a lot to solidify my fascination with electronic media.

So, I find it and take the perfect opportunity to take a quick break from packing my life into boxes. I thought, "I wonder what would happen if I plugged this into my iMac?"

Wouldn't you know it, iTunes picked it up right away without me having to do ANYTHING other than plug it in. It knew exactly what it was and added it under the "Devices" heading in my iTunes sidebar.



Not too shabby - I can transfer MP3s onto it just like the good old days. Granted . . . I can only hold about 13 songs . . .

Grace,

Des

What is Your Offering?

This is a video that I did a few years ago for the Music and Gospel Arts Festival. I had to pull it out to share with a friend of mine, and since the new iMovie allows you to post directly to YouTube I just couldn't resist.

Let me know what you think.

Des

Conan and Jim Carrey - Quantum Physics

One of the many reasons I love Conan O'Brian.

Des

Goofy Snoopy

Before I begin - yes, I recognize that this post may be dangerous.

So does anyone besides me feel that hip hop is finally getting goofy? Now, I'm not anti-hip-hop by any means. Yes, there are horrible messages in some hip hop, perhaps the majority of hip hop, but I also try to recognize the good in everything as much as I can. It's had a long run too - It started when I was kid - I'm 27 now. That's a long time!!!

But tonight, the reigning godfather of Hip Hop, Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. (aka Snoop Dog) was on Conan O'Brian. In fact, he JUST finished his schtick as I write this. Perhaps it was the context. Conan isn't necessarily the best complement to the hip hip scene.

I felt kind of sad. Here was this 37 year old man talking about "burnin' a blunt" and selling merchandise named Snoop This and Snoop that. It just felt wrong. So I'm trying to fgure out if this is indicative of Snoop and/or Hip Hop becoming goofy or me getting old.

Both?

Sometimes I forget that Snoop and people like him are entertainers and for whatever reason we find the gang-bangin', blunt burnin' rapper worthy to throw millions of dollars at. Sometimes I forget that it's all an act (or at least, I hope it is) and that he's a father that wants to raise his kid well. Is it like the circus? Circus families pass the family act along to the kids. Does Snoop invite the kid into the dog house?

What's more interesting is that this was during Conan - perhaps the goofiest man on TV right now. And Snoop seemed goofy even compared to the C-izzle. It really seemed like Conan was trying to find something worthwhile to chat about.

I don't want to be 37 and feel like I haven't accomplished anything. I have no desire to sell a Snoop de Grille (Snoopy-themed BBQ) or a Snoop de Ville (Snoopy themed Cadillac). If, Lord willing, I ever find myself sitting across from Conan I want to be able to talk about something of value.

And I don't want it to be goofy.

Grace,

Des