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Note to self (and anyone else interested):

Though the Creative Labs X-Fi Elite Pro has both optical and RCA digital in jacks, they are not intended to be used simultaneously. Having devices plugged into both of them will cause you a world of “Where is that distortion coming from?” even if you are not moving data through them at the same time.

I was wondering why I was having occasional distortion problems and rebooted machines, tried different cables before I realized maybe using them both together might not be a wise plan. Use a 1/4″ stereo - RCA adapter in one of the front input jacks on the breakout box for the lesser device.

So there it is. FYI.

Seems I can get away with about anything as long as it is done in HTML mode. “Punctuation!” seems to be a problem with posting in Visual mode, but seems ok here.

We’ll see how this all works out. If I need to write for the craszyskillsbloginitiative using only the HTML layout options, that is fine. Strange how Visual stopped working a few days back and strange that changing my template didn’t fix it. I wonder if other users of donetblog are running into issues with being able to post as I am.

Third paragraph, “quotes” punc tu ay’ tion. . . We’ll see.. If this works, we have found a workaround.

It does now appear that this is working properly, so it is an issue I am experiencing in the Visual mode. For the time being, this workaround will do.

I was just surfing around and came across the best word / phrase on urban dictionary (love that site):

urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=big+sandwich [urbandictionary.com]

“…a search for a female serial killer, whose victims were in Austria, France and Germany, was ended recently, when police discovered that the DNA of the suspect belonged to a women who packaged the cotton swabs used for testing.”

http://tinyurl.com/cxg7qh [google.com]

As a developer, I could not do my job without it!

www.iconico.com/colorpic/

the story [ap.org]

“WASHINGTON (AP) — Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer.

“…smokers die some 10 years earlier than nonsmokers, according to the CDC, and those premature deaths provide a savings to Medicare, Social Security, private pensions and other programs.”

“The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 to coincide with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change. Anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings.

We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible. “

http://cei.org/human-achievement-hour [cei.org]

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Stumbled on a great site this morning; thought I’d share.  It’s etymology, meanings and origins of phrases, sayings and idioms.  Good stuff!  (and unlike some sites of this nature, it’s free (except the Phrase Thesaurus part).  Sure there are etymology sites [etymonline.com] out there with more overall words, but this one [phrases.org] is specifically on phrases.

Things that matter:

• friends
• sanity
• imagination
• dreams
• kittens
• faith
• love
• communication
• freedom
• relationships
• laughter
• family
• hope
• writing
• expression
• music
• little things
• equality
• memories
• creativity
• being eccentric
• doing things your own way
• leading
• thought

Things that don’t:

• money
• acquaintances
• television
• lies
• religion
• sports
• politics
• misunderstandings
• statistics
• fear
• audio fidelity
• possessions
• little things
• conformity
• being crazy
• following
• blog posts

To be expanded…

Using GNU/Linux for everything except playing games and recording audio these days.  It is fast and feature-rich.  Running Black Cat Linux, a derivative of the Ubuntu strain.  I’ve praised GNU/Linux for years, and used it off and on, but now that I have it running on my server (talked about the incredible performance boost there in another post) and also on my primary work system, I find that I can do almost everything in it (and then some.)  I’d be using it for audio recording tooo, but no one has developed a driver yet which makes use of the breakout box of the best soundcard on the market.  Good news though, Creative has open-sourced their drivers for the X-Fi line on linux.  So it’s just a matter of time before someone puts together a driver package which takes advantage of the breakout box.  At that point, Vista will be there for games and to test my work on the popular platform.

I’m not going to go into too much detail about why I think GNU/Linux is a better OS than anything Microsoft has put out there to date, or why it is that Microsoft is so prevolent in the market, but I will give a short teaser: Marketing.  Over the years, Microsoft has proven to have the very best marketing on the planet for consumers, schools and businesses.

I would say the day were coming when people would have their eyes opened, but with Mac switching to a *n?x backbone in OSX, many would argue it is already here.