In preparation for my travels this March, I’m making sure I have a bundle of playlists ready to transfer onto my MP3 Player of choice (likely to be the gen 2 iPod Nano), and one of them is proving interesting in terms of why music is so powerful. The playlist replicates one of my old C90 audio tap...

Oke, here come my problem. I’m trying to create a sound looping engine in Flash, and because I don’t want files to be embedded in the FLA (in the library) I only can use MP3 as a sound file which I can load dynamically. I didn’t know this, but mp3 has a silence at the end of the so...

Recently read: The Audacity Of Hope by Barack Obama. Early this summer I picked up a cheap first edition and the audio book of Obama’s second book. He has such a nice speaking voice that I figured the audio version would be a pleasant experience. The book itself is alright. Some parts are dull...

*Ahem* I am not materialistic. As a general rule. But I just bought an Audio Buddy pre-amp, by M-Audio. And I need to be alone with it. Last week I bought an XLR to mini-jack cable, which improved my recordings but only a little. I did yet more research and learned that the line-in jack of the Macbo...

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join...

For the past two years, Barack Obama has made it hard for anyone to pin him down philosophically. So when he raises his hand on Tuesday, exactly what -- beyond the efforts of an eager, data-driven problem-solver -- can the American people expect?...

Bill Bennett and John Cribb have an interesting and optimistic take on the President-Elect’s coming inauguration, especially in terms of what it means for the future of race relations.  They make some excellent and rather optimistic points that deserve attention: Barack Obama did not run as a...

THE FOUNDATION “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” –John Adams PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE By Mark Alexander Perhaps you’ve noticed an abundance of “Top Ten” lists in recent weeks. As usual,...

So, as it turns out, the special Presidential guest who's holed up in Blair House at the behest of President Bush, turning the city topsy-turvy in order to accomodate all of the attendant security concerns as the Obamas come to Washington is former Aussie prime minister and Coalition of the Willing ...

SALTILLO, Mexico -- They ordered the goat. That's what the kitchen is famous for at the upscale La Principal restaurant in Saltillo, a prosperous manufacturing city in the high desert of northern Mexico. And so it was only natural that Felix Batista, an American expert in corporate security, and his...