Audio Tech Goodness From Slim Devices

I’ve been looking at devices that will interface directly with my home audio system and allow access to my mp3 collection stored on a huge hard drive on a file-server computer in another room.

Since the AudioTron has apparently been discontinued, I’ve been looking a lot at the Squeezebox made by Slim Devices.

What sets the Squeezebox apart from other devices like it (including consumer offerings from Netgear, Creative, and Linksys) is that it doesn’t require the

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Big 12 Wrap: Week 4

There were hardly any games in the Big 12 this week, which suits me just fine since I spent much of today running around checking out Texas beaches and am feeling awfully lazy tonight.

So, here’s this week’s action:

Texas 35, Rice 13
This game was never in doubt, as Texas sprinted (and threw) to a 21-3 lead in the first quarter and seemed to play around after that. Cedric Benson had another monster game against physically

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A New Son Volt Release

A couple of days ago, my friend Dave passed along the great news that Jay Farrar will be getting together with his old mates to put together a new Son Volt CD:

Midwest-based Son Volt, with songwriter Jay Farrar at the helm, will begin recording their fourth full length album at the end of September. Following a five-year hiatus, with the exception of the April 2004 recording of “Sometimes” for the Alejandro Escovedo tribute album, multi-instrumentalist Dave Boquist,

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Good Press For Mandy Smith

A couple of days ago, I mentioned the Mandy Smith Group.

Funny enough, the band makes an appearance in the Comical‘s entertainment section this weekend:

Mandy Smith doesn’t like to waste time.

The Mandy Smith Group, clockwise from top left, is Mandy Smith, guitar and vocals; Wynn Ann Chaney, drums; and Phil DeVille, bass.

The Houston native has released three albums since September 2003 and is already in the studio recording a fourth effort with

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