The way my mind works, I can’t listen to podcasts and do my work. While I am good at multi-tasking, when I concentrate I can’t have distractions.

So, I save the podcasts for my “drive at five.” But during the day, I dig the streaming radio online. Such as:

XM Radio - AOL streams a great selection of XM channels, 100% free. If I was an XM subscriber, I’d get more channels and better quality. Still, it is nice to be able to see what the XM crowd is enjoying. Click link, click “AOL Radio” from the top navigation, then click “Launch AOL Radio with XM”.

AOL’s Full CD Listening Party - A great way to “try before you buy.” At the moment, AOL has 34 different albums which you can listen to from start to finish. Song-by-song or Full CD. Very cool.

Pandora - Enter a song you like, and it will play songs that are similar. Rate the suggestions, and it helps focus Pandor’s choices. The more songs you rate, the more customized to your tastes Pandora becomes. Eventually, all you will hear are songs you like, songs you never thought you’d like and songs you’ve never heard and do like. Pandora is a keeper!

Happy Listening!

Well look at this! An invitation to join the Hotmail / Live Mail beta.

It has some neat features, definitely more than my domain’s webmail account has to offer (2GB storage is nice, but my gmail has that beat). They even have a blog.

Worth a try if you have Hotmail, ask to be added to the beta (I was approved in about 2 weeks, but YMMV).

This site has a h@ck that claims to get you in without an invitation - let your conscience be your guide my friends.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it got me to thinking about the “I Am Loved” pins / buttons that were everywhere when I was a kid (think 1970’s-ish). My favorite was the one I received in Spanish.

I thought it would be fun to find one and scan it for this post, but alas, I have no scanner. When searching for a image to, ahem, borrow I ran across “I am Loved.org.” It is a fascinating site. I learned a lot about this silly little button. I never knew it grew out of a Helzberg Diamonds marketing campaign. Nor did I know that Helzberg still offers these buttons for free in 8 languages.

And the amazing part, no giant Helzberg logo on the buttons. In fact, I don’t recall seeing their name anywhere on them.

Check out the I am Loved site, and too, remember, you ARE loved!

If you were going to sing the praises of the Tablet PC (give a demo) to members of the Higer Education community, what sort of things would you highlight?

Yes, this is a loaded question because I will soon find myself in this situation. I’d be very interested to know what software you’d show off, what benefits you’d highlight, what things you’d do, how you would get “buy-in” on the Tablet PC concept.

Nope, I don’t want anyone to do my work for me. But I do want to draw from the experiences of those who’ve used a Tablet PC longer than I have, and I don’t want to miss anything!

If you feel so motivated, please feel free to ask this question to your readers, and point them here to post answers.

Thanks, and I will be sure to post follow-ups with what I learn as I get things together.

Good gravy it has been a long time since I’ve been here!

Finally I am past the major project I was working on for my employer. It was consuming all of my free time, which left zero time for reading or writing about the Tablet.

So, if I have any readers left, just wanted to wake you up and let you know I’m here. I know lack of content is the best way to kill a blog, especially one that is just getting started. But I really had little choice. Feh.

Anyway, the good news is that I now have a TON of Tablet news, software and blogs to catch up on. Hope I haven’t missed too much.

And the podcasts, yikes, that will take about 18 hours!

Maybe I’d best cut my losses and start from here.

Anyway, glad to be back!