Yay for New Posts!

Hello!
Can it be? Is it true?!? Yes! A new post!
(and a bunch of goodies, too!)

First, things first,
I am sorry for taking so long to post. I was bogged down with school work/finals. I had five finals (One I didn't know I had until three hours before!) and an OS project due on finals week!

Now to open the box...
Pandora's Box, that is...
Pandora is a website that is dedicated to delivering music tailored to you! And it's written in Flash (woohoo!!). This means you get all the beautiful and crazy vector transitions you should expect from a professional graphic software/actionScripting language (I spent about 20minutes just pressing TAB on the login form).
How does it work?
Well, you sign up (free, unless you want the non-ad version) and start by telling it what you like to listen to. Pandora then creates a custom playlist. You keep listening, checking what you like and don't like until Pandora knows what kinda of music you like. It's very similar to mercora (for those of you who remember it before it sold out). Mercora had a great little program that you installed on your system and could broadcast your music anywhere! then they started charging their customers to listen (Oddly, I only used it to listen to my own music).
So why is it better?
Well, the best thing about Pandora is that you don't have to install jack! Nada!
Just go to the website, login, and listen! Also, once you get a great playlist made,
you can share it!
And your friends don't have to login to listen (wonderful idea!!). Also, you can "minimize" (I consider that confusing) the player to detach it from the current browser window and place it in a custom smaller window (and it does it all without skipping a beat in the music!).
:-)
A++ Software!

UNIX to Come
My next post will hopefully be on Pipes, Shared Memory, and Fork()ing in UNIX (yuck).
;-)