XKCD is one of my favorite webcomics.  I have the XKCD map of the Internet framed in my office.

This is one of my favorite works of his, and its apparently caused quite a ruckus:  "Holy crap. This strip’s been up for 800 seconds and it’s already the most controversial thing I’ve ever written."

This little girl is just too cute.  I bet she could even make the prequels sound good.

I really love the sound system in my car.  In fact, because of it I've bought more DVD Audio discs in the past few months than I've bought CDs in the past few years.

However, I was at Starbucks a few weeks ago and a DVD version of Nirvana Unplugged in NY caught my eye.  I'm a huge fan of the album and thought it would be great to hear it in surround sound.  So I bought the DVD and popped it into the sound system and it wouldn't recognize the disc!  I at least had expected it to start playing the audio and let me fumble around with the controls until I found the audio track I wanted.

Anyway, I haven't ripped a DVD for probably at least 7 years, so I haven't kept up with ripping technology.  I've been searching for a package that can rip the audio from a DVD disc, but it seems as though the only thing that it will do is convert it to stereo MP3.  Let me tell you, it's a pain to search the web for "DVD Audio" since the word audio is of course not not exclusive to high-fidelity format.  Searching for "Super Audio" (a DVD-Audio competitor) yields much better results.

DVD Audio itself seems to be a dying format.  The only software package that actually makes the discs seems to be an unsupported Sonic Systems piece of software.  No wonder no one releases albums in the format.

Here at ONEsite we've done a lot of work wrapping social interaction around media such as streaming video.  We've done everything from streaming video from webcams at kiosks in musuems to having OnAir DJs being able to stream audio/video while chatting with their listeners.

I really believe that as television and the Internet combine we'll see some really interesting mashups of reality programming and social interaction.  The consumers of media will increasingly be able to participate in the production process and alter the contents of the media itself.

2008 is shaping up to be a year of significance for members of the Kenney clan.

My brother has been touring the country seeking to find the perfect Psychology internship program for him. He's completed his coursework and dissertation and all that jazz for his PhD from the University of Texas. Recently he travelled to Seattle, New York, Buffalo, and Houston to look into VA internships. He'll have a year of internship before he actually becomes a productive member of society.

My father is nearing the end of a 9 year career working for Dobson Communications (which was recently acquired by AT&T). Will he retire and pilot a houseboat on the magical national waterway which can take you from Muskogee, OK all the way to Florida and then to Maine? Will he build a ham radio tower on a mountain-top in rural OK? Will he go back into private practice? No one knows...