My daughter started school. This year she is in what I consider the first *REAL* grade of school: 4K. She is at Our Redeemer Lutheran School<\/a> which is a nice enough school. Her teacher met with the WHOLE family. That being Heidi and I and Laura and Steve. I think she was nervous that we outnumbered her 5:1 :P. But she is a nice lady and has even followed up with me on some curriculum questions I had for future grades. I really do like the school.<\/p>\n Otherwise my big project recently has been archiving my CD collection. A little back story on this first though:<\/p>\n I was listening to the radio one day and they were talking about their iPods<\/a>. Now I am just as big a tech geek as they come. I love gadgets, as Heidi and our bank account can attest to. However I have never had a use for an Ipod. I don’t do enough that I need what I call an over-glorified walkman. Well, on this radio show one of the morning guys talked about how he uses it to store his entire CD collection; hundreds of discs. He archives the discs to the iTunes<\/a> and then sends them all off to the iPod. He ends up with hundreds of CDs on a device smaller than two packs of smokes, and it can be played on any device that accepts RCA audio inputs (the red and white inputs).<\/p>\n Now THAT sounded appealing to me. So I have spent the last few weeks moving my CDs off to the computer (for the geeks interested, I am using Exact Audio Copy to rip, and using a command line front end to Nero’s<\/a> AAC encoder. I am encoding at AAC LC VBR Extreme settings which averages about 220Kbps.<\/p>\n
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