Bee.fm is an internet radio station that allows to stream custom playlists or individual albums. It is similar to pandora.com, but with full manual control over the playlist. It uses open streaming that can be listened to from iTunes as well as from its own flash player. It can be also listened to with Chumby’s btplay command. To get Chumby to stream the Bee.fm’s radio, you need to get the URL for the playlist you are interested in.

Pandora.com has just added classical music to their already huge collection. It made my day. I like classical music, but never took enough time to actually figure out my exact preferences or composers. I just recognise familiar or mood pieces when they are played and enjoy them. So now I can put the name of the piece I do remember into Pandora and let it find that or other items with the same feel.

I just found my own oldest webpage (handcoded) and my oldest public source code (Java) at once. Archive.org - that has hosted this long-dead memory since 1999 - is just so great. Looking back at it, I realise that I was right in the thick of Internet development: When I just started working with Java, we had to throw out all the printed Javadocs, because jdk1.0b2 was released and a lot of Java API (e.

Use case Photos are inherently-social event markers. We take pictures to remember an occasion and - often - people who were present with us at that point. While most of the photographs are not looked at more than once or twice, the more popular ones become very important in our history. The same does not happen to other people on our photograph, despite our best efforts to share. Emailing photos is cumbersome and subscribing to Flickr streams requires all people to look at all photos just in case they are in it.

Does this look different? If not, you are probably reading this through the RSS feed and can just skip to the next item. Unless, of course the feed is now broken. Then, I really want to know. But for those of you looking at this article on its own website, there has been an upgrade of components. This blog now runs: WordPress 2.3.1 -the latest and greatest Soleil theme, slightly modified.