Willo O'Brien

Hey there – if any of you (like me) have had some problems listening to mp3’s online – such as:

• When you Save Target As.. it tries to save it as an .mpga file instead of a .mp3 file
• When you click an .mp3 file it downloads it to a temporary folder, but than gives an error message saying “Can’t find specified file”

Then, here’s your solution!!

I’ve been wrestling w/ this for awhile and finally today decided to take some time to fix it & thought I’d share my results w/ you. First I’m on Windows XP and usually listen to music in the Real One Player, which I really like for the most part except for these problems.

The first problem (.mpga instead of .mp3) was solved by updating my Real One Player to the newest version (v.2). If you use the Real One Player and think you need to upgrade, here’s how you can check for updates. If you don’t have it and want to download it for the first time, click here to download the free player (hit cancel if you need to select the mac version instead).

If you’re having the 2nd problem where you click on an MP3 and after it downloads it, it gives you the cursid “Cannot find the clip” error message… then all that’s happening is your Temporary Files folder is jam packed*. Just go into internet options & under the General tab, hit “Delete Files”. Or here’s Real’s support answer for the problem (their way is a round about way getting to the same panel via the Real player)

Also in the I.E. (internet explorer) options, you can change your settings for temporary files. I just lowered mine down to 300MB… I’m not sure if that will help or hurt me… either way before it was at 615MB and I can see how that would bog down my system a little as it got full!!

* You also may find you can no longer “View Source” on web pages if your temp files folder is full.

I was testing mp3’s on these pages if you wanna try it out to see what your system does…

The Unicorns, Jellybones MP3 here:

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~abatko/unicorns/music/

and the “Slow Night” .mpu on Metric’s site here:

http://www.ilovemetric.com/music.html (don’t try the first couple songs, they don’t seem to be working due to their site error)

Hope this helped some of you! :) If you want some other “How to maintain my PC” basic clean up info < read that article. It's not the best, but a good basic start for any of you who are total newbies to keeping your PC in tip top form.

I should be posting some spooky little goblin character (I’ll work on that). Actually I should be carving pumpkins already did that, eating punkin pie and maybe even *binging* on those delicious mellowcreme pumpkins… those are my favorite.

Instead I’m just writing to say, Trick or Treat! (vargas girls style, mind you)

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while I’m posting Vargas girls work, check out J-Lo!

Esquire has a nice site – there’s a lot of beautiful photos in this section. I love Kirsten Dunst, Britney Spears (hot!) & and Charlize Theron, too.

Somehow I think I’m off the topic. Anyway – happy halloween!

here’s my pumpkin from last year – he’s scared of all the other pumpkins!!

and for a repeat – here’s my punkin from this year’s punkin carving party!

I was STOKED to get a few very *AWESOME* gifts lastnight…

Ya know how I posted about those Vinyl CD-R’s? Well, I was surprised lastnight with a whole set! wahooo!! Not to mention the new Mando Diao CD and Ted Leo, too! Damn…. Life is so so good. :)

Lastnight’s BAM meeting went great – we had a sushi rolling party!! I did a huge shopping spree at Sunset Market in Irving and got us lots of fresh tuna, seaweed, cucumber, avocado, miso soup and more! We even had edamame, too! I thought the rice came out horribly myself (toooo sticky), but they all loved it so much! yay!! It was a total hit – and now I can’t wait to make it again as no doubt I’ll be better than lastnight. Any respectable sushi lover would have laughed at mine big time! But thats kinda the cool thing about sushi – it’s hard to mess it up & it’s still so tasty!

Afterwards we hit the Hizz (?) for Dealership. Jee, Berndt, MJ, Rick & I all went to check em out. We know Chris & Jane – and I had seen Chris play in his other band, Citizens Here & Abroad, but hadn’t yet seen this one, with Jane as the lead singer. It was good, but different than I expected – I think I thought Jane was much more of a front woman in it – louder w/ more presence – but instead Chris Groves (the other lead singer, also in Citizens) really was more the front man. But Jee said Jane wasn’t feeling that well after just getting back from NYC… so it’s possible that another show would be different.

The Like Young opened and they were really good & so cute! A couple – the guy was the lead guitar/singer and the girl was backup & BANGED on the drums somethin fierce! It was fun.

Alright…. I’m off to take a walk now & hit the P.O. before 5pm (hoping I don’t freeze on the way over there). Then I’m off to the first Halloween party of the weekend. Well not sure what I’m doing tomorrow night actually.. part of me wants to bag all the hurry-think-of-a-costume-quick-and-then-go-to-a-party-only-to-deal-with-mass-crowds-of-crazy-people and just go to a movie instead.

But tonite should be fun… Kat & I are finally meeting Jason! It’s about time! :)

Hey you music lovin babes and hotties (and the rest of you stinkers too), I just updated the [local] music list on the left. Not everything playing here locally, mind you – just live music that I’ve chose I’d like to go see – and I’ll probably be going to most of them, actually! It’s a jam packed music month! Well.. I guess last month was too.. and next month. Oh alright – it’s all I do!! eat. sleep. design. go see live music. (and a little laughing, drinking and petting my kitty, too)

Remember you can also look at all the events on the calendar too…

Now I’m off to get some stuff for tonite’s BAM meeting…. we’re having a sushi rolling party!! It’s practically my first time – I’m nervous about the rice!! Actually I’m most nervous about leaving here at 4 to get everything bought & there by 6 – eek! BYE!

I downloaded Mozilla (a new browser replacing netscape, for those of you who don’t know) yesterday & realized my homepage is all whacked out on it, stretching like 105% or something … I’m thinkin it has something to do with the PHP Include – my friend said it wasn’t like that on her netscape/mac before, but it is now, so maybe it’s one of my recent posts is tweaking things out…

I’ve tried making all the table widths exact, but that’s not doin it either – so it must be the include/recent post thing – but what!? you all have any idea whats up?

My friend Johnny CRACKS ME UP!!!! I mean, I got a few emails about my “injury” – but this one takes the cake!!

Johnny writes me this morning saying, “wow, I think I saw that movie” (view movie poster)

and then check out this awesome VIDEO of me at the Peaches concert! (2.6MB, quicktime) haaa!!!!!!!

I’m totally *ROLLING* – laughing out loud over here. That’s just classic!

Oh my gawd – I want one of these RIGHT NOW!!

I can’t recall what came in this box – but Kazoo loooooooves boxes. Plus this one had all these crumpled up newspapers in it and he just loves diggin around in there, like he’s looking for burried treasure. I took these a couple weeks ago & am finally posting them. Kazoo has been long overdue for some blog lovin :) I have some videos of him freakin out on the box too – I’ll get around to posting those at some point & letcha know.

The Peaches show was OFF THE HOOOOOOK!!!!!!! It was crazy fun. We were 2nd row – and the crowd was sooo nuts, we were soooo squeezed in and everyone was pushin to get closer – it was almost moshing (moshing with tons of agro sexual energy!!!) I even have a bruised foot to show for it! aww yaa!

We came out DRENCHED in sweat from head to toe – no lie. Hair was soaked, everything. It was KICK ASS!!!!!

Saturday night we went & saw Ben Lee & Phantom Planet. You’ve GOT to check out Phantom Planet – they are soooooo good!!! Great live too – totally rockin & the lead singer (who’s so hot) totally crowd surfed – still singing!! – all the way back through the crowd. It was awesome. Also – in case any of you are wondering… Jason Schwartzman is no longer the drummer. However, we didn’t know that before the show & I totally thought the guitarist was him – and my friends thought the new drummer was him… HA! Anyway – apparently he’s pursuing his acting FT instead… which is fine cuz they definitely can hold their own!! They rock!

Lastnight we went over to Jane’s & carved punkins!!! Jane is such a lil’ Martha Stewart… she grilled up some delicious veggies: zucchini, pumpkin and butternut squash, and served a yummy spiced cider too! We had so much fun carving punkins… check em out!

awww yaa, let’s hear it for ROCK-N-ROLL BABY!!!!!

Mr. T’s lookin pretty tough huH!? The resemblance is striking!

We were all shakin in our boots!!

Well, except for “The Punk-ins” cuz they were busy rockin so damn hard!!!

update: photos posted