Da Vinci Code cracked - musically speaking

Stuck away in a corner of CNet's news today was a small piece on Rosslyn Chapel. Yes, THE Rosslyn Chapel of Da Vinci Code fame. It related to the code that has been cracked. Not the Da Vinci code mind, but a music code that is embedded in the roof carvings. Read the story and download the music from the Telegraph here.

Now, as promised, I am trying to be a little more diligent. OK, so I've spent some time on Virb, having a quick gander at it. Interesting. It is still in the starter phase, and as with most sites, it has major ambitions, but is only halfway there. As per my previous blog, Leo and Amber were discussing Virb extensively. Leo commented that MySpace had failed to develop since it became such a phenomenon. Sites like Virb are looking to fill the space by adding features that take up where MySpace leaves off. I must admit to not being overly familiar with MySpace, so I cannot comment. So, I shall rely on the expertise of Leo and Amber, and they were both seriously impressed with Virb. What I liked about it was that it had a nice look and feel to it, and it had some music from various bands that I was clueless about (I guess they were mostly American), but I enjoyed browsing through some of them. If you enjoy music, even if you're not quite a fan of Indie/Rock, then head over and have a look. I tried to look at some of the videos, but something didn't work for me. I got loading..loading...loading and nothing. Zip. Might be my wireless system in the house, although it doesn't have a problem with CNN and other video. Maybe it will work for you, or perhaps it just happened to be a glitch when I tried it.

Oh, headed over to Uvu again (Video site that promises to revolutionize web video with great quality). Site has been updated, and now looks like a video site, but great promises, but when you try to download the player (you have to have THEIR player), then it tells you it is not yet available. Will keep checking.

Tried to play with Joost again (managed to get an invitation to the Beta). It obviously doesn't really like my laptop, or my wireless connection. It did seem to say it needed around 512Mb of of RAM, but my guess is that 1Gb is better. The quality is pretty good, but I am still not able to really tell. The problem too is that the licenses that they have for the various programmes are split between USA only, USA and UK and Worldwide. Being out in Ireland, my choices are pretty limited. The one that I REALLY wanted to try, was National Geographic. Guess what, not available to me. *Sigh*

I must admit that I am more and more reminded of the good old days in the early nineties when Microsoft used to sell Vapourware. Concept software that wasn't developed just yet, just to see if the market was interested in it before they spent the money developing it. Sound familiar?

Anyhow, that is it for tonight. Oh, one last thing. I referred to Google's search history bit in my previous blog, based on Leo's comments on TWiT. So I went into Google and did some checking and don't worry, they are not accumulating billions of searches just yet. Have a read over on their site if you're interested. However, you need a Google Account to access it (I have an account as they host my blog...). Essentially you need the Google Toolbar installed and Page Ranking turned on. Then you can activate Web History, which will give you the stats that Leo was talking about. I can stop feeling uncomfortable now everytime I type in a search. Apologies to the folks in Google for jumping to conclusions in my earlier blog!