Boom Blox

Steven Spielberg.

Jenga.

Buy it if these words mean anything to you.

Extended Response Tweeters

I received a pair of B-stock Extended Response Tweeters (ERTs) from an AV123 forum member recently and hooked them up last night.

They connect directly to your positive/negative leads on your speaker (no additional drive/amp required).

What are ERTs? They are "super tweeters", responsible for reproducing frequencies from the 11KHZ to 20KHZ range.

Most people can't hear above 16KHZ, so you say why even have these? Because although we may not be able to hear the upper frequencies - they still resonate tiny bones in our ear that we can feel - which modifies the sound slightly to give it an "airy" feel.

Anyway I tried them out and I think I like my speakers without them. I don't believe them to be a gimmick, just didn't work for me as my speakers are already very detailed/non-fatiguing. There is enough of a difference that I will try them with another set of speakers later....

Cost me $200 used - roughly $450 new.

Code Igniter

I got CodeIgniter and PHP running on Windows XP/IIS5.1. I'm surprised that the latest version of PHP has such a difficult time installing on a windows box. I feel like PHP is for "script kiddies" or something. There's too much .ini editing to get up and running (matrix-move-dodges-bullets from PHP folk). I've probably become accustomed to lack of control with Windows application installs. A few permission issues and configuration file edits were all it took to get it working. Why should we have to worry about setting .PHP file handlers with a path that doesn't have spaces in it (???). Are we still working in Windows 3.11 or better (worse) yet - DOS?

CodeIgniter appears to be "PHP On Rails".

I completed cookie management within PHP. I'll be working on session management and invoking web requests next. There aren't enough hours in the day...