Better music solution

First of all I love music, I love variety of it and many genres of it. I have always had an extensive library of music on my computer weather it's from digitizing my CD's or buying digital albums or enjoying some free downloaded music. It's all fun and awesome when you have less than let's say 3 GB of music, but once you hit over that threshold your organizing is put to the test and it becomes this prized possession on your computer that you carefully catalog and distribute to your devices.

Then I stumbled upon Grooveshark, which is a cloud library of music that streams to your desktop for absolutely free. All you need to do is search for whatever music you want and it's there. Certainly it's ad supported, but the adds are not intrusive and the music quality is decent enough for me to choose that as my music solution. 

You can make playlists, favorite tracks, and listen to the internal radio which selects songs for you based on your previous preference. The best part is that it's all in the cloud and you don't have to worry about loosing your music if you PC explodes or someone decides to borrow it without your knowing. Also you can access all of your music at work without having to bring your mp3 player.

Even has some neat sharing options, let me try this

The only catch here is that if you want this awesomeness on the go you need to pay a subscription fee and stream the music on the go, which means a data plan.
But for folks on the budget you can always download the playlist on pay as you go basis from iTunes or Amazon or some other site.
Point is give it a shot, it's pretty sweet.

CardioTrainer app review

I've decided that today was a nice day for a jog. And I have taken my phone with me to listen to music during the run. On the way outside I've decided to try out one of the coach/trainer apps that I've been hearing about from friends. So given that I have Samsung Galaxy S, I jumped on the android market and downloaded CardioTrainer app.
Let me tell you this, I was impressed with the features and the design of the app. I programmed it on the go, so it was certainly easy to set it up and it has done a few cool things while I was running:
- played my music on shuffle with song and volume controls
- showed me the map and the the track that I just ran
- updated me with information like distance and duration overlaying the music
- provided step/calorie counter and more statistical goodness
- saved this run and gave me a badge for burning a said number of calories

Jogging can certainly get mundane and boring, but this app can help keep me interested. I'll use it again.
Link to the app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wsl.CardioTrainer&hl=en

Update

As per usual I have abandoned my blog recently and I have again decided to come back and try a new approach to this whole format of communication. I felt like I have put unnecessary limitation on myself in regards to content of this blog. This time I am going to try to keep it more informal, and include a larger specter of content on the site. Hopefully this will keep me interested and keep me posting. My goal is to post more content, I am sure that it will eventually end up being relevant to HR, which was the original purpose of starting this blog. As always I would encourage participation, but by no means do I expect it. This seems to be the fundamental principle of blogging.

My job search has extended and is still on going, I find that the analogy that is useful in this situation is firearms. Every time you as a job applicant pursue an opportunity you load that bullet (Job application) into your magazine, and your job is to make sure that the magazine has bullets. Once the deadline approaches for a job you find out which of your ammunition hit the target and which of it didn't end up being live. I like that analogy because of the focus on the methodical search of leads, which is appropriate for the online job search. That's what I have been relying on the most for lead generation.