Songbird player.

This blog is really not meant to be a tech (geek) blog. But since I recently started using the Songbird multimedia application I was so impressed by it that I decided to write a little about it here.

Songbird is built upon Mozilla.org platform. That means it is opensource, and as a sibling it shares a lot with Firefox browser and has many of the abilities of the latter. To put it short and not geeky you can run it on all big OSes like windows, os x and Linux. You can also choose and download from many addons (like Ipod-connection-plugin) to fit your desires. Songbird is in beta stage but It works pretty well. I do suggest you try it out. Ooh and one more thing, you can download your favorit music from this program for free. just do a search in "Birdhouse" for your favorite artist or song and then push download on the list of songs that appear.

Download Songbird at Sonbird nest.

Omid Djalili

Humor is a very personal thing, so for a comedian to appeal to different groups of people he needs to be a special type of person. He needs to know little about everything so he is able to joke about different topics. And he has to have some specialities like mimicking personalities, dialects or other ethnicities. I find all of these properties and a bit more in Omid Djalili. You can read more about him on Wikipedia or IMDB but I give a short info here.

He is a British-Iranian Actor/Stand up. He has been playing in lots of Hollywood movies like Gladiator or Casanova. I had seen him in movies like Gladiator without really noticing him because of his small part (You can not miss him in Casanova). But one time I saw his act on Montreal's Just for Laughs festival and I understood he is on his way up. He is now hosting his own show on BBC. The show is a mix of stand up and sketches. Both his sketches and his stand up takes up lots of issues, but most of the jokes tend to be close to his both homes, Iran and Britain and the problems and joys of happening to be from both and living in Britain. But as I said his comedy is more than that.

His home page is Omid on agenda.

You can see some of his sketches down below.