- Basic Survival Techniques for Incarceration
- Send an SMS from AIM (or iChat)
- Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
- Teen idol Jonathan Brandis dies at 27 – saw the coroner’s confirmation of suicide on the wire; sorta weird
- Hellboy Trailer – hmm, hopefully this won’t suck
Category: Legacy
I’ve been digging through some of my old music recently, which has been really cool. It’s easy to forget about on some great stuff when you’re constantly going through new stuff. Been listening incessantly to Spoon’s Girls Can Tell. I am your shadow in the dark/I have your blood inside my heart
– so frickin’ good.
- Spoon – Me And The Bean [5.2MiB MP3]
Thought about iTunes Music Store: why doesn’t it allow you to use your/other people’s playlists/libraries to generate personalized suggestions?
Speaking of music, Pitchfork’s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s Redux is all up. Wish I owned more of these, there are some classic gems in there.
- How to use ftp in combination with .netrc
- The CVS FAQ: Setting up and Managing the Repository
- Setting up a CVS repository – the FreeBSD way
- Secure CVS Pserver Mini-HOWTO
- O’Reilly: CVS Administration, Tracking Changes in CVS
- CVS Best Practices
- Getting Started with CVS
- CVS FAQ
- /. finally picked up on the whole L.A. County Bans Use Of “Master/Slave” Term; almost 2000 comments attached to this topic; impressive
- Xeni made today Kigurimi + Cosplay day on BoingBoing; the Japanese will never fail to impress in their bizarrity
- EJ MIDI Turntable – turntable retrokit that uses an optical patterned record + catridge (camera?) a MIDI convertor box and OS X + Windows software; hook that up to a V4!
- TreoCentral: Lets Hack the Carrier Logo
Yesterday I wrote a simple ics2sql script using PHP iCalendar’s ical_parser. It was pretty easy to integrate, although it’s not really modularized that well. It’d be great if the iCalendar parser was an object. I’m sure there’s one out there, but well, free is free. It works.
Notes --- * need to init (cal_filelist[0]) after loading includes, or init in includes * $master_arry output is really straightforward, arrays contained are days
How do you organize your gear?
- Sterilite bins + WireTech shelves are one popular option
- TLC has a show called ‘Clean Sweep’ dedicated to organization and uncluttering
New at Freeway Blogger
- Warp Records To Provide Entire Catalog For Download Via Bleep.com
This caters directly to the hearts and minds of file-sharing users who frequently seek rarities, out-of-print recordings, singles and b-sides through peer-to-peer trading networks. A service like Bleep.com eliminates the need for users to host rare files or spend hours scouring for the few rare songs they can’t find or are only available in poor-quality or corrupted files. In addition, the service isn’t beholden to the limitations imposed by a service like iTunes; anyone can have access to the music without installing the proprietary software.
!!!, Anti-Pop Consortium, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Broadcast, Plaid, Prefuse 73, and Squarepusher are among the label mainstays whose entire Warp output will be available through the service, which is being designed by the estimable Designers Republic and Kleber (the same madmen responsible for the Warp site’s distinct look and feel).
I take it that this guy didn’t know that he could get an iPod replacement battery for $50.
Wireless local number portability: Guidelines for switching carriers
I’ve been paying $5/mo for the past year to retain my old SprintPCS number with call forwarding to my T-Mobile line. For a while, this was quite useful, and I had a couple months to make sure that anyone I talked to regularly had my new number. I’ve realized, however, that nowadays, no one uses my old number at all.
I really should have just waited a couple days and gotten a new activation with my T-Mobile number (and gotten an activation discount), but it looks like at the very least, from an email exchange with Sprint Customer Service, I should be able to port the number over without too many shenanigans.