Amazingly, it all seems to run ok.

No matter what I tried (deleteing folders, profiles, mozreg files, registry keys), running the Firefox (1.0PR) or Thunderbird (0.8) installers would always result in text that said it was trying to install Thunderbird 0.6 (which looks positively bizarre w/ the Firefox logo. Turns out it was a stale tmp folder in Local SettingsTemp.

Now that was a frickin annoying bug. (ns_temp is evil)

Was thinking about making a mirror yesterday, and sure enough, the I Found Some Of Your Life blog is gone. Taken down preemptively with an apology. The concept, discussion, and fallout is all fascinating.

Azure Ray – New Resolution (TPS Mix) – a great mix from the single. Also, this Good Life EP has some amazing tracks (can you tell I just got a shipment from Saddle Creek?).

flub, flub, flub

Never have important phone calls on cell phones if you can at all possibly help it. Also, Sprint on campus during the day is apparently now horrible. Two lessons uncomfortably learned this afternoon.

• Guardian Unlimited: Far graver than Vietnam – Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale
• Unqualified Offerings: The Wrong Way to Remake Hogan’s Heroes – re-enlist or get SENT TO IRAQ (see also: Report: Soldiers say they are being threatened with Iraq duty
• SEPTEMBER 11: WHAT YOU “OUGHT NOT TO KNOW” DOCUMENT 199-I AND THE FBI’S WORDS TO CHILL THE SOUL – see also: Has someone been sitting on the FBI? (2001-11-6)
  

  On November 9, 2001, when you could still choke on the dust in the air near Ground Zero, BBC Television received a call in London from a top-level US intelligence agent. He was not happy. Shortly after George W. Bush took office, he told us reluctantly, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI, “were told to back off the Saudis.”

Hmm, so I Found Some Of Your Life made it to a /. story. The blog admin removed the post in the comments of that one post about the identity of one of the people in a picture (that I linked to earlier). That seems rather unsporting. Here’s the direct link of the photo of Lindsey (Herrel?) for posterity.

The new idea: rip BIN/CUEs into incoming folder. Encode at night on cron (replaygain to HQ VBR MP3 and M4A) and zip up the image files in archive folder), rsync nightly.

• CDemu for Linux – a kernel module that allows mounting bin/iso files in Linux
• Audio CD Archiving on Linux – step-by-step of using cdrdao and Flac
• [Flac-users] CD -> FLAC -> CD – same thing but in script form
• Single file audio CD backup Howto – using Matroska containers. A bit esoteric
• Re: CD archival best practices? – interesting thread on flac-users
• flac2mp3.pl – nice little perl script
• FAAC – LGPL AAC encoder