I tend to keep a lot of notebooks for mostly business/computer stuff, sometimes song ideas and other random thoughts. I need to get more organized with this and develop a better system for capturing ideas and then stick with it. Anyway, I stumbled upon two quotes in a notebook that I wrote down a while [...]
Vinyl is back! Around 10 weeks ago I published a new website: http://wax.fm which aims help you “find your favorite albums on vinyl both online and in the real world”. With just a little bit of promotion on a few social media outlets, primarily Twitter (follow @wax_fm), I have been quite happy with the initial [...]
I was working with some folks and someone reminded us of Beeker on the Muppets and we decided to check YouTube for some Beeker videos. I love this one where they’re trying to solve a business problem that doesn’t exist. Good stuff. I then recalled Ali G’s “Ice Cream Glove”. I love his market research [...]
Here’s the native French speakers translation describing this creative project: Here is a remake of the “Thriller” song that I’ve entirely recorded with my own voice, using 64 acappella tracks. There is therefore no instrument, synthétizer, beatbox, or even to sampler, but only the sound of my voice livened up with Reverb and slight Chorus [...]
For this week’s “Annoyance” entry, non-software developers beware, you might not feel my pain or understand what I’m talking about. This is a cliche joke in the software world, but it is SO TRUE! Basically, the IWOMM syndrome a happens when a developer commits new code that relies on something specific to the offender’s computer [...]
I’ve been keeping unofficial statistics at OSCON in my notebook as I attend sessions this week on two things: Men vs. Women Operating Systems on user laptops in the sessions First of all, operating systems. You would not believe the number of MacsBooks. My data gives me 63%. I think based on just general perception, [...]
I am in Portland for OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Conference). Beware non-geek readers … there may be some geeky posts over the next few days! Right know I am sitting in the keynote sessions, and honestly, given my interests, I would call most of the talks BOOOOOOORRRRRRING! Intel and Microsoft peddled some stuff that I [...]
I noticed that someone sent me an email to my GMail account using Firstname.Lastname@gmail.com when my account name is FirstnameLastname@gmail.com, but it still got to me. How nice. GMail treats uniqueness of usernames excluding the dots. From GMail help: Because Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail [...]
Macs have a fun command-line program called “say”. You type “say” and enter some text and it reads it to you. Fun stuff. I like pasting news articles into it and having it read them to me. For the those that don’t know, you can open a command-line terminal by going to Applications > Utilities [...]
I’m on the road, en route to a fun and exiting family Easter gathering in spectacular downstate Illinois. I got a Blackberry Pearl a few months ago and I can use it as a modem to get “the internets” on my MacBook. I know that this is nothing new, but I’ve never done it and [...]
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