Archive for April, 2009
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Before the swine flu media frenzy nears a crescendo maybe we should glace back toward the origin and history of the term "swine flu". This whole "epidemic" -- quickly morphing into a phenomenon across all media -- gives excuse to fire up the slick new Google News Timeline and explore ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Sometimes people discuss inane stuff to pass the time, for amusement. The subject of this post is one such example. One day, a dude wears a hat with Billiken on it:
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This mysterious character, according to Wikipedia, came to its creator in a dream and is the ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I know. This is quickly becoming "look what Dipps f-ed up" -- my error blog. Maybe after this one, I'll take a break from the errors for a spell.
This one happend when trying to update the free, open source media player Songbird from its first official release (out ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I signed up for and have just been invited to beta test the Free Music Archive. The Free Music Archive has launched into public beta. Right off the bat I must say it is by far the best designed and most comprehensive source of podsafe music I've ever encountered.
Jason Sigal, ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
This error grinded my copying to a halt. Namely, copying from an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule to Time Capsule itself. It reads:
The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)
I didn't dig into this error as ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Found out about We are Hunted from the 37signal's Signal vs. Noise Blog, who say, basically, the real draw here, the thing that sets We are Hunted apart from other similar music sites is its large album art. But the S vs. N Blog doesn't point out what the site ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The checkered background that shows up on the iPhone when information either hasn't completed loading or the processor hasn't caught up to your scrolling, is usually a palette of gray. Pictured above is more a set of reds. Is this new, a fluke or an error?
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