Time passes and I have not yet finished my ongoing evaluation of music players (the race is close between WinAmp and
Windows Media Player, of all things. iTunes is right out, again). As a result, I cannot turn to a random 5✭ song and
expound at length about song and artist, which is my normal modus operandi for these articles. Instead, we shall explore
in some detail one of my favourite bands of all time; Tool. Once again, a caveat: you may find Tool to be strangely
offputting and discomforting, and you may find them to be wildly offensive; they may just get you thinking, though, and
that's quite the accomplishment in the MTV age. And another caveat: any information here may be inaccurate, since Tool
is notorious for spreading (often hilarious) misinformation about themselves.
I have downloaded iTunes. I have downloaded WinAmp. We'll see if either of these applications has grown in me in the last 3 years.
Please note that tomorrow's 5✭ Friday may be a little late, as the problems I'm having with MusikCube means that all my music ratings and metadata are gone (on 8000+ songs), so I no longer know what's in my 5✭ category.
I thought I liked MusikCube. I really did. It even made the list as one of my Windows Necessities I liked the UI; I liked how fast it loaded; I really liked the meta-data editor, especially the bulk editing feature. However, as of right now, MusikCube has been "retired" from production on my computer. The reason is two-fold.
First, it's buggy. Every once in a while, …
Steve Jobs and I frequently do not see things eye to eye. I am certainly not a Mac fanboy - as evidence, I submit my seething hatred of iTunes - and I think Stevey's got his own little despot that people don't attack as much as Bill's because Macs are fashionable. Full disclosure - I have a Mac and I like it. I don't love it, yet, but I certainly like it quite a bit.
Stevey, though, sometimes gets things right. Wander on over to
I'm an avid, if amateur, cook, and I'd like to share a few recipes that I've come up with. Feel free to make these, but remember my creative commons license, which covers everything on this blog! If you make these for a restaurant, I get to eat them for free.
Ingredients
3 large White or Gold potatoes 1 large Red Pepper 1 tbsp ground Sea Salt Cl…
My introduction to Jorge Miguel was low key. I was in my office, trying to figure out a particular bug that I was
experiencing, and a friend dropped by, slightly breathless, and said, "Come with me right now!" I hopped up and went
with him, with no explanation, and had a problem keeping up. He exited the building and walked into the building right
across from it. In the foyer, there was Jorge Miguel with a dancer to accompany him, playing an acoustic flamenco guitar
to a group of about 30 staff and students.
Wow.
First off, a general disclaimer and a brief history: of the three OSes I use on a regular basis (Windows, Linux and Mac OS), I started with Windows. Specifically, I started on an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95 (which still runs very well and has never, ever needed to be reinstalled), moved on to a Toshiba Tecra laptop with Windows 98 (which still runs, albeit poorly, after one reinstall), skipped over Windows 2000 (being mostly interested in spend…
I guess I could also have labelled this as "10 Things I Hate About You" or "Why MySpace is Rotten."
Obviously my point of view is clear at the outset - MySpace is bad. As a disclaimer, I'm not averse to new things - in fact, one might say that I'm addicted to new things - and I do not automatically dislike things that are popular. I apprehensively love Google, for instance, and I am currently a Facebooker (though Fac…
Of note - I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.0.something to 2.1, so there may be some interesting changes to the blog. I have not yet noticed any problems, but I'll report on them here.
One of my favourite blogs to read is Tim Bray's Ongoing - and this is a funny lead in
to my first music post, because Tim is very much a technophile (for instance, he was recently featured on the cover of
Linux Journal, and on the inside too!). One of my favourite recurring themes is
his "5✭♫" posts, in which he expounds on various musics that he listens to.
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