Dana Blankenhorn rants that Evan Williams is to blame for all Google’s current blogging problems and should be fired, blissfully unaware that Evan Williams left Google six months ago. Heh.
Keep track of your Google searchs *and* which links you clicked through on. Smart.
On the frustratingly ill-conceived development of US passports containing RFID chips that will allow you to be identified as a US passport-holder, and potentially have your information swiped, without even taking the thing out of your pocket. “Stupid or evil? Incompetent or lying? You be the judge.”
Professor Bacon
Because we are bad owners.
MLB on XM
Rather nattily, the display on my XM radio shows the Sox score, so I can keep track of the game while driving, whilst listening to music on my iPod.
Congratulations to Robert and the team. MusicBrainz is a fantastic resource, and I hope this helps it build up to greater things.
How dare you? I’ve never demuxed in my life!
‘kin’ hell! I’ve had a long day.
“Bring over the DVD,” I said confidently. “I’ll rip it and get it online.” I have a Mac, you see, and Steve Jobs is always telling us how easy it is to use your Mac to work with your videos.
Apparently, though, importing video from DVD and uploading it—not even copy-protected Hollywood-owned DVDs, just one created by a friend—is not something any sane man should attempt.
I’ve spent a disgracefully large portion of this sunny, sunny Patriots Day fighting with decoders, demuxers, rippers, streamers, encoders, producers, transcoders, normalizers, and a DVD-ROM drive that doesn’t work. I’ve prodded blindly at acronyms I’d never heard of on options screens with 80 options. I’ve been told “Your Mac won’t do that. Go to apple.com and spend $20, and we might just let you.” I’ve transferred files from Mac to PC and back. I’ve been told “You might want to make your video viewable by people who haven’t got the latest bleeding-edge Real Player on their machines, but that’ll cost you $200”. And I’ve Googled constantly, only finding people with the same problems as me, but never solutions.
But at long last, I’ve gotten things (mostly) working, and can now proudly point you, the fine netizen who deems my little ‘blog worthy of their eyeballs, to Temporary Spy, the film I was involved in the making of last weekend.
(I also highly recommend adding the frighteningly earwormy theme from String of Pearls to your iPod. Perhaps sometime soon, Mr Cheever will share his brilliant synopsis of this sitcom that never was.)
Go see “Temporary Spy”, our entry for the 48 Hour Film Project. It’s ace, and features Mrs B. on vocals over the end credits.
Philip Morris: It’s not just our cigarette marketing that’s sleazy.
Woo! Free extension for me, free accounts for my chums. Thanks Yahoockr!
I didn’t realise that Duglas T Stewart and co had released a new album last year. Damn the weak dollar for making it so expensive to me.
As Dan has said, the photos you take with your (cellphone/PDA) may not be great, but they’re better than the ones you would take if you didn’t have a camera.
Cool Firefox extension to quickly validate links on a webpage.
First track from the White Stripes upcoming album is released to iTunes.
Next time Winer et al are attacking Google, saying something like “How would they like it if we remixed their content?”, point them to this blog entry, where Google publicly gives credit so someone who remixed their content.
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