"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
I’d say that Tiger looks like it will be a worthwhile upgrade. If you weren’t following the WWDC keynote yesterday, the TidBITS summary is a good place to catch up.
It does seem unfortunate that Apple is dissing on the small-developer community again. From initial reports, Dashboard looks like a Konfabulator killer [...]
A few days ago I was annoyed at Yahoo’s breaking of third-party instant messaging clients. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they didn’t stay broken for long—A little more than a day passed between the blog post I saw announcing the problem and another indicating that it had been fixed in the Gaim libraries (and only about four [...]
The 365 Days project has found a permanent home at ubuweb.
If you forgot or never heard, 365 Days posted one unusual MP3 file every day during 2003. There’s some pretty wacky stuff there. One of my personal favorites is #189: the Instant Composers Pool – My Baby Has Gone to the Schouwburg.
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As noted by chipx86, Yahoo has once again mucked up third-party IM clients. It continues to boggle my mind that there is no motion towards a single IM standard. I mean, not only to the single-service IM clients just suck, but also, who wants to have several different apps running that all do [...]
Most of today’s show is stuff that emerged during the week. I always used to bring music of my own to shows, but iTunes makes it so much easier; whenever something comes up on the ol’ random play that catches my ear, I just pop it in the “upcoming shows” playlist.
My favorite this week [...]
Here’s a cool tip from Kimbro Staken:
Tonight I was sitting here looking at iTunes 4.6 and thinking how the little arrows they added to each item to take you to the music store were pretty cool. However, it also occurred to me that what I would really want from those arrows is to use them [...]
I recently commented on the slightly morbid nature of the program for Chicago’s 2004 Jazz Festival. Today I came across an interview with Louis Moholo on the occasion of his being put on the program for the 2003 International Classical Music Festival of South Africa
I mean, if any music has a reputation for being [...]
Today marked my first day back on the air since I left Northwestern in 1999. I’m happy to say that in general, WNUR hasn’t changed much. The current rack-mounted disc players are less friendly than the old Tascam ones. There are now two PCs in the studio (plus the one that manages [...]
From today’s NewsScan:
MUSIC STORES’ ECHO FADES AWAY
A group of large music retailers has scrapped plans to launch a joint
venture music download service that would rival existing services such as
Apple’s iTunes. “The reality is that compared to all the retailers’ bottom
lines, even Apple’s music sales are insignificant,” says Alex Bernstein, [...]
Reading Tim Bray’s post on upcoming Canadian elections, I feel like he comes from some Bizarro world:
They say the Liberals are the Natural Governing Party of Canada, and there’s evidence to support this. They flop amorphously across the broad middle of the Canadian spectrum (which is placed, in U.S. terms, at the left margins of [...]