We're having a photo
contest, and perhaps I'm sappy, but the theme give me warm fuzzies.
As long as you're not my parents or siblings, you're entirely eligible
to enter. Ok, shameless plug mode off, back to your regularly scheduled
randomness.
I have come to the conclusion that Posterous is missing something in the image headers. This image was rotated correctly when I looked at it before I sent it, and Flickr got the rotation right when autoposted via Posterous. Time to file a bug.
Right before I created my awesome hip hop
station on Pandora, I
happened across this FAQ
entry, which recommends creating stations using songs, not artists,
since that way, you get a more precise station. After having done that
a few times now (and deleted all my old stations, because these new
ones are so much better), I must say that it is vastly superior to
creating stations based on artists.
Garry recently posted
about the artist that did the song Back in the Day,
which made me wonder what would happen if I created a Pandora station
based on that one song. I have been very pleasantly surprised by the
results. I think this is one of the best Pandora stations that I've
ever created.
So all of you that are dying to have one more person in your friends
list, Just search for me, I'm pretty easy to find. This post also
doubles as a test to see if the autoposting to Facebook from Posterous
is working as advertised.
I never would have believed it, but it looks like Palm has figured out
how to become relevant again. They announced the Pré today, and it
looks awesome. Ars has a rather interesting
article, and Gizmodo has videos
of it in action. It has a few slowness problems, but if they fix
those, I may be all over this once they release a GSM version.
I LOLed. (Click through for the original page)
So Apple released the updated
17" MacBook Pro yesterday. While they claim 8 hours of battery,
it's all sealed like the MacBook Air. This is not a trend that I like.
I have had to replace the batteries on both of my Macs after about 2
years of use, and if I had to potentially leave the laptop for two
hours to a week so they can replace the battery that I used to be
able to spend 10 minutes replacing, I don't see the progress here. And
this is right after I was happy that they had made the hard drive
accessible on the new 15" MacBook Pros, as I spent way too much time
replacing the HD on my 12" Powerbook, and I dread the time when I need
to replace the HD on my current MacBook Pro. We'll see what the
portable line up looks like in a year when my Apple Care expires, but
if it's all hard wired batteries, the choice to replace the Mac with a
laptop running Linux will be even easier.
While I liked Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101, The Preacher's Son and Masquerade just didn't do it for me. Looking at the Amazon reviews of Carnival II, it looks like I might be in the minority (as his other albums scored much higher). Anyways, if you liked the Carnival and the Ecleftic, maybe you'll be like me, and play Carnival II on repeat for awhile. Too bad that Lauryn's off in another world and we'll never get any more of the Fugees.
As seen at Quickly in Dublin.
