On August 15th Mint Royale will drop their new album, See You in the Morning. The entire album sounds fantastic, but the one track that I can guarantee will hit the radio hard will be their rendition of Singin’ in the Rain, as performed by Gene Kelly in the 1952 film of the same […]
Archive for July, 2005
Yesterday the 500 millionth song was downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. While that in itself is cool, check out who won: “Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than half a billion songs from the iTunes® Music Store. The 500 millionth song, Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl,” was purchased […]
Clearly, this. (Or, how to tell when the Methodist Men conference is coming to town. [The cross? It’s made of those orange trucker lights. Oh yes.])
Can anyone tell me why this is something I shouldn’t get? Selling the PowerBook will be a necessary step, but eventually I’d like to supplement the iMac with a 12″ iBook for presos and such. Here’s the specs: 2.0GHz 20-inch iMac 2.0GHz G5 processor 512MB DDR3200 RAM ATI Radeon 9600 w/ 128MB RAM, AGP 8x 250GB SATA drive 8x […]
I was recently assigned the task of poring over Purdue Housing and Food Services (HFS) web site to check for errors, misspellings, etc. I’m also going to submit comments on design and usability. Check out the error I found on this page: Error ! The current browser is either too old or too modern […]
Via Jacqui’s blog: Name/Google meme - Type “(Your name) is”, with quotes, into a Google search; then pick out your favorite ten (or however many) responses. “…Matt is fortunate in that WordPress has received much love to date.” “…Matt is out of station.” “Matt is an award-winning writer and photographer who has covered the Chicago scene…” “Matt is […]
Note to self: X11 forwarding in Tiger has changed. -X no longer works; instead, use -Y. Source: Apple Discussions
My experience with AppleScript/Automator is limited, but I need a script to do the following: From a list of URL’s, grab the first one and load it into Safari. Copy the text of the page (not the source) to a text file in TextEdit (or whatever). Spell check the page. Go back to the list and start over with […]
For the longest time I have been able to avoid programming. I took classes in high school, but did enough to get by. I went so far (to get by) as do avoid functions in Pascal all together. Imagine the guy who writes a Pascal program to print calendars, but doesn’t use […]
