December 23, 2003
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Monthly Archives: December 2003
December 23, 2003
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iTunes: Navigating by album in the tag editor
The Idea:
In an earlier post, I suggested adding an album navigation mode to iTunes, but failed to specify that I meant this for the tag editor, where it could reduce the repetitive selection and editing process by several steps.…
December 21, 2003
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“We” versus “I” – Bush One to the UN, 1990
Some highlights:
“We have a vision of a new partnership of nations that transcends the cold war: a partnership based on consultation, cooperation and collective action, especially through international and regional organizations; a partnership united by principle and the rule
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December 20, 2003
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Mr. President, the gaydar is full of bogeys!!
They’re everywhere!!
Bush supports amending the Constitution to “codify” that marriage is between a man and a woman. Yet another reason I believe he is a complete moron. Clinton’s signing of the Defense of Marriage Act (as though it …
December 19, 2003
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Loving America
“They [conservatives] love America the way a four-year-old loves her mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a four-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking
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December 19, 2003
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Rummy made a friend that day!
“As with all nations we respect Iraq’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity”
-Donald Rumsfeld to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, 1983 communique to the Secretary of State
There are many declassified memos detailing how the Reagan administration worked at the …
December 19, 2003
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I’m an iTunes 4.2 Groupie
blockquotep“Here’s an example classical album: a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=2616866" title="iTMS - James Levine conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Mozart No. 40 & 41"Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41./abr/br//p
pThe first tracks 1-4 are “Symphony 40″, tracks 5-8 are “Symphony 41″. You could use the Grouping field for the symphony, and you wouldn’t need to have it in the track titles.”/p/blockquote
pI’m using the Grouping field as a sub-genre/influences classification system. My “Jazz” collection encompasses everything from Nat King Cole to Sun Ra, so “Jazz” doesn’t do much to classify these differently. To my “Jazz” genre, I’ve added:/p
ul
liBig Band (Ellington, Basie)/li
liBebop (Parker, Gillespie)/li
liHard Bop (Blakey, 50′s Miles Davis)/li
liPost Bop (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock)/li
liFree (Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Sam Rivers)/li
liNeo Bop (80′s Marsalis, Redman, Roy Hargrove)/li
/ul
pMiles Davis’ a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=492080" title="iTMS - Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain"“Sketches of Spain/a,” a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=923573" iTMS - Miles Davis: Miles Ahead">“Miles Ahead,” and “Porgy and Bess” are grouped as “Miles Davis/Gil Evans” to tie these special collaborations with genius arranger Gil Evans together. They aren’t really Big Band albums, they aren’t really Hard Bop, and they definitely aren’t …
December 15, 2003
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Minor Firebird UI suggestions
Rather than forcing the user to access a nested menu (or use a key combo) to change the contents displayed in the sidebar, make the title of the currently displayed panel a drop-down menu that allows users to pick other …
December 15, 2003
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Comments on KDE 3.2beta2 screenshots
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December 15, 2003
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Thurrott’s predictions versus reality
From a July 22, 2003 posting:
In other words, iTMS, excellent though it is, is now officially toast. Apple should have supported Windows from Day One. Now, it’s too late.
-Windows pundit Paul Thurrott: “BuyMusic.com kicks iTunes Music Store …
December 14, 2003
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To Summarize: Shove It
Security expert Richard Forno has posted an excellent rebuttal to Lance Ulanoff’s moronic opinion screed about OS X being just as insecure as Windows.…
December 13, 2003
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Halliburton overcharges
So, if a thief steals your television, they should go unpunished if caught and made to give it back, right?
I love the new “get tough on corporate crime” Bush administration!…