January 31, 2008 • 10:15 pm 0
Yesterday I had a paper due, so the day before yesterday I got about 3 hours of sleep. After class yesterday, I drove straight home, had a bite to eat, showered, and went to bed.
That was around 7:30pm.
I woke up this morning, at around 6:30am.
It was delicious.
Which is good, because I have another assignment due tomorrow =X
January 28, 2008 • 6:16 pm 0
Qtrax has said its users will be able to download songs – making it potentially much more user-friendly, but also more of a headache for the labels, who want to be able to closely monitor what users are listening to.
Qtrax users have to download software to use the service, and are also encouraged to ‘dock’ their music player with their computer every 30 days so that the service can ascertain which songs have been played.
DRM-based music distribution that invades your privacy and demands actions from its users beyond “download and play”…
Yeah, this will do really well.
Well, to be fair, iTunes basically works off a similar model. The difference is that the iTunes music store sells actual mp3s now. So QTrax is only about a year behind the times. Also, I hate their all-flash interface.
I think the point I’m trying to make is that a music-selling model that remains mulishly focused on what the music industry wants and needs is doomed to fail, because what the music industry wants and needs is a model that’s long been obsolete. “More of a headache for the labels”? Do you really think consumers care?
I think it’s much smarter to focus instead on what those consumers want, and to reduce *their* headaches, like iTunes has been doing, and now Amazon, et al et al.
Filed under: web2.0
January 18, 2008 • 5:50 pm 0
okay so i know i said i was all about the adium duckie, but then i browsed through their Xtras page and found this: can you spot my new adium icon?
re-DONK-ulous!
Filed under: best thing
January 17, 2008 • 2:11 pm 0
so named because the biggest reason i got a mac was the adium duckie.
also, the 2.2GHz core 2 duo, isight, 160GB hard drive, intel GMA x3100, superdrive, bluetooth and leopard – i mean, those things are alright, i guess.
Filed under: Uncategorized
January 15, 2008 • 9:32 pm 1
Okay, so the date I’d been waiting for so long to arrive……has arrived! Macworld SF!
Okay, and it was slightly disappointing.
The MacBook Air is undeniably bee-yoo-tee-full (actually, I think I’m more in love with the separat Superdrive, but that’s another story). Unfortunately, the Air is not quite what I wanted out of my next laptop. I’d been hoping for something more like the 12″ Powerbook redux.
So I’m going with the black macbook! Or maybe the white. I’m going to do some empirical testing at the student store tomorrow to know for sure. See, that’s another thing. The Air isn’t out for another two weeks. I can get a blackbook TOMORROW!
Yay, a new lappie!
And I’ve saved so much money by not getting the Air, and also from stupendous Bruin discounts, that I might throw in an iPod Touch as well!
Finally, I can surf the web wherever I am (and also Wi-Fi is). Yelp and Google maps are going to be SO much more useful =)
Filed under: computer
January 10, 2008 • 6:32 pm 0
Most of our classes at school use Moodle to keep track of articles and syllabus info. That’s fine and all.
But it is a huge pain having to download all the .pdfs for each week’s reading stack, a single article at a time.
They should create a script to allow a prof to bundle all the pdfs into a .zip archive or something.
The end.
Filed under: school
January 9, 2008 • 9:35 am 0
i’ve been using tumblr for awhile now, and while at first I thought it was superfluous, seeing as how i have this blog and del.icio.us, I really liked the bookmarklet so I kept it around, and the service has really grown on me. This is one example of how a good UI can mean the difference between dedicated use and total neglect.
The bookmarklet has really come in handy and it’s so easy to use. It works almost as well as a desktop app, and it grabs data automagically from whatever page you’re trying to link to – like links, photos, quotes. (One improvement I’d make is to make the photo-link instructions more explicit – it took me awhile to figure that one out).
I also set it up to export my posts automatically, via RSS, to my Facebook mini-feed (also an RSS app, AHEM). That way, I can automatically share all these cool links I’ve found with all my friends. (So, I guess I got you all hating Tumblr now. Hi!).
The actual tumblr page is customizable, jsut like one’s Twitter page, and they’ve got some nice-looking templates there too. And look how pretty is this visual archive – it makes all the crap I’ve posted look good!
So yeah, I’ve started to use that instead of my del.icio.us/share RSS feed, which is one of my sets of links over there on the right column (which is why that one hasn’t changed in awhile). Del.icio.us I now use primarily for research purposes.
I don’t remember where I wanted to go with this. Oh, right. The end.
Filed under: web2.0
January 8, 2008 • 5:52 pm 0
I’ve started receiving spam from someone who is using my email address. A quick glance at the return name and headers indicates that I am not doing this in my sleep or something, so obviously it’s some evil random spammer. Damn you, evil spammers!
Filed under: Uncategorized
January 2, 2008 • 11:30 pm 0
My cell phone died so I got a new one, a Sony Ericsson z310a, aka Cingular’s “el cheapo” model. It’s got many good and many bad qualities, which I outlined in detail but then my post got borked and WordPress auto-save did NOT pull through – grrr!
Anyway, it looks less cheap and ugly than my old Samsung p207, but feels more cheap and is still not as neat as the slider phones I’d been eyeing for awhile. The front LCD display is monochrome and tiny, even though it looks large because the whole front is shiny.
The inside display is not too hi-res, but it does have these cool light effects along the sides of the phone which you can customize for each caller. Also, I can sync my calendar and backup my contacts list (nerd w00t!), as well as transfer photos via infrared or Bluetooth.
Most of all, though, this new phone was free, and I still like it better than my old phone.
The phone looks like this:
And the inside display contains this picture that I stole from someone on flickr:
Which leaves me pretty darn happy with it, for now, anyway! We’ll see if it outlasts my two-year contract, which my last phone nearly failed to do.
update Okay I’m really annoyed by the fact that I’m going to have to buy a Bluetooth earpiece for this thing. The speakerphone sucks. Grrr!
Filed under: gadgets
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