Posted in Computing: General on April 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Hopefully this will be handled easily. I have a few EMI tracks, but I'd like to be offered the chance to seamlessly "upgrade" to the higher-quality, DRM-free versions.
Consumers who have already purchased standard tracks or albums with DRM will be able to upgrade their digital music for $0.30 per track. All EMI music videos will [...]
Posted in Computing: General on March 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
A while back I signed my name on a postcard with a black sharpie. I scanned it, desaturated it, and adjusted the levels in Photoshop to white out the background and make the darkest black true black. All is well.
Now, I'd like to use the signature as a semi-transparent watermark on some of my images, [...]
Posted in Computing: General on March 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
I did it. I didn't use my computer for an entire day, on Shutdown Day 2K7.
I'm writing this post on March 17 at 6:03pm, but I'm going to date it 11:59:59pm on March 24, 2007.
Posted in Computing: General on March 22nd, 2007 12 Comments »
LogoMaid - a design chop shop - has ripped off Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits logo, then gone so far as to threaten a lawsuit against Dan claiming he stole the logo.
Yeah, right.
John Gruber has more on this, and I'm posting merely to add my PageRank weight to the side that roots squarely against outfits like (and [...]
Posted in Computing: General on March 1st, 2007 9 Comments »
Real businesspeople do not use @aol.com email addresses. I'm sorry, they just don't.
Posted in Computing: General on February 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I'm absolutely livid with MediaTemple currently. LIVID. For the past two weeks, my server - which hosts a vBulletin forum, two popular blogs (with caching enabled), and a few other little piddly sites that are lucky to get 1000 hits per day.
I'm hosting with the $50 (dv)Base plan, and despite a month and a half [...]
Posted in Computing: General on February 21st, 2007 13 Comments »
This is a bit of a LazyWeb request here, or rather an "I'm busy doing other things and don't yet have the two hours necessary to find the answers, but maybe someone knows offhand" type of post.
Anyway, the question is this: are there any forum packages that "expose" their member list for extensibility and use [...]
Posted in Computing: General on February 13th, 2007 8 Comments »
I am, in no particular order, a geek, a Mac user, a husband, a (step)father, a golfer, a pool player, a TV viewer (with a few favorite shows), and a photographer (kinda). I play pool, I work for myself and do a variety of tasks, and I live in Erie, PA but have lived elsewhere, [...]
Posted in Computing: General on February 12th, 2007 4 Comments »
It's simple: for the month of March, allow iTunes songs to be sold without DRM. See whether your sales increase or decrease. People buying songs from iTunes are buying it despite the DRM (i.e. they're honest people, or they're too lazy to look for pirated music - either way, they're paying). The people who are [...]
Posted in Computing: General on February 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Saying "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally": dumb.
Daring hackers to attempt to do bad things to your OS: even dumber.
What, I've linked to the same small page? Yeah - because Gates said and did these [...]
Posted in Computing: General on January 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
It's nice to see WebKit add support for the box shadow property in CSS3. I look forward to the day when we can sit back and talk about the good ol' days when we had to build three separate images and stitch them together with clever CSS and HTML just to get a darn shadow.
My [...]
Posted in Computing: General on January 7th, 2007 17 Comments »
Now that OpenDNS has fixed the "caching" issue, I'm down to one reason not to use them: the removal of the "auto-.com" feature wherein I type "apple" in the location bar of my browser and it dutifully tries first the local network before quickly switching to "apple.com." This feature even works with subdirectories, like "apple/trailers" [...]
Posted in Computing: General on January 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Thanks to someone who will remain nameless (simply so he's not inundated with other annoying questions like my own), I found/replaced 1292 links in The Sand Trap's move to WordPress (and its new URL linking scheme).
In BBEdit, search for: ("http://thesandtrap[.]com/.+?)([.]php") and replace with: \1/".
If you're using Perl or PHP, the replacement is $1. The tricky [...]
Posted in Computing: General on December 29th, 2006 No Comments »
MediaTemple has released their (dv)3 package. Within the next week or so, the Plesk migration manager will enable customers to move their domains, but until then, this document informs you that:
Early adopters comfortable moving site files and databases between servers can immediately open a support request to have a new (dv) 3.0 service added to [...]
Posted in Computing: General on December 14th, 2006 3 Comments »
The MediaTemple (dv) upgrade (dubbed "(dv)3") has apparently slipped a few days to December 21. Still, I'm very much looking forward to the upgrade, as I've patiently waited for about two months now to move The Sand Trap over.