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For the past few days, I've tried to upgrade a few iTunes songs to iTunes Plus tracks. Each time I try, I'm told this:

Dear Erik,

Your iTunes Plus music upgrade could not be successfully completed because there was a problem with one of the items that was to be upgraded. Please return to your Upgrade My Library page and click Buy and your upgrade should be processed successfully. We are sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your business.

Sincerely,
iTunes Store Team

What's up with that? No other information is provided - I don't know which of the songs is causing problems. I had one video, so thinking it might be that, I upgraded it separately. That wasn't it.

Additionally, Stanley Cup Finals Game 6 (Pens 2, Dead Wings 1) is screwed up. I was given a video credit, but I'd rather they just fix the video so that it works. The audio and video get out of sync as the video plays, and it's 20 seconds behind when Tyler Kennedy scores the winning goal.

If the idea is to create a nim sum of 0 as this article proposes, then I've yet to find a way to win at this game of Nim.

D'oh. Once I figured out that I could make Marvin go first I won the first time. The nim sum is already 0 when you start the game, so you have to make Marvin upset the balance right away:

111 = 7
101 = 5
011 = 3
001 = 1
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224

Lookee, they've found that swearing eases pain.

That explains why so many people swear on the golf course.

The wife, father-in-law, and I attended the horse races at Presque Isle downs tonight. I'm pleased to report that we came out ahead by a total of $7.80. We bet $16 on six races - two dollar bets with two double bets - and won $23.80 total.

I was 4-1 (losing the first, sitting out the second, and then winning the next four) while my wife was 3-2, losing her last two. The father in law, well, he didn't win. Anything. 🙂

The races are pretty podunk, but that helps keep it fun. I expected bleachers or some place to sit - there are none. Just a big cement area. You walk in a triangle - first to look at the horses and choose one for the race, then to the betting area, and then to the finish line to root on your horse. Food isn't too expensive if you get hungry, and cameras are allowed - though I wonder if they allow monopods and 300mm f/2.8 lenses…

Does anyone else out there wish they could delete some of Apple's built-in applications from their iPhones? Sure, you can move them aside, but what if you never ever want to see them, and don't want them cluttering up your screens (or created unnecessary screens)?

For example, I can't remember the last time I launched Stocks on purpose.

P.S. John's article about Simplenote drives home another reason: replacement with something better. Why have two notes apps on your phone?

Does anyone know how I might resolve this issue? Perhaps they know the email address of a yahoo.com administrator or something? My attempts to reach Yahoo via some standard email addresses (like admin@) have failed.

Virtually every user who signs up for an account at The Sand Trap's golf forum with an @yahoo.com address fails to see the activation codes. They're either routed to the user's spam folder at Yahoo or, in about half of the cases, the user never sees the email at all.

Outgoing mail from the server is working just fine with all other domains - Yahoo is the only trouble-maker.

We don't send any spam. These are user-requested, one-time emails. The only other emails the site might send are subscription notices (to threads), an email on your birthday, and an email when you get a new private message. The user can turn all of those off. We don't send emails from the admin - even to share non-advertising type information - and we've never sent advertising from a third party.

One of the first things I ever did with my camera was take these pictures of dropping a cherry in wine glass filled with green tinted water.

It was far more experimental than precise, and my depth of field wasn't spot on.

This post at strobist has me encouraged to try again.

Erie is now caught up to, what, 2001? We have Craigslist!

Wow, 3G and Craigslist in one week. WTF is going on?!?!

I'm catching up on the Photoblog. I've just added a series of photos that gets me through June 13 - they're a series of photos from a trip we took to a dairy farm.

Check them out - http://photos.nslog.com/ - if you get the chance.

I hope to post more and either catch up to the current date or get very close later this evening.

Some time early yesterday evening I awoke my iPhone and, before it could latch on to my wireless network, I saw "3G" instead of "E" in the title bar.

I turned off WiFi and, lo and behold, the "3G" remained. I loaded up a web page in Mobile Safari and, yep, it had to be true: 3G has come to Erie, PA.

This thread at HowardForums seems to confirm it.

Nice! I wasn't even expecting it.

Golf Channel, as much as I love (errr, well, let's go with "like") you, you've never really been one to have the greatest of chirons. If I watch you for an hour or so when you're not showing infomercials, I can almost always spot a typo or mistake in your graphics.

Rivet 2.2 is now available. Some big things in this update:

• Added video thumbnails display (Xbox and PS3).
• Added music album art display (PS3 only).
• Added support for iPhoto Events.
• Added metadata support for the date and duration of movies.
• Improved loading speed of photo thumbnails.
• Improved parsing speed of media and libraries.
• Fixed display of accented characters.
• Fixed an index number issue.
• Fixed an issue that could cause an iPhoto folder to only display movies or photos, not both.
• Fixed an issue that could cause an Aperture folder to only display movies or photos, not both.

Rivet works with both Xbox 360 and PS3, and costs only $18.95. This is a free update for all Rivet 1.x and 2.x customers. Download a demo or the update at http://cynicalpeak.com/rivet/.

This tip got a little coverage on Twitter as being one of the best tips ever.

I don't remember the last time I wanted to "paste and match style," though, so I'm leaving my settings alone. You may feel differently, of course.

Spotted outside of the local Red Lobster:

Guy can afford a Corvette, but not a dictionary ((Yeah, "wannabe" is in my dictionary, even though it's slang. It's online too.))?!?!

At least it doesn't say "its".