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eMusic vs. Amazon

Amazon just opened their DRM-free MP3 store. While I’m a happy eMusic user, Amazon has somehow managed to convince EMI and Universal to join the DRM-free crowd. I don’t know if I’ll continue with eMusic, but I do plan on … Continue reading

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IRC After a 10 Year Hiatus

Its probably been 10+ years since I’ve touched IRC. In the early days of the public Internet, IRC was IM + MySpace + Filesharing, only a lot geekier. Then came ICQ and soon after a flood of IM clients that … Continue reading

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AdBlock is bad…

…but these guys are ridiculous. I don’t use any sort of ad blocking extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, widgets, whatever. Ads are the currency of the Internet, and I’m happy to put up with ads in exchange for free services. If a … Continue reading

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Fixing Rhythmbox

It didn’t take long before I found a problem with Rhythmbox.* It couldn’t figure out the MIME type for half of Blonde Redhead’s newest album 23 (download it from emusic). The simple fix was: rm -R ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox This deletes your … Continue reading

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Tips on Surviving DreamHost

I use DreamHost and it is by far the least reliable hosting service I’ve ever used. However, they’re quite cheap for the vast amounts of storage and bandwidth provided. I also love their blog, newsletter, status page, control panel, and … Continue reading

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Losing Loose

For some reason using loose instead of lose is my #1 pet peeve. Every once in a while the word loose works when used in place of lose, but in this case it makes it sound like Apple wants labels … Continue reading

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