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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Hooray for recalls: two new iBook batteries for me

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Battery Exchange Program iBook G4 and PowerBook G4: Apple has determined that certain lithium-ion batteries containing cells manufactured by Sony Corporation of Japan pose a safety risk that may result in overheating under rare circumstances. The affected batteries were sold worldwide from October 2003 through August 2006 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch [...]

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calling them as I see them

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Anthony Mantova Embarrasses President Bush: Paul Beard of Seattle got the top spot in the Eureka Reporter’s Letters to the Editor today: Dear Editor, Patrick Bell complains that a recent column, written by a former paratrooper, was “unhinged” in its criticism of a young war supporter who refuses to serve in a war he supports. [...]

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more audio noodling

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

After watching this shredding, I wondered what on earth I was doing with my lo-fi noise. Not that I let it stop me. I decided to try some stuff to see if I can get GarageBand to behave. I created a garageband user account with no applications running (no browser, no mail, nuttin’). It worked [...]

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