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creaky

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

The update to 10.4.6 may not have gone as badly as I thought. There are rumors that permissions cleanup tasks make the install take longer. To my mind it was just hung. Got to a message about IPv6 and then just stopped. So I reverted back to 10.4 and ran the massive updaters overnight. After [...]

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odds and ends

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

A choice rant about the perception/portrayal of Hispanics in America by the liberal news media. La Queen Sucia: How Stupid are the US Media?!?!: Eating oil: so much more than just a breakfast food. An enterprising reporter looks at the various ways fossil fuels, especially oil, are inputs in the food supply. My Saudi Arabian [...]

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an outlet for obsessives

Friday, March 17, 2006

Even before the need for physical exertion arose, I had been curious about adding beat per minute info to my iTunes library to help keep a good pace when walking or riding. There are plugins etc for WinAmp but nothing that automagically sorts out the BPM and adds it to the metadata for iTunes. iTunes-BPM: [...]

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