Monthly Archives: December 2007
I Recant: Derek Webb Ain’t Half Bad
Ok, a friend of mine lent me Derek Webb’s new(ish) album, The Ringing Bell. It’s awesome. Not mind-blowing or life-changing, but so far (about 5 tracks in), it’s totally the album I wish I had made. With a little Beatles thrown in for good measure. You may remember, there was some disagreement about the album, [...]
China
Here’s a picture my brother posted on his blog. He said his friend Leong took it. Wow. Very, very cool:
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OLPC (real) Pictures
Here’s pictures from somebody who bought one of the OLPC XOs. This is a link to his OLPC photoset on Flickr. Here’s an interesting one: Enjoy.
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Launchy 2.0 Released!
Launchy 2.0 is out! Unfortunately, so far, only the Windows version is available. But there’s good reports on the Linux version. This is great news for everyone, mostly b/c, while I was wrong about Gnome-Do not being able to browse folders (the lead developer posted that link on my previous post), it’s ui, keybindings and whatnot [...]
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Launcy for Linux on the Horizon
Deep in my heart, I love Launchy. It’s a program, for Windows only, that I use every day, all day at work. I hit ctrl+space and up pops a little box. I type the name of whatever file, or folder I want to open, hit return and it opens for me. If I don’t know [...]
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YouTube — Soon And Very Soon
This is why YouTube rules: you can watch somebody’s hands play Soon and Very Soon on a keyboard with a drum machine. I have to warn you, though, you won’t get that 2:44 back. But he does change the drum machine beat every verse. If that one doesn’t do it for you, try this version.
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FLAC — lossless compression
I’ve downloaded a lot of files in .flac format. It’s an lossless audio format, which means, like a .wav file, it’s got all the information there (unlike an .mp3 which throws away stuff that the mp3 gurus think you can’t hear so it can make files smaller). Most of the live music I download comes [...]
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A Familyre Christmas
Sounds Familyre, Danielson’s label (and original home of Sufjan Stevens) is putting out a Christmas album this year. And you can download it for free. It’s coming out, one track a day. I haven’t listened to it yet, but it anything involving Danielson is worth at least one listen. And it’s free Christmas music, yo! Thanks, [...]
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My Mom’s Comments
My mom sent me an email about this whole Kierkegaard/extreme faith thing that she said I could post. So without further ado, her comments on the subject: [R]egarding your posts on faith– extreme faith, I’d like you to consider your Grandma Zerkle. I have thought a lot about this. I don’t want to make my mom [...]
FTP in Linux.…work needed