January 2012
2 posts
U.S. Routes as a Subway Map | Cameron Booth →
there had to be an insane amount of work put into this. simpler, interstate-only version deep linked.
scumbag mac os preview.
the big deal over the holiday season was that i got my parents a new mac mini to replace their 5-6 year old windows xp box. i even went ahead and loaded a copy of vmware fusion so i could p2v the old box, ensuring an easy migration from old to new. they absolutely loved it, and after a week’s worth of use, admitted that they hadn’t even fired up vmware to get into their old stuff.
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and, mine. →
year-end playlist. sorry it’s not on spotify, but two very key artists (the weeknd and dlc) are not.
December 2011
3 posts
embed trailers, receive jail time. →
it’s not like it has to be said. please write/call your representatives.
albums of the years →
holy crap…this dude culled multiple sources for their aotys from 2007 forwards, then linked all of them to spotify, rdio, etc. time to play a bit of catch-up.
October 2011
2 posts
unhelpful →
after two codes unsuccessfully redeemed, i still can’t figure out why i now need two accounts (one xbl, one ea/origin) to play battlefield 3 online.
today's challenge
come up with a system administrator/engineer equivalent to the term “brogrammer”. because i’m wearing aviators, chugging a rockstar zero, raging on sharepoint, and listening to dubstep. (okay, that last part is a lie…i just loaded up darkest hour’s “undoing ruin”, one of the best overall metal albums in existence)
September 2011
4 posts
i think i just realized i don’t /dislike/ android - i just can’t stand the default droid sans font, all the white text on black backgrounds, or the app drawer mechanic. loading up the latest version of the miui ROM (romsmaster.miui.us) on an old galaxy s and getting a theme that replaces all that makes for a very usable device that doesn’t make my eyes bleed. also, swype is kind...
THRICE: Listen to a Major/Minor track each day →
officialthrice:
Hey folks, to lead-up to the official release of Major/Minor on 9/20, we’ll be posting a new song from the record each weekday in the player below. Since we’ve already released the first two songs (“Yellow Belly” and “Promises”), both of them are included below along with track 3, “Blinded.”…
how do you pronounce that?
afitc. i’d just as soon spell out the entire acronym, or possibly go with something like “uh-fit-see”. apparently, the proper shortening of the already-shortened title is “uh-fiddick”. surprisingly good conference overall, and while 95% of the content presented didn’t necessarily pertain to my current job, it’s nice to have what they call a 10,000-foot...
August 2011
8 posts
morto-fied.
f-secure reports that a new worm has appeared on the internets called morto, specifically targeting port 3389 (windows remote desktop). sysadmins, be on the lookout. more importantly, make sure all your machines deny the ability to share local folders and drives via \tsclient (which is how the worm’s .dll gets copied over), force network level authentication and have local accounts with...
“To me, Apple exists in the spirit of the people that work there, and the sort of...”
– Steve Jobs, 1985 (via onethingwell)
fire sale.
that’s the phrase everyone keeps using when talking about the hp touchpads that got lowered to $99/16gb and $149/32gb. keeping an eye on touchdroid.
new thrice jams from major/minor, done up live... →
20 sep can’t get here fast enough.
did my good deed for the week.
went to the clint lowery acoustic/shaman’s harvest/greek fire/evans blue show. 100% of the ticket proceeds went towards the relief effort in joplin, mo. now if only the venue could put the same amount towards the overly-inflated drink prices…
http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/08/09/century-media-... →
century media bows out of spotify. article has a nice back and forth between their suits and someone who understands the current state of the industry.
first.
last.fm never made sense to me until about six hours ago. in its first incarnation, it only scrobbled tracks listened at your computer. it was also able to retroactively scrobble tracks played on an ipod, but only if you synced it to an itunes library (which i don’t). in the context of natural listening environments (living room by way of xbmc and smartphone with music app), it makes way...
back to square one.
again.