I commented on Consumerist
Permalink | Tweet This! | | January 7, 2009 by John in Computer-Internet, Music
Apple: Give Us Money And We’ll Remove DRM From Your Music
99% of my music is from CDs or from Amazon. I’ve probably purchased 2 dozen songs through iTunes mostly due to convenience, and it hasn’t really been a problem.
All you people complaining about “paying again” for music you already “paid for” BOUGHT THE DRM-LADEN MUSIC. AND YOU KNEW IT HAD DRM. Maybe not the first one or first few, but eventually you figured it out and kept buying DRMed songs. DEAL WITH IT. You still get to play your DRMed music. Nothing has been taken away. You can either get some kind of DRM-stripping software, burn audio CDs and re-rip the songs as MP3s, or suck it up, and pay the “DRM stripping fee” of 30 cents a song. It’s just a service charge and most people won’t need to pay it.
Buncha friggin whiners…
Creepy Hands
Permalink | Tweet This! | | by John in Computer-Internet, Humor, Photography
Creepy hands and bad reflections pretty much sums up this collection of the 20 Biggest Photoshop Disasters of 2008 (via Creattica and PhotoshopDisasters.com).
This is a mild example, but I need to run home and check my copy of “300″:
Friar’s Ride
Permalink | Tweet This! | | December 19, 2008 by John in Computer-Internet, Friar's Ride, JB.com
- I finally settled on a name for my new motorcycle-focused blog: Friar’s Ride
- It will get the theme from this site (updated and a little more structurally sound)
- It will get all the motorcycle content from this site, as well as the wiki and photos from Picasa
- I have a arse-load of work to do
- I have a new theme design in mind for this site once this theme moves to the new site
- I have about 390 posts left that require categorization before I can split up the database
- Wordpress 2.7 admin panel is purdy. Behold:
Desktop BG
Permalink | Tweet This! | | November 26, 2008 by John in Computer-Internet, Photography
I just can’t get enough of this image, which I’m using as a desktop background at home. It’s so striking. Click to embiggen.
I’m Seriously Tempted…
Permalink | Tweet This! | | October 27, 2008 by John in Computer-Internet, Humor
I’ve got a first generation blue iMac sitting in my garage. It’s not really powerful enough to use for anything I do. I’m seriously tempted to something like this to it: Happy Hallowe’en! Soon.
Google Street View Billings
Permalink | Tweet This! | | October 15, 2008 by John in Computer-Internet, Geekasm, Of a Personal Nature
The first city in Montana to be photographed by Google’s intrepid street view fleet is Billings. Only one of the houses I lived in has been photographed, however. When we first moved there in 1981 we rented a place on the west end for a few months before moving to the heights.
(via Big Sky Blog)
This is Good.
Permalink | Tweet This! | | June 18, 2008 by John in Computer-Internet
I’ve been a big Firefox fan and supporter for a long time. Yesterday, Firefox 3 dropped and it is slick. Not all of the extensions I use have been upgraded to work with version 3 (yet), but most are non-critical. Version 2 was a pig and a memory hog, but this new version is smokin’ fast. Do yourself a favor and go get it.
Triumph USB Hub?
Permalink | Tweet This! | | June 27, 2007 by John in Computer-Internet, Motorcycle News
I have GOT to have one of these, if only for the garage computer. Solid Alliance USB Hub for motorcycle fans:
The three port USB hub is in the shape of a motorcycle engine, when connected to the PC it imitates the noise of the engine starting, when the kick pedal is pushed the sound changes to as you accelerate a motorbike with gear change along with the engine vibration and finally to a racing bike sound.
Update: Soren found the place to buy it online.
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Reskinning Google Reader
Permalink | Tweet This! | | April 16, 2007 by John in Computer-Internet, Web Design
This is excellent. I’ve been using a Greasemonkey script that maximizes the reading space for Google reader, but it’s just as ugly as the original interface. This is minimalistically gorgeous — Google Reader Theme by hicksdesign.co.uk:
There may well be oddness and inconsistencies, and Google may well make radical changes to the Reader’s markup tomorrow, mucking the whole show up. But for what it’s worth, here it is! Its not trying to be original or ‘better’ than the default theme, it’s just trying to make it look like a Mac OS X app – that’s all I want!
Oh, not only is it better than the default theme, it’s much better. This has also introduced me to the Firefox plug-in Stylish, which will likely get me into modifying the styles for other sites.
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Create Better Passwords
Permalink | Tweet This! | | April 12, 2007 by John in Computer-Internet
How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords
Pay particular attention to the difference between using only lowercase characters and using all possible characters (uppercase, lowercase, and special characters - like @#$%^&*). Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the processing time for an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries.
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