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{ Monthly Archives } January 2007

non-RIAA label, check

I’m voting with my dollars. If the RIAA is taking aim at icons of remix culture like DJ Drama, I’ll have to be even more careful about a ritual everyone should have when buying a CD or a song from iTunes.

Identify the record label publishing the CD/track
Check this page to make sure the label is [...]

ubuntu preinstalled

http://system76.com/index.php
Even though I could likely build my own desktop for slightly less, I think I’ll be buying my next computer from these people. If not for me, then one for my parents. I really want this company to survive.

MLK quote, signs of a good office

On Friday our Fearless Leader (Paul Jones) was telling us about a meeting he had pushed back until Tuesday (not Monday since it was a holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day). “People are more important than computers,” said Paul. “Dr. King said that.”
“Said what now?” I cut in. I’m not the best with dates, but [...]

Why I want to be like Joey:

Yaaaaay Joey. See xkcd for great laughing justice.

why I hate that the iPhone will succeed

It won’t be an open platform. Read more at diveintomark.org.

how’d that ISO-8859-1 get there?

perl -pi -w -e ’s/ISO-8859-1/UTF-8/g;’ *.php
nevermind. fixed.

notable plugin

I added this wordpress plugin for adding a digg button to my blog. Suddenly I’m thinking I should be careful that I don’t get sucked into my blog. I see lots of time potentially disappearing.

Learn to use a spreadsheet, @$%^&it

This is so dumb. I have 129 locations–and codes for those locations–that I have to get into a database. I was given a .xls with all the data, but it looks like this (gimped to protect the guilty):

This is in a spreadsheet. The saddest part is that somebody actually took the time to prettify that [...]

$DIETY to tarheelcoxn: don’t buy from Dell.

I think the image says it all:

Google Chapel Hill

http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1126258/
Looks like that Gmail on your phone might be thanks to a UNC grad.