blog.thebigreason

spontaneous expressions of mediocrity

Down

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5, my blog’s admin area has become mostly unusable.  There will continue to be lul in new posts as I move to a custom publishing system.  WordPress has regularly disappointed me for years.  The fact that I stuck with it for this long is a testament to my laziness.

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Maybe You Ain’t So Different After All

Expansion on Craig Hockenberry’s comparison of iTunes Store partnerships and App Store partnerships.

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Wasted Youth

When I was 14, I got really into Wasted Youth. The band … The English band from the UK, not the hardcore band from LA. They’re kind of obscure. So obscure, in fact, that iTunes, Amazon.com, AllMusic.com, and Last.FM, can’t seem to tell the difference between them.

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The Difference Between Same-sex Marriage And Gay Marriage

Today the California Supreme Court starts hearing arguments over the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. I am very much hopeful that the right for every consenting adult to marry whichever consenting adult that wants to marry them back will one day be granted to every person on the planet, but the decision to do [...]

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Clef Gut Double Bass Strings

The following is a re-published product review I posted to uptonbass.com. I’m not sure if it took or not, so I’m cross posting it here because I spent so much time on it.

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Google Calendar Infinite Loop Solved

I haven’t been able to access my Google Calendar in Safari for nearly two months. I probably spent about 20 to 40 minutes a week over the past few months trying to track down the cause or a fix. Today I finally found the solution in the Google Calendar Help Group. It was posted on January 29th of this year. I don’t know why it took me so long to find. I looked pretty hard.

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Bottom Dweller Bass

Logic Pro 8 has some sweet new bass loops!

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Thoughts On Hockenberry’s Thoughts On Downloads

Craig Hockenberry with one of the most concise and accurate analogies of the current state of the recorded music industry:
[...] the best thing for business is to make sure you have the best product available. That’s both the beauty and the challenge of any “try before you buy” system. Good products win, bad products are [...]

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Declined To Declare

Who are you voting for for the President of the United States? Many of the people I know seem to be pretty much decided, depending, of course, on the outcome of their party’s primary. Most are affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties. A handful are Greens.
I’m one of those decline to [...]

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Microsoft: Scourge of the Internet

Microsoft will purchase Yahoo. It hasn’t happened yet, but the bid is now officially on the table, and it will happen. My previous experiences with unsolicited takeovers have shown me that they are usually best measured in terms of when—not if.
As a Mac person, I don’t hate Microsoft. They are nearly irrelevant [...]

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