Entries from April 2005

On the road

Date April 30, 2005

Posting from Dallas, TX. From the airport, you know, it really isn’t all that.
PS: Neither is Paris. Very not impressed with Paris from my limited experience with the Paris airport.

What’s still wrong with Apple?

Date April 29, 2005

The “ArtMachine responds”:http://www.art-machine.org/blog/about/699/this-could-get-ugly to my “earlier post”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1118/whats-wrong-with-apple on Apple. If you haven’t read these, this discussion is not likely to make sense.
AM may be right about the changing Apple culture, but it will take more than two or three years to reverse the impression of the last twenty and Apple is certainly not helping.
Among other [...]

What’s wrong with Apple?

Date April 28, 2005

My brother’s “comments here”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1116/rhapsody-finally-upgrades about lack of Macintosh support for iTMS alternatives had me thinking again: why _isn’t_ there more support for the Apple OS? I used to blame it on MacOS being a “minority operating system,” but I’m beginning to think it goes deeper than that.
It is true that MacOS has a much [...]

Rip your ears off and put them in my mouth

Date April 26, 2005

So. What’s 80’s pro-wrestling star “The Ultimate Warrior doing these days”:http://triptronix.net/ishbadiddle/archives/2005/04/26/12.44.13/?
Go on, take a guess (in the comments?) before clicking through to Ishbadiddle’s link up there. I’ll give you a hint: he ain’t hanging with White House Reporter/Former Hooker “JimmyJeff”:http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021505Z.shtml, but they _have_ been running with the same crowd.

Rhapsody finally upgrades

Date April 26, 2005

My favorite for-pay online music service is “Rhapsody”:http://www.listen.com/ — otherwise known as “Real’s”:http://www.real.com/ only decent product. It’s primarily streaming, which is a shame, but it’s also dirt-cheap compared to the competition. For someone as spastic as I am in musical tastes and interestes, Rhapsody has been a bargain.
Actually, I should say Rhapsody _was_ [...]