Month: April 2004

Rub Me Raw

iTunes 4.5 is fantastic and you should all download it immediately. Then you should promptly go to the Hot Tips page and see that this image:

…is what Apple’s using to illustrate “Renaming”.
APPLE INSISTS YOU RUB THEM RAW.
Update: I tried to export my top rated playlist – which consists of 136 songs – via iMix. Only 37 are on iTMS, but hey, maybe somebody wants to buy them.

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The Existance Of SMS

Can I just point out the great irony that I find in reading this on Scripting News this morning –

Another cautionary tale from the dinner in Amsterdam, SMS is going down the same path as WAP/WML, what used to be a firm standard is being extended in incompatible ways. There will be eighteen brands of SMS, and you’ll only be able to message people who use the same brand of phone. I don’t use SMS, I don’t think it exists in the US, but I understand it’s popular in Europe and Asia.

– while I was exchanging SMS messages with one of my co-workers? Keep in mind – we’re both in the USA, we’re on different carriers (T-mobile for me, Verizon for Ann), and we have different devices (Sidekick for me, some Nokia for her)?
This isn’t a slight against DW; it’s just that I love reading that something doesn’t exist while I’m using it.

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In-fucking-credible

BLITZER: There is a clear difference when it comes to abortion rights between the president and his Democratic challenger, John Kerry. In your opinion, Karen, how big of an issue will this abortion rights issue be in this campaign?
HUGHES: Well, Wolf, it’s always an issue. And I frankly think it’s changing somewhat. I think after September 11th the American people are valuing life more and realizing that we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life.
And President Bush has worked to say, let’s be reasonable, let’s work to value life, let’s try to reduce the number of abortions, let’s increase adoptions.
And I think those are the kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we’re facing an enemy, and really the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life. It’s the founding conviction of our country, that we’re endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Incidently, this is my 500th blog post, or so says MovableType. Hurray for me!