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Bob Cringely talks about a Video iPod and iTunes Movie Store in this week’s I, Cringely. <p>He also mentions one of my own favorite companies,… Read More »Portable Video (iPod?)

Well I finally managed to get WordPress running. It’s a blogging app focused on usability, but unfortunately it’s written in PHP. I spent way too… Read More »Thump. Thump. Is This Thing On?

If you have an iPod battery that’s showing its age, replace it! I recently ordered a 2100mAH battery from TechRestore for under $30 and now… Read More »New iPod Battery

Everybody running a linux machine needs to update their copy of the zlib libarary. If your application is dynamically linked, you’re golden – yum -y… Read More »Discovering Copies of Zlib

Somehow I had MacWorld on my calendar for next week. I just read on Ted’s Blog that it was actually this week. Oops.

There’s something very wrong with the rendering of this application in Safari 1.3. Safari 2.0 looks fine . The HTML and .css are darn close… Read More »Safari Weirdness

We all know root logins are a bad idea, but sometimes it’s tricky to do things like backups without using a root login. Through a… Read More »rsync Using sudo (No More root Logins)

FeedLounge, a popular web-based news feed reading service describes what they accomplished when they bumped up against some limits of MySQL and about their switch… Read More »Maxing out MySQL

Ted Roche notes, over at Ted’s Radio Weblog, if you lose your copy of music you purchase from the iTunes Music Store, you have to… Read More »Disk Failure? Re-purchase All Your Music