Author Archives: baudattitude

That’s ONE way to go DRM-free

Posted on April 7, 2009 by baudattitude

So, straight up here:  I have no gripes with Apple over their variable pricing scheme.  Granted, it seems like most everything you’d WANT to download is now $1.29 per song, but it’s not like the 30 cents is going to … Continue reading →

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A Trip To The Emerald City (No Dogs or Witches involved)

Posted on April 7, 2009 by baudattitude

I don’t, as a rule, go to comics conventions. Part of that is that I am quite recovered from the days when I was a raving comic book fanboy with a three-or-four hundred dollar a month habit, spread between following … Continue reading →

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I am fecking brilliant

Posted on April 2, 2009 by baudattitude

I do not make this claim lightly. I had an epiphany tonight. One of the problems that comes up when you have a bunch of movies on DVD, and some stuff in iTunes, and some downloaded videos on a server, … Continue reading →

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On Productivity:

Posted on March 27, 2009 by baudattitude

Ages and ages ago, I worked for a software development company that used BRIEF as their standard text editor. If you’re not familiar with BRIEF – and I don’t blame you, honestly, considering that this was over 15 years ago … Continue reading →

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Audio, Milestones, and so on

Posted on March 24, 2009 by baudattitude

Baud Attitude passed 100,000 hits today, which is pretty good considering that 90% of the material here is interesting to, oh, me and the three or four RL friends who read this. 🙂 But that’s not really today’s topic. Today … Continue reading →

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One more term down

Posted on March 21, 2009 by baudattitude

As soon as I drive in to school tomorrow – a little over an hour’s round-trip to hand in one paper and then drive directly home, as the instructor doesn’t take electronic submissions – I’ll be done with the term, … Continue reading →

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Warrior Within: The hell?

Posted on March 14, 2009 by baudattitude

A little over a year ago, eternally late to the party, I played through Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. And it was really quite difficult in places.  I posted a long rant about the first serious boss fight, … Continue reading →

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File under “W”

Posted on March 14, 2009 by baudattitude

So I drive a Mazda3.  We’ve had it for a little over 2 years now and it’s been a great little car. But, “Mazda3” is only the American name for the car; it’s sold in Japan under the name “Axela”.  … Continue reading →

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I has a new hero

Posted on March 13, 2009 by baudattitude

I’ve been catching up on my Gainax of late. I finished Mahoromatic a couple of weeks ago and liked it; the last episode was a series of “HUH?” moments but the actual conclusion was quite satisfying. Thing is, though, I … Continue reading →

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Movie Night

Posted on March 11, 2009 by baudattitude

OK, so there are three different boxes – an Xbox 360, a PS3, and a Mac mini – hooked up to our TV that all want to rent us movies, and I keep trying to take advantage of them to … Continue reading →

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