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945.

Posted on January 7, 2009 by baudattitude

For the record, 945 is the number of albums currently represented in our music library.  Not 945 full albums, mind you, there are an awful lot of singles in there, and quite a few tracks bought from Amazon or iTunes … Continue reading →

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Album Art is Hell

Posted on January 6, 2009 by baudattitude

(Warning: Semi-stream-of-conciousness rambling follows, I didn’t really edit for clarity.  Sorry.) Pain is the best educator. For example: We keep all of our music organized with Windows Media Player.  It’s not the best thing out there, but it was the … Continue reading →

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Aliens, Religious Cults, and me.

Posted on January 4, 2009 by baudattitude

In amongst all the tinkering with hardware and network setups, I managed to take a couple of hours to finish Dead Space, which I wholeheartedly recommend.   It has a pretty decent story, albeit heavily cribbed from “Aliens” with a dash … Continue reading →

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Eggs, One Basket, check.

Posted on January 3, 2009 by baudattitude

A final tally on the new year’s project: Mac mini upgraded & XBMC installed.  Old Mac mini hard drive turned into a 100GB portable drive by adding a $20 SATA-to-USB adapter / case. Desktop repurposed as a server with a … Continue reading →

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Mac Media Madness

Posted on January 2, 2009 by baudattitude

Some updates on this weekend’s insanity. The Mac seems to be buzzing along with its new memory and HD.  Leopard is up and running.  The new Front Row is really bleh compared to the version from Tiger, and it had … Continue reading →

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Mac Mangling Madness

Posted on January 1, 2009 by baudattitude

My wife says to me, after reading that last post, “Why is it, every time you want to work on a Mac, it involves a trip to the hardware store?” She’s referring, of course, to the fun and games I … Continue reading →

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Evil Plans Continue

Posted on December 31, 2008 by baudattitude

My UPS package came, which, along with a trip to the campus bookstore and to True Value, gave me all the ammunition I need to, well, make a tonne of work for myself this weekend. PS: I might actually dust, … Continue reading →

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Evil Plans, Go!

Posted on December 31, 2008 by baudattitude

I have the next five days off work. Now that I’ve finished the video capture / encode / edit project, I have one more Big Goal, which is to say: Get our digital crap sorted out. Stage 1: Taking my … Continue reading →

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Suck it, Sisyphus

Posted on December 29, 2008 by baudattitude

I have ranted before about the problem of having been too much a fanboy back in the analog media days.   That problem, basically, is that I had a massive pile of analog media around taking up space, slowly degrading, and … Continue reading →

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Stories, Brave:

Posted on December 27, 2008 by baudattitude

Back in summer of 2006, when I made my first solo trip to Japan, one of my goals for the trip was to see Ged Senki in a theater – because, damnit, I wanted to see a Studio Ghibli movie … Continue reading →

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