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Via Boing Boing: David Byrne, known most widely as co-founder of the Talking Heads, has just launched an internet radio station that streams the music he digs. Lots of interesting music there. I’m listening to it now.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “David Byrne Radio”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/29/david-byrne-radio/” });

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I have my Mac Mini set up and working as a home media center. It’s connected to my TV as the display. I have no keyboard or mouse with it - I’m controlling it with VNC and an ATI Remote Wonder. So far I have remote setups for iTunes, DVD Player, and EyeTV. I can [...]

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My Mac Mini finally arrived! I’m setting it up now. Earlier this week I got an ElGato EyeTV Wonder USB and an ATI Remote Wonder to use with it.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Mac Mini!”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/25/mac-mini/” });

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Oliver Willis: You didn’t think you were voting for a government that would decide what the best medical care for you and your family is, and would intervene when it disagreed. But you did. For too long, you’ve been taken in by the conservative movement, when in fact the government was less intrusive, more fiscally [...]

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I nearly spewed my coffee when I read this item at Boing Boing:

If I am rendered comatose and determined to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for a period longer than one month and if no imminent cure is forthcoming, I do not wish to be kept alive by artificial means including but [...]

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Since Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, I decided to switch to one of Cingular’s pricing plans with rollover minutes & free roaming. However, they wouldn’t let me use my old AT&T Sony Ericsson T616 with it. I ended up buying a Motorola V551, which was the nicest reasonably priced Bluetooth phone.
I was able to pair it [...]

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WorldBeatPlanet is getting hit hard with comment spam. I just got 16 online poker spams from different IP addresses. After I marked the first few, the spam filter has been recognizing & deleting the rest of them.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Under attack”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/23/under-attack/” });

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While Bush & congress fight to keep Terri Schiavo alive, despite her being brain dead for 15 years, 6 month old Sun Hudson was allowed to die without a fight when he was taken off life support against his parent’s wishes.
Via ABC 13 News:
A judge on Monday lifted a court injunction that had prevented doctors [...]

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I’ve made a few tweaks to my theme, inspired by some of the entries at Alex King’s WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition. Most notably, the page menu is now at the top of the page.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Theme mods”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/22/theme-tweaks/” });

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Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid:

We have to stop the far religious right and their congressional lackeys (DeLay, Frist & Co.)
because they are destroying America.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What The Schiavo Case Is All About”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/21/what-the-schiavo-case-is-all-about/” });

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Steve Koppelman:
Immediately following the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in December, President Bush issued a statement through his spokespeople from his estate in Crawford, Texas.
In anticipation of Congress passing a bill for the sole purpose of keeping Terri Schiavo on a feeding tube, President Bush cut short a weekend at his Crawford estate and [...]

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I’m completely disgusted by the Terri Schiavo case. This is one of the most offensive instances of the government butting in where it doesn’t belong and turning a family matter into a political cause. The government has no right to be involved in this.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Terri Schiavo”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/18/terri-schiavo/” });

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I’ve had a Belkin Bluetooth mouse for a while and the only thing I don’t like about it is the very short battery life (about a month or so). Before my trip a few weeks ago, I bought a Targus Bluetooth mini-mouse and I found the battery life is even worse - only two weeks [...]

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A Perfect Rose, originally uploaded by mike3k.

This rose opened in my friend’s garden.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “A Perfect Rose”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/17/a-perfect-rose/” });

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MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet both got hit with a new kind of comment spam I haven’t seen before. I only got two of them at MacMegasite, but I got 6 of them at WorldBeatPlanet. The author, subject, and content consist entirely of a string of hex digits, including the URL, which points to an online poker [...]

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It looks like Gmail is one step closer to going public. Random visitors to Google are being invited to sign up. I still have 50 invitations left, which I can’t even give away
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Gmail goes public”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/16/gmail-goes-public/” });

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Rachid Taha is becoming one of my favorite performers. I just got his new album, Tekitoi (Who Are You?), which has an awesome cover of “Rock the Casbah”. Rachid’s music combines Algerian Rai with electronic, club, & techno beats in one of the best world fusion mixes.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Rock El Casbah”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/12/rock-el-casbah/” });

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I now have ShareYourMusic.com pointing to WorldBeatPlanet and sharing the same content. However I hacked the theme to switch the style sheet, title, and logo based on the host name, so the user will see a different appearance if they visit worldbeatplanet.com or shareyourmusic.com. However, I found that I had to disable Drupal’s cache, or [...]

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I just got back from my trip. It was very successful - we were able to get everything working and they’re very happy. Unfortunately I now have a pretty bad cold and I feel like crap. I only got about 4 hours of sleep Wednesday night, which didn’t help.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “I’m back”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/04/im-back/” });

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IT Business Edge has a nice interview with a manager from my company.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Theft prevention just one piece of mobile security”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2005/03/02/theft-prevention-just-one-piece-of-mobile-security/” });

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